The day started yesterday with the remaining group games and with Judd Trump 2 wins from 3 games looking for a win or two from his final three games to secure a play-off place, while Peter Ebdon was in big trouble winless from his opening three games. Judd though lost the first game of the day to Peter and that was a possible turning point in the group as Peter went on to win his final two games, making it three wins from three on the day to finish in 5th place and avoid elimination. Meanwhile, Judd lost his remaining two games in the group to become eliminated in 6th place, while Marco Fu was also eliminated having failed to win either of his two games yesterday finishing with 2 wins also from his 6 games.
That meant the semi-finalists were Ryan Day who topped the group, and he played fourth placed Mark Davis, while Stuart Bingham took on Ali Carter. Ali was quickly into his stride and he took that match out 3-0 to get into the group final, where he played Mark Davis who won his match against Ryan Day 3-1. In the final, Ali recovered from losing the opening frame by making a 129 to level the match before winning the next two frames as well to complete the victory and win the group beating Mark Davis 3-1. Here's my lovely notepad picture round-up from yesterdays play:
Today then we see group 4 with 3 newcomers, the 3 newcomers from group 3 and Stuart Bingham who has been in since the opening group. Ryan Day and Stuart Bingham did look good in group 3, as did Mark Davis, while I expect young Michael White to be dangerous in this short format, so this looks like being a tightly contested group and one which is very tough to call the winner.
I'll hopefully be back tomorrow to have a quick round-up of the action on day one of the group, and a look ahead to see what the players need to do to avoid elimination and make the semi-finals.
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