Snapshot9 said:
Who is this Chris Melling?
Chris is an all round cue sport player from Keighley, England.
He has won the small table UK 8 ball World Championship twice (recorded for SKY TV) and various other Pro 8 ball TV events.
He has recently joined (for the 2nd occassion), the World Snooker tour for 2006/2007 and has hit a few 147 clearances.
He got to the last 16 of the 9 ball World Championship in Cardiff defeating top players along the way........and he came through the qualifiers to get there in the 1st place.
His background since he was young was UK 8 ball pool and snooker (like most of the British players competing).
Chris has the cueing ability and self belief that he can succeed in any cue sport........and he knows the patterns in 8 ball pool extremely well.........his potting is awesome.
Karl Boyes from Manchester is another (UK 8 ball player) player who is doing really well in the past few qualifiers......I think he finished 7th and 9th at the previous two and is in the winners section after 3 fine wins (10-1, 10-4, 10-7) in this qualifier.
These lads are just a few of the British contingent playing in the qualifiers who are unknown in the USA.
There are quite a few others who are already part of the IPT and will cause some big upsets in the near future......especially with the harder playing conditions (tight pockets and slow nap cloth).
Whoever does come through this weekend to qualify will be very good players and worthy of their spots.