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Could even in. It is day one here in the rather splendid and palatial | :00:22. | :00:40. | |
surroundings of Alexandra Palace in north London, for the Masters, the | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
exclusive tournament that is always by invitation only, and only 216 of | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
the world's top players. It is always a real gem of a wave to start | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
any new year. Lack 16 of the world's top players. Tonight's | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
opening session had a real stamp of quality about it, because it | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
featured Ding Junhui of China, a man who wonders tournament five years | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
ago, up against the reigning Crucible King, Stuart Bingham. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Stuart had that amazing career high in Sheffield eight months ago, but a | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
living up to the label of world champion has not been quite so easy. | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
I've never actually won a game here, so hopefully I can change that | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
this year. Looking at the people I've lost two, Ali Carter, Judd | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
Trump, Mark Selby, Marco Fu, you are not going to get any easy games. If | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
you are not on your game, you are going to get beaten. I have got a | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
tough opponent this year in Ding Junhui, so hopefully I can overcome | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
the voodoo. The first time I actually played him, many moons ago | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
now, I beat him then, so I hope I put a bit of hearing him then. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Obviously we'd paid a few times after that and he beat me a few | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
times on the trot, but it has been pointed out to me that I think I | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
have won seven on the trot against him, since 2011. Hopefully that | :02:11. | :02:20. | |
continues. It seems amazing to think, but Ding Junhui's first | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
appearance in the Masters was as a 16-year-old in 2004. Three years | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
later he made the final, only to suffer a thumping at the hands of | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
Ronnie O'Sullivan. In 2011 he became only the third | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
overseas player to win it at Wembley Arena. Since the event has moved to | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
Alexandre Pallas, he has not won a single match you. Mind you, Stuart | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
Bingham has never been past the last 16 stage in the Masters. Something | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
had to give tonight. Well, they share the first couple of frames, | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
pretty scrappy to this point, and it was all being watched by two former | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
world champions, Peter Ebdon and Dennis Taylor. | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
COMMENTATOR: How many times have we seen that type of shop, where they | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
missed the ball completely? I am sure the players will mention | :03:09. | :03:20. | |
it to the tournament director early, or Michael Clarke, the former top 16 | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
player. They will get the fitter to have a look at the table after the | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
evening's play. And early chance for Stuart. He can | :03:27. | :03:37. | |
develop the blackspot area here with a nice canon. | :03:38. | :04:22. | |
Didn't quite play the canon as he intended. | :04:23. | :04:32. | |
Last season he made 44 centuries. He has only made ten this season so | :04:33. | :04:52. | |
far. But an early chance here to get a | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
sizeable contribution. And that time, Dennis, he got a much | :04:59. | :05:23. | |
bigger bounce off the side cushion then we have been experiencing so | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
far this evening. Very well played. A nice little | :05:26. | :05:47. | |
Camembert. -- canon there. You can see the difference, can't | :05:48. | :06:15. | |
you? In his concentration and focus now, winning that last frame really | :06:16. | :06:16. | |
helps to settle him. That will unsettle him a little bit. | :06:17. | :06:33. | |
He might have to take the blue now, because he is hampered with the | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
black. He has got an awful long way to travel if he does take the blue | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
to avoid the yellow and get back up to the reds. He is looking at the | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
black, but is that red? Not right over the top of it. He couldn't do | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
much with the cueball from that position. This read may have passed | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
the blue into the corner pocket. Awkward queueing there. But he | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
pushed the cue there in the straight line. One more could potted and he | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
could secure this frame. -- one more good pot. Well played! | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
Starting to look like a world champion. | :07:19. | :07:29. | |
Such a fluent player, Stuart. Made 279 centuries in his career. | :07:30. | :07:43. | |
Jan Verhaas keeping a close look at things they are, to make sure he | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
does not touch one of those reds with his sleeve. Not that many more | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
pots and he has got himself into the lead. A delightful little stunned | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
shot there through the gap. The frame well and truly over. So | :08:01. | :09:14. | |
one could pop down to cushion here, and he has got a sizeable break | :09:15. | :09:15. | |
available. Every chance, now that he has not | :09:16. | :09:49. | |
cut down the commission. Surely he could make a maximum break? | :09:50. | :10:13. | |
He has made a maximum on three occasions, Stuart Bingham. | :10:14. | :10:25. | |
Needs to bounce. I think he is just about OK. ?10,000 for the highest | :10:26. | :10:35. | |
break, and ?10,000 for a maximum, because it rolls over. It was made | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
at the UK championship, Neil Robertson did that. There will be an | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
awful lot of people here in this audience who have never seen a | :10:48. | :10:48. | |
maximum break live. No, it needs to go a bit further. He | :10:49. | :11:38. | |
is going to have to leave himself with a tough luck if he drops the | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
scene. -- black if he drops this in. He has got down to pot the pink, | :11:41. | :12:00. | |
because if he makes 146, every chance that he picks ?10,000 up for | :12:01. | :12:01. | |
that. He might... No, he was only kidding. | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
He is going for the magical maximum. What a roar of applause at this goes | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
in. Getting there! Get in! Absolutely | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
fantastic. Where is the blue? It was a very big | :12:17. | :12:33. | |
problem, because the green doesn't go past it. If he can drop the | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
yellow in... He could be perfect on the green. He | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
has hit it affects. Did he get a kick, or did he hit it thick? What a | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
chance that was for his fourth maximum break. The crowd has denied | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
that. More importantly, for Stuart Bingham, he looks much more relaxed. | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
Big smile on his face. He might not be Mr maximum, but he has won the | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
frame. We had a maximum at the Masters last | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
year from Marco Fu, and almost had another one they are. A great | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
attempt by Stuart Bingham. They shared the next four frames. He had | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
taken a 3-1 advantage, a Ding Junhui law that you back. 4-3 as we join | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
it. The top rate from Ding Junhui so far has been 60. It is worth | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
pointing out that Stuart Bingham has won their last seven matches over | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
the last five years. In we go to frame number eight. Ding Junhui to | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
play, 30 points adrift. COMMENTATOR: It is the same scenario | :13:34. | :13:49. | |
for Ding Junhui here. It is not quite as bad now. There is one at | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
the left of the bunch of reds. That is where he is lining the cue up. He | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
has got the perfect angle on the yellow if he wants to canon into the | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
reds. Just disturb a pupil is the but he has got that single red that | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
he can play on. It just depends how he feels. It is a good angle, to | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
play the canon into them, if he wishes. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
Could have been better. He still has a pot on. | :14:21. | :14:35. | |
Once again, those reds blocking each other into the right corner, and | :14:36. | :15:03. | |
maybe one available into the left corner. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
There is one there that will just go into the left corner pocket. In | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
fact, a couple. He is OK now. As you mentioned earlier, Dennis, | :15:17. | :15:35. | |
the shock that he played with the yellow, when he played them well and | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
full of confidence, you seem to get good splits. The balls turn out well | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
when you go into them. When things are not going well for you, a number | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
of times, you come awkward on balls. It is just incredible. But it was a | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
very good recovery shot. He played shot perfectly. He was a | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
very unfortunate not to finish on something easier. | :16:01. | :16:10. | |
Well, we are in frame number eight, and Ding Junhui, believe it or not, | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
his highest break is 42. It would be a good time to make your | :16:17. | :16:33. | |
highest break of the match. In fact, it would be a good time to win the | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
frame with this visit, and get himself back all square. | :16:37. | :17:37. | |
He is going to need the Canon number three reds. -- be canon on the three | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
reds. He would be a lucky to finish on at least one red when he cannons | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
into them. If he flicks the bottom red on the left he will either be | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
read on the left or push the other one towards the right centre. Can he | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
see in to pot it? That is even better, taking the Canon out of the | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
equation. As you can see, just enough room to get to be potting | :18:10. | :18:10. | |
angle. That has worked out very nicely. | :18:11. | :18:44. | |
Yes, the little flick off the pink. That helped the situation there. | :18:45. | :18:59. | |
That supersedes his 42 break which we mentioned was his highest. | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
One easy read and then a couple of tricky ones. A slightly trickier one | :19:11. | :19:26. | |
on the left side of the table. 18 in front. Red, to come 19. | :19:27. | :19:36. | |
A bit of work still to be done here to secure the frame. | :19:37. | :19:59. | |
Going to need both reds. He played that pretty well. | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
Dead straight on this. He hasn't got much angle to work with, so he may | :20:09. | :20:23. | |
elect, well, if he just drops city and he is going to leave a very | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
awkward black. Sometimes in this situation you will screw up to the | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
blue just to get the white away from the cushion. He is just going belly | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
it in, as we say. -- going to Dolly it in. The key shot coming up. In | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
fact, he cannot play for the red into the right corner pocket. Far | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
from safe in this frame just yet. Just the reds needed. We have seen a | :20:53. | :21:16. | |
view of these missed, but we have seen a few sliding along the cushion | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
here. -- slide in. I wonder if the red will actually stick to the | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
commission. Stewart won a few friends ago with pace that actually | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
hit the cushion. It will be interesting to see what happens | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
here. He is debating as to whether to refuse the pot. That is what he | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
was thinking about. But he is now back looking at it, so this has got | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
to go in. He just thought a second, you could | :21:47. | :22:15. | |
see him thinking, maybe I should make sure I have a good safety | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
shot. Then of course he played the correct shot, and he did hit that | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
read perfectly. He really did. You can't fail to be impressed with the | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
resolve that Ding Junhui showed, especially during that rate. Because | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
he has not played well in this match and he has dug deep and he has given | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
himself a chance. He certainly has. He has got the scores all square | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
again, what we still can't pick anything between these two players. | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
Four frames each. And the match is now over three hours old, and it has | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
become the best of three friends affair. Into the next we go, and it | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
is Ding Junhui who has just missed a yellow, Stuart ten points behind. | :22:58. | :23:15. | |
Not all lost for Ding Junhui. The White pulled up 12 inches short, it | :23:16. | :23:36. | |
would have been straightforward. A good shot from Stuart. Just enough | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
room for the White to go around the back of the green. If you does miss | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
that, he would get a free ball. Important he gets this right. This | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
side of the middle pocket with some left-hand side, hoping to hit two | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
cautions and not go around the back of the green. -- cushions. Ding | :23:59. | :24:12. | |
Junhui is still in a state of shock that his ball did not go in rest of | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
the. All of a sudden it caught the left | :24:16. | :24:30. | |
jaw. He has to be careful. He would like to hit it from two cushions. | :24:31. | :24:45. | |
Not go around the back of the green. That is a shocker. | :24:46. | :24:57. | |
Surprise, he was frightened about going around the back of the green, | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
to finish playing the shot he has, a bad misjudgement. | :25:04. | :25:12. | |
This shot is for the frame, even though he is four points behind. | :25:13. | :25:26. | |
He has come at a little short. Nothing coming easy to the boys. | :25:27. | :25:34. | |
Just pressure, it means a lot to these players to get through to the | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
quarter-final of the Masters. The plot is on but he has to be | :25:37. | :26:11. | |
careful. That he does not go near the middle pocket. -- pot. He got | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
away with that one. But look where the cue ball has finished. Ding | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
Junhui will take this on. If he screws back a couple of inches he | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
has an easy blue and he is on the blink. A big shot coming up for the | :26:34. | :26:50. | |
Chinese player. -- pink. Got to take this on. Looks as though he is | :26:51. | :27:02. | |
refusing it. That is unusual. That is unusual. Especially after playing | :27:03. | :27:16. | |
that shot. Why does he not try to knock the brown, he had little to do | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
with the wife. It was a very difficult shot, he had to avoid the | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
double-kiss, and there was every chance he was going to be pushing | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
the brown towards the green pocket. Stewart taking time to compose | :27:29. | :27:42. | |
himself. He knows the importance of this shot. | :27:43. | :28:02. | |
Played that well. What a tussle this match has been. Both players having | :28:03. | :28:25. | |
chances in the end. The world champion takes it. He leads by five | :28:26. | :28:33. | |
frames. One away from a place in his first quarter-final of the Masters. | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
He is so close, Kenny finally get into a first quarter-final in this | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
Masters. He has tried for long enough. Now let's get to the next. | :28:44. | :28:58. | |
Stewart has a 35 point pushing here. -- cushion. Looks like a safety. I | :28:59. | :29:07. | |
do not blame him. Does not want to be taking a brisk at this stage and | :29:08. | :29:14. | |
let Ding Junhui back king macro. Ding Junhui will be taking this one | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
arm, Dennis. It is quite thin. Playing the safety shot. He was a | :29:22. | :29:37. | |
little surprised, he should have taken the raid on. Perhaps been 25 | :29:38. | :29:47. | |
points behind, he decided discretion is the right option. That is very | :29:48. | :29:56. | |
thin, this could be really good. He could pop the yellow. I'm starting | :29:57. | :30:03. | |
to get excited. It has been a very tense match. Whoever comes through | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
this battle, would have expended a lot of nervous energy. Bingham | :30:09. | :30:21. | |
looking tired now. This is the chance that Stewart has been waiting | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
for. Ding Junhui was unfortunate there. You are never sure where they | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
will go when you play that type of safety shot. For the red to go over | :30:31. | :30:39. | |
the pocket was unlucky, to say the least. | :30:40. | :30:56. | |
If he plays one good cannon, it will be all over. He has played that | :30:57. | :31:11. | |
really well. Red and a colour. Then he wins his first ever match at the | :31:12. | :31:32. | |
Masters. Ding Junhui won this title in 2011, he has gone out in the | :31:33. | :31:41. | |
first round ever since. Early on, both players were trying so hard. | :31:42. | :31:48. | |
Bingham has battled away. He almost made a maximum break. He has played | :31:49. | :31:56. | |
the snooker behind the blink. Barring a good few snickers, Bingham | :31:57. | :32:03. | |
has won his first match at the Masters and he beat Ding Junhui, | :32:04. | :32:15. | |
6-4. That was a tough match for both players. Both played well in patches | :32:16. | :32:22. | |
but both missed lots of chances. Ding Junhui will be very | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
disappointed, Bingham will be over the moon, having won his first match | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
at the Masters. He beats Ding Junhui, six frames to four. Well | :32:31. | :32:37. | |
done, to the world champion. He joins us live. First in the | :32:38. | :32:44. | |
quarter-final in the Masters? It has been a long time coming? It was my | :32:45. | :32:51. | |
seventh go. Very scrappy today. Ding Junhui was struggling a little. We | :32:52. | :32:58. | |
bought the level down a bit. I'm over the moon to be in a | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
quarter-final. You dug in for the last couple of frames? We were both | :33:03. | :33:09. | |
missing chances. I tried to open the red when there were 40 points there, | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
I played a bad shot on mine. Over the moon to get through. There was a | :33:15. | :33:21. | |
147 attempt on frame three. We thought you would go for the 146? | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
Where you tempted? Not really. As soon as you get so far you have to | :33:27. | :33:33. | |
go for it. That was my first turn for the Masters. I played well for | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
patches, happy to be in the next round. Huygens or Wayne Bowen and | :33:41. | :33:48. | |
the next round. A couple of days to calm down? When you played at the | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
Crucible, you have never been past the quarters, have you got | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
encouragement from having pushed those records aside, can you do | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
something similar here? That was a stepping stone for me to win a game | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
here. Anything goes. It will be tough against those two. A couple of | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
days off and go back home and do the school run with the kids and get | :34:16. | :34:21. | |
back here for Thursday or Friday. Just before you have to get on the | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
school run, tell us about being the world champion. Tell us how | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
difficult it has been about trying to live with this label? I have been | :34:32. | :34:39. | |
a pro for 20 years. This is my 21st season, I have been in the | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
background, now I am pushed to the front. I do not feel like I will | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
play any different or I am a different person, I feel the | :34:49. | :34:51. | |
pressures of being world champion. It is a big learning curve. You | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
learned a lot tonight and you are through. See you very soon. While | :34:57. | :35:03. | |
Stuart clicks as thoughts and gets himself ready for the next | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
instalment we will reflect on the opening match of the Masters. It was | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
between a defending champion, Shaun Murphy and Mark Allen, the world | :35:13. | :35:18. | |
number 11. A fascinating match and will -- we will join us 5-3 in front | :35:19. | :35:23. | |
for Mark Allen. On the cards after a bizarre accounts in early on. He was | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
gifted frame X. Murphy forfeited the frame after having three fouls on a | :35:30. | :35:36. | |
red he was not snickered on. The referee said that as the rule, you | :35:37. | :35:40. | |
forfeit the frame. It was very dramatic in this match. We will take | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
you to frame nine, can Allen wrap it up? -- snookered. | :35:46. | :35:56. | |
That is a fair point about the scoring ability of the players, 91 | :35:57. | :36:07. | |
in the fifth, 104 in the seventh. That is top drawer scoring. That is | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
the type of contributions, as John has said in the studio that Shaun | :36:13. | :36:19. | |
Murphy needs to raise his standards too. He played that very | :36:20. | :36:32. | |
confidently, he played at such a pace, he was bound to be blue or on | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
colour. He is wrong side of the blue, you would rather be well be | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
wrong side of the blue than of straight. -- off. | :36:43. | :36:55. | |
As I say, this situation, you cannot afford to miss, particularly when | :36:56. | :37:03. | |
you are in. A pink pop past the green into the | :37:04. | :37:39. | |
top right-hand pocket. The black has tied up as well. A lot of work to | :37:40. | :37:57. | |
do. He could play a couple of shots here. Pot the red. Go around the | :37:58. | :38:05. | |
back of the black. Try and develop the black and the red. He has a nice | :38:06. | :38:12. | |
angle on the red into the bottom left corner pocket. Cue ball. A | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
bottom on the cue ball could go into the red and the black and bring the | :38:20. | :38:27. | |
black into play. He has got this opportunity as well from this red. A | :38:28. | :38:37. | |
good shot. Excellent shot! He wanted to bring the black and the red into | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
play. A lot will depend on where the black goes. If that does not go to | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
its own spot, the red could be available. Difficult to tell at the | :38:50. | :39:02. | |
moment. If it goes majorette line in the middle of the top cushion. It | :39:03. | :39:10. | |
says the red could be possible. Never quite certain what that tells | :39:11. | :39:19. | |
us. Does that mean it goes on. You would think of the was right in the | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
middle of the market, it would go on. It cannot be touching the red. | :39:24. | :39:34. | |
Sean having a look around. He does not want the red and black to be a | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
plan to the corner. It is close to being done. If he does try and play | :39:39. | :39:45. | |
the cannon, he has to be careful he does not hit hard enough for the | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
black to be in the corner pocket. A nice angle on the red. Needs the | :39:52. | :40:02. | |
bounce. Could not play it any harder, he could have knocked the | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
black in. This is a tricky one. Has to drop this in. Needs the black to | :40:08. | :40:23. | |
bounce a fraction. Could not do much with the cue ball. Could not get | :40:24. | :40:29. | |
that far away from the caution as he would like. This is another tester | :40:30. | :40:45. | |
he cannot afford to miss. -- cushion. Good queueing again, lovely | :40:46. | :40:53. | |
angle on the back. We'll try to split more reds into play. There is | :40:54. | :41:01. | |
OK, he has the red into the centre if the bottom red does not pot. | :41:02. | :41:22. | |
Nice angle on the black. He could play the cannon to nudge the ball. | :41:23. | :41:31. | |
He has the red to the right of the blue which is easy to get on. Takes | :41:32. | :41:40. | |
the no risk route. Can he play this red and leave himself a nice angle | :41:41. | :41:47. | |
on the blue? Obviously, he can. This could be the key to this frame. He | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
will be playing the cannon this time. You always need some luck. | :41:53. | :42:04. | |
That the red comes out nice. Then it goes! He is on the red. Fantastic. | :42:05. | :42:17. | |
Lovely shot. The red was plumb on, perfect. It has been a good | :42:18. | :42:28. | |
response. Are you reading my script? You can't help but be impressed by | :42:29. | :42:35. | |
the response from Sean to what happened in that frame where he was | :42:36. | :42:44. | |
conceded by missing the ball three times. Denmark in the next frame | :42:45. | :42:56. | |
made 104. -- then mark. That looked a little wide, lacking the pace. | :42:57. | :42:58. | |
More pace would not have dropped. That puts the frame in the bag. Two | :42:59. | :43:52. | |
snickers to tie for Mark Allen. -- snookers. As you said a few moments | :43:53. | :44:03. | |
ago, when you have a lead on Mark Allen, you will feel you have one or | :44:04. | :44:10. | |
two chances to clinch the frame. Tremendous response from Sean. Maybe | :44:11. | :44:25. | |
doubt creeping into Mark's mind. 67 in the last was almost enough. With | :44:26. | :44:35. | |
one chance he gets, he could win the frame. The first few reds and | :44:36. | :44:44. | |
colours was superb. He developed them so nicely. The crowd have been | :44:45. | :44:51. | |
in for a wonderful treat us up again. -- this afternoon. This red | :44:52. | :45:03. | |
will make it a another century. A high-quality match. Not without | :45:04. | :45:20. | |
incident. He misses the black. He will not be too disappointed. He has | :45:21. | :45:27. | |
a century, another frame. He has pulled one back. Only one behind | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
now. Mark Allen still leading by five frames to four. Having been 25 | :45:34. | :45:43. | |
behind can he now close the gap. We'll Allen get over the line? He is | :45:44. | :45:55. | |
ten points ahead. A nice angle on the brown mouth. -- now. He can pop | :45:56. | :46:03. | |
the brown and get it towards the blue he may have the chance of a | :46:04. | :46:09. | |
pot. This is not straightforward. The brown goes in. He wanted a cue | :46:10. | :46:18. | |
ball a little closer to the blue. The blue open to the left corner | :46:19. | :46:24. | |
pocket. A place in the quarter-finals and beating the | :46:25. | :46:39. | |
defending champion. Look at the determination on his face. And the | :46:40. | :46:47. | |
opposite for Shaun Murphy. Rolling the yellow towards the corner. 22 | :46:48. | :46:55. | |
points the difference. Two snickers. The defending champion looks like he | :46:56. | :46:56. | |
is on the way out. -- snookers. It is difficult enough to get a | :46:57. | :47:11. | |
snooker with the two balls on the table, to get two, almost | :47:12. | :47:12. | |
impossible. They nearly give him one for free. | :47:13. | :47:35. | |
That is good to see. Sure knew that Mark's heart would have been in his | :47:36. | :47:45. | |
mouth. These two are good may. His heart would have been in his mouth, | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
no doubt about that. -- good mates. Good effort. Now he is led the pink | :47:51. | :48:00. | |
which will top the eyes and cross the treasonous first-round match. | :48:01. | :48:10. | |
One frame the gifted to Mark Allen. It is not that easy when he won the | :48:11. | :48:19. | |
final 10-2. It was not easy today. Take nothing away from Mark Allen, | :48:20. | :48:28. | |
two sentries, a high one and 137, the defending champion is knocked | :48:29. | :48:31. | |
out by the young man from Northern Ireland. He wins by six frames to | :48:32. | :48:39. | |
four. His record had not looked so pretty but this evens things up. A | :48:40. | :48:45. | |
great victory for Mark Allen. We say farewell to Murphy. Good night. | :48:46. | :49:01. | |
Let your New Year start with a bang and visit an explosive new China. | :49:02. | :49:07. |