UK Open (9B), May 17-22, 2022 -- field full already

Bob Jewett said:
The usual method for arranging seeded players to get in if they want is to allow them some number of days to accept a spot and then either take an open player or ask a lower-ranked player if they want the spot. "Open" is OK to an extent but I don't think you want to give preference to players who know how to use speed dial. I think the top 128 players by whatever ranking system Matchroom would like to use should have a day to enter without mass competition.

But if some spots were held open, I'm not sure why they haven't been taken by the players they were intended for. It has been a few weeks.
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I think MR were caught completely by surprise with the number of applicants. The reality is that a lot of cuesmiths see $500 entry and easy travel as a no brainer to enter a major competition. 2021 was certainly a transitional year. 2022 will be one too, but there are now enough MR events to get a meaningful ranking list for 2023. If an English pool player from the UK or South Africa or elsewhere goes on a good enough run (and there are enough of them in the draw, including Jason Theron who also dabbles in Chinese 8 Ball and knocked Judd Trump out of the US Open, that one of them probably will) in the UK or European Open that they get a top 128 ranking spot then that's a win-win - we need some surprise packages to promote the game.

It seems like MR intend to have all major events entry free in the near future with top 64 or 128 rankings deternining automatic entries. We will still get to see most of the best players this year deep in the majors and in the invitational events. Fingers crossed that now is when pool realises its potential as a commercial sport. I also think it would be prudent for MR to be generous with wildcards for the top Asian players when travel restrictions are lifted.
 
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For completeness, here is the draw. The countries did not come through this time. It seems that there are no byes. Places were being filled due to dropouts as late as May 8th.

1 Shane Van Boening -- James Channon
2 Bharat Ramakrishna -- Matthew Rigley
3 Dimitrios Loukatos -- Lou Callaghan
4 Juan Carlos Exposito -- Kevin Lannoye
5 Ralf Souquet -- Tim Jonkman
6 Pranit Ramchandani -- Andrew Morris
7 Tomasz Kaplan -- Patrick Griess
8 Alec Cameron -- Jamiel Jacobs
9 Eklent Kaci -- Ryan Pisani
10 Robert Braga -- Daniel Maciol
11 Pijus Labutis -- Pablo Garcia-Lager
12 Muhummed Daydat -- Ruben Alves
13 Denis Grabe -- Terrence Gulliver
14 Jan Rempe -- Natasha Chethan
15 Tobias Bongers -- Leo Bosher
16 Pedro Botta -- David De Santis
17 Petri Makkonen -- Liam Waterworth
18 Joe Granville -- Jon McAllister
19 Marc Bijsterbosch -- Andrei Ionescu
20 Craig Osborne -- James Lee
21 Daniele Corrieri -- Jan Van Lierop
22 Josh Roberts -- Filip Krawcyzk
23 Oliver Szolnoki -- Nigel Smith
24 David Black -- Adam Mscisz
25 Billy Thorpe -- Tom Emes
26 Dimitrios Siampanis -- Vincent Bimendi
27 John Morra -- Deividas Daugela
28 Kristina Zlateva -- Adam Stevens
29 Imran Majid -- Danny Orme
30 Jeff Beckley -- Craig Bouwer
31 Francisco Sanchez Ruiz -- Jason Theron
32 Giuseppe Ingrasci -- Ashik Nathwani
33 Naoyuki Oi -- Adam Humphries
34 Allan Brown -- Mariusz Skoneczny
35 Michael Schneider -- Hasan Shahid
36 Marco Teutscher -- Justinas Bauza
37 Dimitri Jungo -- Rico Diks
38 Graeme Hamilton -- Edward Epperson
39 Wojciech Szewczyk -- Ross Cable
40 David Larsson -- Danny King
41 Omar Al-Shaheen -- Jani Siekkinen
42 Kristian Phillips -- Matjaž Erčulj
43 Jose Alberto Delgado -- Steve Della Pietra
44 Dino Nair -- Tobias Bolt
45 Niels Feijen -- Spencer Oliver
46 Audrius Michelkevicius -- Abdulla Alfedhala
47 Nicholas De Leon -- David Oxy
48 Marc Wolff -- Andrea Cianciaruso
49 Jonas Souto Comino -- Radwan Jamil Sorouji
50 Benjamin Belhassen -- GJ Oyangoren
51 Dennis Orcollo -- Anders Edvardsson
52 Eero Romppanen -- Chris Seville
53 Aleksa Pecelj -- Clint Ianson
54 Jj Faul -- Paul Taylor
55 Ko Pin-Yi -- Chun Hao Man
56 Paulius Giedraitis -- Luke Garland
57 Ronald Regli -- Adam Stankiewicz
58 Richard Von Velthoven -- Ramesh Gokhul
59 Sanjin Pehlivanovic -- Niel Margossian
60 Sotiris Karotsakis -- Shane Conroy
61 Gary Wilson -- Blaine Barcus
62 Chris Alexander -- Rainer Biermann
63 Max Lechner -- Jaspal Singh Bamotra
64 Babken Melkonyan -- Mark England
65 David Alcaide -- Daniel Bakircioglu
66 Russell Thomas -- Jim Telfer
67 Francesco Candela -- Alvaro Canoniga
68 Marco Dorenburg -- Gianluca Cappella
69 Mika Immonen -- Joao Grillo
70 Adam Smith -- Adam Lewis
71 Kelly Fisher -- Tayfun Teber
72 Craig Laurie -- Ruben omar docampo
73 Jayson Shaw -- Ali Hirji Kheraj
74 Craig Brown -- Stephen Folan
75 Mickey Krause -- Saulius Vaitukaitis
76 Lo Ho Sum -- Kinga Rauk
77 Mieszko Fortunski -- Sam Storey
78 Marcel Price -- Kieran Tunney
79 Besar Spahiu -- Manuel Gama
80 So Shaw -- John Chapman
81 Bader Alawadhi -- Mark McGauley
82 Carl Jones -- Dave Snell
83 Mario He -- Simon Ayers
84 Dmitrijus Teriajevas -- Gabriel Vasilache
85 Roman Hybler -- Phillip Wildman
86 Benji Buckley -- Vincent Facquet
87 Ko Ping Chung -- Dominic Clemens
88 Luca De Carolis -- Kevin Simpson
89 Oscar Dominguez -- Marnitz Dihan Hawkes
90 Muhsin Yagli -- Bruno Bernardo
91 Thorsten Hohmann -- Tamas Vagvolgyi
92 Chetan Chhabra -- Angelo Salzano
93 Chris Melling -- Petr Urban
94 Tom Staveley -- Ian McCormick
95 Alexander Kazakis -- Daniel Lim
96 James Welch -- Rich Saunders
97 Joshua Filler -- Robert Hart
98 Chris Robson -- David Zalman
99 Pia Filler -- Marco Vignola
100 Chris Reinhold -- Georgi Georgiev
101 Konrad Juszczyszyn -- Panos Roulias
102 Stephen Moriarty -- Chris Cowie
103 Shane Wolford -- Gijs Van Westenbrugge
104 Derek Mayes -- Dave Hopkin
105 Abdullah Alyousef -- Ryan O'Neil
106 Anthony Illingsworth -- Aleksandrs Horsuns
107 Elliott Sanderson -- Dawid Sobiech
108 Martin Gould -- Tashunka Schultz
109 Alex Pagulayan -- Faris Taleb
110 Luke Rollison -- Robert Jarvis
111 Robbie Capito -- Jake Newlove
112 Vettas Evangelos -- Arfan Dad
113 Nikos Economopulous -- Shahram Changezi
114 Riku Romppanen -- Glenn Cooney
115 Chang Yu Lung -- Robin Cripps
116 Stephen Ellis -- Vincent Gomez
117 Radoslaw Babica -- Christian Riemering
118 Kyle Akaloo -- Tim Crooks
119 Skyler Woodward -- Adam Collins
120 Nils Johanning -- James Jack
121 Tyler Styer -- Miguel Silva
122 Ivaylo Simeonov -- Ben Crawley
123 Wiktor Zielinski -- Tomasz Jedlecki
124 Jon Ballard -- Rich Fulwell
125 Mateusz Sniegocki -- Frederico Maria Pellicciotti
126 Karol Skowerski -- Damian Massey
127 Albin Ouschan -- Sergio Lagunas
128 Ioannis Charlaftis -- Ivan Coelho
 
I noticed a couple of snooker players. Martin Gould is in the draw and he is a former ranking event winner. Gary Wilson is there too. Gary is currently ranked 33rd but has been as high as 17th. I didn’t see any others.

Given the timing of this I expected them to get others top players. That said, it’s probably better to not rely to heavily on the snooker pros to promote pool events.
 
Here are the changes from last March, dropped listed first and added second.

Major drops are Appleton, Yapp, Gorst, Chinakhov, Van Den Berg and Drago.

Major adds are Billy Thorpe, Chris Reinhold, Dennis Orcollo, Eklent Kaci, Ho Sum Lo, Jayson Shaw, Yu Lung Chang, Josh Roberts, the Ko brothers,

Dropped:

< Abhishek Ravindranath
< Alfredo Correia
< Ali Hirji Kheraj
< Aloysius Yapp
< Ben Taylor-fuente
< Darren Appleton
< David Grayland
< Dimitris Loukatos
< Dmitrijs Nalivko
< Federico Maria Pellicciotti
< Fedor Gorst
< Jake Keegan
< Jakub Koniar
< Jaspal Singh Bamotra
< Jonah Mark Antony
< Jose Alberto Delgado
< Juan Carlis Exposito Otero
< Justin Sajich
< Kurtis Weaver
< Margarita Fefilova
< Marnitz Dihan Hawkes
< Martyn Taylor
< Massimiliano Corso
< Nick Van Den Berg
< Peter Devlin
< Radwan Jamil Sorouji
< Ramazan Akdag
< Rattapol Sassmann
< Richard Halliday
< Richard Van Velthoven
< Ruslan Chinakhov
< Ryan Fleming
< Šarac Bojana
< Sergey Lutsker
< Tony Drago
< Yana Halliday

Added:

> Alec Cameron
> Ali Hirji Kheraj
> Andrew Morris
> Ashik Nathwani
> Billy Thorpe
> Blaine Barcus
> Chris Reinhold
> Craig Osborne
> Daniel Maciol
> Dave Snell
> David Oxy
> Dawid Sobiech
> Dennis Orcollo
> Dimitri Jungo
> Dimitrios Loukatos
> Eklent Kaci
> Frederico Maria Pellicciotti
> Gary Wilson
> Ho Sum Lo
> Jake Newlove
> Jan Van Lierop
> Jani Siekkinen
> Jaspal Singh Bamotra
> Jayson Shaw
> Jeff Beckley
> Yu Lung Chang
> Jonas Souto Comino
> Jose Alberto Delgado
> Josh Roberts
> Juan Carlos Exposito
> Kevin Lannoye
> Kristina Zlateva
> Mark McGauley
> Marnitz Dihan Hawkes
> Martin Gould
> Mateusz Sniegocki
> Matjaž Erčulj
> Michael Schneider
> Miguel Silva
> Nicholas De Leon
> Nigel Smith
> Oscar Dominguez
> Ping Chung Ko
> Pin-Yi Ko
> Radwan Jamil Sorouji
> Richard Von Velthoven
> Robbie Capito
> Ronald Regli
> Ross Cable
> Ruben Omar Docampo
> Shane Conroy
> Shane Wolford
> Tomasz Jedlecki
> Tomasz Kaplan
> Vincent Bimendi
> Vincent Facquet
> Wojciech Szewczyk
 
Cameron Smith said:
I noticed a couple of snooker players. Martin Gould is in the draw and he is a former ranking event winner. Gary Wilson is there too. Gary is currently ranked 33rd but has been as high as 17th. I didn’t see any others.

Given the timing of this I expected them to get others top players. That said, it’s probably better to not rely to heavily on the snooker pros to promote pool events.
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with higher price money maybe there would be more. but they will also be aware of what happened when judd trump played a top pool pro, and that it's not easy to get into the money for a snooker player. the days when steve davis could waltz into the quarter finals in a pool tournament are long gone.

i'm disappointed in not seeing much nordic representation. were there qualifiers for this?
 
skogstokig said:
... i'm disappointed in not seeing much nordic representation. were there qualifiers for this?
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In the past Matchroom has had qualifiers. The 2021 US Open had some. I didn't notice any mention of them for the UK Open. The fairly low entry fee -- $250 -- makes a qualifier less interesting.

It's quite a bit of effort to organize qualifiers, but they help to get more people involved in the event.
 
I actually was on waiting list and got spot... but it came last Sunday. 8th of May. So i passed it. I could not get on there it so fast... :(
If I had that spot week or 2 earlier i would go ... Maybe next year
 
skogstokig said:
with higher price money maybe there would be more. but they will also be aware of what happened when judd trump played a top pool pro, and that it's not easy to get into the money for a snooker player. the days when steve davis could waltz into the quarter finals in a pool tournament are long gone.

i'm disappointed in not seeing much nordic representation. were there qualifiers for this?
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I agree, it’s going to be much harder action for snooker players these days. I think just the ability of the top players with the jump cue will make it impossible to go far. But as long as pool is fully open, they have a chance to go a few rounds in since there are plenty of amateurs and semi-pros they could get drawn against.
 
Bob Jewett said:
For completeness, here is the draw. The countries did not come through this time. It seems that there are no byes. Places were being filled due to dropouts as late as May 8th.

1 Shane Van Boening -- James Channon
2 Bharat Ramakrishna -- Matthew Rigley
3 Dimitrios Loukatos -- Lou Callaghan
4 Juan Carlos Exposito -- Kevin Lannoye
5 Ralf Souquet -- Tim Jonkman
6 Pranit Ramchandani -- Andrew Morris
7 Tomasz Kaplan -- Patrick Griess
8 Alec Cameron -- Jamiel Jacobs
9 Eklent Kaci -- Ryan Pisani
10 Robert Braga -- Daniel Maciol
11 Pijus Labutis -- Pablo Garcia-Lager
12 Muhummed Daydat -- Ruben Alves
13 Denis Grabe -- Terrence Gulliver
14 Jan Rempe -- Natasha Chethan
15 Tobias Bongers -- Leo Bosher
16 Pedro Botta -- David De Santis
17 Petri Makkonen -- Liam Waterworth
18 Joe Granville -- Jon McAllister
19 Marc Bijsterbosch -- Andrei Ionescu
20 Craig Osborne -- James Lee
21 Daniele Corrieri -- Jan Van Lierop
22 Josh Roberts -- Filip Krawcyzk
23 Oliver Szolnoki -- Nigel Smith
24 David Black -- Adam Mscisz
25 Billy Thorpe -- Tom Emes
26 Dimitrios Siampanis -- Vincent Bimendi
27 John Morra -- Deividas Daugela
28 Kristina Zlateva -- Adam Stevens
29 Imran Majid -- Danny Orme
30 Jeff Beckley -- Craig Bouwer
31 Francisco Sanchez Ruiz -- Jason Theron
32 Giuseppe Ingrasci -- Ashik Nathwani
33 Naoyuki Oi -- Adam Humphries
34 Allan Brown -- Mariusz Skoneczny
35 Michael Schneider -- Hasan Shahid
36 Marco Teutscher -- Justinas Bauza
37 Dimitri Jungo -- Rico Diks
38 Graeme Hamilton -- Edward Epperson
39 Wojciech Szewczyk -- Ross Cable
40 David Larsson -- Danny King
41 Omar Al-Shaheen -- Jani Siekkinen
42 Kristian Phillips -- Matjaž Erčulj
43 Jose Alberto Delgado -- Steve Della Pietra
44 Dino Nair -- Tobias Bolt
45 Niels Feijen -- Spencer Oliver
46 Audrius Michelkevicius -- Abdulla Alfedhala
47 Nicholas De Leon -- David Oxy
48 Marc Wolff -- Andrea Cianciaruso
49 Jonas Souto Comino -- Radwan Jamil Sorouji
50 Benjamin Belhassen -- GJ Oyangoren
51 Dennis Orcollo -- Anders Edvardsson
52 Eero Romppanen -- Chris Seville
53 Aleksa Pecelj -- Clint Ianson
54 Jj Faul -- Paul Taylor
55 Ko Pin-Yi -- Chun Hao Man
56 Paulius Giedraitis -- Luke Garland
57 Ronald Regli -- Adam Stankiewicz
58 Richard Von Velthoven -- Ramesh Gokhul
59 Sanjin Pehlivanovic -- Niel Margossian
60 Sotiris Karotsakis -- Shane Conroy
61 Gary Wilson -- Blaine Barcus
62 Chris Alexander -- Rainer Biermann
63 Max Lechner -- Jaspal Singh Bamotra
64 Babken Melkonyan -- Mark England
65 David Alcaide -- Daniel Bakircioglu
66 Russell Thomas -- Jim Telfer
67 Francesco Candela -- Alvaro Canoniga
68 Marco Dorenburg -- Gianluca Cappella
69 Mika Immonen -- Joao Grillo
70 Adam Smith -- Adam Lewis
71 Kelly Fisher -- Tayfun Teber
72 Craig Laurie -- Ruben omar docampo
73 Jayson Shaw -- Ali Hirji Kheraj
74 Craig Brown -- Stephen Folan
75 Mickey Krause -- Saulius Vaitukaitis
76 Lo Ho Sum -- Kinga Rauk
77 Mieszko Fortunski -- Sam Storey
78 Marcel Price -- Kieran Tunney
79 Besar Spahiu -- Manuel Gama
80 So Shaw -- John Chapman
81 Bader Alawadhi -- Mark McGauley
82 Carl Jones -- Dave Snell
83 Mario He -- Simon Ayers
84 Dmitrijus Teriajevas -- Gabriel Vasilache
85 Roman Hybler -- Phillip Wildman
86 Benji Buckley -- Vincent Facquet
87 Ko Ping Chung -- Dominic Clemens
88 Luca De Carolis -- Kevin Simpson
89 Oscar Dominguez -- Marnitz Dihan Hawkes
90 Muhsin Yagli -- Bruno Bernardo
91 Thorsten Hohmann -- Tamas Vagvolgyi
92 Chetan Chhabra -- Angelo Salzano
93 Chris Melling -- Petr Urban
94 Tom Staveley -- Ian McCormick
95 Alexander Kazakis -- Daniel Lim
96 James Welch -- Rich Saunders
97 Joshua Filler -- Robert Hart
98 Chris Robson -- David Zalman
99 Pia Filler -- Marco Vignola
100 Chris Reinhold -- Georgi Georgiev
101 Konrad Juszczyszyn -- Panos Roulias
102 Stephen Moriarty -- Chris Cowie
103 Shane Wolford -- Gijs Van Westenbrugge
104 Derek Mayes -- Dave Hopkin
105 Abdullah Alyousef -- Ryan O'Neil
106 Anthony Illingsworth -- Aleksandrs Horsuns
107 Elliott Sanderson -- Dawid Sobiech
108 Martin Gould -- Tashunka Schultz
109 Alex Pagulayan -- Faris Taleb
110 Luke Rollison -- Robert Jarvis
111 Robbie Capito -- Jake Newlove
112 Vettas Evangelos -- Arfan Dad
113 Nikos Economopulous -- Shahram Changezi
114 Riku Romppanen -- Glenn Cooney
115 Chang Yu Lung -- Robin Cripps
116 Stephen Ellis -- Vincent Gomez
117 Radoslaw Babica -- Christian Riemering
118 Kyle Akaloo -- Tim Crooks
119 Skyler Woodward -- Adam Collins
120 Nils Johanning -- James Jack
121 Tyler Styer -- Miguel Silva
122 Ivaylo Simeonov -- Ben Crawley
123 Wiktor Zielinski -- Tomasz Jedlecki
124 Jon Ballard -- Rich Fulwell
125 Mateusz Sniegocki -- Frederico Maria Pellicciotti
126 Karol Skowerski -- Damian Massey
127 Albin Ouschan -- Sergio Lagunas
128 Ioannis Charlaftis -- Ivan Coelho
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Looks like a very strong field. Wonder what the format is? How long are the races, winner breaks?, DE then SE?.
 
Brackets https://digitalpool.com/tournaments/uk-open-stage-1/bracket

Looks like Day 1 (17 May) to Day 4 (20 May) for both tables will be streamed "free" on Matchroom Facebook and Youtube
All times are UK times

Day1.JPG
 
Gary Wilson and Martin Gould playing.

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