The Rokit World Seniors Q School Masters was in fact the very first snooker event  to start in the new year on Monday! 

Jason Francis and his team deserve huge praise for managing to get this Q-School going under the current circumstances.

You can follow the scores, and find all the results here

The main table is streamed on Facebook.

I will however post the results here as well, and this post will be updated as the tournament unfolds.

At the time of writing, the last 96 and last 64 round have been completed

Last 96

Peter Lines 3-0 Darren Mills
Nigel Bond 3-0 Barry Pinches
Mark Gray 3-0 Stuart Watson
Darren Morgan 3-0 Jim Buck
Rod Lawler 3-0 Muhammad Aurangzaib
Ant Parsons 3-1 Gary Milne
Andy Lavin 3-0 Chris Cookson
Mark Taylor 3-2 Ahmed Ahashmi
Declan Hughes 3-0 Dean Sycamore
Andrew Booker 3-1 Ray Grail
Steve Crowley 3-1 Rhydian Richards
Rory McLeod 3-2 Mark Ganderton – Rory is playing for Jamaica
Steven Thomas 3-2 Patsy Fagan
Andrew Norman 3-0 Ivor Fitzpatrick
Lee S. Martin 3-0 Neil Herd
Dave Finbow 3-1 Chris Jones
Aaron Canavan 3-0 John Hunter
Andrew Greaves 3-1 Andy Papaiacovou
Sean Lanigan 3-2 Abid Manzoor

Dharminder Singh Lily w/o Lee Walker
Johnny Stevens w/o Peter Bradsley

Last 64

Nigel Bond 3-0 John Snape
Rod Lawler 3-0 Karl Walker
Phil Williams 3-0 Peter O’Malley
Andy Lavin 3-0 Mohamed Abdelkader
Darren Morgan 3-1 Tony Knowles
Mark Taylor 3-2 Simon Chandler
Peter Lines 3-0 Adam Denham
Mark Gray 3-0 Martin Williams
Rory McLeod 3-0 Minesh Doshi
Matt Ford 3-1 Richard Wykes
David Lilley 3-1 Jonathan Bagley
Steven Thomas 3-2 Steve Bird
Dharminder Singh Lily 3-2 Stuart Reardon
Ant Parsons 3-2 Steve Whslley
Andy Hicks 3-0 Mukesh Parmar
James Brown 3-2 Andrew Milliard
Wayne Townsend 3-0 Dean Reynolds
Steve Crowley 3-0 Gary Coulson
Andrew Booker 3-0 Lee Taylor
Gary Thomson 3-1 Declan Hughes
Dave Finbow 3-0 Mike Nixon
Andrew Norman 3-2 Ian Brumby
Aaron Canavan 3-0 Kuldesh Johal
Andrew Greaves 3-0 Paul Davies
Sean Lanigan 3-0 Richard Jones
Gerard Greene 3-1 Mark Ball
Ashley Beal 3-0 Richard Emery

Gary Filtness w/o Hans Blankaert – my guess is that Hans was unable to travel from Belgium
Lee S. Martin w/o Anthony Bonner
Kevin Palmer w/o Martin McCrudden
Johnny Stevens w/o Alfie Burden – Alfie had to withdraw because his son has Covid-19
Leo Fernandez bye

Last 32

Mark Taylor – Gary Filtness w/o
Phil Williams 3-2 Andy Lavin
Nigel Bond 3-1 Rod Lawler
Darren Morgan 3-1 Peter Lines
Mark Gray 1-3 Ant Parsons
Dharminder Singh Lily 3-1 Matt Ford
David Lilley 3-1 Rory Mcleod
Steven Thomas 0-3 Leo Fernandez
Andrew Booker 0-3 Andy Hicks
Steve Crowley w/o Gary Thomson
James Brown 2-3 Wayne Townsend
Johnny Stevens 0-3 Andrew Norman
Gerard Greene 3-0 Dave Finbow
Aaron Canavan 3-0 Kevin Palmer
Sean Lanigan 0-3 Lee S. Martin
Ashley Beal 3-0 Andrew Greaves

Last 16

Gary Filtness –  Phil Williams w/o
Nigel Bond 1-3 Darren Morgan
Ant Parsons 3-0 Dharminder Singh Lilly
David Lilley 3-0 Leo Fernandez
Andy Hicks 3-0 Steve Crowley
Wayne Townsend 2-3 Andrew Norman
Gerard Greene 3-2 Aaron Canavan
Lee S. Martin 3-1 Ashley Beal

Quarter-finals

Phil Williams 0-3 Darren Morgan
Ant Parsons 1-3  David Lilley
Andy Hicks 3-1 Andrew Norman
Gerard Greene 3-2 Lee S. Martin

Semi-finals

David Lilley 3-0 Gerard Greene
Darren Morgan 3-0 Andy Hicks

The Final

Darren Morgan 4-3 David Lilley

Congratulations Darren Morgan! See you at Ally Pally!

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I have put the names of the senior players currently competing on the Main Tour in orange. As you can see there are a few of them, and the only one who lost so far is Barry Pinches who was beaten by another main tour player, Nigel Bond.

Amongst the name that caught my eye, are Andrew Norman and Mukesh Parmar.

Andrew was on the main tour for a few seasons, and was one of the “pilars” of the SWSA.  Everyone knowing Andrew, knows that he’s a lovely person. Andrew felt that playing on the main tour, and all the traveling it implied, was putting too much pressure on his family life. He missed the competition though, and had told me that he would get on the seniors tour as soon as he would turn 40, and here he is!

Mukesh Parmar was Mark Selby’s manager and friend for many, many years. I never knew that he was a player himself.