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July 2009
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Newsletter Contents:
1. Paul Hunter English Open Results
2. Gary Kevany Report (Fergal O'Brien: Flashes O'Brilliance)
3. Monthly com-petition Winners
4. Calling All Snooker co@ches
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1. Paul Hunter English Open Results 2009..
STUART BINGHAM WINS IN LEEDS
AMATUERS ROBBIE WILLIAMS
GARY WILSON
REACH SEMI fin@lS
Stuart Bingham crushed Simon Bedford 6-0 in the 2009 Paul Hunter English Open at the sponsors ve-nue Northern Snooker Centre, Leeds.
Bingham who only lost 9 frames through the whole event raced to a 4-0 interval lead over Bedford with breaks of 124,55,62 and 95 the 5th frame scrappy a break of 49 completed the whitewash.
The winner made seven breaks over fifty whilst winning his group topped by a 102 and a frame sc-ore of 12-1, Bedford also won his group 12-3.
Robbie Williams the only pl@yer not to lose a frame in his group although Stephen Lee did not attend, Kuldesh Johal made breaks of 120 and the event highest 145 but failed to qualify.
Also in the group stage Justin Astley missed the pink on a maximum, Michael Wasley 135, Mark Davis 113 & 121, Joyce 121, Kyren Wilson 111, Jeff Cundy 109 & 104, Holt 100, Drago 101, David Craggs 116, Andrew Norman 115, Antony Jeffers 123,
Craig Steadman 129, Norbury 104 and Shaun Wilkes 131.
Bingham defeated Gary Wilson 5-3 in the semi fin@ls, Wilson opened with a run of 91, Bingham finished with a 69, Bedford also won his last four encounter 5-3 against Robbie Williams with efforts of 62,126,80 and 65 to finish after giant killer Williams made an 89 for 3-4.
In the quarters Wilson crushed Ryan Mears 4-0 breaks of 40 and 76 followed by a 4-1 over Michael Wasley who had reached the last four in five of the six events, Wasley won the 3rd frame with a 118.
Wasley popped in another 118 against Marter who led 3-2 but lashed the black to miss out on the break pr-ize for himself alone.
Williams had be@ten Mark Joyce 5-4 never leading until the last frame won 75-0, Rod Lawler 5-2, 62 and 60, Lawler 62, 88 and in the last 32 Ben Woollaston 5-4, Williams 71 to lead 4-3, Woollaston 120 for 4-4 again Williams took the decider easily.
In the quarter fin@ls Bingham with sc-ores of 65,101 and 72 be@t Michael Holt 5-2, Holt 74 and 59, Bedford be@ting Chris Norbury 5-3 from 3-1 down, Bedford 97 and 77 to finish, Gary Wilson edged Andrew Higginson 5-4.
After losing the first frame in the last 16 to Peter Lines who made 63 Bingham reeled of 5 frames to crush the home clubs hero, Bedford came back from 4-3 down to be@t Tony Drago 5-4.
Bingham battered Peter Fisher 5-0 in the last 32, 114 his highest break and Bedford be@t the home clubs Richard Binns 5-2.
See www.englishsnooker.com for all news/results plus 2009 pr-ogramme.
Malcolm Thorne
English Snooker
Last 32
S.Bingham 80 bt 63 P.Lines 5-1
M.Holt 61,93,58 bt 62,59,122 R.Milkins 5-3
A.Higginson 109,55,92 bt M.Davis 5-2
G.Wilson 50,50,57 bt 84 J. Astley 5-3
C.Norbury 95,52 bt J.Cundy 5-4
S.Bedford bt T.Drago 5-4
M.Joyce 57,51,94,70 bt M.Rhodes 5-3
R.Williams 62,60 bt 62,88 R.Lawler
Quarters
Bingham 65,101,72 bt 74.59 Holt 5-2
Wilson 78,58 bt 84 Higginson 5-4
Bedford 97,77 bt 71,62 Norbury
Williams 57 bt 53 Joyce 5-4
Semis
Bingham 69 bt 91 Wilson
Bedford 62,126,80,65 bt 89 Williams
fin@l
Bingham 124,55,62,95,49 bt Bedford 6-0
2. Fergal O'Brien: Flashes O'Brilliance...
Late last month, Fergal O’Brien returned for his second appearance in Hiney’s Upper Deck, Crossmolina, to take on five local pl@yers and for the much anticipated ex-hibition rem@tch with Jason Devaney.
This year, the ex-hibition was refereed by one of the men who saw the talent in Devaney and did his best to help Jason realise that p-otential, Ballina’s Mark Winters.
While Fergal is of course delighted to be back at no.1, he is quick to admit he’d take being in the top 16 over being no. 1 in Ireland any day of the week.
“There’s very little point in being the top pl@yer in Ireland if you’re only ranked 40 in the world. I’d much rather, and am sure most pl@yers would feel the same, to be in the top 16 than be number 1 in Ireland. When I first started there were many pl@yers ahead of me in the Irish rankings such as Eugene Hughes and for most of my career Ken’s been number one in Ireland so it is, naturally, nice to be at number one for the first time in my career.”
Over the course of 9 frames, Fergal knocked in 10 breaks over 50. Two had him on the way to a maximum – 56 (8 reds and 8 bl@cks) and a 57 (9 reds and 8 bl@cks) and one break ended agonising on 91. Disappointed? he was asked.
“I wouldn’t say disappointed, as such. It would have been nice to make a century. I’ve actually only had 4 ex-hibitions in my entire career where I’ve failed to make a century and two of them were in Crossmolina. The Crossmolina ex-hibitions have both been just after I’ve got back into practising so I wasn’t expecting a lot. I put on the best performance I could,” – to expect anything more would be ridiculous.
To give the local pl@yers an even greater incentive, Fergal elected to give the five pl@yers from the Deel Rovers S.C. a 40-point advantage in the one frame encounters. Although, Fergal did alleviate the 40-point deficits in relative ease, more often than not, opening with a 50+ break, he was delighted to see a strong interest in the sport remaining in Mayo.
“It’s always nice to give some local pl@yers a m@tch and it’s nice to see them get in and p-ot a few balls. I also enjoyed getting the ch@nce to practice with Jason when I was in Crossmolina last year and pass on any advice I could.”
Last year, when Fergal spoke to this reporter he stated “I didn’t have the junior successes of pl@yers like Jason [Devaney] and Davey [Morris] and those pl@yers have the world at their feet”, he echoed those same sentiments even though he be@t Jason 4-0 in this year’s contest.
“Jason talents can’t be judged on the merits of one performance, neither can a pr-ofessionals for that matter, when I play an amateur pl@yer I’m expected to win, when pl@yers on the pr-o circuit play Juniors, the pr-ofessionals are expected to win, when Juniors play local pl@yers in their clubs, the Juniors are expected to win. Jason’s just come off studying hard for his Leaving Certificate so he wouldn’t have had the amount of time to practice he would have liked. I be@t David Morris 5-0 in the Lucan Racing Irish Snooker cl@ssic and even though David’s on the pr-o. Tour now and I would have been expected to be@t him, we were all out of practice and snooker’s a funny g@me, things can go either way on any given day.”
Read Gary's report in full
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