The second day of action in the World Championship qualifying event sees another batch of matches beginning in the morning and concluding in the evening on Thursday as well as those contests which begun on Wednesday afternoon finishing up in the middle session of the day.
That means that come the end of the day the season will be over for another 21 players with the same number progressing to the second round of the competition at the weekend.
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Wednesday Recap
It was a decent enough opening day for us with Matt Selt powering to a 10-1 win over Ng On Yee in a match which was every bit as one-sided as I expected it to be to deliver our first winner of the tournament. Our second one is well on the way to arriving too with Martin O’Donnell leading Anthony Hamilton 5-1 when they resume on Thursday afternoon.
Unfortunately we lost one of our outright fancies when Mark Joyce produced a pretty average performance to lost convincingly to Adam Duffy. Elsewhere though there were wins for Martin Gould, Ben Woollaston and Xiao Guodong.
Morning Session
The two main tables are in operation once again in the morning session with Liang Wenbo the headline attraction. He faces Rod Lawler in a match he should win at a canter. The other streamed table sees what could be an equally one-sided match between Joe Perry and Ross Muir.
There is no doubt where the majority of the eyes will be on the outside tables. It will be the clash between Sam Craigie and Jimmy White. Elsewhere we have Jamie Jones taking on Craig Steadman, Andrew Higginson playing David John, Cao Yupeng facing Robin Hull, Lee Walker going up against Kristjan Helguson, Ricky Walden meets Joe Swail in an appealing match while the Shootout champion Michael Georgiou plays Matthew Bolton. The other two matches sees Mark Davis facing Sanderson Lam and there is an all-Chinese battle between Tian Pengfei and Li Yuan.
Afternoon Session
We see a conclusion to the matches which began on Wednesday afternoon in this session which means that Graeme Dott shouldn’t take long to come through as he leads 9-0 against Adrian Ridley. That is the only truly one-sided match with the rest of them being quite close on paper.
Zhao Xintong trails Aditya Mehta 5-4 while Lu Haotian leads Fang Xiongman by the same scoreline. Thor Chuan Leong also holds a 5-4 lead on Michael Holt with Mike Dunn leading Duane Jones by that score too. Akani Songsermsawad is 5-2 up on Lukas Kleckers, Dominic Dale will resume 5-3 ahead of Reanne Evans, Rory McLeod is 4-3 ahead of Ian Burns and Li Hang is the same score against Ashley Hugill.
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Betting
Usually I like to back a match to be turned around in the held over ones and while I’m sure one or two will be, there are no huge odds to sway me into a bet on any of them being won by the player that is trailing so I’ll stick with one in terms of bets for Thursday. It comes in the morning.
Robin Hull hasn’t won many matches this season and while we know at his best he can deliver successes I’m not sure a lack of sharpness is going to do him any good when he takes on a form horse in Cao Yupeng. Yupeng will have needed to get over having Barry Hawkins nick him from the clouds in China last week but he has made a couple of finals and a semi-final this season so he is playing great stuff. Hull hasn’t played a competitive match since January and he’s only played one since the turn of the year. That makes me expect Yupeng to dominate this one.
Tips
Back C.Yupeng (-3.5 frames) to beat R.Hull for a 4/10 stake at 2.00 with Betfred
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