China Open Snooker Betting 2012
The China Open is one of the biggest and best snooker ranking tournaments on the professional calendar. The China Open is always a very serious and tense affair because of the fact the event is the last before the World Championship at the Crucible Theatre.
China Open snooker betting 2012 is relatively easy to predict because the strong contenders are the players who are the most in form and the players who have won titles earlier in the season. However, the tide of snooker is changing and this is the one event that young Asian players will do anything to win.
China Open Snooker Betting
The best approach to take with China Open snooker betting is to study the form guide for the season and look at who has played well in the tournament. The form guide will show who is smack bang at the top of their game and who will be very difficult to beat.
The history of the tournament will give the punters out there an idea of who travels well. There are some professionals in the game who, for some reason or other, just cannot get to grips with playing snooker in another country. Whether this is something due to the extensive travelling or a mental issue, it affects snooker betting.
Favourites to win the China Open
There is a massive list of players who are god enough to win this tournament and they are players who may not get a decent result all season long. These favourites to win the China Open are worth backing in any snooker tournament, not just this one.
Judd Trump is the current champion and a player who will be looking to retain his title in 2012. Trump is the new superstar of snooker after his fearless display in the 2011 World Championship final. Trump is huge in Asia because of his aggressive style of playing.
It would be very naïve to forget about the golden oldies of the snooker world who continue to succeed in the face of everything that is changing. Ronnie O'Sullivan is still good enough to win a World Championship playing left handed and John Higgins will have a point to prove now that he has repaired his reputation in the game.
Chinese Snooker Players
It is probably fair to say that the Chinese go a bit insane when it comes to sports stars in the country. Ding Junhui is one such sports star who is always under massive pressure to win events like this.
Ding is another of the young superstars in snooker but unlike Trump, he has been affected by the pressure of having massive expectation on his shoulders over most of his career. Ding is good enough to win this tournament blindfolded and he'll enjoy the support but there is always that additional pressure in a tense situation.
Ding is quite a shy and reserved sort of player who almost reluctantly has to step into the spotlight. He would have most likely already wrapped up many more tournament wins if he wasn't under pressure from Chinese coaches and fans to win all of the time.