joe lee had such a piss draw, the highest seed he had to play was a 9/16 seed (norman junge) in the semis, and the german had alredy had a reli tuff match before. there is no doubtin he is a good player, but he was lucky: helped immensely but the downfall of the higher seeds. mohammed aa reda is quality tho, and deserved to win.

he hardly dropped a point in getting to the final though. before the tournament reda was always gonna be the man to beat. and also lee beat the people who beat the seeds, surely making them better players?

Well Reda rates him(See quote). Plenty of others do too. He won the Dutch and the Closed a year before he goes out of the age group. He's been number 1 in England for ages and he's improving quickly.Looks like a genuine prospect to me .