Ricky Walden vs Ben Mertens Prediction: Walden to make it to the next round

The WST Classic snooker competition will be held in Leicester, England's Morningside Arena, from March 16th to March 22nd, 2023. This event will take place in the year 2023. It is the first staging of the WST Classic, which was added to the World Snooker Tour calendar in the middle of the 2022–2023 season by the World Snooker Tour to replace the 2023 Turkish Master, which was canceled.

Despite the fact that Ricky Walden has not been performing at his best as of late, as seen by the fact that he has only been able to pick up two wins in his previous five matches, the bookies are still favoring Ricky Walden to win this match. The Englishman suffered a humiliating loss in his final match of the Six Red World Championship, which was played against Stuart Bingham. The final score of the match was 6-0. But, before that loss, Ricky Walden had a good run, picking up victories against Ma Hailong and Kritsanut Lertsattayatthorn. He then went on to lose. We anticipate that he will produce his best performance in this match, and as a result, we are looking forward to seeing him get back to winning ways in this match.

Ben Mertens will be coming into this match having just suffered a defeat at the hands of Ronnie O'Sullivan in the first round of the Welsh Open (0-4). However, before that loss, Ben Mertens had won three of his four matches, with the victories coming against Anthony Hamilton, Jackson Page, and David Gilbert. His lone defeat came at the hands of Zhengyi Fan. As the underdog going up against another elite player, he will be hoping for a strong performance in order to advance to the next round of this competition.

The two players are not currently performing at their peak levels, and it is obvious that there is room for a great deal of development in terms of how they approach their respective games. Ricky Walden is still extremely good despite this, and he is performing better than they are given the caliber of their play. As a result, we are anticipating that Walden will prevail in this competition. Even though we do not anticipate Ben Mertens to be careless in this match, it is still a smart idea to think about placing a bet on the over in this match.