page_title: Dominic Dale
section_title: 2016/2017 season
hierarchical_section_title: Dominic Dale / Career / 2016/2017 season
caption_attribution_description: Dominic Dale beim Paul Hunter Classic 2016
context_page_description: Dominic Dale is a Welsh professional snooker player and snooker commentator and presenter for the BBC.
context_section_description: Dale saw off Ishpreet Chadha 4–2 and Marco Fu 4–0 to reach the third round of the Indian Open, where he lost 4–1 to Peter Ebdon. At the Paul Hunter Classic he enjoyed victories over Ben Woollaston, Ian Glover, Michael Holt, Yan Bingtao and Jimmy White to play in the semi-finals of a ranking event for the first time since 2007. Dale was defeated 4–2 by Mark Selby. He lost in the second round of the International Championship 6–2 to Stuart Bingham and won three frames in a row to take his third round match with Shaun Murphy at the UK Championship in to a final frame decider. He had chances in it but could not take them to be ousted 6–5. In the final World Championship qualifying round Dale made the 200th century break of his career, but would be defeated 10–5 by Luca Brecel.
caption: 2016 Paul Hunter Classic
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