The qualifying competition for the World Championship continues on Tuesday when another 16 spots in the second round of the event will be booked as players look to take the first step on the road to appearing at the Crucible Theatre.
We remain at the stage where the players ranked 81-128 are mixed in with the invited players with everyone on show over the course of the three sessions looking to make their way to that coveted 10 frames to book their spot in the next round.
Morning Session
We have eight more matches setting off on their journey in the morning session and they will conclude in the evening one. Four of them will be on the streamed tables with the TV table offering up the match between the popular Jimmy White and the young star Anton Kazakov. We will also get to see the progress of Oliver Lines as he opens up his campaign against Mohamed Shehab while there will be a great deal of attention on the table which has Dean Young and the teenager Michal Szubarczyk on it. The 14-year-old will be the youngest player on tour next season. Andrew Pagett faces Iulian Boiko in the other streamed showing.
There are some tasty matches away from the streaming camera on Tuesday too. Julien Leclercq will be looking to move deeper into the competition when he faces on the Chinese amateur Zhou Jinhao while Bulcsu Revesz will look to make progress as well. He has a tricky task on his hands though because he faces Steven Hallworth who has already secured his spot on tour next season. The other two matches have Manasawin Phetmalaikul meeting Leone Crowley, the Irish amateur, while Allan Taylor is also in action when he plays Joshua Thomond.
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Afternoon Session
The afternoon session will see the matches which begin on Monday afternoon concluding and on the main table we will see what are expected to be the last rites of the match between Zhao Xintong and Ka Wai Cheung. The Chinese player leads 8-1 after the first session. On the stream tables Farakh Ajaib will look to convert a 6-2 lead into a victory against Baipat Siripaporn while Alexander Ursenbacher and Paul Deaville resume with the Swiss star 6-3 up. The other streamed table sees Ben Mertens resuming 6-2 up on Daniel Womersley.
Elsewhere, the Shootout finalist Liam Graham has it all to do when he trails the amateur Fergal Quinn 6-2 but Robbie McGuigan is in a much better place when he resumes 7-2 up on the Egyptian player Hatem Yassen. Liam Davies is another professional who is in a good place when he comes back on Tuesday afternoon. He is 8-1 up on Ahmed Aly Elsayed but there could yet be plenty of mileage in the other game where Sunny Akani holds a 5-2 lead on Kreishh Gurbaxani when they were hauled off early in their first session.
Betting
There isn’t anything in the matches that are at the halfway mark that I like the look of. Everything is either one-sided or the favourites are in front and not really very appealing so in terms of a bet for Tuesday I’m focusing on the action that starts and finishes over the course of the day. There are a couple of bets that I was eyeing up but on closer inspection they don’t stand out as much as I thought they would so I’ll go with the one.
That comes in the form of Steven Hallworth to get the better of Bulcsu Revesz. The Hungarian had a flying start to life on tour but things have gone very quiet for him in recent times. He hasn’t actually played a competitive match since he went down in the World Open qualifying competition and that was fully two months ago. Aside from the Shootout, Revesz hasn’t beaten anyone other than an amateur or one of the women on tour who don’t have many match wins between them since the British Open qualifying. He faces technically another amateur here but Hallworth has already guaranteed a return to the tour for next season. He has been competing regularly on the amateur scene over the last couple of months and there were a couple of times that ITV did pieces from the practice room last week and he was on the tables there. I’m a big believer in winning momentum at this level, especially after a long season and Hallworth has it. In the 10-5 win over Mark Joyce to book his spot back on tour he made seven 50s and a century. Anything like that here should be good enough to see him through.
Tips
Back S.Hallworth to beat B.Revesz for a 3/10 stake at 2.10 with William Hill
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