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Hello. Geej. Welcome to Alexandra Palace and the 2016 Masters. | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
Tuesday, a very big day for snooker fans here at this iconic venue. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
Shortly, we will see world No. 1 Mark | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Shortly, we will see world No. 1 but we also saw the return of one of | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
the great British sportsmen. ANNOUNCER: Here comes the rocket, | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
Cheer It is great for the game he is back | :00:59. | :01:11. | |
playing again. I am hoping he turns up and does the job. He is quick and | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
entertaining for the crowd. An exciting player to watch. You can't | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
be a snooker fan and not lick Ronnie. I am hoping it will be | :01:21. | :01:21. | |
6-nil. It means two former world champions, | :01:22. | :01:36. | |
England v Wales. This was a cracker going right down to the wire. Steve | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Dennis and Dennis Taylor are your company state tors. Ronnie is at the | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
table trailing 28-1. I like that shot a lot. That was | :01:43. | :02:00. | |
quite clever from Ronnie O'Sullivan. He is 27 behind. He didn't want to | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
be using this back end behind the black as a safety zone and wants to | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
get the game back to normality and he picked out a very good shot | :02:11. | :02:11. | |
there. He really did. he picked out a very good shot | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
there. He really did. Mark Williams can obviously see the left-hand side | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
of the pack, but what he is frighened of doing is opening up the | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
reds. He does need to get the cue ball bang on the cushion if he is | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
going to play back down the table. He is having a quick look at the top | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
of the table to see where it is safe. You see, there are all sorts | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
of shots available to him. That was such a clever shot that he picked | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
out there, Ronnie. It really was. I am not sure if Mark Williams is | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
considering playing a very small half ball to keep it on the top | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
cushion. He is studying it up and perhaps he is disregarding that. | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
That is a weird plant to be even considering. I think he's just got | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
to play a half-ball safety and hope it doesn't open the reds up. I can't | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
see any other shot. The cue ball is going to come back down to roughly | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
behind the yellow. He's just got the hope that the balls don't go into a | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
pot all position. It is like a risk. He is summing up a risk. Not the | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
3-ball plant, the weird plant. Madness. The weird plant would have | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
to be to knock the red to snare the cushion onto the pink to make the | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
plant. He can't see an easy safety shot. Surely independent. Surely | :03:51. | :03:51. | |
not! LAUGHS | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
. No. That is what Jo thinks of the plant. That was definitely the wrong | :03:58. | :04:11. | |
choice. He thought long and hard. Boy, what a shot | :04:12. | :04:25. | |
It was always pushing to the top cushion. Surely the safety shot | :04:26. | :04:37. | |
would have been a better option. Well, he knew if he pulled that | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
tough plant off, he could have won the match. Ronnie O'Sullivan. | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
ANNOUNCER: Turn the phone off, please. Somebody's phone goes off. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
It has been terrific all afternoon and someone has forgot to switch the | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
phone off. ANNOUNCER: Can you turn the phone | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
off, please. I was just going to say if Ronnie | :05:00. | :05:12. | |
O'Sullivan can just keep it It seems a strange thing to | :05:13. | :05:24. | |
say with a player lick Ronnie O'Sullivan and all he's won in the | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
game, but even the greatest player in the game suffers from a little | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
bit of pressure at times. He might well need that last red on the side | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
cushion. Well, everyone was looking forward | :05:35. | :05:57. | |
to this match. They were looking forward to Ronnie O'Sullivan coming | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
back after that eight-month lay-off. But, I didnt think we were going to | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
get a fabulous match like this. It really has been very special. You | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
see, little things like that cannon, well - he's just about OK, but that | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
is a bit of a stretch. APPLAUSE | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
He made it look easy! It will be fascinating to see how he | :06:24. | :06:39. | |
goes about moving that difficult red that Steve mentioned. He's got to | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
get an angle in the last second-last red and flick it into play and be | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
guaranteed a book. It is as simple as it could be, really. Under the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
circumstances, he's still got to play the shot right. Perhaps a | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
little bit wider than he would have wanted. If he can at all flick this | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
red into play, he will do. He's got to do it from the green. | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
APPLAUSE He needs to pull up. He doesn't want | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
to be straight on the green, otherwise he can't get to that red. | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
A little bit of angle. And what a shot he's played | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
54. He was almost straight! CHEERING | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
On the green and he forced it over to knock the reds out. That was a | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
fabulous shot. So Mark Williams fought long and hard about that | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
plant that he took on. LAUGHTER | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
He is saying to the referee the yellow has got the come back up | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
again. What a match we've had here. Mark Williams has been superb. | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
You see, 32 ahead. 62. And Ronnie now will play the | :08:08. | :08:21. | |
winner of Mark Selby and Ricky Waldon. They play this evening. It | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
doesn't matter about the brown. Mark looks at the scoreboard. He is | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
deciding whether to take hands. He is having a think. He has not | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
finished quite yet. The Rocket is in the next round. That is one of the | :08:39. | :08:50. | |
snookers. APPLAUSE | :08:51. | :09:10. | |
Well, the brown is heading over the corner pocket. He needs four | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
snookers at the moment. It has been three years since Mark has been here | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
in the Masters. He doesn't want to leave just yet. | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
APPLAUSE He will get the handshake. He turns | :09:23. | :09:44. | |
to Ronnie O'Sullivan and congratulates The Rocket. It has | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
been a fabulous match. These two players have put on a fantastic show | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
here this afternoon at the Alexandra Palace. In the end, Ronnie | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
O'Sullivan, well, he is back and he takes the match six frames to five. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Well done the both players. APPLAUSE | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
In a way it was not an easy merchandise, but in another way it | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
was a kind of not a bad draw in a way because we both know each other | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
so well. So we know - I know what shot he is going to play and he | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
knows what I am going to play, so we kind of feel comfortable playing | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
each other, I think. It probably would have been hard if I had to | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
play someone I wouldn't have known their game as well. What a superb | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
match and fantastic to see O'Sullivan back here at Alexandra | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Palace. Ronnie now will play the winner of our featured match this | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
evening, Mark Selby world No. 1 taking on Ricky Waldon. This is the | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
13th meeting between these two. Walden reached the finals in the | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Masters. I played him at Wembley. Ricky won the wild card match and we | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
played each other. I think I beat him that year. We have played a lot | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
in other tournaments as well. More or less grew up together through the | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
junior ranks and great friends off the table. A fantastic lad and | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
fantastic player. He is like O'Sullivan in a way. He plays on | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
rhythm. When he gets on a roll he can steam roll in. Even though I | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
haven't won anything this year, which has been a little bit | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
disappointing, at the same time the standard is high - nobody has ady | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
vine right to win anything - it is not like I have been playing | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
drastically bad. I lost in the UK to the best player on the tour at the | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
moment. I am not too disappointed, but it would be nice to turn a | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
semifinal into a win. This is a big test for Ricky Walden. We join in | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
Frame 1. Seleka is behind. Jimmy Hendrix and John Vir go are in the | :11:42. | :11:54. | |
commentary box. A great pop. Ricky made a big mistake leaving him even | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
a half chance at that and it could be very costly. A tremendous pot, | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
though. Good cue ball control. Just overskewered it having the use the | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
rest. You wouldn't have thought it would cause him a problem. | :12:09. | :12:30. | |
He will have to play a little cannon on the pink, potting the red. | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
Towards the middle pocket. He won't be playing this with a lot of pace. | :12:37. | :13:21. | |
After this red, he needs a good angle on the pink. The remaining two | :13:22. | :13:58. | |
reds on the left-hand side of the table are slightly awkward. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
Doesn't want to be straight on the pink. In actual fact, he's run too | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
far. He just wanted to run past that red. | :14:08. | :14:39. | |
If he had run past it, he might have had a chance. This one on the | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
cushion, that is very difficult. 25 points behind. He keeps looking | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
over. I don't know if there is some noise coming from somewhere. | :14:54. | :15:14. | |
Yeah, a good shot. He played it. CHEERING | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Cheer In such a way he gave the ball every | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
chance to drop, but I don't think he is ideal on the black. Any firmer | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
and that red probably wouldn't have gone in. He just got a slit angle on | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
the black, but I don't see how he can get good on the red. He | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
certainly can't cannon it. He will take this on, you would have | :15:37. | :15:49. | |
thought because when you get an opportunity like this, it really | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
would punish Ricky Walden if Mark was to win the frame from here. He | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
is having a quick look at the score board. 17 points behind. | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
Oh! Tremendous shot! APPLAUSE | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
But once again, he is not going to go down on the black, but what a pot | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
that was. And by the looks of it, I don't think he can get close to the | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
yellow off the black. 44. When you get a chance like this, | :16:25. | :16:52. | |
you usually go for them. I am not certain there is value in playing | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
this yellow. It is a very difficult shot. He is looking to play a cannon | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
on the green. If he hit across on the left-hand side, it could send | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
the yellow up this end of the table and you would fancy him getting the | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
snooker. Looks like he only has eyes for winning the frame at this visit. | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
Tough shot, this. Oh, fantastic! | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
APPLAUSE 36. That is a tremendous shot! I | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
think the groan goes to the middle. Goes to the corner as well. | :17:29. | :17:40. | |
Well, looking at that angle, I think you would rather to play it in the | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
corner than the middle. At least you have got the object ball in the | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
pocket in your eyeline. It makes the pot a little bit easier and play for | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
the brown in the middle. APPLAUSE | :17:54. | :18:07. | |
It was always on the side. Once again, I think it was just - any | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
harder and it might not have dropped. What a clearance this would | :18:13. | :18:13. | |
be. APPLAUSE | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
Points are now all square. He needs blue and pink. | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
How the frame has turned around. A great shot on the blue. | :18:34. | :18:43. | |
CHEERING And he only needs the pink. This is | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
unbelievable! Well, you will not see any better | :18:47. | :18:59. | |
clearances than this. APPLAUSE | :19:00. | :19:12. | |
Tremendous! Absolutely tremendous! Ricky Walden 52 played a | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
counter-shot and how much Seleka has cleared up there with 71, only he | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
knows. Fantastic! 1-nil Mark Selby. John Virgo absolutely loved that and | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
it was a fantastic opening frame from Mark Selby. Into Frame 2, he is | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
back at the table trailing by 8 points. | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
APPLAUSE This was just an incred ill cue. He | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
got the work on the cue ball right in the middle of the pocket. -- | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
incredible cue. He got the work on the cue ball right in the middle of | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
the pocket. As you said before, John, he had a big job to get it | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
behind the blue ball there. He was punished when he didn't. | :20:02. | :20:13. | |
I think he just about landed on a red here. I am not quite sure that | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
this is the red he played for. He will settle it for it. He has just | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
looked to see if he can find a little gap in between the red just | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
below the one he is playing the main cluster. | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
He had no option and these blacks are tricky. OK, the advantage he's | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
got he only has to drop it in dead wait. He doesn't have to play it | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
with any pace. It is a natural angle to come off the cushion for the red | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
close to the cow bull now, but they are very missable, these. Never a | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
doubt. Good shot. APPLAUSE | :21:06. | :21:27. | |
He may just be playing a little can Nine News here. You can red -- you | :21:28. | :21:48. | |
can see the red to the left of the corner there. I think he's potted | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
the pink in the wrong side of the pocket. Exactly. I mean the cannon, | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
as it turned out, would have been perfect, but he didn't hit the pink | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
in the middle of the pocket. APPLAUSE | :22:07. | :22:19. | |
OK, he missed a blue in this frame, but Stephen said at the time that | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
was because he was overstretching. 26. | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
He did well to force the angle there to come off the top cushion. He will | :22:32. | :22:52. | |
have to go for the pink this time. He is just having a look to see what | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
is available. If nothing is available, he may decide just to | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
play a little cannon into the cluster. Still going up for the | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
pink, but try to dislodge a few reds on the way up there. He didn't feel | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
as though it was necessary. 35. Not the biggest target. It has to get a | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
full-ball contact or he could lose a cue ball to either ball pockets. | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
Yeah, he played that well. Any half-ball contact here, as he goes | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
into the bunch, he will lose a cue ball. He caught that red practically | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
full in the face. I would be surprised the way he is | :23:33. | :23:57. | |
cowing if he doesn't win the frame from here and it came from that | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
incredible long red, John. Yeah. As did the first frame. | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
Yep. Tremendous cueing. Never looked in doubt right in the heart of the | :24:10. | :24:20. | |
pocket. So that black now puts him 48 points | :24:21. | :24:35. | |
in front. Red and Ricky Walden you need snookers. | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
He had his chance. Just got out of position when he was in the | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
black-spot area and then didn't play a particularly good safety. Mark is | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
thinking about this. He just needs a red and a colour. I wouldn't | :24:54. | :24:54. | |
overcomplicate it. That now puts him 55 points in | :24:55. | :25:26. | |
front. Just 51 remaining. I am sure if he pots this red now, we are back | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
to the table for Ricky Walden. He looks very confident, Mark Selby. | :25:30. | :26:16. | |
Playing at a good pace. 78. Sometimes he is maybe a little less | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
confident. He gets bogged down and plays a lot slower and more | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
defensive snooker, but this is excellent. 79. | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
He's on the groan. The brown obviously doesn't pass the blue to | :26:36. | :27:00. | |
the far left corner, so he has a screwer with shot. He just had the | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
right angle where he could do it, but just underrescued it slightly. | :27:06. | :27:06. | |
Brown and blue for the century. Well played! Terrific opening. He | :27:07. | :27:32. | |
has made the rest look pretty simple. He's potted some wonderful | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
balls. Plus-size | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
CHEERING Well, flawless. Ricky Walden, who | :27:40. | :27:59. | |
led the first frame, and then lost that from nowhere. He had to sit | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
that one out and it is the world No. 1 and three types champion Mark | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
Selby who leads 2-nil. That frame lasting over 11 minutes. Seleka | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
looking for an early finish and he won the next with breaks of 66 and | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
43, into Frame 4, Seleka to play and there is no score. -- Selby to play | :28:19. | :28:26. | |
and there is no score. That spolt his long-pot success. | :28:27. | :28:38. | |
That red looked as though it went. When it was clenned, it was there. | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
Not in the same place. But you do have to say that Mark was taking a | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
risk, asking for it to be cleaned. You know, because that proves it. | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
The referee is not going the get it absolutely to the fraction in the | :28:57. | :28:57. | |
same place, not all of the time. He played this well. This is an | :28:58. | :29:29. | |
important frame for Ricky. He knows he has to take these opportunities | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
now. Nothing but his best, he is going to do. | :29:35. | :29:51. | |
Just playing this with topspin and a touch of righthand side to follow | :29:52. | :30:16. | |
the cue bull off two cushions, but didn't cue that ball well at all. | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
You play it that firm with the righthand side it will push the cue | :30:22. | :30:23. | |
ball to the left. Not so many can play the righthand | :30:24. | :30:41. | |
red of the two here. It locks as though he is, so he feels as though | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
he can avoid a kiss on the second red. And he could. | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
APPLAUSE And he played it well. Now, is the | :30:51. | :31:02. | |
red just above the black available? Because that red near the green | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
spot, I think that goes. It just goes. Well, if it goes, don't get | :31:06. | :31:14. | |
the red cleaned. Yeah, fair point. LAUGHS | :31:15. | :31:14. | |
. It looks to me as though it goes, | :31:15. | :31:23. | |
but Mark isn't too sure. Purposely leaving himself a little | :31:24. | :32:18. | |
bit Le Saux he can bring other reds into play when he is ready. | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
What you want is a position on the colour. That is OK. Straightish pink | :32:24. | :32:30. | |
to the far left-hand corner. He will settle for that. | :32:31. | :32:41. | |
He is determined the win this visit, Mark Selby because he's been pretty | :32:42. | :33:17. | |
phenomenal in the first three frames. If he was to lose this frame | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
3-1 at the interval in the first of six, he certainly wouldn't be happy | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
with that. He will be determined to win this frame and keep the pressure | :33:27. | :33:27. | |
on Ricky. He's got an angle on the blue. The | :33:28. | :34:02. | |
problem is that the pink is slightly away from the reds. Still same | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
applies, if he hits the pink full in the face the pink will run into the | :34:07. | :34:12. | |
reds and open them up. If anything, I think favour the left-hand side of | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
the pink, as we look at it. Is that thick enough? He could have | :34:16. | :34:25. | |
hit it much better. APPLAUSE | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
31. The cue ball makes contact with the pink - that was the important | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
part of that shot. It is a masterclass at the moment. From the | :34:36. | :34:38. | |
world No. 1. The key here, Stephen, I know you | :34:39. | :35:08. | |
used to do it here on many, many occasions, particularly in this | :35:09. | :35:11. | |
event, keep your concentration and focus. Definitely. That is what I | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
said he would be determined to be 4-nil because when you are playing | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
this well, you just don't want to let up at all on your opponent. Most | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
people just say you would be delighted to be 3-1 ahead and it | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
looks like 4-nil down, but if Mark Selby wants to be on the 3-1 he | :35:32. | :35:34. | |
would be disappointed with the way he's been playing. For all intents | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
and purposes now, it looks like 4-nil. You can't really see a way | :35:40. | :35:46. | |
back for Ricky. The interval can change things. | :35:47. | :35:52. | |
63 ahead. Still 83 available. Three reds, three colours would be more | :35:53. | :36:03. | |
than enough. I mean, it doesn't look as though | :36:04. | :36:11. | |
that is going to be too much of a problem. Just coming up to the one | :36:12. | :36:14. | |
hour. Just underscrewed that slightly, but | :36:15. | :36:47. | |
it shouldn't cause a problem. 53. He still screwed back for the pink in | :36:48. | :36:49. | |
the middle. Well, decided to play it firm. 54. | :36:50. | :37:04. | |
He's OK H's landed nicely on the blue and this blue will put him 56 | :37:05. | :37:12. | |
points in front. So this blue one more colour required. 67 remaining | :37:13. | :37:24. | |
at the moment. 59. So red and a colour required. He's just come | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
slightly hampered. He doesn't really want to play for the black. | :37:28. | :37:34. | |
60. So this pink to go 63 points in front with just 59 remaining. | :37:35. | :37:47. | |
97% pot success. And another one right in the heart of the pocket. | :37:48. | :37:56. | |
Never any doubt. Never any danger. APPLAUSE | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
Wonderful snooker. 66. From the three-time Masters champion. | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
Made113 in Frame 2. Frame 1, 71. The last frame, he made a break of 66 | :38:06. | :38:34. | |
and 43. But he's just not come far enough for anything. | :38:35. | :38:36. | |
CHEERING Anything looks like it will go in at | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
the moment. 74. Must B Magazine nets in the pockets. The cue ball is out. | :38:43. | :38:52. | |
-- must B Magazine nets in the pockets. The cue ball is out. A | :38:53. | :38:57. | |
great attempt. Well, pot this one, Mark! Attention all pockets. | :38:58. | :39:04. | |
He's played the treble. He's played the treble! It is close, it is | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
close. Ah, unlucky! APPLAUSE | :39:10. | :39:14. | |
Well, absolutely superb snooker. You have got to feel for Ricky Walden. | :39:15. | :39:19. | |
He started the match off superbly but hasn't had a shot hardly since. | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
Mark Selby goes into interval and must be delighted with his game, | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
4-nil in front. Superb! This is bringing back nightmares for Walden | :39:29. | :39:31. | |
booten here 6-nil by Ronnie O'Sullivan in the quarterfinals in | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
2014 and when Selby went 5-nil up, he must have been thinking, "Here we | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
go again", but he is leading in the sixth frame. | :39:41. | :39:47. | |
That could be very costly. I didn't expect him to miss that. Of course, | :39:48. | :40:09. | |
Mark, if he so wishes and I think he will have to play the left-hand one | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
of the two, he can carry them into the reds and Britain them away from | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
the side cushion. Bound to be on the black. -- Bring them away from the | :40:17. | :40:24. | |
side cushion. Bound to be on the black. He would have liked to have | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
been a little bit further away from the cushion than he is. This black | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
is still possible, but just begs the question, can he cope control of the | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
cue ball? -- keep control of the cue ball? | :40:41. | :40:54. | |
I think he will settle for that, Stephen. Plus-size | :40:55. | :41:01. | |
-- APPLAUSE It was kind of a natural angle. If | :41:02. | :41:27. | |
Ricky had played it, it probably would have kissed the red and not | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
left it on. So, from a few moments ago, the reds lock pretty safe. You | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
would have to say now this is a chance to close this match out. | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
An opportunity, if he so wishes. If he's got the right angle on the | :41:43. | :42:30. | |
pink, notice the ball in the line. Plus-size Just eight points behind | :42:31. | :42:37. | |
now. Frame and match at his mercy. On the | :42:38. | :42:59. | |
left-hand side it is close to the cushion, but it might not cause too | :43:00. | :43:01. | |
much of a problem. 35. One point for that red on the | :43:02. | :43:24. | |
left side cushion if he just gets the cue bull virtually touching the | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
cushion. It is just a matter of dropping the red automatically a | :43:30. | :43:31. | |
nice ingangle on the black. He may be able to force it. Just | :43:32. | :43:59. | |
widen the angle and force the cue ball behind this awkward red on the | :44:00. | :44:07. | |
cushion. That is the problem when you are trying to stun it like that. | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
You just get a little bit too much stun. He will do well to keep this | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
in. This is a tricky red down the cushion. That was a real power-stun | :44:18. | :44:27. | |
run threw but studio much stun. He isying the pot-up, but it is tricky. | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
Yeah. You would have to say with the pace he is going to play it at, if | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
he misses it - unless he brings the cue ball and snookers Ricky with the | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
black - you would say this will cost him the frame if he misses it. It is | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
there, though, is it? Yep. APPLAUSE | :44:45. | :44:53. | |
34. Looks to be a natural angle on the black to drop it in off the left | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
side cushion to leave - maybe it is a little bit too much angle. He may | :44:59. | :45:04. | |
have to play to the left middle. If he can get in that circle. Well, | :45:05. | :45:38. | |
I think he snookered himself. It was well short of pace. Maybe he can | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
just get past the brown. He can. He would have liked to have been | :45:45. | :45:54. | |
where the circle was. That would have made this red unmissable. 14 | :45:55. | :45:56. | |
points the lead. Yes, good pot! | :45:57. | :46:09. | |
APPLAUSE I can't see him missing from here. | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
So it looks like the dreaded whitewash for Ricky Walden. | :46:15. | :46:22. | |
Yes, it is not his favourite venue, Ricky Walden. He's been beaten 6-nil | :46:23. | :46:34. | |
by O'Sullivan here as well. The last frame Mark Selby missed a few, but | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
overall, it has been a very impressive performance tonight. | :46:39. | :46:45. | |
APPLAUSE Yes, that is it. The applause tells | :46:46. | :46:53. | |
you. 24 ahead. 22 remaining, but not for long. | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
APPLAUSE It all started so well for Ricky Walden. First frame Mark Selby | :46:59. | :47:05. | |
break off. Ricky knocked in a lovely long red and made a break of 52. But | :47:06. | :47:12. | |
couldn't finish the job off and Mark Selby made an unbelievable 71 break | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
and then after that it has just been all Mark Selby. It has been a | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
wonderful performance. APPLAUSE As you said, and as you | :47:22. | :47:33. | |
know, the winner of this match to play Ronnie O'Sullivan and the form | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
that Mark Selby has shown here, what a match that could be. A tremendous | :47:38. | :47:41. | |
performance. A bit scrappy in the fifth but we have forgiven that. | :47:42. | :47:46. | |
Absolutely superb and there is his wife, Vickie, leading the applause. | :47:47. | :47:49. | |
He is punching the air. He must be absolutely delighted with the way | :47:50. | :47:52. | |
he's played tonight and why wouldn't he be? He runs out a winner. Six | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
frames to nil and he's in the quarterfinal. Very, very pleasing. | :47:59. | :48:02. | |
Not only because it was 6-nil and the way I played, I would have been | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
happy just the win even if it was 6-5. The way aplayed scored, more | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
time than not, every time I got a chance I seemed to punish Ricky. The | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
first frame, as stupid as it sounded, was key. Ricky looked | :48:15. | :48:17. | |
comfortable and ran out of positions and I made a good clearance to steal | :48:18. | :48:21. | |
the claim and that settles me then. Brilliant from Selby. He will take | :48:22. | :48:25. | |
on Ronnie O'Sullivan in the quarterfinals on Thursday afternoon. | :48:26. | :48:29. | |
Later today we will see John Higgins in first round action who takes on | :48:30. | :48:40. | |
Liang Wenbo. Neil Robertson takes on MarcoFu. That is it from us for now. | :48:41. | :48:46. | |
Snooker Extra follows shortly on BBC One and then we are back with live | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
coverage on BBC Two as we see John Higgins take on Liang Wenbo. From | :48:52. | :48:56. | |
all of us here at Alexandra Palace, bye for now. | :48:57. | :49:05. | |
So, no-one pays tax here? No-one pays taxes. | :49:06. | :49:09. |