Barry Pinches O'Sullivan's glory

How Ronnie O'Sullivan didn't win the PTC4 championship, I'll never know.

But world number 57 Barry Pinches upset all the odds to conquer The Rocket 4-3 in the final, and storm to top spot in the Order of Mertit.

Pinches, a former runner-up in the PTC event, took his PTC prize total up £17,000, and is now the overall top performer in the PTC events so far.

While reaching the final here looked like another fine achievement, he somehow beat O'Sullivan, who looked imperious earlier in the competition.

The three-time world champion stormed to the semi-final stage dropping just one frame, including 4-0 wins against Mark Selby, Ryan Day, Judd Trump and Marco Fu.

But that didn't deter little Pinches, who grafted his way to the most unlikely of victories.

Pinches can be proud of his route to the final too, where on his way he knocked over PTC1 winner Mark Williams, Liu Song, Matthew Selt, Jak Jones and Chan Zhe.

This ranking title caps a wonderful start to the season for Pinches and affirms him as a player now capable of going on to trouble the world's elite more regularly.

While a tale of 'David v Goliath' was saved for the final, this PTC4 event was arguably the most entertaining of all them all so far. From ball one there were thrills and spills.

Stephen Hendry faced defeat in his very first PTC match, as he was beaten resoundly 4-0 by Anthony McGill.

World champion Neil Robertson fell foul at the first hurdle too, losing 4-3 to amateur Daniel Wells.

The world runner-up Graeme Dott suffered the same fate when he played Adam Wichead.

Shaun Murphy couldn't reverse his poor form either. After beating Michael Holt 4-3, he lost out to Selt in the next round.

Defending PTC champion Tom Ford suffered a first round shock to Martin O'Donnell, but was suffering from injury.

As for the more brighter performers, Dominic Dale built on his impressive PTC3 quarter-final, to make the last four this time. He took the scalp of Stephen Maguire in the last eight, before being narrowly beaten 4-3 by O'Sullivan.

Matthew Stevens made it into the quarter-finals with his form looking like it's gradually appearing. He recorded wins against Alan McManus, Mike Dunn and Stephen Lee before defeat to his fellow countryman Williams.

Marco Fu got to the last eight, while Belgium's Bjorn Hanaveer made the last 16 along with young promise Jimmy Robertson.