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Hello again, live from Alexandra Palace in north London on this | :00:53. | :01:15. | |
fourth day of the Dafabet Masters. When we started out this evening, | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
there was one place still to be claimed, one remaining place in the | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
quarter-finals and my goodness, what a scrap we've had over the last few | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
hours to goefrt the line. It's between the world number 6, Barry | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
Hawkins and his old foe, Ricky Walden from Chester. These two are | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
very dramatic Crucible semifinals nine months ago. This is their first | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
meeting since then. It is stirring up all kinds of memories. | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
Left-hander Hawkins began in crisp fashion taking the opening two | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
frames. We'll pick them up in frame three in the company of Stephen | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
Hendry and Denis Taylor. R DENNIS TAYLOR: Whatever you do, | :01:58. | :02:21. | |
don't hit the blue. That's the break-off shot. He hasn't left | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
anything, but still annoying when you do that. STEPHEN HENDRY: He left | :02:27. | :03:05. | |
the red to this corner. You have to commit to it. He could play it with | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
topspin and bring the cue ball back up to baulk. Does he have a pot into | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
the right corner as well? APPLAUSE | :03:14. | :03:31. | |
Fantastic at the moment. Another superb long pot. As you can | :03:32. | :03:48. | |
see. 8'6". Not on the table, on the cushion. Perfect cueing. | :03:49. | :04:36. | |
Even if he is straight, he is OK. I think he has a slight angle. You can | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
tell, where he is bridging, he has. Black available into the right | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
corner pocket. So, in a couple of shot's time - well, he may have to | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
play a red, pink and - to allow that black free to both pockets in a few | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
shots' time. I think we've established there is absolutely | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
nothing wrong with the conditions, Dennis. Nothing wrong with that cue | :05:10. | :05:22. | |
ball. That he he let that cue ball run there, about four inches too | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
far. He wanted to be straight on this red to the right corner. He | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
still should get it. It's annoying. He should have been playing for the | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
black there. ' Probably play now for the red closest to the black | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
cushion. If he can avoid the bunch. It might have been a bit too thin to | :05:43. | :06:04. | |
hold for that one that Stephen suggested but this one will do | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
nicely. He can play for that one now. He is hampered slightly but | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
that doesn't matter because of the red that Stephen mentioned, was | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
available. You can tell when a player is | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
confident going around the table. There is no looking up around it, he | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
just gets down and plays the shot. That last red was - I thought he | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
might have a look for it for a while when he got close to the side | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
cushion but he just got down and struck it in beautifully. Yes, I've | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
always said, Stephen, the amount of frames you are practising at, even | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
in those conditions, the first shot that you see, is usually the correct | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
shot. He just didn't quite enough | :07:01. | :07:20. | |
momentum, topspin on the cue ball there. You would expect him to be on | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
something easier than this. He has to be a wee bit careful with this. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
He is close to that red. He could quite easily push that. Yeah, you'd | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
much rather than stunning these when they are that close together. That's | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
why he is not taking it on. The two reds that are together. If | :07:40. | :08:06. | |
the one that he is looking at pots, that's not aed about choice. The | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
white will push on through the reds. He would finish on the blue, or if | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
he heads on up the table, he would still be OK. Well-played. | :08:15. | :08:30. | |
I think he has travelled a bit far to put the blue into the centre. He | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
could drop it into the right corner and then a choice of reds to the | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
left corner. But this is about as good snooker as we have seen all | :08:49. | :08:49. | |
week. Yes, a few of the players in this | :08:50. | :09:20. | |
year's Masters have set off so well. Just thinking back to Stephen | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
Maguire. He never missed a frame in the opening games. All of a sudden | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
that changed around. Ronnie has probably been the most consistent | :09:34. | :09:42. | |
with his win against Robert Milkins but Robert was just overawed on the | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
occasion. But I'm with you, this is the best cueing we have seen. There | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
is certainly nothing wrong with the balls or the table, the way Barry | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
Hawkins is going about it things. -- about things. | :09:59. | :10:20. | |
This red would make absolutely sure of the third frame. | :10:21. | :10:32. | |
It's amazing, Ricky Walden got in on the opening frame when Barry went in | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
off that bunch of reds and Ricky didn't capitalise on it. He missed | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
one shot to the right middle, and he hasn't had at that chance since. | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
It's amazing how, as Stephen alluded to, sometimes the balls don't | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
forgive you and he just hasn't had a chance. Barry has looked in superb | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
form. Barry made 35 centuries last season. | :11:00. | :11:45. | |
He's made 12 this season. We've had nine so far in this year's Masters. | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
He is a left-hander, so he has an angle on the pink. He can drop in | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
behind this. Just dropping it in dead weight. So | :11:54. | :12:18. | |
the black for his 155th century of his career. Get in, well-played. | :12:19. | :12:30. | |
APPLAUSE He seems to have quite a lot of | :12:31. | :12:40. | |
support here this evening, Barry. His home down is Ditton in Kent, so | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
he is not too far away. Two good frames, these boys, and we | :12:44. | :12:58. | |
are both very likeable lads. You couldn't meet two nicer gents. But | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
he's not being very nice to Ricky Walden at the moment, is he? He is | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
not missing anything. One yellow, a green, a brown, five blues, five | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
pinks, five blacks. There's another blue. | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
Very impressive cueing. Even that pink went straight into the heart of | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
the pocket. Well-played, Barry Hawkins. That was a superb effort. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
He just can't do a thing wrong at the moment. Breaks of 85, 57 and | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
that 132. He leads 3-0. Quite brilliant start for Barry, | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
playing virtually flawless snooker so far. Hawkins underlined his | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
superiority with another searching Toure, 112 after the interval to | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
lead 4-1. This match in complete contrast to that Crucible semifinal | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
in which Walden last year streaked away early, only to get overhauled | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
by Hawkins late on. Into the sixth frame now and it is Ricky Walden, | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
the world Number 11, in front by 30 points. | :14:15. | :14:27. | |
He might just have got ah way with this. -- away. | :14:28. | :14:53. | |
Oh, this would be a cracking red to knock in and bet on the black. This | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
would be a little beauty. Oh, he has caught the knuckle. | :15:02. | :15:48. | |
He knew he was leaving this tempter for Ricky. Can he pull it off? | :15:49. | :16:03. | |
Well-played. That was a calculated risk that Barry Hawkins took at his | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
previous shot. He knew he was going to leave a half chance for Ricky. | :16:08. | :16:38. | |
Already 39 in front, but there is a few difficult reds coming up. | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
Two fairly comfortable ones and then it starts to get difficult. He is | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
going to knead a couple of difficult reds, to clinch the frame. | :16:52. | :17:09. | |
Still got the one tloos red. He has the perfect angle to the blue, but | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
is he going to risk cannoning the two reds there. What is he in front? | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
He is still going to need one of the difficult reds. | :17:25. | :17:37. | |
It just came off the right knuckle here. | :17:38. | :18:08. | |
left side of the table, one away from the cushions, potable, but the | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
others are all difficult, so just leave the angle with the blue, take | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
a risk with the cannon on the two reds near the black because you have | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
the other one to the left of the black. If he plays this and it works | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
out, this would be a frame clincher. That will do nicely. He should have | :18:22. | :18:48. | |
hit it slightly harder. The red to the left corner, the black doesn't | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
go to the right corner, so he has to play the pink to the right, centre. | :18:54. | :19:17. | |
That was a good shot because these pockets are very tight. He really | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
did play it well. It was an important frame for Ricky | :19:26. | :19:49. | |
Walden to win and it keeps him right in this match. As I mentioned 5-1 | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
behind t would have been quite a mountain to climb but 4-2, he is | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
back in it. Barry is the one that has been | :19:58. | :20:28. | |
knocking in the frame-winning breaks. He has breaks of 85, 57, | :20:29. | :20:38. | |
132, 112. Ricky had a 50 in frame 4. This is his highest, coming at just | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
the right time. Well that clung to the cushion that time. | :20:45. | :20:54. | |
This is a bit more like the Ricky Walden that we've come to see over | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
the last few seasons. He produced his best snooker out in China. He | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
won his two ranking titles out there. | :21:11. | :21:35. | |
He has made 15 centuries so far this season and 23 last season. | :21:36. | :22:02. | |
Good cueing, well-played, Ricky Walden. Another century in this | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
match. Barry Hawkins has had two. Ricky Walden has now had one. That | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
was an important frame he took. He now trails 4-2. | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
? STUDIO: Yes, a pugnacious response | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
from Walden with that century of his own. Every frame so far with a | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
50-plus break at least. Great quality from these two men. Hawkins | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
went within one frame of victory at 5-2 in front. But Walden has kept | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
himself in it with a contribution of 73 in the 8th. It is now 5-3 to hue | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
Kens. He desperately wants to get over the line but we are into a | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
pressure frame now. Well, it's not over just yet, this | :22:55. | :23:37. | |
frame. That was a universal sign of a snooker player when you miss a | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
shot like that. Stick your elbow out when you know you haven't hit it | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
properly. I mean, the thing with it here is | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
that he can tie at the moment but if he can pot the brown and blue and | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
get in behind the pink, he could play a great snooker in behind the | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
black. I mean, he doesn't have to clear up here. Well, now he has got | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
an angle to pot the blue and just free that black and finish on the | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
pink but there was a couple of ways he could have gone about this, so | :24:14. | :24:24. | |
this will certainly open things up. Could we have a respoted black in | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
this frame that Ricky Walden looked like he'd won but all of a sudden he | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
might have to see the toss of a coin. I mean he rolled T he normally | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
stuns them, Ricky. And that's - as Stephen was saying, showing you, he | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
didn't push the cue through in a straight line. Wow, what tension if | :24:46. | :24:57. | |
he can pot this pink and black. It's going to be a respoted black. And | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
you want to win the toss. That's for sure. | :25:05. | :25:21. | |
APPLAUSE. Amazing. Ricky Walden had an earlier | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
break of 56. He looked a strong favourite. He missed that green. Now | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
he has to suffer a re-spotted black. As I say, you want to win the toss. | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
I'm not so sure you know, Dennis. I think the players are so good at | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
playing the negative safety, the black on one side of the cushion, | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
the white on the other, sometimes you are maybe better hoping he makes | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
a mess of it. Well, Ricky did win the toss. He has put Barry in. Let's | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
see how he plays it. Not very well. Not very well. Did that turn off | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
slightly? He looks a bit confused? And Ricky Walden, well, he can't | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
believe the chance he has here. He is still in this year's Masters, | :26:10. | :26:22. | |
is the man from Chester. Barry played a poor shot on the black | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
there. Maybe the white drifted slightly, but game on, it is 5-4. | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
? STUDIO: Game on indeed, Hawkins | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
reeling from that mistake on the black and Ricky managed to level the | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
match 5-5 in a tense 53-minute tenth frame, so he has won the last three | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
frames in a row to force a decider. He well-remembers that defeat by | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
Hawkins in the Crucible in the semifinal last year. How he would | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
like to avenge T they started this final frame at 11.10pm this evening | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
and here is Walden on a break of 30. -- to avenge it. | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
Now Barry's supporters are saying - come on, Barry, but there is no pot | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
on here. It was quite a risky one. He wasn't | :27:15. | :27:26. | |
guaranteed position off that. But I suppose it has to be said the run of | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
the ball starting it favour Ricky. Earlier on in this match everything | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
was going against him. I wonder if he'll take the double on or play | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
back on the cushion? There was a possibility that he could have had a | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
go at a double and not left a red there but he didn't fancy it. I | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
thought he might have left this red on to cut into the corner. | :27:52. | :28:26. | |
A touching ball, that would make a lot of difference. He can still get | :28:27. | :28:37. | |
back. REFEREE: Touching ball. There is still a shot on to get back | :28:38. | :28:49. | |
behind the black. In fact, no. Well, there is a bit of an advantage of | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
getting in behind the black but, it is a bit early to be knocking the | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
black safe. He has a 34 point advantage. If he was a few more in | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
front, he would just roll off the black and put it tight on the | :29:05. | :29:05. | |
cushion. A little bit of a stalemate at the | :29:06. | :29:27. | |
moment. There'll be no re-rack, that's for sure, what with Ricky | :29:28. | :29:37. | |
having a 35-point advantage. But the way the balls are going to finish | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
up, a 35-point advantage is not going to be that big a lead. | :29:44. | :29:53. | |
Eventually they will open up. You can only do this so many times and | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
then it'll become more difficult to just roll to a red. | :30:00. | :30:52. | |
, , the slight advantage at the moment is with Ricky Walden, in this | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
situation. Yes, he is doing what you have to do | :30:57. | :31:08. | |
in this situation, getting the cue ball too close to the top cushion | :31:09. | :31:10. | |
for Barry to play the same shot. Not quite on the cushion this time. | :31:11. | :31:45. | |
So, can somehow Barry reverse the roles here? But he'd have to raise | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
the butt of the cue in the air if he is going to screw back off the three | :31:51. | :31:52. | |
reds that are near the pink spot. And it is tough on these very fine | :31:53. | :32:06. | |
cloths, because that type of shot, where you raise the butt of the cue, | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
they strike down and tend to be bounds around more. It is slightly | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
easier this type of shot with the old, thicker cloths that they used | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
to use. He is now in a situation. He is | :32:19. | :32:46. | |
going to try that shot that I mentioned. | :32:47. | :32:58. | |
Where is this red going to finish? I say he is OK. I don't think there is | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
an easy red to the left, middle pocket but look at the reds now, the | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
way they are spread. If there is no pot on, one good shot from Ricky | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
Walden here and he could put himself right in business. He could off to | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
the red that's to the left of the black. | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
A little touch little touch aside off that red. He could get in there | :33:24. | :33:34. | |
and he would have Barry in all sorts of trouble. | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
Well, he could have played a better one than that. | :33:40. | :33:53. | |
He has a straight red to the left centre, but if he fancies it and | :33:54. | :34:02. | |
misses it, it is a shot that might be his last shot. Well, I'm sure | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
Ricky didn't intend to leave him this as a tempter. He could have had | :34:08. | :34:13. | |
him tight on the cushion behind the black but Barry Hawkins. Well, it is | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
make your mind up time. This is a huge shot. I feel it is one he has | :34:19. | :34:22. | |
to take on, though. Yes, no point in looking what you | :34:23. | :34:35. | |
might leave. Forget about that. Concentrate on the pot. If it goes | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
in, Barry, you've given yourself a great chance but there is so much | :34:41. | :34:42. | |
pressure on this. There really is. I think it is the safety, from the | :34:43. | :35:04. | |
way he was lifting the butt of the cue again. Yeah, if he was going to | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
take it on, he should have played it by now. | :35:10. | :35:20. | |
Where is this red going to finish? If it bounces off the cushion? Well, | :35:21. | :35:27. | |
this is a big shot now for Ricky Walden. | :35:28. | :35:34. | |
Well, there is so much at stake for these two players. I'd much rather | :35:35. | :35:41. | |
go out playing a pot, being aggressive, though, than going out | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
on a bad safety. That leads a very bad taste. | :35:47. | :35:53. | |
Well t might turn out the right shot. What a chance. There were two | :35:54. | :36:02. | |
ways of playing that, you tun stun it or roll it in and get the other | :36:03. | :36:06. | |
side of the black. Whichever way, it was difficult but there's nothing | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
difficult at the moment. What a chance, as you said, Stephen. Can he | :36:11. | :36:14. | |
hold himself together? This is a very situation to a match | :36:15. | :36:33. | |
he had the other week against Mark Fu. He had the easy shot and Fu had | :36:34. | :36:40. | |
the difficult shot. He zrnt to do anying with the cue ball, just | :36:41. | :36:47. | |
concentrate. You -- he didn't have to do anything. | :36:48. | :37:03. | |
Now I'd be looking to stay around the pink and blue. No need to play | :37:04. | :37:10. | |
for blacks. You wouldn't think you would ever need to get out of | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
position now, if you stayed on pink and blues. | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
Yes. That's what he is doing, he has reds either side of the blue. It | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
doesn't matter which angle he leaves himself. He's always had a pretty | :37:24. | :37:33. | |
good temperament, has Barry, but, well, Ricky Walden was a strong | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
favourite to go through to the next round about five minutes ago. | :37:39. | :37:59. | |
Well, that was a nervy one. Dear me. No wonder he was tapping his head. | :38:00. | :38:08. | |
Lucky for him that red that's near the middle pocket, still cuts in. | :38:09. | :38:11. | |
But it should have been straightforward. He didn't cue that | :38:12. | :38:13. | |
green very well. You pointed the green on right-hand | :38:14. | :38:24. | |
side of the pocket. The cue ball went nowhere. You would think it | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
would be impossible to bed land somewhere, in this situation, but he | :38:29. | :38:36. | |
has managed it. He has finished up, he may have to try and get himself | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
on to the black off this. So he has to be very careful. | :38:42. | :38:52. | |
You And this is' gone wrong, I think unless it pulls up, it needs to pull | :38:53. | :39:02. | |
up. Oh, it'll still just about pot but another fraction harder and he | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
was completely out of position. So the tension - well, you can see it | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
on both players' faces. It might work out in his favour. The only two | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
reds that are safe are the two that are together. He may cannon into | :39:16. | :39:24. | |
them here. No, that's a twitch. That really is pure pressure. He hasn't | :39:25. | :39:31. | |
dropped on a red that he played for. Ricky hasn't got a straight-forward | :39:32. | :39:35. | |
shot. But that was just pure pressure that caused him to miss | :39:36. | :39:43. | |
that. This red, well, he was up straight away. He knew he mis-hit | :39:44. | :39:49. | |
that. But Ricky hasn't got an easy opener. The red will pass the black. | :39:50. | :39:53. | |
He needs to pot it cleanly into the pocket. No use flicking it in off | :39:54. | :39:58. | |
the black. I think when Barry missed the black, he thought - well, that's | :39:59. | :40:00. | |
it all over but not just yet. Amazing. It is who can just hold | :40:01. | :40:23. | |
themselves together that is going to get through to the quarter-final. | :40:24. | :40:30. | |
Again with that red, a stun run-through. Surely it makes the pot | :40:31. | :40:33. | |
more difficult. I know he was worried about leaving reds to the | :40:34. | :40:36. | |
centre but I don't think he should be thinking about that at this | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
stage, just get the ball potted the easiest way possible. I am he a just | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
wondering if he is cut a red into the middle pocket, right of the two | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
reds and back up for the black. That might be on, you know, I think he | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
can. He goes past the pink and red and he can get on the black. | :40:56. | :41:03. | |
Well, he almost went in-off. He left it awkward. Well, now Ricky has a | :41:04. | :41:12. | |
red to the middle pocket and he'll finish on the black buts' not | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
guaranteed to get it safe. -- finish on the black. But he's not | :41:19. | :41:25. | |
guaranteed to get it safe. I tell you what, this is not a gimme. | :41:26. | :41:36. | |
He's overcut it. He was on the black. But it makes you wonder if he | :41:37. | :41:46. | |
wasn't trying to get the white on the cushion as well, instead of | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
putting everything into the pot. It is understandable. I mean, it is | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
just so tense out there for these boys. | :41:56. | :42:33. | |
Almost tight on the cushion. If he was off the cushion, the red to the | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
middle would be potable. It's still potable but from there, whichever | :42:39. | :42:52. | |
red he takes, is difficult. And the fact there is no easy safety shot. | :42:53. | :42:56. | |
He is going to have to take a pot on. | :42:57. | :43:05. | |
Oh, that could be the one. He didn't push the cue through in a straight | :43:06. | :43:11. | |
line. He couldn't see an easy safety shot. But, well, Ricky Walden, what | :43:12. | :43:17. | |
a chance you have now to take a match that it looked you weren't | :43:18. | :43:25. | |
going to get anywhere near it. 4-1 # down and at 5-2 down, Barry was | :43:26. | :43:32. | |
dominating the match but it just shows you, what has happened in the | :43:33. | :43:35. | |
last half hour or so, what the pressure of the Masters can do to | :43:36. | :43:37. | |
you. He just has to give himself a little | :43:38. | :44:02. | |
bit more time, Ricky. Sometimes he tends to rush. He is very fluent but | :44:03. | :44:09. | |
in these situations, just give yourself that extra little second so | :44:10. | :44:17. | |
that you don't make that mis mistake. | :44:18. | :44:47. | |
Well, he's still got a bit of work to do, has Ricky. It's not over just | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
yet. He didn't want to be that close to | :44:52. | :45:07. | |
the cushion. It should be OK, but... Oh, that wobbled. That wobbled a | :45:08. | :45:23. | |
touch. So, he just needs the green and the red next to the pink and a | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
high value colour and Barry will need a snooker. He doesn't have to | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
worry about that difficult red. With the pressure out there, though, | :45:31. | :45:47. | |
he would have liked to have been closer to this red. Wondering what | :45:48. | :45:56. | |
should have been. One snooker needed. He will try and | :45:57. | :46:33. | |
make sure of this red. This will get Ricky Walden into the quarter-final | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
of the Masters for the very first time. He didn't even attempt the | :46:38. | :46:59. | |
pot. So, barring a snooker, Ricky Walden has pulled off a remarkable | :47:00. | :47:14. | |
victory from 4-1 behind to win 6-5. And that maybe Barry's last shot. | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
Yes, he will be really disappointed in the way he has finished this | :47:20. | :47:21. | |
match, Barry. That's the one. Roll up to the black | :47:22. | :47:40. | |
and Barry will come forward to shake his hands, I feel. He is on his way | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
it shake hands with his good friend, Ricky Walden. Barry absolutely | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
dominated the first part of the match. He led 4-1 and 5-2 but Ricky | :47:49. | :47:54. | |
Walden stuck in there and what a remarkable win in the end. He has | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
won the last four frames to put himself in the quarter-final, for | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
the figs time, 6-5. Well-playeded boy thes. Very tough. I thought I | :48:04. | :48:07. | |
was out of the tournament so many times tonight, I hung in and stuck N | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
I wasn't playing very well myself but I tried my hardest and came | :48:12. | :48:16. | |
through in the end. I know that you stick in there, sometimes momentum | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
can turn and you can have luck come your way. I stayed with it and | :48:21. | :48:23. | |
hopefully to get the chance in the last which I did. The main ambition | :48:24. | :48:29. | |
is to win it. It is a tough ask, so many good players, the best in the | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
world, so a tough couple of days for me if I can do it. One game at a | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
time. Ronnie O'Sullivan is next. Ricky has at time bemoaned what he | :48:40. | :48:45. | |
calls, his lack of killer instinct. He'll need it again tonight. We are | :48:46. | :48:51. | |
left with aurt quaer final line-up that is as red hot as an Aussie | :48:52. | :48:56. | |
summer. But who is going to wilt over the next cup quell of days. | :48:57. | :49:03. | |
What a contest when Seoul bane Higgins go and Murphy and Fu. Then | :49:04. | :49:11. | |
world number 1 against 5. Robertson against Maguire and Ricky Walden | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
earned that date with Ronnie O'Sullivan. Well, snooker Extra is | :49:17. | :49:22. | |
next. Then we have tomorrow afternoon, | :49:23. | :49:29. | |
Murphy against Fu. Those of you with long memories will remember the UK | :49:30. | :49:42. | |
final six years ago, it was epic. That's all for now. Goodbye. | :49:43. | :49:50. |