Australian Open 2012 (the qualifiers) - Day 1

Double T flies in second round

Yesterday, at Sheffield, the cue-crossings restarted with the Australian Open qualifying rounds taking place for the next four days. 16 players will get to see their Australian dream turned into reality at the end of it and will travel to Bendigo between 9 and 15 of July.

An excellent start for the "Thai gang" in their quest for a plane ticket to Bendigo's Australia, the first day of the qualifying rounds seeing both Thepchaiya Un-Nooh and Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon recording victories, the first named one against Allan "The Assasin" Taylor, whom he merciless crushed 5-0, white "Double T" hammered Adrian Gunnell 5-1.

Also taking a pretty awesome start were Sam Baird who beat Jamie O'Neill 5-0 and Michael Wild who obtained the same result by taking on another Q School graduate, Daniel Wells.

Returning to the Asian players, Aditya Mehta and Pankaj Advani get their second round ticket after Aditya beat Lee Spick 5-2 and Pankaj won 5-1 over Justin Astley.

Late in the night, Rod Lawler just managed to squeeze  pass Belgium's prodigy Luca Brecel and secure his place in the next round with a 5-4 result.

Below you can check Day One complete list of results:

10am


2.30pm

7pm

The battle of cues continues today with:

Round 2

10am
17) Adam Duffy v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
18) Passakorn Suwannawat v Mitchell Mann
19) Kurt Maflin v Robbie Williams
20) Craig Steadman v Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon
21) Simon Bedford v Michael Wild
22) Alfie Burden v Cao Yupeng
 
2.30pm

7pm
* all hours are UK time