Here are the full results of Q6 in Beijing
After the completion of World Q6 in Beijing, we have 49 new entries on the world seniors ranking list, with two Chinese players getting into the top 16!
Those are the top guys in the list
The top Chinese player, Cao Kaisheng was born on August 16th 1974 in Nanjing City He is a former body builder! In 2012 at the Zhang Jiagang APTC, Cao defeated Stephen Maguire. His high tournament break is 142
This is a translation (part google/part me) of the report by CBSA on their website
Seniors World China qualifying: Cao Kai wins by 3-1 over Xue Jirong
2018-01-07 17:53 China Billiards Association official websiteChina Billiards Association official website report after three days of competition. On January 7, 2018, afternoon, the “superstar Online” World Championship qualifying tournament in China concluded. In the final match, Cao Kaisheng won by 3-1 over Xue Jirong, qualifying for the World Championship.
After several rounds of competition, last night’s semifinals lineup was known as Shanghai veteran Xue Jirong, Sun Jianjun, Cao Caisheng and Zhi Zhiwei respectively defeated their opponents. Today, 1 pm, the semi-finals started on time. Xue Ji-rong and Sun Jianjun were first to play their match, a relatively fragmented affair, but after two hours of fighting, Xue Ji-rong finally emerged a 3-0 winner, becoming the the first player to advance to the final.
Yesterday players played three games in a day, these three games represents both physical and mental energy test. Zhi-Wei won three games yesterday, three times in the decider,was probably the most fortunate person. But unfortunately, the goddess of fortune did not favor him today. Cao Kaisheng won the first frame of semi-finals, with a break o 55, then won the next two frames too, completing the whitewash over Zhi Wei, and booking his ticket to the final.
After a short break to recover, the final started. With of thirty thousand yuan for the winner and a place in the World Championship, the start of the game is full of tension. In the first frame, the two players alternately dominated until Cao Kaisheng potted the last black ball. In the second frame, Xue Ji Rong took the opportunity to score, and tied at 1-1. In the third frame, Cao Kaisheng went in front and when Xue Ji-wing pocketed the black ball with a red ball by mistake, Cao Caisheng smiled, happy with the gift, and and the win of the frame. In the fourth frame, Cao Kaisheng dominated, warmly applauded by the crowd, and took the match with a 3-1 score to end the final, and win the competition at the same time receiving the 30,000 yuan bonus and a place in World Seniors Championship 2018. (Chinese billiards Association Xiaofan)
Editor: cbsa
Steve Davis won the first Seniors Irish Masters 2018 in Goffs and was presented the Alex Higgins trophy, by Alex’ daughter Lauren. Quite incredibly, Steve who was only in the draw because Stephen Hendry had to withdraw due to commitments in China, had won the Irish Masters as a professional, in Goffs, eight times. Make that nine now!
The evening session yesterday brought its fair share of surprises and emotions! It was played in front of a huge, enthusiast but fair crowd.
In the first match of the second session Jonathan Bagley found himself 2-0 down, and 52-0 down in the third frame and found a way to turn the match on its head. He went down to win on a black ball shoot-out, ending Ken Doherty’s hopes. Ken was the pre-tournament favourite with the bookies and the crowd. The Irish love their snooker and despite the upset warmly applauded Jonathan. Both players deserved the plaudits as this was an excellent match by all accounts with the most dramatic ending!
In the last match of the day, Steve Davis, an eight times Irish Masters Champion, beat Dennis Taylor by 3-1. With both players miked, there was a lot of banter and laugher, but both wanted to win badly, make no mistake! There was no repeat of the 1985 triumph for Dennis and no black ball drama … however this is how he celebrated the only frame he won!
Maybe, Steve was fired up by Dennis “statement of intent” during the handshake! Yes, you got it: he climbed on a crate, towering over Steve … and even over Jan! Naughty Dennis!
A few galeries are already available:
Jimmy White beat Patrick Wallace by 3-0 and John Parrot beat Patsy Fagan by the same score.
Note that the second session pictures will be added to today’s gallery tonight or tomorrow morning.
You can of course be at the venue… that’s the best option.
But other than that here is how:
Everything is being streamed live today on superstar online in China, on Facebook live here on our page. We will also go live and catch some interviews when we can
Tweeted by Jason Francis
The fitters are hard at work in Goffs and Jason, on social media, shared some evidence that those pockets are no “buckets”:
including this short video:
Tonight we have the launch dinner. Serious stuff starts tomorrow!
Apparently the event is played this week-end in Beijing and not at the end of the month as initially scheduled.
Here is the draw and the results as published By Jason Francis on twitter.
The event is covered in CBSA Website: the draw and format page as well as a page where some matches are streamed. If you open those pages with Chrome you can have them translated automatically. However images are not translated so, unless you can read Chinese, you will not be wiser than me about who is playing and winning in this one …
Jason also shared this table, showing the best breaks made today:
The event is covered by Rigour on the Superstar Online platform as previously mentioned
The draw for this event, held on 26-28 January 2018 in Beijing, featuring 80 players, will be made during the opening reception. Rigour will stream the matches, or at least some of them, on their Superstar Online Platform. I’m not sure at this stage whether the streams will be available outside China, on the CBSA website. Watch this space.
Don’t miss out. It will cost you only 10€ to watch the action live, in one of the most iconic venues Snooker ever had: Goffs.
Jason Francis will try to stream live, on Facebook, as often as possible. I will be there taking pictures, but nothing comes even close to the live atmosphere in that bear pit. And it’s a very rare opportunity to watch Steve Davis playing competitive snooker again, in fact it could be the last one!
The WPBSA World Seniors Tour 