Brown & White Out
Jordan Brown and Michael White both crashed out of the 2010 Betfred.com World Championship in dramatic final frame shoot outs in Sheffield.
Brown lost ten-frames-to-nine against Belgium’s Bjorn Haneveer after leading 7-5 and 8-6.
Haneveer, who qualified for the final stages of the China Open in Beijing, opened up a three-nil lead early on including the highest break of the match, a 138 in frame three.
Northern Ireland’s, Brown then won five frames in a row to open a two frame advantage, before the Belgian number one reduced it to just one at the interval.
It was not until the sixteenth frame that the match was all square again and when Haneveer went one up with two to play, it looked as though he might have just done enough.
However, after almost seven hours of play, a deciding frame would be a fair outcome. Breaks of 30 and 33 from Brown ensured that it went to the wire.
It was Haneveer who got the early advantage thanks to a couple of fouls from Brown. A solid 32 break increased his lead and when Brown broke down on 17, he sealed victory with a decisive 43 break.
Michael White, the youngest player on Tour, will have to wait at least another year to make his Crucible debut after Thailand’s, Noppadol Sangnil won another close encounter at the English Institute of Sport.
White was always battling after trailing four-frames-to-one early on. He won four frames in a row to level at six-all, a run of form which included a superb 131 break in frame ten.
It was until frame 17 though that he took the lead for the first time in the match. Sangnil kept his cool though and made a solid 51 break to force the decider and two solid scoring opportunities kept his world championship dreams alive.
In the other matches, Thailand’s James Wattana defeated England’s Lee Page by ten-frames-to-six, making the highest break of the tournament so far, 140.
Matthew Selt was once again in heavy scoring mood won a tough match against 2008 IBSF World Champion, Thepchaiya-Un-Nooh.
Sam Baird saw off the challenge of Stephen Rowlings and Joe Jogia proved too strong for the struggling, Lee Spick.
