WST Pro Series

[Fader]

A brand new ranking event comes to town this morning, just several hours after the completion of The Masters. This event was supposed to be showcasing the return of Stephen Hendry, but he has pulled out. Along with the likes of Neil Robertson, John Higgins and Ding Junhui.

The tournament reminds me of the Championship League event. It's group play, with 16 groups of 8. (128 players). The top 2 go through in each group to give us the last 32. Those 32 will be split into 4 more groups. Same rules apply (top 2 through) to give us a final group of 8.

Here are the groups :

Group A :
S.Murphy
M.Holt
A.McManus
L.Heathcote
X.Si
K.Doherty
F.Patrick
B.Ochoiski

Group B :
K.Wilson
L.Hang
Y.Sijun
S.Akani
P.Junxu
K.Filipiak
D.Young
F.Zhengyi

Group C :
S.Bingham
S.Donaldson
S.Craigie
C.Wakelin
J.Clarke
A.Carty
B.J Castle
J.C-Barrett

Group D :
B.Hawkins
R.Walden
J.Robertson
A.Ursenbacher
G.Greene
D.Jones
F.Ajaib
P.Davison

Group E :
M.Selby
M.Selt
J.O'Connor
S.Carrington
E.Sharav
S.Vahedi
L.Kleckers
D.Womersley

Group F :
M.Allen
B.Woollaston
N.Saengkham
D.Grace
I.Figueiredo
J.Brown
R.Parsons
F.O'Brien

Group G :
G.Wilson
L.Ning
M.O'Donnell
L.Highfield
J.O'Neill
Z.Jianbo
R.McLeod
J.Astley

Group H :
Y.Bingtao
A.Carter
M.Davis
T.Pengfei
C.Bingyu
S.Lichtenberg
A.Amiri
K.Johal

Group I :
R.O'Sullivan
T.Ford
L.Haotian
M.Joyce
C.Zifan
D.Lilley
B.Hancorn
J.Wilson

Group J :
D.Gilbert
M.Gould
E.Slessor
I.Burns
J.Cahill
P.Lines
O.Lines
J.Boiko

Group K :
A.McGill
Z.Xintong
M.Selby
D.Dale
A.Hicks
S.Jiahui
P.Devlin
L.Walker

Group L :
T.Un-Nooh
Z.Yuelong
A.Hamilton
L.Honghao
M.Mann
L.Peifan
A.Hugill
L.Fernandez

Group M :
J.Perry
X.Guodong
M.Stevens
D.Wells
J.Jones
R.Lawler
A.Taylor
H.Pinhey

Group N :
J.Lisowski
G.Dott
L.Brecel
A.Higginson
J.Page
B.Sargeant
Z.Surety
M.White

Group O :
J.Trump
H.Vafaei
R.Day
J.Jones
B.Pinches
J.White
S.Hallworth
S.Maddocks

Group P :
M.Williams
K.Maflin
R.Milkins
N.Bond
R.Williams
G.Yang
A.Borg
O.Brown

I tend to search for the winner of these events by playing out whom I think will win/qualify for each group, to get an idea. However, I've not seen any markets open for the outright winner yet, so I'll just focus on Group M.

Although he should be winning this group, I'm happy to rule out Perry. I can't take Stevens at 3/1 and I'm not interested in Wells, Lawler or Pinhey. Guodong is a good player and it wouldn't surprise me to see him win this group but at 3/1 it's a no, thank you!.

I'll take a chance on Jak Jones winning this group. The last time we saw him, at the German Masters, he beat Jiahui and Kyren Wilson. In-between some not so great performances; he has also beaten Bingtao and Jack Lisowski over the last few tournaments that he has competed in.

2pts J.Jones to win Group M 13/2 bet365

[owenclass]

This looks interesting