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| FORD BRUSHES BIRCH ASIDE 4 NOVEMBER 2004 | |||
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He tuned up with a run of 75, then blasted in a ranking tournament best of 141 and rounded off victory with 66. There was less good news for his fellow Leicester pro Ben Woollaston, the youngest player on the main tour. Mike Dunn secured a comfortable 5-2 win, leading from the first frame thanks to a run of 62 in the first.
Woollaston secured the second and fifth frames, despite a best run of only
41, which came in the first frame, which he lost. And he lost the fourth
as Dunn cleared blue to black, and Dunn added 4 The all-Welsh Davies clash between Anthony and Paul, ended in favour of Paul as the Cardiff pro beat the Barry pro 5-3. He lead 2-0 but was pegged back at 3-3. A break of 74 gave him the advantage and he dominated a low-scoring eighth to progress. China's Ding Junhui booked his round three slot with a 5-2 win over Jimmy Michie. The Yorkshireman led 2-0 before Ding rattled in breaks of 108, 59 and 64 to lead 3-2. He added efforts of 36 and 26 to secure a 4-2 lead and then won the next, greatly helped by securing 25 points in fouls from Michie, who'd opened the frame with 33. The other seed to fail was Lee Walker, who slumped to a 5-0 defeat by newly promoted Joe Jogia, who is now well on course to gain a tour place next season, which would be a remarkable achievement given that he started on 0 points and will have to climb into the Top 56 in the rankings. |
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RESULTS - LAST 80 David Roe 5-3 Hugh Abernethy Bjorn Haneveer 5-1 Adam Davies Sean Storey 5-3 Rory McLeod Marcus Campbell 5-2 Alfie Burden Tom Ford 5-0 Jonathan Birch Paul Davies 5-3 Anthony Davies Rod Lawler 5-1 Shokat Ali Adrian Gunnell 5-3 Paul Davison Joe Jogia 5-0 Lee Walker Mike Dunn 5-2 Ben Woollaston Ding Junhui 5-2 Jimmy Michie Neil Robertson 5-2 David McDonnell Nick Walker 5-3 Liu Song Andy Hicks 5-1 Simon Bedford Joe Delaney 5-3 Gary Wilkinson Jamie Burnett 5-4 Scott MacKenzie |
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Ford took just sixty-one minutes to book his place in the third round.
Having taken a 2-0 lead against Jon Birch, Ford produced a devastating
burst of scoring to win the next three frames in twenty-four minutes.
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in the next and rounded off victory with 71.