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Hello. Geej. Welcome to Alexandra Palace and the 2016 Masters.

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Tuesday, a very big day for snooker fans here at this iconic venue.

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Shortly, we will see world No. 1 Mark

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Shortly, we will see world No. 1 but we also saw the return of one of

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the great British sportsmen. ANNOUNCER: Here comes the rocket,

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Cheer It is great for the game he is back

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playing again. I am hoping he turns up and does the job. He is quick and

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entertaining for the crowd. An exciting player to watch. You can't

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be a snooker fan and not lick Ronnie. I am hoping it will be

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6-nil. It means two former world champions,

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England v Wales. This was a cracker going right down to the wire. Steve

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Dennis and Dennis Taylor are your company state tors. Ronnie is at the

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table trailing 28-1. I like that shot a lot. That was

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quite clever from Ronnie O'Sullivan. He is 27 behind. He didn't want to

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be using this back end behind the black as a safety zone and wants to

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get the game back to normality and he picked out a very good shot

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there. He really did. he picked out a very good shot

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there. He really did. Mark Williams can obviously see the left-hand side

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of the pack, but what he is frighened of doing is opening up the

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reds. He does need to get the cue ball bang on the cushion if he is

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going to play back down the table. He is having a quick look at the top

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of the table to see where it is safe. You see, there are all sorts

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of shots available to him. That was such a clever shot that he picked

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out there, Ronnie. It really was. I am not sure if Mark Williams is

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considering playing a very small half ball to keep it on the top

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cushion. He is studying it up and perhaps he is disregarding that.

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That is a weird plant to be even considering. I think he's just got

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to play a half-ball safety and hope it doesn't open the reds up. I can't

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see any other shot. The cue ball is going to come back down to roughly

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behind the yellow. He's just got the hope that the balls don't go into a

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pot all position. It is like a risk. He is summing up a risk. Not the

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3-ball plant, the weird plant. Madness. The weird plant would have

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to be to knock the red to snare the cushion onto the pink to make the

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plant. He can't see an easy safety shot. Surely independent. Surely

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not! LAUGHS

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. No. That is what Jo thinks of the plant. That was definitely the wrong

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choice. He thought long and hard. Boy, what a shot

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It was always pushing to the top cushion. Surely the safety shot

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would have been a better option. Well, he knew if he pulled that

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tough plant off, he could have won the match. Ronnie O'Sullivan.

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ANNOUNCER: Turn the phone off, please. Somebody's phone goes off.

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It has been terrific all afternoon and someone has forgot to switch the

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phone off. ANNOUNCER: Can you turn the phone

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off, please. I was just going to say if Ronnie

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O'Sullivan can just keep it It seems a strange thing to

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say with a player lick Ronnie O'Sullivan and all he's won in the

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game, but even the greatest player in the game suffers from a little

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bit of pressure at times. He might well need that last red on the side

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cushion. Well, everyone was looking forward

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to this match. They were looking forward to Ronnie O'Sullivan coming

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back after that eight-month lay-off. But, I didnt think we were going to

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get a fabulous match like this. It really has been very special. You

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see, little things like that cannon, well - he's just about OK, but that

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is a bit of a stretch. APPLAUSE

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He made it look easy! It will be fascinating to see how he

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goes about moving that difficult red that Steve mentioned. He's got to

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get an angle in the last second-last red and flick it into play and be

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guaranteed a book. It is as simple as it could be, really. Under the

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circumstances, he's still got to play the shot right. Perhaps a

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little bit wider than he would have wanted. If he can at all flick this

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red into play, he will do. He's got to do it from the green.

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APPLAUSE He needs to pull up. He doesn't want

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to be straight on the green, otherwise he can't get to that red.

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A little bit of angle. And what a shot he's played

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54. He was almost straight! CHEERING

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On the green and he forced it over to knock the reds out. That was a

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fabulous shot. So Mark Williams fought long and hard about that

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plant that he took on. LAUGHTER

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He is saying to the referee the yellow has got the come back up

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again. What a match we've had here. Mark Williams has been superb.

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You see, 32 ahead. 62. And Ronnie now will play the

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winner of Mark Selby and Ricky Waldon. They play this evening. It

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doesn't matter about the brown. Mark looks at the scoreboard. He is

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deciding whether to take hands. He is having a think. He has not

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finished quite yet. The Rocket is in the next round. That is one of the

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snookers. APPLAUSE

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Well, the brown is heading over the corner pocket. He needs four

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snookers at the moment. It has been three years since Mark has been here

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in the Masters. He doesn't want to leave just yet.

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APPLAUSE He will get the handshake. He turns

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to Ronnie O'Sullivan and congratulates The Rocket. It has

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been a fabulous match. These two players have put on a fantastic show

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here this afternoon at the Alexandra Palace. In the end, Ronnie

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O'Sullivan, well, he is back and he takes the match six frames to five.

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Well done the both players. APPLAUSE

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In a way it was not an easy merchandise, but in another way it

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was a kind of not a bad draw in a way because we both know each other

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so well. So we know - I know what shot he is going to play and he

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knows what I am going to play, so we kind of feel comfortable playing

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each other, I think. It probably would have been hard if I had to

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play someone I wouldn't have known their game as well. What a superb

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match and fantastic to see O'Sullivan back here at Alexandra

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Palace. Ronnie now will play the winner of our featured match this

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evening, Mark Selby world No. 1 taking on Ricky Waldon. This is the

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13th meeting between these two. Walden reached the finals in the

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Masters. I played him at Wembley. Ricky won the wild card match and we

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played each other. I think I beat him that year. We have played a lot

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in other tournaments as well. More or less grew up together through the

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junior ranks and great friends off the table. A fantastic lad and

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fantastic player. He is like O'Sullivan in a way. He plays on

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rhythm. When he gets on a roll he can steam roll in. Even though I

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haven't won anything this year, which has been a little bit

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disappointing, at the same time the standard is high - nobody has ady

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vine right to win anything - it is not like I have been playing

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drastically bad. I lost in the UK to the best player on the tour at the

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moment. I am not too disappointed, but it would be nice to turn a

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semifinal into a win. This is a big test for Ricky Walden. We join in

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Frame 1. Seleka is behind. Jimmy Hendrix and John Vir go are in the

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commentary box. A great pop. Ricky made a big mistake leaving him even

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a half chance at that and it could be very costly. A tremendous pot,

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though. Good cue ball control. Just overskewered it having the use the

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rest. You wouldn't have thought it would cause him a problem.

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He will have to play a little cannon on the pink, potting the red.

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Towards the middle pocket. He won't be playing this with a lot of pace.

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After this red, he needs a good angle on the pink. The remaining two

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reds on the left-hand side of the table are slightly awkward.

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Doesn't want to be straight on the pink. In actual fact, he's run too

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far. He just wanted to run past that red.

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If he had run past it, he might have had a chance. This one on the

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cushion, that is very difficult. 25 points behind. He keeps looking

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over. I don't know if there is some noise coming from somewhere.

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Yeah, a good shot. He played it. CHEERING

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Cheer In such a way he gave the ball every

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chance to drop, but I don't think he is ideal on the black. Any firmer

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and that red probably wouldn't have gone in. He just got a slit angle on

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the black, but I don't see how he can get good on the red. He

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certainly can't cannon it. He will take this on, you would have

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thought because when you get an opportunity like this, it really

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would punish Ricky Walden if Mark was to win the frame from here. He

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is having a quick look at the score board. 17 points behind.

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Oh! Tremendous shot! APPLAUSE

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But once again, he is not going to go down on the black, but what a pot

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that was. And by the looks of it, I don't think he can get close to the

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yellow off the black. 44. When you get a chance like this,

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you usually go for them. I am not certain there is value in playing

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this yellow. It is a very difficult shot. He is looking to play a cannon

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on the green. If he hit across on the left-hand side, it could send

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the yellow up this end of the table and you would fancy him getting the

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snooker. Looks like he only has eyes for winning the frame at this visit.

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Tough shot, this. Oh, fantastic!

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APPLAUSE 36. That is a tremendous shot! I

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think the groan goes to the middle. Goes to the corner as well.

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Well, looking at that angle, I think you would rather to play it in the

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corner than the middle. At least you have got the object ball in the

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pocket in your eyeline. It makes the pot a little bit easier and play for

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the brown in the middle. APPLAUSE

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It was always on the side. Once again, I think it was just - any

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harder and it might not have dropped. What a clearance this would

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be. APPLAUSE

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Points are now all square. He needs blue and pink.

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How the frame has turned around. A great shot on the blue.

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CHEERING And he only needs the pink. This is

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unbelievable! Well, you will not see any better

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clearances than this. APPLAUSE

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Tremendous! Absolutely tremendous! Ricky Walden 52 played a

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counter-shot and how much Seleka has cleared up there with 71, only he

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knows. Fantastic! 1-nil Mark Selby. John Virgo absolutely loved that and

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it was a fantastic opening frame from Mark Selby. Into Frame 2, he is

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back at the table trailing by 8 points.

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APPLAUSE This was just an incred ill cue. He

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got the work on the cue ball right in the middle of the pocket. --

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incredible cue. He got the work on the cue ball right in the middle of

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the pocket. As you said before, John, he had a big job to get it

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behind the blue ball there. He was punished when he didn't.

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I think he just about landed on a red here. I am not quite sure that

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this is the red he played for. He will settle it for it. He has just

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looked to see if he can find a little gap in between the red just

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below the one he is playing the main cluster.

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He had no option and these blacks are tricky. OK, the advantage he's

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got he only has to drop it in dead wait. He doesn't have to play it

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with any pace. It is a natural angle to come off the cushion for the red

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close to the cow bull now, but they are very missable, these. Never a

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doubt. Good shot. APPLAUSE

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He may just be playing a little can Nine News here. You can red -- you

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can see the red to the left of the corner there. I think he's potted

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the pink in the wrong side of the pocket. Exactly. I mean the cannon,

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as it turned out, would have been perfect, but he didn't hit the pink

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in the middle of the pocket. APPLAUSE

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OK, he missed a blue in this frame, but Stephen said at the time that

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was because he was overstretching. 26.

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He did well to force the angle there to come off the top cushion. He will

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have to go for the pink this time. He is just having a look to see what

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is available. If nothing is available, he may decide just to

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play a little cannon into the cluster. Still going up for the

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pink, but try to dislodge a few reds on the way up there. He didn't feel

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as though it was necessary. 35. Not the biggest target. It has to get a

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full-ball contact or he could lose a cue ball to either ball pockets.

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Yeah, he played that well. Any half-ball contact here, as he goes

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into the bunch, he will lose a cue ball. He caught that red practically

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full in the face. I would be surprised the way he is

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cowing if he doesn't win the frame from here and it came from that

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incredible long red, John. Yeah. As did the first frame.

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Yep. Tremendous cueing. Never looked in doubt right in the heart of the

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pocket. So that black now puts him 48 points

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in front. Red and Ricky Walden you need snookers.

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He had his chance. Just got out of position when he was in the

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black-spot area and then didn't play a particularly good safety. Mark is

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thinking about this. He just needs a red and a colour. I wouldn't

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overcomplicate it. That now puts him 55 points in

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front. Just 51 remaining. I am sure if he pots this red now, we are back

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to the table for Ricky Walden. He looks very confident, Mark Selby.

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Playing at a good pace. 78. Sometimes he is maybe a little less

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confident. He gets bogged down and plays a lot slower and more

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defensive snooker, but this is excellent. 79.

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He's on the groan. The brown obviously doesn't pass the blue to

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the far left corner, so he has a screwer with shot. He just had the

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right angle where he could do it, but just underrescued it slightly.

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Brown and blue for the century. Well played! Terrific opening. He

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has made the rest look pretty simple. He's potted some wonderful

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balls. Plus-size

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CHEERING Well, flawless. Ricky Walden, who

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led the first frame, and then lost that from nowhere. He had to sit

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that one out and it is the world No. 1 and three types champion Mark

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Selby who leads 2-nil. That frame lasting over 11 minutes. Seleka

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looking for an early finish and he won the next with breaks of 66 and

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43, into Frame 4, Seleka to play and there is no score. -- Selby to play

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and there is no score. That spolt his long-pot success.

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That red looked as though it went. When it was clenned, it was there.

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Not in the same place. But you do have to say that Mark was taking a

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risk, asking for it to be cleaned. You know, because that proves it.

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The referee is not going the get it absolutely to the fraction in the

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same place, not all of the time. He played this well. This is an

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important frame for Ricky. He knows he has to take these opportunities

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now. Nothing but his best, he is going to do.

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Just playing this with topspin and a touch of righthand side to follow

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the cue bull off two cushions, but didn't cue that ball well at all.

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You play it that firm with the righthand side it will push the cue

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ball to the left. Not so many can play the righthand

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red of the two here. It locks as though he is, so he feels as though

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he can avoid a kiss on the second red. And he could.

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APPLAUSE And he played it well. Now, is the

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red just above the black available? Because that red near the green

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spot, I think that goes. It just goes. Well, if it goes, don't get

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the red cleaned. Yeah, fair point. LAUGHS

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. It looks to me as though it goes,

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but Mark isn't too sure. Purposely leaving himself a little

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bit Le Saux he can bring other reds into play when he is ready.

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What you want is a position on the colour. That is OK. Straightish pink

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to the far left-hand corner. He will settle for that.

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He is determined the win this visit, Mark Selby because he's been pretty

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phenomenal in the first three frames. If he was to lose this frame

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3-1 at the interval in the first of six, he certainly wouldn't be happy

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with that. He will be determined to win this frame and keep the pressure

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on Ricky. He's got an angle on the blue. The

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problem is that the pink is slightly away from the reds. Still same

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applies, if he hits the pink full in the face the pink will run into the

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reds and open them up. If anything, I think favour the left-hand side of

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the pink, as we look at it. Is that thick enough? He could have

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hit it much better. APPLAUSE

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31. The cue ball makes contact with the pink - that was the important

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part of that shot. It is a masterclass at the moment. From the

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world No. 1. The key here, Stephen, I know you

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used to do it here on many, many occasions, particularly in this

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event, keep your concentration and focus. Definitely. That is what I

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said he would be determined to be 4-nil because when you are playing

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this well, you just don't want to let up at all on your opponent. Most

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people just say you would be delighted to be 3-1 ahead and it

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looks like 4-nil down, but if Mark Selby wants to be on the 3-1 he

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would be disappointed with the way he's been playing. For all intents

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and purposes now, it looks like 4-nil. You can't really see a way

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back for Ricky. The interval can change things.

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63 ahead. Still 83 available. Three reds, three colours would be more

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than enough. I mean, it doesn't look as though

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that is going to be too much of a problem. Just coming up to the one

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hour. Just underscrewed that slightly, but

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it shouldn't cause a problem. 53. He still screwed back for the pink in

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the middle. Well, decided to play it firm. 54.

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He's OK H's landed nicely on the blue and this blue will put him 56

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points in front. So this blue one more colour required. 67 remaining

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at the moment. 59. So red and a colour required. He's just come

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slightly hampered. He doesn't really want to play for the black.

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60. So this pink to go 63 points in front with just 59 remaining.

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97% pot success. And another one right in the heart of the pocket.

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Never any doubt. Never any danger. APPLAUSE

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Wonderful snooker. 66. From the three-time Masters champion.

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Made113 in Frame 2. Frame 1, 71. The last frame, he made a break of 66

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and 43. But he's just not come far enough for anything.

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CHEERING Anything looks like it will go in at

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the moment. 74. Must B Magazine nets in the pockets. The cue ball is out.

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-- must B Magazine nets in the pockets. The cue ball is out. A

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great attempt. Well, pot this one, Mark! Attention all pockets.

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He's played the treble. He's played the treble! It is close, it is

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close. Ah, unlucky! APPLAUSE

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Well, absolutely superb snooker. You have got to feel for Ricky Walden.

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He started the match off superbly but hasn't had a shot hardly since.

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Mark Selby goes into interval and must be delighted with his game,

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4-nil in front. Superb! This is bringing back nightmares for Walden

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booten here 6-nil by Ronnie O'Sullivan in the quarterfinals in

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2014 and when Selby went 5-nil up, he must have been thinking, "Here we

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go again", but he is leading in the sixth frame.

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That could be very costly. I didn't expect him to miss that. Of course,

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Mark, if he so wishes and I think he will have to play the left-hand one

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of the two, he can carry them into the reds and Britain them away from

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the side cushion. Bound to be on the black. -- Bring them away from the

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side cushion. Bound to be on the black. He would have liked to have

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been a little bit further away from the cushion than he is. This black

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is still possible, but just begs the question, can he cope control of the

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cue ball? -- keep control of the cue ball?

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I think he will settle for that, Stephen. Plus-size

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-- APPLAUSE It was kind of a natural angle. If

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Ricky had played it, it probably would have kissed the red and not

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left it on. So, from a few moments ago, the reds lock pretty safe. You

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would have to say now this is a chance to close this match out.

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An opportunity, if he so wishes. If he's got the right angle on the

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pink, notice the ball in the line. Plus-size Just eight points behind

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now. Frame and match at his mercy. On the

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left-hand side it is close to the cushion, but it might not cause too

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much of a problem. 35. One point for that red on the

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left side cushion if he just gets the cue bull virtually touching the

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cushion. It is just a matter of dropping the red automatically a

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nice ingangle on the black. He may be able to force it. Just

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widen the angle and force the cue ball behind this awkward red on the

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cushion. That is the problem when you are trying to stun it like that.

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You just get a little bit too much stun. He will do well to keep this

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in. This is a tricky red down the cushion. That was a real power-stun

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run threw but studio much stun. He isying the pot-up, but it is tricky.

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Yeah. You would have to say with the pace he is going to play it at, if

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he misses it - unless he brings the cue ball and snookers Ricky with the

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black - you would say this will cost him the frame if he misses it. It is

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there, though, is it? Yep. APPLAUSE

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34. Looks to be a natural angle on the black to drop it in off the left

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side cushion to leave - maybe it is a little bit too much angle. He may

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have to play to the left middle. If he can get in that circle. Well,

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I think he snookered himself. It was well short of pace. Maybe he can

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just get past the brown. He can. He would have liked to have been

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where the circle was. That would have made this red unmissable. 14

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points the lead. Yes, good pot!

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APPLAUSE I can't see him missing from here.

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So it looks like the dreaded whitewash for Ricky Walden.

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Yes, it is not his favourite venue, Ricky Walden. He's been beaten 6-nil

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by O'Sullivan here as well. The last frame Mark Selby missed a few, but

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overall, it has been a very impressive performance tonight.

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APPLAUSE Yes, that is it. The applause tells

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you. 24 ahead. 22 remaining, but not for long.

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APPLAUSE It all started so well for Ricky Walden. First frame Mark Selby

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break off. Ricky knocked in a lovely long red and made a break of 52. But

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couldn't finish the job off and Mark Selby made an unbelievable 71 break

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and then after that it has just been all Mark Selby. It has been a

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wonderful performance. APPLAUSE As you said, and as you

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know, the winner of this match to play Ronnie O'Sullivan and the form

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that Mark Selby has shown here, what a match that could be. A tremendous

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performance. A bit scrappy in the fifth but we have forgiven that.

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Absolutely superb and there is his wife, Vickie, leading the applause.

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He is punching the air. He must be absolutely delighted with the way

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he's played tonight and why wouldn't he be? He runs out a winner. Six

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frames to nil and he's in the quarterfinal. Very, very pleasing.

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Not only because it was 6-nil and the way I played, I would have been

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happy just the win even if it was 6-5. The way aplayed scored, more

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time than not, every time I got a chance I seemed to punish Ricky. The

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first frame, as stupid as it sounded, was key. Ricky looked

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comfortable and ran out of positions and I made a good clearance to steal

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the claim and that settles me then. Brilliant from Selby. He will take

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on Ronnie O'Sullivan in the quarterfinals on Thursday afternoon.

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Later today we will see John Higgins in first round action who takes on

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Liang Wenbo. Neil Robertson takes on MarcoFu. That is it from us for now.

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Snooker Extra follows shortly on BBC One and then we are back with live

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coverage on BBC Two as we see John Higgins take on Liang Wenbo. From

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all of us here at Alexandra Palace, bye for now.

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So, no-one pays tax here? No-one pays taxes.

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