The Shanghai Masters 2012 qualifiers ran from Tuesday, 24th of July 2012, till Friday 27th of July 2012, in the Academy in Sheffield. Chen Zhe, Jack Lisowski, Li Yan, Liang Wenbo, Yu Delu and Zhang Anda all tried to make it to the venue in September, and all lost their first match. Read more here

The first UK Players Tour Championship Event of the season ran from July 18 till July 22 in South West Snooker Academy in Gloucester. Chen Zhe, Jack Lisowski, Judd Trump, Liang Wenbo, Li Yan, Stuart Bingham and Yu Delu were all competing. Jack beat Judd 4-3 in the quarters and Mark Williams by the same score in the semis. The final against Stephen Maguire went to the last black in the decider, but Jack couldn’t win it … but he will win one, soon, playing like that.

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Unfortunately, it was disappointment for Stuart Bingham as he failed to defend his title in Bendigo, Australia. Jack Lisowski and Liang Wenbo were also competing in the Goldfields Australian Open that ran from 9th of July till 15th of July 2012. All three lost in the last 32. Liang Wenbo lost a close match against Matthew Stevens. Jack lost to the on form Mark Davis, the recently crowned six-reds World Champion. Stuart lost to Matthew Selt in a tense and dour match that went to a the decider and …

In the build up of the Australian Goldfields Open, that will start on next Monday, the Bendigo Advertiser, today, publishes this nice video with Jack Lisowski . That’s how to brief a journalist about snooker …

Stuart Bingham never sleeps … less than 24 hours after playing in the Final in Wuxi, China, he went to Bangkok, Thailand for the Sangsom 6 Red World Championship 2012. Judd Trump and Zhang Anda were also involved in the tournament. Stuart and Judd both qualified for the knockout stage. They met in the last 32 and Judd prevailed. After beating Mark Selby in an excellent match the last 8, Judd unfortunately lost to Shaun Murphy in the semi finals.