Updated Race to World Matchplay: Webster secures seeding for first time
NewsThursday, 28 June 2018 at 12:00
The past two days has seen two Pro Tour events with the World Matchplay lineup close to being sealed. Darren Webster with his run to the final yesterday has secured seeding and is currently 14th ahead of the cut off this weekend.
Kim Huybrechts with him involved in Hamburg this weekend just has to win one match to overtake Alan Norris for the final World Matchplay seeding.
Over on the Pro Tour side, every player up to James Wilson in 12th is safe with Keegan Brown, Steve Lennon, Jeffrey de Zwaan and Richard North the only players in danger.
The permeatations differ though as if Jelle Klaasen qualifies he has to get Last 48 while Vincent van der Voort needs to reach the Last 16. Chris Dobey will need a semi-final but is the only player at the moment in those crashing who has qualified while Danny Noppert will need a Quarter-Final.
All those down to 35th can qualify but as the list goes down for example Dimitri van den Bergh would need to win it. What is for certain is that there is still a lot to play for ahead of this weekend’s final event before the World Matchplay cutoff.
https://twitter.com/bsd987/status/1012018048071585792
Over on the Pro Tour side, every player up to James Wilson in 12th is safe with Keegan Brown, Steve Lennon, Jeffrey de Zwaan and Richard North the only players in danger.
The permeatations differ though as if Jelle Klaasen qualifies he has to get Last 48 while Vincent van der Voort needs to reach the Last 16. Chris Dobey will need a semi-final but is the only player at the moment in those crashing who has qualified while Danny Noppert will need a Quarter-Final.
All those down to 35th can qualify but as the list goes down for example Dimitri van den Bergh would need to win it. What is for certain is that there is still a lot to play for ahead of this weekend’s final event before the World Matchplay cutoff.
https://twitter.com/bsd987/status/1012018048071585792
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