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Second favourite Mark Selby has fallen
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Mark King
Beaten by a 1980s jazz-pop bass irritant, eh? How deflating for him.
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Selby probably dropped 42 levels blow his best. <groan>
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Bleedin ‘ell that was tough watching Ding against Fu. I feel I’ve aged considerably since the start of the day.
It was supposed to be a comfortable passage through for Ding, not a bloody final frame decider which he only took at the 3rd attempt.
Cracking match though and keeps me alive on two fronts.
Tell me about it Zamorston, i had already lost with Selby and i thought Ding was going the same way, i would’nt of said it was suppose to be a comfortable passage into the next round because Fu had beaten Ding on the last two meetings between them(i think). so a huge sigh of relief from me when Ding finally won.
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These chinese players are quite some stars, the one playing Ronnie is only 17 and the guy who just beat Doherty looked pretty tasty, give 5 years or so and these kids coming out of china will be taking over. Murphy looked solid those trousers were a little bit flash and Joe Perry made up for my dissapointment with Selby but i did feel a little sorry for Dott im sure he’ll be back next year in a better frame of mind.
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The reigning champion (John Higgins) is out. He was not happy with the cushions, apparently.
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I get tired of hearing such pety excuses for poor performances – (Ryan Day managed well enough on the very same cushions, and Neil Robertson is now suggesting that his tanking at the hands of Stephen Maguire is due to him wearing new shoes.
I think Paolo Nutini would have something to say about that…
On the betting front, my two-pronged main attack looks like backfiring to some degree. Both players were in the same half of the draw, giving me hope that at least one would make it to the final (I’d foreseen a Murphy vs Maguire semi-final, meaning any each-way bet at 8/1 was guaranteed a return), but Ali Carter would seem to have not read the script and sits only one frame from the quarters.
Joe Swail is still waiting to start his second round match against Liang Wenbo, so the 200/1 I took about him still looks fairly good, and Stephen Hendry has finished his demolition of the incredibly immature (not inexperienced, but immature) Ding Junhui. I failed to take the 33/1 at the start of the tournament, but found a little bit of 22/1 after his victory over Mark Allen. The 6/4 and 13/8 about beating Ding Junhui was also gladly taken.
game over for me. Ding missed two frame balls yesterday which would have ended last nites session 9-6 and may of give him a small chance today.good luck to the rest of you still in.
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Yes mate same here.
Really thought Ding would give it a good go this year.
Have to say the way Stephen Maguire has played so far has been nothing short of sensational. Had the Rocket played anything like Maguire has so far, I reckon he’d be odds on to win the tournament.
Surely at this moment in time Maguire looks the likely winner.
And that’s the end of my ‘real’ interests in the competition, with Joe Swail losing out to Liang Wenbo when he really should have won and Stephen Maguire getting nailed on the line by Joe Perry.
Just a small saver on Hendry at 22/1 still going, but how he’s going to cope with O’Sullivan given that he can’t pit mid-range balls in the middle of the table is a concern.
Final today and i must say we all failed miserable to pick the winner, ok an in-form O’Sullivan is pretty hard to beat but i just feel he has had a comfortable route to the final, the two Chinese boys very talented but lacking in experience, Williams dropping down the rankings faster then New Approach out of the stalls and Hendry just not up to his best of yesteryear. Good luck to Ali Carter it would be nice to see the young boy win, he’s won some very tough matches and won a lot of fans, but i just think the Rocket is ready to take the title.
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The final looks like being something of a formality. Carter’s safety play is simply not good enough to put O’Sullivan under pressure.
it looks like ali carter is in awe of the position he finds himself in and in awe of his opponent and has pretty much accepted he will be a popular runner up and is trying to keep the scoreline respectable
ronnie looks like he has decided he has already won and i did think he was being a bit too casual last night so that can be carter’s only hope, that ronnie overdoes the casual attitude, drops a few frames and in the face of a comeback tries to petulantly smash his way out of the comeback which could just lead to a typical ronnie implosion
however, it looks like ronnie will win, just a matter of whether he needs the evening session or whether bbc will have to dig up dennis, willie and jimmy for some ‘entertainment’ for those who bought final sesson tickets
my lay of ronnie at the beginning in the expectation of an implosion seems very poor now
game over for me. Ding missed two frame balls yesterday which would have ended last nites session 9-6 and may of give him a small chance today.
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