Robin Hull beats David Gilbert to regain a place on the Professional Tour – Snooker news
Robin Hull has regained a place on the Professional Tour as he outplayed David Gilbert by a frame score of 4-3 in the best-of-seven frames match of this season’s World Snooker Q School.
This event is being held at the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield.
The Englishman David Gilbert, who previously beat the likes of Steve Judd, James Welsh, Martin O’Donnell and Reanne Evans, crashed out. However, Finland’s top player Robin Hull showed great temperament to edge past his opponent in the final deciding frame.
The overall score line between the players was 69-4 (Hull 49, 20), 49-61 (Hull 44, Gilbert 34), 2-77 (Gilbert 71), 24-83 (Gilbert 83), 70-32 (Hull 48), 73-12 (Hull 56) and 76-8 (Hull 69).
Hull dominated the opening frame with a couple of quick fires 49 and 20 to have the first blood 1-0. He was again on the run in the second but somehow he broke down on 44 and gifted his opponent a chance, who levelled the match at 1-1 with a break of 34.
Following that, the third and fourth frames were over within a blink of an eye, as Gilbert fired overwhelming breaks of 71 and 83 in both frames respectively to go in front at 1-3.
The match was almost through there, as Gilbert needed only one more frame to win the match but everyone was left flabbergasted when Hull bounced back into the game with all of his energy and won the next three frames in a row. He showed nerves of steel and
mopped up frame-winning breaks of 48, 56 and 69 in the last three frames respectively.
Hull, who has twice appeared in the quarter-finals of the ranking event, retired in early 2008 as his career was affected by a life threatening virus. However, he now has gained his place back on the Professional Tour of the upcoming season.
The other players who have joined him on the Professional Tour are Adam Wicheard, Andrew Norman and David Grace.
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