wpalive.tv (where china open streams)

[mikepage]

Xue Zhenqi is a beast. Zhu Xihe is great to watch. He didn’t do so well against He though. The alternate break is a bitch. Ao Hongming is decent. Ma Chenchao a great Shanghainese player. Was really rooting for Fu to top filler but he blew it. Many of the top Chinese battled hard. A lot of them had to go through stage one. Lu Hui Chan, Kuo Po Cheng, Liu Ri Teng etc. I was surprised by the direct entries to stage two. Stage one was bloody strong field to begin with. So those players who qualified via that route will no doubt be fatigued

Yeah Xue Zhenqi just won two matches 9-1 to qualify for elimination stage

Filler will have to get past Yang Zhiping to survive. Yang Zhiping (780) is not on the Asia top 150 list we just posted because he has 284 games and needs 300--so after this tournament he will be. He did not make it out of stage 1 either of the last two years--but looks like he's knocking on the door.