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Wednesday, 20 June 2012

APTC1 - Day 3


Stuart Bingham continues his solid run in the competition with
a 4-1 win over Jin Long
The third day of APTC1 continued to dish out a few surprises as a number of professional players were knocked out of the competition by Chinese amateurs. Dominic Dale suffered defeat in the first round with a 4-3 defeat against Zhu Yinghui whilst Alfie Burden was also beaten by the same scoreline, against Lu Zhenwei. However, other professionals Stephen Lee, Marco Fu, Mark Davis, Michael White and Ben Woolaston all avoided defeats to secure their places in the evening’s second round.

The second round commenced during the afternoon and Mark Williams managed to just squeeze past Cai Jianzhong by four frames to three. Cai knocked in a 127 to win the first frame and led 3-2 at one point but The Welsh Potting Machine avoided embarrassment by winning the final two games. Stuart Bingham also progressed with a solid 4-1 victory over Jin Long but Yu Delu was defeated 4-1 by Zhou Xintong and Marco Fu lost to Tuan Pengfei by the same scoreline.

Meanwhile, in the evening, there were 4-0 wins for Ding Junhui, Robert Milkins, Stephen Lee and Ben Woollaston over Chinese amateur players whilst it was slightly closer wins for Tom Ford and Michael White, who needed deciders to beat their Chinese opponents. However, there was a shock result as Mark Davis was defeated in a decider against Mei Xiwen.

There are still five Chinese amateurs remaining in the competition ahead of the last 16 which begins tomorrow, whilst there are a further four players on the tour of Chinese origin, meaning a winner from China remains fairly likely.

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