Sam Baird defeats Reanne Evans in first round of World Snooker Championship 2011 qualifiers
Sam Baird has defeated Reanne Evans in the morning session of Betfred.com World Snooker Championship 2011 qualifiers round one at World Snooker Academy, Sheffield. All qualifiers are best-of-19 frames matches.
Reanne Evans, Women’s Snooker champion, lost to the English cueist Sam Baird 10-6 and failed to be the first women to play a world snooker championship. Sam Baird, 22, took an early lead 1-0 with a fascinating clearance of 40. He clinched the frame 71-29.
Evans made her contribution to the game quickly, bouncing back in the next frame 2-67 firing a couple of simple breaks of 27 and 22 and levelled the score at 1-1.
With breaks of 28 and 26, Evans grabbed a one frame lead over Baird clicking the frame 11-72. She extended the lead 1-3 adding 22 to the foul points given by Baird that led her to a one-point-win at 68-67. A stunning 95 knock from Baird brought him back
into the game. He lessened Evans’ frame lead 2-3 grabbing the fifth frame 100-1. He equalised the match 3-3 after he nudged Evans down 79-42 in the next frame with the help of his 36 point clearance.
The 25-years-old Evans struck back good in the seventh frame clinching it beautifully 24-59, to lead the game again at 3-4. The Englishman did not let go easily as he sparked his cue impressively winning back to back frames hitting pretty handsome 46 and
56 breaks in the respective eighth and ninth frames to lead 5-4 in the match.
Evans, who was awarded a wild card that enabled her to participate in the qualifiers of all ranking snooker tournaments of 2010/2011 season, settled herself and sprang back into the game to level the match at 5-5, smashing the tenth frame of best-of-19 frames
match at 0-80.
Baird was having some serious trouble and the pressure was coming hard on him but he strengthened himself to release the tension off him. He fought back hard and took consecutive three frames, 60-38, 64-42 and 71-28, to get a three-frame lead at 8-5 over
Evans.
The fourteenth frame took a while which Evans, the six-time World Ladies Snooker champion won, adding 24 to 33 foul points gifted away by Baird to lessen his lead to 8-6. The 22-year-old Englishman needed two frames to gain his victory and surge into the
next round of Betfred.com World Snooker Championship 2011. He finished the fifteenth frame 91-7 with a blink of an eye, firing a stunning 90 clearance that broke Evans’ hopes to come back into the game again.
Baird embraced his first-round qualifier triumph snatching the last and sixteenth frame from Evans 66-59, despite her 43 point effort. He fired two simple but impressive breaks of 36 and 33 to claim the frame.
With this win, Sam Baird has advanced into the second round of Betfred.com World Snooker Championship qualifiers running at World Snooker Academy, Sheffield. The mega event will be held from April 16 to May 2 at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
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