Ding Junhui clobbers Jamie Burnett, 10-2 – 2011 Betfred.com World Snooker Championship
Ding Junhui has comfortably beaten Jamie Burnett by a frame score of 10-2 today in the first round of the 2011 Betfred.com World Snooker Championship, which is being staged at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, England.
The Scotland’s professional, Jamie Burnett, who impressively outplayed the likes of James Wattana and Liang Wenbo in the qualifying rounds, succumbed to Ding Junhui in the last-32. The Chinese Sensation, Ding Junhui, however on the same note
produced a high quality snooker to register an impressive win over his opponent. The overall score-line between both players was 78-14, 117-1, 77-13, 86-1, 73-58, 110-8, 132-0, 36-71, 88-10, 69-61, 16-61 and 71-1.
Burnett was the first one to be among the balls in the opening frame, but he could only manage 14 points, where as the Chinese top cueist responded with a dominant break of 52 to draw the first blood 1-0. Second frame was over within a blink
of an eye, as Junhui fired a mind-boggling century break of 117 in it. He also stormed into the next five frames to extend his lead by 7-0. Meanwhile, he showcased superb breaks of 58, 46, 45, 84 and 128 in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh respectively.
Though Burnett managed in breaking his duck in the eighth frame with a couple of quick fires, 45 and 26, he lost the ninth to end the first session trailing 8-1.
On resuming the play today the world number four, Junhui, again dominated the first frame with a decisive break of 61 to leave his opponent down by eight frames with nine to play. The world number thirty-seven, Burnett, tried pulling the match
by winning the eleventh but there was no point, as the twenty-four-year-old, Chinese Sensation, finished the matter off in the following twelfth with a carving break of 71.
Ding Junhui has now cruised into the last-16 of this year’s 2011 Betfred.com World Snooker Championship and he will now face the winner of the match, which is to be played, between Peter Ebdon versus Stuart Bingham.
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