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The highest eight gamers on the one-year rating listing head again to the Celtic Manor Resort right now for the Tour Championship, a world rating occasion which runs from March twenty second to twenty eighth.
We kick off right now with one other battle between a resurgent John Higgins and World Champion Ronnie O’Sullivan and it’s all dwell on ITV4 so the time you spend not watching the snooker could be spent planning your funeral preparations and pondering methods to spend your remaining time on this wretched planet.
The primary spherical schedule is:
QF1 Judd Trump (1) v Barry Hawkins (8): Thursday March twenty fifth
QF2 John Higgins (4) v Ronnie O’Sullivan (5): Monday March twenty second
QF3 Neil Robertson (3) v Jack Lisowski (6): Tuesday March twenty third
QF4 Mark Selby (2) v Kyren Wilson (7): Wednesday March twenty fourth
All of the matches on this occasion are the Better of 19 so it’s an actual appetiser for the feast of snooker that awaits in April and Might.
The sub-text to this occasion are the seedings for the upcoming World Championship, which is only some quick weeks away. We now know the 16 gamers who’re mechanically lining up in Sheffield however we’re not but 100% certain of all their locations within the draw, very very like Eric Morecambe taking part in the piano, he is aware of all of the notes however not essentially in the suitable order.
We all know {that a} current World Champion within the form of Stuart Bingham will likely be heading to the qualifiers for the primary time in a decade and we all know Ronnie and Judd’s doable second spherical opponents, however virtually every part is up within the air till this occasion attracts to an in depth subsequent weekend.
Hopefully, this additionally implies that the World Qualifiers will likely be drawn early this week so we are able to begin dissecting the match ups in that.
As issues stand, if all of the seeds had been to win their opener at The Crucible, that is how the second spherical would look.
Ronnie O’Sullivan v Anthony McGill
Stephen Maguire v Ding Junhui
John Higgins v Mark Allen
Neil Robertson v Barry Hawkins
Mark Selby v Jack Lisowski
Kyren Wilson v Mark Williams
Shaun Murphy v Yan Bingtao
Judd Trump v Dave Gilbert
I’ll replace the above draw as issues change via the week forward.
