Again WST shared short reports on day 3 at both ongoing Q-Schools
2023 UK Q-School Event 2 – Day 3
Nuessle Flying The Flag
Austria’s Florian Nuessle admitted he is determined to become his country’s first ever professional, after whitewashing Welsh youngster Riley Powell 4-0 at Q School Event Two in Leicester.
Nuessle has been attempting to get on the circuit since his Q School debut in 2019, but the 21-year-old believes his game is now ready to mount a serious bid to take a place at snooker’s top table. He nearly staged a sensational fightback at World Championship qualifying back in April. After trailing 8-0 he pushed Chinese sensation Si Jiahui hard before, losing out 10-7. Si would go on to make the semi-finals.
The Graz cueman put on a strong showing this afternoon, crafting breaks of 64, 84 and 56 on his way to victory. Next up he faces India’s Lucky Vatnani in round three.
“I’ve been trying really hard to get on tour for the last three or four years. The experience is coming, that is what I need to get on. I am getting more ready each year,” said Nuessle.
“I would be the first from Austria and it would be great for the country. Like Luca Brecel did by winning the World Championship for snooker in Belgium, it would explode (in Austria), if I could do that.”
Welsh 16-year-old Liam Davies earned a third round berth with a 4-1 win over Stuart Watson.
Davies became the youngest player ever to win a match at the World Championship in 2022, when he defeated Aaron Hill at Crucible qualifying. Since then Davies has continued to showcase his potential with some notable results, including a win over Noppon Saengkham at the Welsh Open.
He made breaks of 53 and 58 on his way to this morning’s victory and will face Stephen Kershaw in the next round. Kershaw staged a surprise 4-2 win over Peter Devlin.
Recently relegated professional Steven Hallworth survived a scare to beat Malta’s Aaron Busuttil 4-3, while Hayden Pinhey continued his good form with a 4-0 win over Jordan Shepherd. Leicester’s Louis Heathcote is still in line for an immediate return to the tour after beating Paul Deaville 4-1.
It’s good to see WST finally giving more visibility to non-UK/Irish players and young players. That’s what snooker needs: attracting more young exponents and finally working at deserving the tag “World” Snooker. There is still a lot to do towards those goals but it has to start somewhere and these latest pieces give me a bit of hope.
2023 Asia-Oceania Q-School Event 1 – Day 3
Gong Dumps Out On Yee
Gong Chenzhi put on a fine display to beat three-time Women’s World Champion Ng On Yee 4-0 on day three of Asia-Oceania Q School in Bangkok.
China’s Gong crafted breaks of 67 and 94 on his way to victory and will face Indian Ishpreet Singh Chada in the next round.
On Yee will now have to turn to event two to try and gain her place on the circuit. She was relegated from the tour at the end of last season and narrowly missed out on a fresh card on the women’s world rankings.
Former professional Lei Peifan continued his bid for an immediate return to the World Snooker Tour with a 4-1 win over Singapore’s Kingsley Tian Yi Ang. Chinese cueman Lei top scored with 60 and now plays Yu Kiu Chang.
Malaysian Thor Chuan Leong beat Hamza Akbar 4-3 in a battle of the ex professionals, while Filipino Jefrey Roda defeated Sattar Noor 4-0.
I hate the way the word “dump” is so often used. People are not rubbish that you put in the bin, no matter how poor their performance was and On Yee was very poor indeed. I wonder if the situation with the funding of the sport in Hong Kong is putting additional pressure on her. But also, fundamentally, I believe that she would benefit from playing a more aggressive/instinctive brand of snooker as well as playing a bit faster. It’s impossible to find any fluency when you are constantly overthinking. Also, as I heard Ken Doherty once saying as a conclusion after delivering a long explanation about the art of safety: “But at the end of the day you shouldn’t forget that to win you have to pot those balls… “
Several matches are streamed on the Billiards Sport Association of Thailand facebook page
They also shared an album with over 400 snooker action pictures
And, as usual, you will find live scores and detailed results for both event on snooker.org
Ronnie O'Sullivan 
No. Even she qualify though Qschool, her ranking is still very low in the main tour.(I wonder her result in main tour has any effect in funding.)
OnYee’s presence to funding should be her performance in female tour and female team……
(and other guys’ performance in amateur(like ISBF, WSF) events not main tour.)
If they wish to turn things around quickly, they need someone like Si (SF in WC=a medal…) but no.
(cuesport is temporarily not in asian/Olympic, WC is now the highest rank match available)
Dump, trash, they really enjoy garbage metaphors. And true, OnYee is incredibly meticulous and albeit she scored a century at the WC qualifying, she is mainly playing a defensive game and this somehow characterizes most women. That’s why Bai is such a refreshing presence and I would hate her become like the majority.
Gradinari’s story is interesting that the whole family moved to the UK tho further his snooker. I wonder if they did it with a Romanian passport when the EU settlement scheme was still workable, because it couldn’t he easy.