Yesterday was the last day of the 2023 International Championship Qualifiers. Only six matches were player, but somehow WST managed to “forget” two of them in their report, including the one won by a Chinese player, Pang Junxu. Pang beat Zak Surety by 6-3. The other omission was Daniel Wells 6-2 win over Liam Highfield.
Walden Set For Tianjin
Saturday 23 Sep 2023 08:09PM
Ricky Walden, who won the International Championship in 2014, booked his place in this year’s event with a 6-1 thrashing of Jun Jiang.
Three-time ranking event winner Walden will be among a strong field heading for Tianjin in November. He knocked in breaks of 88 and 75 today in a comfortable victory.
Scott Donaldson top scored with 125 in a 6-4 defeat of Louis Heathcote while Crucible quarter-finalist Jak Jones beat Aaron Hill 6-2 with top runs of 99, 96, 88 and 124. Oliver Lines came from 3-0 down to beat Lukas Kleckers 6-4, making breaks of 76, 69, 65 and 94.
… and it should be Jiang Jun not Jun Jiang. Chinese players have been around for a long time. It’s 20 years since Ding Junhui turned pro. Ding Junhui not Junhui Ding. You would expect them to know it by now, that the family name comes first. But no … they just don’t care I suppose.
All the results are available on snooker.org
It’s another painful defeat for Lukas Kleckers who was 3-0 up. This kind of things seem to happen to him too often to be just hard luck. Lukas seems to struggle to close matches up. Maybe he should see someone to help with the mental side of this sport. He’s obviously good enough technically.
Tomorrow, the 2023 British Open will start. It’s an ITV event but it will be shown on Eurosport/Discovery in mainland Europe. We have some brutal matches in store tomorrow:
- Ding Junhui v Luca Brecel
- Jamie Clarke v Neil robertson
- Mark Allen v Anthony Mc Gill
- Ben Woollaston v Mark Selby
- Joe O’Connor v Jack Lisowski
Ronnie O'Sullivan 
Monique, you are right that WST is UK-centric and yes, discussion about their articles is fine but since some time now you are very very strict with them :). I guess you are just angry about their approach and you are allowed to be, but you have to admit yourself that you are really pedantic sometimes :). I mean, come on, they don’t spell something wrong because they don’t care and they switch on their grammar knowledge the other minute when they care :).
Actually, Oliver Lines played extremely well at the end of that match, there wasn’t much Kleckers could do. Jiang Jun would have been delighted to win a single frame – before that he’d lost 18 frames in a row in professional matches. He’s clearly having a very hard time adjusting to the main tour, a bit like Fan Zhengyi when he came over aged 17.