PTC12 Final Stages Preview
The final stages of PTC12 get under way in Germany on Friday morning and this of course sees the finale to the qualifying events ahead of the grand finals in Galway in March.
The main talking point will be the progress that Ricky Walden can make as only a tournament win will mean Ronnie is out of the top 16 and heading for the World Open qualifiers just a couple of days after this finishes.
I would tentatively suggest that there might be some merit in getting involved in this from a betting angle. With all matches being in front of the cameras and presumably decent crowds present it may have more of a feel of a ‘proper tournament about it and this may bring the bigger names out on top early on.
The main ones that stand out for me are Mark Allen, Stephen Maguire, Andrew Higginson and Martin Gould. Allen, presuming he hasn’t just stopped practicing since his UK escapades is bang in form and with Mike Dunn proclaiming that the match might be a bit one-sided after a snookerless Xmas you would imagine that Allen will win this one quite easily. Dunny of course also says he doesn’t enjoy playing on TV that much. Maguire, who I flagged as a possible winner of this before the qualifying stage faces David Gray in a repeat of their UK Championship Final of 2004, in terms of frames played between the two the current score is Maguire 20 Gray 1. The in-form Higginson faces Kurt Maflin who to me in another that struggles with the bigger stage despite possessing a fine attacking game off camera and Gould faces Leeds giant David Grace who has done very well to get this far but again I think might suffer from a bit of inexperience against the attacking Pinner Potter in an event like this one. - http://www.snookerbacker.com/
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