England’s Stephen Lee earns easy win over Scotland’s Graeme Dott in quarters of 2012 World Open
Quarter-final clash of 2012 World Open snooker tournament between England’s Stephen Lee and Scotland’s Graeme Dott was yet another easy finish for the Englishman as he beat the former World Snooker Champion instantly by the score line of 5-1.
Before the match started, the snooker fans preset at the Haikou Stadium arena in Hainan Island were expecting a close intense encounter but it turned into an easy victory for the English potter in the end. Lee has been performing brilliantly in this tournament
from the start and has produced some interesting competitions.
He began his 2012 World Open campaign with a whitewash victory by 5-0 over the Welshman, Dominic Dale in the first round. He played the former World Snooker Champion Australia’s Neil Robertson in the second round and defeated him easily by the score line
of 5-2 to set up Dott quarter-final clash.
The Scotsman, on the other hand, started his run in the same fashion with easy victories over the 2012 Snooker Shootout winner, England’s Barry Hawkins by 5-2 and compatriot Marcus Campbell 5-3 in the first two rounds respectively to meet Lee in the quarters.
In the quarter-final match, Lee put up a marvellous snooker show and nudged the Pocket Dynamo four frames down firing some sensational knocks. Dott was not able to capitalise accordingly and tumbled down in the end.
Speaking to the World Snooker after his match, Lee said, “The table was hard work and we both struggled a bit. I'm looking forward to tomorrow though; Robert's just beaten John Higgins, I know him really well and he's a cracking player.”
The 37-year-old added, “I played well against Neil and I knew it would be tough against Graeme and I'm looking forward to playing Robert. He's a good aggressive player and I'll be bang up for it.”
Lee will next meet compatriot Robert Milkins in the semi-final clash of 2012 World Open snooker event at the Haikou Stadium arena.
Both cuemen have played against each other a couple of times before. The met in the fourth qualifying round of the 2009 UK Championship where Lee defeated Milkins by 9-7 to reach the first round of the championship.
Before that, they met in the qualifying session of 2009 Grand Prix where Milkins was victorious by 5-3. The stats are at 1-1 level but Milkins have more chances to win because winning over Higgins will give him a lot of confidence against Lee.
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