China’s Li Hang triumphs over Alex Taubman in first session - World Snooker Q School Event 3, Day 2
Li Hang of China beat Welshman, Alex Taubman, with an impressive margin of 4-2, on the second day of the World Snooker Qualifying School (Q School) Event three, being held at the World Snooker Academy, in Sheffield.
The Chinese defeated the Welsh potter with a convincing score line of 4-2 at the end of the match and moved into the second round against another cueist from Wales, Jamie Rhys Clarke. The Chinaman showed impressive snooker techniques to sabotage Taubman’s hopes to hold the tour card for the 2011-12 snooker season.
Hang has already missed two chances to make it to the professional tour of the upcoming season, as he lost in the first two events of the Q School 2011. He crashed out of the first event at the hands of Joel Walker with a 3-4 margin.
However, he reached to the fourth round of the Q School Event two ousting John Astley and Antony Parsons, along with a walkover against Luca Brecel. In the fourth round, he fought brilliantly against David Gray but luck was not on his side as he tumbled down in the decider frame and lost 3-4 in the end.
The 20-year-old youngster opened his run with a 46-point break in the first frame to get-off the mark with a 1-0 lead. He extended his lead clinching the second frame 72-16, followed by another decent clearance of 40 in the third, to move three frames ahead of Taubman at 3-0.
Before Li could beat the Welshman 4-0 down with his 45-point run in the fourth frame, Taubman sprang back with a rattling half-century knock of 56 and added one frame to his digits on the score board by winning the frame 61-74.
Taubman continued his struggle in the next frame as another half-century brought him one frame up at 3-2 against the Chinaman. The former Asian Under-21 Championship winner, Hang, took the sixth frame in one visit at 78-0, firing a superb run of 78 points to win the first-round clash and surge into the next round of the Q School 2011, against Jamie Rhys Clarke of Wales.
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