Marcus Campbell targeting Top 16 in new snooker season – Snooker Update
Recent snooker season has produced some outstanding snooker competitions at the baize featuring new names as champions. The season will be a greater opportunity for those potters who were not in the fore front of the game.
Players like Ricky Walden, Stuart Bingham, Marcus Campbell, Barry Hawkins, Stephen Maguire and Matthew Selt are in the spotlight right now because of their impressive performance in the new snooker season.
Most of these cuemen have made their way into the Top 16 potters of the world and have made themselves eligible of participating in all major ranking events. However, many of them are still trying their best to reach the Top 16 list. The Scottish potter,
Marcus Campbell is also one of these potters who are ambitious to book their place in the Top 16 potters with their performance in the new snooker season.
While speaking to World Snooker about his plans, Campbell said, “Getting into the top 16 is definitely a very realistic target for me this season. I don't have as many points to come off as some of the players around me, so if I can keep getting good results
it can be done.”
The Scotsman finished the last season on World Number 22 rank after putting up a convincing performance on the table in major ranking snooker events. Despite the fact the he was not able to win any of the major events Campbell managed to reach the advance
stages of many of the events. In the new snooker season, the Scot hit the semi-final spot of the 2012 Wuxi Classic snooker tournament where he lost to the eventual winner of the event, Ricky Walden by the score line of 1-6.
He spoke about his experience in the 2012 Wuxi Classic, “It was a great feeling to reach a semi-final and it's given me a taste to get to the latter stages of big tournaments more often. I have been feeling that my game is good enough for a while and it
was just a question of finding a way to win matches when it really mattered.”
Campbell has booked his place in the 2012 Shanghai Masters snooker event after he triumphed over the former World Snooker Championship winner from Ireland, Ken Doherty by 5-4 in the final round qualifier at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield.
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