Anthony Hamilton destroys Tom Ford, surges into last-16 of PartyCasino.com Players Tour Championship
Anthony Hamilton crashed Tom Ford 4-2 in the first round of PartyCasino.com Players Tour Championship 2010-11 Grand Final yesterday, at the Helix Theatre, in Dublin, Ireland, to cruise into the last-16. He will face World Number Two cueist, Mark Williams,
in the next round.
The World Number 41, Hamilton, grabbed a 1-0 early lead when he banged into the game firing a stunning century break of 133 in the very first frame and surprised the 27-year-old Ford to clinch the frame 137-0. The 39-year-old Hamilton, nicknamed Robin Hood
of Snooker, extended his lead to 2-0 taking the second frame 65-43. Ford, who won the third event of Star Xing Pai PTC, was dragged under a lot of stress after Hamilton swept the table with an impressive 92 points in the third frame and advanced 3-0 in the
game.
However, the World Number 33 bounced back into the game to capitalise and snatched the fourth frame 37-56, followed by the fifth 56-67 with a couple of decent breaks of 38 and 36 respectively, to lessen Hamilton’s lead to 3-2.
The Euro PTC Event 1, AKA Paul Hunter Classic, runner-up, Hamilton, clicked the sixth frame 67-19 smashing a beautiful half century break of 54 to confirm his spot against Mark Williams in the second round of PartyCasino.com Players Tour Championship 2010-11
Grand Final.
Stats
Hamilton and Williams have not played against each other during this season. The 39-year-old Hamilton has played 49 matches including 3 walkovers and won 30 out of them possessing a winning ratio of 61.2 percent. He played overall 309 frames winning 165
to gain a frame-win ratio of 53.4 percent.
Mark Williams, on the other hand, has played 54 matches including two walkovers with 74.1 percent win ratio as he clinched 40 match wins during the season 2010-11. He has a 61.6 percent frame winning percentage as he grabbed 218 frames out of 354.
Ricky Walden stormed into the next round of PartyCasino.com PTC Grand Final beating China’s Liang Wenbo 4-1, in the first round. He clinched three consecutive frames after the score was 1-1 level, hitting some impressive breaks of 60, 52 and 33, respectively.
He will meet Shaun Murphy of England in the last-16.
It was a great day for the 32-year-old Michael Holt, as he destroyed Marco Fu of Hong Kong 4-1 taking four consecutive frames after Fu took the first. He banged some outstanding breaks including a century break, 66, 110 and 54. Holt also grabbed the sixth
event of Euro PTC, also known as Prague Classic, beating the World Number One, John Higgins, 4-3, in the final. He will now be going against Englishman, Barry Pinches.
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