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Qualifiers roundup and remarkable snooker podcast episodes
Who joins Ronnie with 1,000 career tons?
Peter
August 05, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes
With the qualifying rounds concluding last week, the line-up for these events can be finalised. There will be a two-week pause in the main tour until the next event, the Xi’an Grand Prix, begins.
🔝 Qualifiers roundup
The walkover by Hammad Miah due to a traffic jam, and Duane Jones' defeat of former world champion Luca Brecel, are probably the biggest upsets in last week’s qualifiers. Brecel’s qualifier round for the British Open has been moved to the main arena. More interesting, however, is focusing on the positive side of the qualifiers to see who managed to win all three matches. Snooker Loopy did this hard work and posted the list on X. Personally I love to see Sunny Akani on the list after his comeback to the main tour.
Now that this stint of qualifying is over, here are the players that won all 3. Because someone had to..
Sunny Akani 🇹🇭
Chris Wakelin 🏴
Mark Davis 🏴
Xu Si 🇨🇳
Neil Robertson 🇦🇺
Hossein Vafaei 🇮🇷
Si Jiahui 🇨🇳
Hammad Miah 🏴
Tian Pengfei 🇨🇳
Noppon Saengkham 🇹🇭
Xiao Guodong 🇨🇳— Snooker Loopy (@SnookerLoopy_)
8:07 PM • Aug 3, 2024
🎧 Podcasts this week
There were some interesting podcast episodes that aired last week. Snooker Hall invited the President of Women’s Snooker, Mandy Fisher, to their show to discuss how the women’s tour operates and the future growth of the women’s game. In their next episode, they have invited referee Ben Williams. Got any questions? Let them know!
Later this week, snooker referee Ben Williams will join me on The Snooker Hall Podcast for a chat about his career and the role of the referee in modern snooker. If you have any questions for @bhw147, the email address is [email protected]
Dan @ TSH
#snooker
— The Snooker Hall Podcast (@thesnookerhall)
6:52 AM • Aug 4, 2024
Phil and Nick from the Talking Snooker podcast were joined by Oliver Lines, who talks about his career highlights so far, about his father Peter Lines and his friend Judd Trump.
In the Totally Snookered vodcast Jason Ferguson, Gary Wilson, Jason Francis and Sophie Gibbs-Nicholls are featured.
Stephen Hendry 🤝 Kyren Wilson
Stephen Hendry invited Kyren Wilson for an interview and a frame on his YouTube channel where they chat about how Kyren’s life has changed since he won the world title.
💯 Race to 1000 centuries
Ronnie O'Sullivan is currently the only player to have made 1,000 centuries in his career, but John Higgins, Judd Trump and Neil Robertson are not far off joining The Rocket by achieving the remarkable feat. Who will be next?
John Higgins needs two more century breaks to become only the second player in professional snooker history to reach 1,000 career tons.
Judd Trump is not far behind, though!
— Totally Snookered (@totalsnookered)
11:08 AM • Aug 2, 2024
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