Results of China Open 2011 Qualifying Day 3
Qualifying Day 3 of the China Open was held on 26th February at the World Snooker Academy.
The winners have been highlighted and the overall results for the day three are below:
Alfie Burden 5-4 Matt Selt
Tom Ford 5-3 Liu Song
Anthony Hamilton 5-0 Joe Jogia
Kurt Maflin 5-1 Dave Harold
Mark Joyce 5-1 Joe Delaney
Rory McLeod 5-2 Barry Pinches
Robert Milkins 5-4 David Gilbert
Peter Lines 3-5 Jimmy White
Nigel Bond 5-4 Bjorn Haneveer
Mike Dunn 5-2 James McBain
Tony Drago 2-5 Issara Kachaiwong
Michael Holt 3-5 Rod Lawler
Steve Davis 4-5 James Wattana
Jamie Burnett 3-5 Ben Woollaston
Fergal O’Brien 3-5 Matt Couch
Alan McManus 3-5 Joe Swail
Sixteen best-of-nine matches were played on the third day of the qualifiers. All matches went as per expectations except the upsets of Steve Davis and Tony Drago.
Steve Davis, six-time world champion and one of the greatest snooker players ever, has been eliminated from the China Open as he lost to the Thai-Poon, James Wattana, after a fully stretched battle by a frame score of 5-4. It was a tough competition between
the two, but Steve couldn’t capitalise the given chances and has been sent home.
Another upset was of Tony ‘The Boss’ Drago as he lost to another Thai player, Issara Kachaiwong, by a frame score of 5-2. Drago, after winning a scrappy first frame, made a mind-boggling magnificent break of 137 in the second frame and was leading Issara
by two-frames-to-nil. He looked very confident and people were expecting a one-man show from him, but he lost the next five in a row. There were no reasonable breaks made by the underdog, but an excellent safety play from threw the highly experienced Maltese
Falcon out of the qualifiers.
There was another legend lined up on Day 3, Jimmy White, who has now successfully gone through to Round 4 after beating Peter Lines by a frame score of 5-3.
The matches to be played in the qualifiers for Round 4 are:
Stephen Lee vs. Alfie Burden
Ryan Day vs. Tom Ford
Matthew Stevens vs. Anthony Hamilton
Mark King vs. Kurt Maflin
Stuart Bingham vs. Mark Joyce
Marcus Campbell vs. Rory McLeod
Andrew Higginson vs. Robert Milkins
Dominic Dale vs. Jimmy White
Liang Wenbo vs. Nigel Bond
Martin Gould vs. Mike Dunn
Ken Doherty vs. Issara Kachaiwong
Joe Perry vs. Rod Lawler
Mark Davis vs. James Wattana
Judd Trump vs. Ben Woollaston
Gerard Greene vs. Fergal O’Brien
Barry Hawkins vs. Joe Swail