2011 Australian Goldfields Open qualifying session at World Snooker Academy: Day 3 Results
The qualifying session of 2011 Australian Goldfields Open has taken a new turn at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, as the session has entered into its final stage (Round 4) which will decide the eventual Last-32 qualifiers. The Top 16 cuemen will
already be waiting for their opponents at Bendigo Stadium in Victoria to begin the first major ranking event in Australia.
Q School tour card holders dominated the arena in the last couple of days with their outstanding form, however, they were on the receiving end in the second and third round. Many of the amateurs, who turned professional this season, crashed out of the event,
as the tour card holders surged further into the qualifying matches. However, after the end of Day 3, new faces emerged in the competition who stopped their run.
Kurt Maflin was having a tremendous run from the beginning. He defeated Cao Yupeng 5-1 and Peter Lines 5-3 in first two rounds but he was nudged down by Michael Holt in the third round by 1-5.
The legend, Jimmy White could not move further as Rory McLeod knocked him out in the third round by 5-3. Li Yan also lost his penultimate qualifier at the hands of Nigel Bond by 5-3. Yan had a supeb start in the qualifiers when he defeated Kacper Filipiak
and Alan Mcmanus in first two rounds.
Liam Highfield is still going strong in the session, reaching Round 4 of qualifiers against Dominic Dale of Wales. The Englishman grabbed a walkover in third round against veteran Steve Davis and victories in previous two rounds against Simon Bedford 5-4
and Xiao Guodong 5-4.
The overall result after day three are:
Matthew Selt 5-1 Adrian Gunnell
Mark Joyce 5-3 Jimmy Robertson
Rory McLeod 5-3 Jimmy White
Jamie Burnett 5-3 Andrew Norman
Mike Dunn 5-3 Rod Lawler
Joe Jogia 2-5 Yu Delu
Tom Ford 5-3 Jack Lisowski
Michael Holt 5-1 Kurt Maflin
Fergal O’Brien 5-1 Sam Craigie
Tian Pengfei w/o Anthony Hamilton
Jamie Jones 4-5 Ben Woollaston
Tony Drago 1-5 Scott MacKenzie
Nigel Bond 5-3 Li Yan
Liam Highfield w/o Steve Davis
Dave Harold 4-5 David Gilbert
Barry Pinches 5-3 Matt Couch
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