The qualifiers stages for the Gdynia Open, the Polish EPTC 2012 event, were held in the World Snooker Academy in Sheffield, from August 16, 2012 to August 18, 2012. The pros started their qualifying campaign on Friday, August 17th.
All Grove players except for Ronnie were in action. Stuart and Wenbo booked their trip to Poland.

Friday, 17th of August, 2012

11 am – L128 – Liang Wenbo 4-2 Liam Monk
Overall the match was hard fought and a bit scrappy but breaks of 73 and 81 from Wenbo made the difference.
11 am – L128 – Liu Chuang 0-4 Zhang Anda
Breaks of 76 and 84 helped Anda to secure a solid win against Liu Chuang. This is his best win in a very long time and hopefully it will boost his confidence.

1 pm – L128 – Cao Yupeng v Chen Zhe
Chen Zhe gave Cao Yupeng a good game and was a bit unlucky to find himself 2-2 when he could have been 3-1 actually. But Cao is a very dangerous player and he proved it again, taking the last two frames and the match.
1 pm – L128 – Li Yan 3-4 Tony Drago
This looks like a strange match and it’s hard to understand exactly what happened. Li won the first three frames, then lost the last 4 in no time…
1 pm – L128 – Stuart Bingham 4-0 Marc J Davis
An easy win for Stuart against amateur Marc J Davis. “Ballrun” won’t complain though after last PTC bad luck.

3 pm – L128 – Yu DeLu 4-1 Aditya Mehta
This was hard matchplay. Yu only scored a highest break of 47 in this match but it won’t matter: he won convincingly and earned a clash with Neil Robertson.

5pm – L64 – Liang Wenbo 4-1 Mark Allen
Great win for Wenbo against one of the best. Breaks of 75,73, 62 and 62 says it all: solid scoring. He is bound to Poland and the television stage.
5pm – L64 – Zhang Anda 2-4 Dave Harold
“Big Dave” denied Anda his trip to Poland by taking the 6th and last dramatic frame on the black.

7pm – L64 – Stuart Bingham 4-2 Tony Drago
Stuart is the second Grove player to book his trip to Poland despite a spirited fight from Tony who scored the highest break of the match, 92, but still lost.
7pm – L64 – Yu Delu 3-4 Neil Robertson
Yu Delu ran the 2010 World Champion very close and had the upper hand in the early stages of the match. Neil however is a very tough competitor: he fought back, forced a decider and eventually took the match with a 75 break in the final frame.

Saturday, 18th of August, 2012

1pm – L128 – Judd Trump 4-1 James Cahill
Judd made 102 and 107 in beating amateur James Cahill but also took the last very fragmented frame with a best (frame) break of 18 Contrasts.

3pm – L128 – Jack Lisowski 2-4 Graeme Dott
Jack will not make the trip to Poland as he lost to Graeme Dott, always a difficult opponent. Graeme was scoring heavily when in and basically won three frames in one visit.

7pm – L64 – Judd Trump 0-4 Rory McLeod
Judd highest break in the match was 21 … says it all.