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2011 Australian Goldfields Open qualifying session at World Snooker Academy: Day 3 Results

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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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