Semi-Final - Judd Trump v Barry Hawkins

:00:33. > :00:37.Good afternoon. It's a beautiful cold, crisp day here in

:00:38. > :00:40.Good afternoon. It's a beautiful London. We are just getting a couple

:00:41. > :00:44.of gulps of fresh air before London. We are just getting a couple

:00:45. > :00:48.inside Alexandra Palace for the London. We are just getting a couple

:00:49. > :00:53.final weekend of this year's Dafabet Masters. We've been here since

:00:54. > :00:57.Sunday and we've seen the thrilling return of Ronnie O'Sullivan and

:00:58. > :01:03.witnessed arguably the greatest matches we've seen since 1975. It's

:01:04. > :01:09.been the week in which we lost David Bowie and only last night commander

:01:10. > :01:12.Tim Peake broke new ground in space. Today, who will be our star men in

:01:13. > :01:41.the semifinals? I can tell my grand kids that I

:01:42. > :01:46.played the best player in the world at the semifinal of the Masters.

:01:47. > :01:56.Always great to get the opportunity to play in a Masters semifinal, so

:01:57. > :02:00.it is really good to be there. I like to be in the semifinal, such a

:02:01. > :02:04.big BBC event. Yeah, there's only four people left now. It will mean a

:02:05. > :02:09.lot to get to the final. There's a lot of support here. That will not

:02:10. > :02:13.be good enough for me to be in the final. I want to win it. So it is an

:02:14. > :02:18.all-English semifinal line-up. Three of the four names the same as those

:02:19. > :02:21.which appeared at the Crucible semifinal stage nine months ago.

:02:22. > :02:25.Only Ronnie O'Sullivan replacing Shaun Murphy. Ronnie has a big match

:02:26. > :02:31.against Stuart Bingham this evening. The first of our semifinals features

:02:32. > :02:36.the world number 8 Barry Hawkins up against Judd Trump, he's the most

:02:37. > :02:39.junior of our finalists by 10 years. After a brilliant, mesmerising

:02:40. > :02:44.performance yesterday to beat Neil Robertson many think it could be

:02:45. > :02:54.Judd's name which will be etched on to that trophy tomorrow night. Judd

:02:55. > :02:57.Trump, the new kid on the block, to the winner's podium at least, and

:02:58. > :03:00.the player perhaps best placed to make the most of the worldwide

:03:01. > :03:06.domination now of snooker. He is only a young lad. He's got ten years

:03:07. > :03:11.ahead of him at the very least. And he's already been, as you've said,

:03:12. > :03:16.very successful. I love watching him play. Love commentating when he's in

:03:17. > :03:20.the tournament. He's one of those that entertains the crowd. Plays

:03:21. > :03:26.wonderful shots, amazing cue power and he likes to express himself. On

:03:27. > :03:31.the table. It is great to see, a bit like Jimmy White in his heyday, some

:03:32. > :03:34.of the banana shots he can play, the screw-backs. He really does love

:03:35. > :03:38.pulling off the wonderful shots. He does like to give it a crack, but

:03:39. > :03:42.that's naughty snooker. That's the way he tlieks play. You know, you

:03:43. > :03:46.get the balls flying around the table at that pace they are going to

:03:47. > :03:53.go in somewhere. Maybe that's the theory. But he is so entertaining to

:03:54. > :03:58.watch. I played him at the Crucible some years ago and it took me a

:03:59. > :04:04.while to work him out, because he is so attacking. But nowadays he has

:04:05. > :04:10.coupled that with an astute tactical, safety style of play. If

:04:11. > :04:16.he wants to he can go toe to toe with anybody in the game. It is not,

:04:17. > :04:19.he hits the ball, and he gets some cue action into it, but it's not

:04:20. > :04:26.like a Ronnie O'Sullivan, where it is nice and free flowing. Of the

:04:27. > :04:29.stops and starts, but the speed of the cue through the ball generates

:04:30. > :04:34.so much power. He is one of those players, as you said, he's got time

:04:35. > :04:37.on his side and he is always going to be there or thereabouts. You can

:04:38. > :04:42.see him at the World Championship for many years to come. OK, as

:04:43. > :04:47.usual, trying to find a weakness in a player is very difficult when you

:04:48. > :04:51.get to the top class players. It would have been easy to say you

:04:52. > :04:56.outplay him tactically. Perhaps three years ago you could go yeah,

:04:57. > :05:02.but that loophole seems to have been closed up, so where is his weakness?

:05:03. > :05:06.For me I think there's a couple of technical things in his game which

:05:07. > :05:12.maybe under the most intense pressure might let him down. There's

:05:13. > :05:16.quite a lot of body movement on the strike which you wouldn't

:05:17. > :05:21.necessarily teach. At the address position, he cues up across the

:05:22. > :05:26.ball. On the back swing, as he delivers the cue, he has to self

:05:27. > :05:29.correct. On the days where his natural talent doesn't kick in and

:05:30. > :05:33.correct the problem, they're the days he misses shots that you

:05:34. > :05:39.couldn't believe he could miss. He has to keep on winning as those cars

:05:40. > :05:48.and shoes are expensive. Very, and the watches! Yesterday's match

:05:49. > :05:52.between Judd Trump and Neil Robertson was a masterclass and

:05:53. > :06:01.probably the best of the best of 11 I've ever seen at the Masters. He's

:06:02. > :06:06.dropped a double has he? He has! It was a superb game to be involved in.

:06:07. > :06:14.We both played well but we drove each other on, it was a great game.

:06:15. > :06:18.And that is a 139. Highest break of the tournament. Interval, two

:06:19. > :06:23.apiece. Judd was sensational to forge clear, but every time he went

:06:24. > :06:29.two frames ahead Neil Robertson showed his grip to come back into

:06:30. > :06:41.the match. Well played. Very well played.

:06:42. > :06:49.Fantastic! It's the highest break of the tournament, beating Neil

:06:50. > :06:55.Robertson's 139 with a 140! Absolutely tremendous. I dug deep

:06:56. > :07:06.and played really well to get it back to five each. What a marvellous

:07:07. > :07:11.shot that was. We've got a deciding frame to look forward to. I wanted a

:07:12. > :07:16.chance but it never came my way. I've got to give Judd full credit

:07:17. > :07:20.for the break in the last fames. In particular the opening red was an

:07:21. > :07:28.outstanding shot. What a shot! Unbelievable. What a shot. It was a

:07:29. > :07:32.tough move to the middle. It rattled around the pocket about 100 times.

:07:33. > :07:37.My heart dropped. As soon as I saw that drop in, I thought to myself,

:07:38. > :07:44.this is your chance now. Well, how did that drop?! It takes someone

:07:45. > :07:49.having to play like that to beat me, and you have to hold your hands up

:07:50. > :07:52.and say, well played. It has been absolutely sensational. One

:07:53. > :07:55.and say, well played. It has been greatest matches you will ever see.

:07:56. > :08:02.Judd Trump is in the semifinal and he wins a classic six frames to

:08:03. > :08:05.five. He showed tremendous mettle to get over the line, a wonderful

:08:06. > :08:12.century break in the final frame, but he is back to work again today

:08:13. > :08:23.against a formidable opponent in Barry Hawkins. He's my buddy, he's

:08:24. > :08:30.my good pal on the tour. Great to see him getting out of snooker what

:08:31. > :08:35.he should do, as he's a hard worker, a great player. So tight, so

:08:36. > :08:39.granite. But a top lad. He was always one of the kids that everyone

:08:40. > :08:43.said, he's going to go on to bigger and better things. I think every was

:08:44. > :08:48.surprised it took him a bit lower than than everyone thought to

:08:49. > :08:52.progress up the professional ladder. If anybody wanted to play Barry and

:08:53. > :08:59.he doesn't get the credit he deserved. All the players know what

:09:00. > :09:02.a player he. Is he's such a competitive player. He is such a

:09:03. > :09:09.laid-back character. A fantastic player. A great record at the

:09:10. > :09:13.Crucible. A lot of belief in himself. I love the way he strokes

:09:14. > :09:22.the ball. It is very difficult to do that under pressure. Mr Reliable and

:09:23. > :09:26.consistent. Very solid player, off the table a genuine guy, would do

:09:27. > :09:31.anything for you. He ain't a bad bone in his body. There's a few of

:09:32. > :09:35.the lads on the tour they are quite spiteful and that, but Barry's not

:09:36. > :09:40.one of them people. I've seen the other side of him but I'm not

:09:41. > :09:46.prepared to let that out on camera. We'll leave it as though he's a

:09:47. > :09:51.really nice guy, yeah? It settled me down a bit, that first match after

:09:52. > :09:58.five years. It is such a big BBC event. Judd's realised you can't

:09:59. > :10:03.play everything. When things ain't going that well you're going to get

:10:04. > :10:08.beat. Beat. He has improved his safety game no end. It is going to

:10:09. > :10:13.be a really tough game. Getting to the world final was unbelievable and

:10:14. > :10:15.to do, to get to a final in the second biggest tournament we've got,

:10:16. > :10:19.that will be another great achievement really. I will have to

:10:20. > :10:26.play at the top of my game to get through. If I do, I'll be delighted.

:10:27. > :10:29.Delighted. Another great crowd here at Ally Pally for semifinals day.

:10:30. > :10:34.The majority of fans here are frothing at the mouth of a Judd

:10:35. > :10:37.Trump Ronnie O'Sullivan final. But there's two massive banana skins for

:10:38. > :10:44.those players to get over Absolutely. Barry Hawkins, he's sort

:10:45. > :10:50.of like a quiet assassin, a silent assassin that has crept into the

:10:51. > :10:56.semifinals not had too much media attention. He is Mr Reliable. Judd

:10:57. > :11:02.Trump will have to scrape him off the table to beat him today. And a

:11:03. > :11:05.world finalist. I was watching the match, Neil Robertson and Judd

:11:06. > :11:11.Trump, in the office with Barry Hawkins. He said I hope Judd Trump

:11:12. > :11:17.has baulked himself out for tomorrow. Ronnie O'Sullivan and

:11:18. > :11:22.Stuart Bingham. Stuart Bingham looks like he has relaxed and is enjoying

:11:23. > :11:27.himself without the albatross of being world champion. The last man

:11:28. > :11:29.to beat Ronnie O'Sullivan in the quarterfinals of the World

:11:30. > :11:34.Championship. He will have his own support here. A lot of fans will be

:11:35. > :11:37.for Ronnie O'Sullivan, but I think Bingham lives down the road and he's

:11:38. > :11:41.going to be up for it. Ronnie will have to be on his guard against

:11:42. > :11:45.Stuart Bingham, as he is getting better and better as the tournament

:11:46. > :11:48.has gone on, Stuart Bingham. Judd Trump, do you think he will have a

:11:49. > :11:53.hangover after the frenzy of yesterday? One of the best matches

:11:54. > :11:57.in the best of 11, no doubt about it. Fantastic quality. That's the

:11:58. > :12:01.big question, is he going to suffer hangover? He's the favourite now,

:12:02. > :12:06.not the underdog. We'll have to wait and see. Back to Hazel.

:12:07. > :12:11.guys. Another 2,000 strong crowd today. Record attendances all week.

:12:12. > :12:16.Today the Hawk taking on? Juggernaut. Last match went to a

:12:17. > :12:21.decider three years ago. Are we going to get another thrill er to

:12:22. > :12:26.warm us up as the temperatures fall outside today? Let's find out. MC

:12:27. > :12:30.Rob Walker is all set there. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,

:12:31. > :12:33.welcome to semifinals Saturday here at the Dafabet Masters. Neither of

:12:34. > :12:39.these players have been in the final before. What an occasion, what an

:12:40. > :12:42.opportunity, and what a backdrop for the drama to come, ladies and

:12:43. > :12:44.opportunity, and what a backdrop for gentlemen, it's show time here at

:12:45. > :12:58.Ally Pally! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

:12:59. > :13:04.Please welcome a player enjoying the best Masters run of his career so

:13:05. > :13:11.far. He has flourished in the last few seasons, winning the Aussie Open

:13:12. > :13:18.in 2012 and the PTC Grand Finals two years later, beating mark Allen 6-2

:13:19. > :13:23.in the quarterfinals. The world champion finalist is ready to roar

:13:24. > :13:24.once more. Here he comes, Barry Hawkins!

:13:25. > :13:59.APPLAUSE. And his opponent, the most exciting

:14:00. > :14:02.player of his generation. His record-breaking win against Neil

:14:03. > :14:06.Robertson yesterday was simply sensational. It was one of the best

:14:07. > :14:11.matches he's ever played. When he's in the groove, he is irresistible to

:14:12. > :14:20.watch. So here he is, with his own brand of naughty snooker, the ace in

:14:21. > :14:39.the pack, he's Judd Trump! APPLAUSE.

:14:40. > :14:46.They are playing for a place in the Masters final and a guaranteed

:14:47. > :14:50.cheque of ?90,000 at least. But more importantly for these two men

:14:51. > :14:54.another shot at one of snooker's big three titles, the Masters. I know

:14:55. > :15:01.that John Parrott and Dennis Taylor are very much looking forward to

:15:02. > :15:09.this. Good afternoon Hazel, good afternoon everyone. And Barry did

:15:10. > :15:20.win the toss and he is breaking off. In this battle of the left-handers.

:15:21. > :15:27.And the big question, John, is, can Judd keep going? That is the big

:15:28. > :15:32.question. Performance against Neil Robertson that was stupendous. But

:15:33. > :15:38.it's back to work again today. We were in the studio yesterday, just

:15:39. > :15:42.as he was leaving and he did his interview, Steven Hendry leaned over

:15:43. > :15:48.and said, you do realise you are only halfway through. It was a

:15:49. > :15:53.brilliant question to say, you've had a brilliant performance but

:15:54. > :15:59.you've got a lot of work to do. It can be awkward when you've had a

:16:00. > :16:04.peak performance to come back to work next day. Judd was saying

:16:05. > :16:16.earlier in the week, you can beat a player 6-0 and go out the next day

:16:17. > :16:23.and lose 6-0 to the same player. Very impressive this week, Barry

:16:24. > :16:33.Hawkins. He went through a bit of a lean spell. Remember he lost the UK

:16:34. > :16:38.to Nigel to 5-0 in front, lost 6-0, took a bit of getting over, that

:16:39. > :16:42.one. Interesting listening to the boys as we came on air. Barry

:16:43. > :16:46.Hawkins probably doesn't get the recognition that we all think he

:16:47. > :16:51.deserves. He's a top class match player. Rarely plays the wrong shot,

:16:52. > :16:54.and everything he does play is usually played to a very high

:16:55. > :16:58.standard. You've got to beat Barry Hawkins. He doesn't give you too

:16:59. > :17:04.many opportunities. I think he's a top class match player. And also,

:17:05. > :17:12.Dennis, a very nice lad. You heard all the players talking about him.

:17:13. > :17:18.He's a smashing fellow. Can he produce his top game? He knows he'll

:17:19. > :17:26.have to, the way Judd's been playing.

:17:27. > :17:52.A good shot from Barry, that. You can see the way he's cueing across

:17:53. > :18:00.that slightly. Oh, he's hit the blue. It does look tight, that shot

:18:01. > :18:05.he is trying to play. Judd Trump 5. Sorry, Barry Hawkins 5.

:18:06. > :18:10.LAUGHTER. Nevers are getting to everyone! A rare mistake from the

:18:11. > :18:12.referee, the most experienced referee we have. Mistake

:18:13. > :18:17.referee, the most experienced referee we have. -- nerves. That was

:18:18. > :18:23.just catching the edge of the blue. No red is available, to it will be

:18:24. > :18:27.put back. You've got to get this right and try to help the referee as

:18:28. > :18:33.much as you can. But the edge he is trying to clip here really is fine.

:18:34. > :18:39.Watch Judd when he plays this again. Shaun Murphy mentioned his cue

:18:40. > :18:48.action. He hits it as he straightens up. I always think situations, it is

:18:49. > :18:52.difficult to get the cue ball exactly right. But he is making it

:18:53. > :19:04.worse for himself. You are right, it is so difficult to get it absolutely

:19:05. > :19:09.spot on. Even bringing it up on the screen isn't going to help in this

:19:10. > :19:12.instance I don't think. It is only fractions we are talking about. The

:19:13. > :19:16.players here are just so honest as well. One thing Judd will not want

:19:17. > :19:23.to do is get any advantage from this here. He will want it to be spot on,

:19:24. > :19:28.exactly how it was. It is like an unwritten rule between the place. He

:19:29. > :19:37.could hit it or he wouldn't have played the shot. If he's... He's

:19:38. > :19:41.changing his mind now. May just decide to drop on the top red on the

:19:42. > :19:49.top cushion instead. It is too tight.

:19:50. > :20:06.APPLAUSE. Nice shot. Once again a packed audience today. A wonderful

:20:07. > :20:12.crowd here at Alexandra Palace all week. This is one of the great

:20:13. > :20:23.sporting events. Saturday afternoons at the Masters. Takes me back to

:20:24. > :20:26.watching on Grandstand, always wish I could play in such a brilliant

:20:27. > :20:53.occasion. APPLAUSE. Judgeded that to

:20:54. > :20:59.perfection. Watch the cue action here. Judd will be down on the shot.

:21:00. > :21:03.Goes slightly across this. It is one of the traits of his cue action.

:21:04. > :21:06.Doesn't stop him playing well. It is just the way he does it. There's a

:21:07. > :21:12.little difference. Turning into a bit of an awkward

:21:13. > :21:38.frame with the black now tied up. He won't mind a bit of a safety

:21:39. > :21:42.battle here, Barry. Helps him to settle into his semifinal and keep

:21:43. > :21:49.his opponent away from the table. But he might knock this in. That was

:21:50. > :21:54.close. But where is it going to finish? He's going to stick it up

:21:55. > :22:08.over the middle. So the first chance falls to Barry.

:22:09. > :22:14.He's got an angle on the blue he wish to try to develop the black

:22:15. > :22:20.and reds, but he wouldn't be guaranteed good position on a red.

:22:21. > :22:25.He's got the pink and blue in the open. I agree. If there was a red

:22:26. > :22:29.over the pocket somewhere he would be playing that cannon straight away

:22:30. > :22:32.to get the black into play, but as there isn't he will try and sort

:22:33. > :22:43.something else out. He's got the bottom red just away

:22:44. > :23:24.from the bunch there he can play off back up from the blue.

:23:25. > :23:35.A little too close for red towards the corner. A nice shot

:23:36. > :23:44.with a bit of side up for the pink. And he looks comfortable. You

:23:45. > :23:48.with a bit of side up for the pink. player. If you've reached the final

:23:49. > :23:51.of the championship you can play, and he can handle this situation as

:23:52. > :23:59.well. Always nice in the opening frame to get your hand on the table.

:24:00. > :24:03.I will tell you what is amazing these days, John, how many of the

:24:04. > :24:09.top players are left-handed. Going way back there was only one or two

:24:10. > :24:15.players. Even in this tournament alone... We've got these two

:24:16. > :24:25.players. Neil Robertson, Mark Allen, Mark Williams.

:24:26. > :24:29.I suppose you could say Ronnie O'Sullivan's left-handed as well,

:24:30. > :24:46.when he wants to be. I mentioned the other night in the

:24:47. > :24:49.studio I think it was talking about Barry saying that there was an

:24:50. > :24:54.economy of effort with the cue ball. That's because his break-building is

:24:55. > :24:58.very good. Wants to keep the cue ball into the object ball nice and

:24:59. > :25:02.tight. That's the art of break-building. If you can make it

:25:03. > :25:27.look simple you're doing it correctly. A lovely touch.

:25:28. > :25:37.Doesn't have to worry about that black now he's got the reds nicely

:25:38. > :25:41.placed. That pink in the open. And if he could win this opening frame

:25:42. > :25:45.with one visit, it would send a message out to Judd. Judd only

:25:46. > :25:50.missed the first shot. The only ball he could leave the way he played it

:25:51. > :25:59.was the one that he attempted to pot. On that occasion it did finish

:26:00. > :26:01.over the middle pocket, so this is the result. They've got an

:26:02. > :26:07.interesting head to head as well, these two. Only played on four

:26:08. > :26:15.occasions. It is currently 2-2, so he won't be in total awe of the

:26:16. > :26:17.talent of trvrp, will Barry Hawkins. Rp,

:26:18. > :26:21.talent of trvrp, will Barry Hawkins. -- the talent of Judd Trump, will

:26:22. > :26:53.Barry Hawkins. And he has taken these nicely so far.

:26:54. > :26:59.So this the obvious red, then the one to the right-hand side of the

:27:00. > :27:08.black and the loose red is pottable in the middle. The

:27:09. > :27:08.black and the loose red is pottable in the middle. -- pottable in the

:27:09. > :27:19.middle. Dropping the pink in and got the red

:27:20. > :27:27.on the right-hand side. That will be next. He's taken these beautifully

:27:28. > :27:31.Dennis. A lovely touch. If he can knock this in and be nicely on the

:27:32. > :27:52.pink it will be the end of the opening frame.

:27:53. > :28:11.APPLAUSE. Looks as if we are in for another cracking match here. Barry

:28:12. > :28:19.has started. Just looking at the scoreboard but he's over the line,

:28:20. > :28:25.the winning line at the moment. That makes absolutely certain. Hugely

:28:26. > :28:32.impressive, this. First visit to the table with a chance and he's won the

:28:33. > :28:41.frame off it. Very impressive indeed. If Judd Trump was in any

:28:42. > :28:51.doubt how his opponent was going to be playing today, he's just found

:28:52. > :28:53.out. Excellent. If that red next to the black is available, every chance

:28:54. > :29:15.of a century break, and it does go. APPLAUSE.

:29:16. > :29:45.The crowd were urging the red to keep running.

:29:46. > :29:59.The pink is the better ball to get onto the final red. The standard

:30:00. > :30:03.this week has been absolutely stellar. It really has. These boys

:30:04. > :30:32.really are good. A fantastic break from Barry

:30:33. > :30:40.Hawkins. The 11th century in this year's Masters, or the 21st century,

:30:41. > :31:19.I should say. 31 is the record. It has to be said that the tables

:31:20. > :31:31.are playing beautifully. This one and the tables in the practice area,

:31:32. > :31:40.they are absolutely beautiful. What a start from Barry Hawkins. Judd

:31:41. > :31:43.Trump attempted the long pot. He did not get it and he remained in his

:31:44. > :31:52.seat as Barry Hawkins cleared the table. HAZEL IRVINE: Only his fourth

:31:53. > :31:56.at the Masters, that century. It is extraordinary. This man had never

:31:57. > :32:01.won match at the Masters before turning up here and now he is

:32:02. > :32:05.playing in that form. Oh, dear, that was not in the script. Judd Trump is

:32:06. > :32:10.supposed to do that. That is the problem for the top players,

:32:11. > :32:14.guaranteeing winning against players like Barry Hawkins. People think

:32:15. > :32:23.Judd Trump will beat Barry Hawkins, but we know

:32:24. > :32:29.Judd Trump will beat Barry Hawkins, very impressive. When we go back to

:32:30. > :32:37.how he got in in the first place, with Judd Trump missing the red. If

:32:38. > :32:41.you look at the state of the table when Barry Hawkins came to it. His

:32:42. > :32:47.positional play through the break was top-class. Absolutely sublime.

:32:48. > :32:53.That is what makes him a good break-builder. Every time he is like

:32:54. > :33:00.that, six, eight inches from the next ball, pinpoint, making it look

:33:01. > :33:05.easy. He is so steady, so reliable. It sent out a statement to Judd

:33:06. > :33:09.Trump. To say you will have to play well to beat me.

:33:10. > :33:27.Not the break fee intended but What a start, back we go.

:33:28. > :33:29.Not the break fee intended but fortunate to cover the red with the

:33:30. > :33:49.brown I know one thing, Dennis, Judd Trump

:33:50. > :33:52.must get fed up watching everybody played brilliant against him,

:33:53. > :33:56.because Neil Robertson did yesterday. It took a performance as

:33:57. > :34:01.good as I have seen from Judd Trump to take out the Australian. Judd

:34:02. > :34:11.Trump must be thinking, is anybody going to miss against me?

:34:12. > :34:18.I thought Neil Robertson's interview after was saying you have to hold up

:34:19. > :34:26.your hand when a player plays like that. Meanwhile, he has not played

:34:27. > :34:28.the best safety shot. OK, it is close to the cushion, but I would

:34:29. > :34:49.not be surprised if he put this in. I don't think the red is available,

:34:50. > :35:00.to the left. He would have to be very precise to hit it full ball.

:35:01. > :35:16.That might be OK. It was difficult to judge that one.

:35:17. > :35:20.Could not have come out any better. The way that runaround. You could

:35:21. > :35:32.not ask for any more. In the match yesterday Judd Trump

:35:33. > :35:37.made the running. He went two frames ahead, then getting pegged back by

:35:38. > :35:43.Neil Robertson. But it is different today so far. OK, he only lost the

:35:44. > :35:44.first frame, but it was the way Barry went about it that put down

:35:45. > :36:24.his intent. He was reluctant to play for the

:36:25. > :36:36.black because he knew the bunch of reds were not ideally placed to

:36:37. > :36:41.cannon in off the black. I don't think you can hold for blue, this

:36:42. > :36:51.time. He would have liked to and gone into pink again. I am wondering

:36:52. > :36:58.whether the two reds at the back of the pack are easily made into a

:36:59. > :36:59.plant. If not, he will play the cannon. We can see they are not a

:37:00. > :37:24.plant. A firm stun into these. That will do nicely. Right in the

:37:25. > :37:30.centre. He punched the shot, played it perfectly. If you play that with

:37:31. > :37:35.screw, you can bring the cue ball back to the top cushion. Stun it out

:37:36. > :37:37.with some side and bring the cue ball up the table. He could not have

:37:38. > :38:04.played that better. His nickname is the Hawk. He

:38:05. > :38:12.certainly has his eye in at the moment.

:38:13. > :38:21.What is impressive is his demeanour. He looks as cool as anything. It

:38:22. > :38:28.looks like he is enjoying the occasion. As the players were

:38:29. > :38:35.saying, he is a laid-back character. He is like a mini Mark Williams.

:38:36. > :38:39.But he dresses much better than Mark Williams, that is for sure! Who

:38:40. > :39:05.doesn't?! Just talking about Mark Williams,

:39:06. > :39:07.what a performance he put in this year at the Masters, almost knocking

:39:08. > :39:22.out Ronnie O'Sullivan. He is one of my favourite players to

:39:23. > :39:28.watch. Very clever the way he plays the game. He has a wonderful touch,

:39:29. > :39:33.and still playing at the top of the game, which is a great credit to

:39:34. > :39:39.him. Meanwhile, Barry Hawkins is going about his business in an

:39:40. > :39:54.impressive fashion. A cannon to flick out the red.

:39:55. > :40:04.The cue ball ran away. Did not get the cannon. It needed to be thicker

:40:05. > :40:07.than that one. These are tricky when you get close to them and you cannot

:40:08. > :40:15.see the pocket in your eyeliner. In the end, he made it look very

:40:16. > :40:49.easy. It was very well judged. Will he take the second frame with

:40:50. > :41:07.one visit? He keeps his head very still on the

:41:08. > :41:14.shots. He does a lot of things right. He is an all-round top-class

:41:15. > :41:19.player. I must confess, with the record he had at the Masters, you

:41:20. > :41:29.would be hard-pressed to see him at this stage. Playing five times

:41:30. > :41:33.recently and losing every time, but after getting past his good friend

:41:34. > :41:37.Joe Perry, and then beating Mark Allen, Judd Trump knows he is in for

:41:38. > :41:49.a tough afternoon, the way his opponent is playing. Judd Trump has

:41:50. > :41:52.only had a go at the long red, and that is it, he has been sitting in

:41:53. > :42:05.his seat for the remainder of the time.

:42:06. > :42:33.Surely he could not start with two centuries?

:42:34. > :42:54.Judd has the highest break, 140, superseding Neil Robertson's 139.

:42:55. > :43:07.He can play the cannon here. Flick the red away and put it into play.

:43:08. > :43:33.APPLAUSE. If that red is not available, he

:43:34. > :43:35.could pot this and flick it out. He will want to make sure of the

:43:36. > :43:48.century. The red blocking the way through to

:43:49. > :43:55.the blue, so the pink for back-to-back centuries. Absolutely

:43:56. > :44:24.brilliant. The crowd came here and did not know

:44:25. > :44:27.what to expect, but I do not think they expected two centuries from

:44:28. > :44:35.Barry to start the match. You know, this used to be a hard game, Dennis.

:44:36. > :44:45.He is making B table looks like a full table, Barry Hawkins, at the

:44:46. > :44:49.minute. -- pool table. His cue action has been superb. You cannot

:44:50. > :44:58.play better than this to start a semifinal. You talk about

:44:59. > :45:04.yesterday's match with Neil Robertson being the greatest match

:45:05. > :45:07.ever in the Masters. The way this has started, who knows how it will

:45:08. > :45:17.ever in the Masters. The way this finish? This could be one of the

:45:18. > :45:25.all-time great matches. He slightly overran position, which is something

:45:26. > :45:29.we have not said today. But everything has been going into the

:45:30. > :45:36.centre of the pocket. Not touching the sides. That tells you you are

:45:37. > :45:41.cueing well. What a shame the black did not go in. Starting

:45:42. > :46:54.cueing well. What a shame the black following it with a break of 128.

:46:55. > :47:03.We can see people coming in, just a little bit late, they have missed a

:47:04. > :47:10.treat. Like you going to Everton and missing the first two goals. Have

:47:11. > :47:15.they ever scored two goals?! This is unbelievable, the start from Barry

:47:16. > :47:18.Hawkins in this match. 130 and 128, it is dreamland, in one of the

:47:19. > :47:42.biggest matches of your career. Almost caught the blue with a break

:47:43. > :47:45.of shot. This is a half chance for a Judd Trump special. But he has been

:47:46. > :48:00.kept off the table. APPLAUSE.

:48:01. > :48:06.That is top drawer, to knock that in after what he has just witnessed

:48:07. > :48:13.from his opponent. REFEREE: Put the camera away, please. Now, has that

:48:14. > :48:32.gone wrong? I think it has. He will have to pull out another cracking

:48:33. > :48:42.pot. Brilliant. Not perfectly on the black, but he will be going into the

:48:43. > :48:47.reds. He was not on the black as he would have liked, but at least he

:48:48. > :48:54.has not left anything easy for Barry. There is one pot on and he

:48:55. > :49:03.would need the extension to clip it in. The type of shot, if you were

:49:04. > :49:12.just dropping it in dead weight, you would probably pot it. It was that

:49:13. > :49:42.first cannon here overhit, that caused the problem.

:49:43. > :50:43.I saw Barry early this morning, he was in the practice room on his own.

:50:44. > :50:50.On his own as a player, but he was with Terry Griffiths, who has been

:50:51. > :50:55.mentoring him. If anyone knows top-class tournament snooker, it is

:50:56. > :51:00.Terry. He has been there, seen it, done it. A great champion in his

:51:01. > :51:09.time. It is always nice to have Terry in your corner.

:51:10. > :51:15.That was an interesting shot. I think that is the first time he has

:51:16. > :51:19.played a poor positional shot. He needed another couple of inches to

:51:20. > :51:31.drop on the red, but it came straight.

:51:32. > :52:14.He looks in the zone, Barry Hawkins. He really does.

:52:15. > :52:21.He had the cue ball cleaned, maybe that took his concentration slightly

:52:22. > :52:32.away. All of a sudden he has missed a sitter.

:52:33. > :52:39.Yes, I did not see that coming, and neither did he. Shaking his head. We

:52:40. > :52:48.were just saying how focused he looked. He will be amazed as anybody

:52:49. > :53:00.that he missed that one. It always looked a little bit wide, and so it

:53:01. > :53:04.proved. He would have loved angle on the red to be able to open up the

:53:05. > :53:22.reds, but he cannot do that. He could cannon into them but if he

:53:23. > :53:28.has the ankle, he could pot it and open up the reds. That is what he

:53:29. > :53:34.has played. Because the pink is over the pocket, he is guaranteed to be

:53:35. > :53:42.on it and he can open up the rest of the reds. That was well judged. A

:53:43. > :53:51.classic example of how to make a break. He left it purposely low,

:53:52. > :54:02.potted the red, split them up. And a great chance. But he needs to get

:54:03. > :54:05.involved in the match. He has been frozen out. He knows the opponent is

:54:06. > :54:29.playing well. He has two score. He came up a little bit short. He

:54:30. > :54:37.should be OK. We'll have to play a medium length pot. It is much better

:54:38. > :54:45.when you can keep closer control. Amazing. Amazing. Just the wrong

:54:46. > :54:53.side of the blue, but I still fancied him to knock that in. Just a

:54:54. > :55:01.little bit of movement. The red jumped a little, which did not help,

:55:02. > :55:09.but I do not think he cued it well. What a chance he let slip. It is

:55:10. > :55:17.about getting on the right side of the blue.

:55:18. > :55:46.Well, he has had a reprieve. A second chance.

:55:47. > :55:59.Just a couple of fairly easy balls Barry has missed after those two

:56:00. > :56:02.centuries. Incredible. Judd was 2-0 up against Neil Robertson. He has

:56:03. > :56:07.done the opposite here. That was a good strike. Straight on the green.

:56:08. > :56:23.He could easily have got that wrong. Beautiful cueing to get that spot

:56:24. > :56:29.on. There is no excuse now why he cannot take this frame. They are

:56:30. > :56:34.there. As we always say, you do not settle until you get your first

:56:35. > :57:26.frame on the board. He had no chance in the opening frames.

:57:27. > :57:37.How big a ball might that be in the context of the match? 2-0 up and he

:57:38. > :57:41.had his opponent on the rack. I think it am settled him

:57:42. > :58:01.had his opponent on the rack. I right middle, also. -- am --

:58:02. > :58:02.unsettled. A naughty shot from Judd Trump, as he always likes to do at

:58:03. > :58:29.the end of a frame. A wobble, but still went in.

:58:30. > :58:37.Probably a double to finish off at 100 mph. Well, 200 mph. That is the

:58:38. > :58:43.way to finish. Even Barry had a big smile. Barry Hawkins did not look

:58:44. > :58:49.like missing and suddenly he missed a sitter of a pink.

:58:50. > :58:58.Barry might have missed a trick there. It took Judd Trump a few

:58:59. > :59:03.minutes to pot the first ball. A tale of two misthere is wasn't it?

:59:04. > :59:09.It?. Yes, it looked like he would make the frame with one visit, but

:59:10. > :59:13.missed the click. Maybe his concentration tripped a bit. Missing

:59:14. > :59:17.a pink gave Judd a lifeline and he took it. In terms of Judd's

:59:18. > :59:20.response, there you must be feeling pressure knowing that your

:59:21. > :59:28.opponent's well up for it and in great form. Judd was very wobbly,

:59:29. > :59:32.because he missed the red earlier and Barry Hawkins gave him another

:59:33. > :59:36.chance with that one that missed the pocket. He got it in the end. The

:59:37. > :59:41.tough thing from Barry Hawkins' perspective, not digging him out one

:59:42. > :59:44.little bit, there are players in the game that perhaps are more

:59:45. > :59:49.relentless scorers than we've seen Barry Hawkins. If you've got

:59:50. > :59:53.somebody on the ropes like Judd Trump, two frames up there's more

:59:54. > :00:02.pressure on you because you think, wow, I've got a great chance here.

:00:03. > :00:07.Some players are better at being more relentless at reeling off 6-0s,

:00:08. > :00:11.massive amounts of frames on the trot. Perhaps Barry Hawkins looked

:00:12. > :00:16.over his shoulder a fraction. Do you think he is ruing that missed pink?

:00:17. > :00:24.It was a really good opportunity to go 3-0 up. It will be interesting to

:00:25. > :00:27.you see how he reflects on that. I know John Parrott was talking about

:00:28. > :00:33.the old days watching the Masters semifinals when he was a kid. This

:00:34. > :00:39.is the first all-English Masters semifinal since 1988 when you, Mr

:00:40. > :00:43.Davis, Hallett and Jimmy White were in the semifinal. The good old days

:00:44. > :01:00.remembered. Happy times. The Masters used to be played at the

:01:01. > :01:04.Wembley Conference Centre, a fabulous venue. Probably a little

:01:05. > :01:10.bit bigger than Ally Pally, but the people are so close to the table

:01:11. > :01:20.here. At the Conference Centre you could be quite away from the

:01:21. > :01:24.audience. I remembered playing with John Higgins and 2,700 people there.

:01:25. > :01:33.I will never forget that as long as I live. Every time you went back to

:01:34. > :01:40.your table you had to remember the plant, it was a circle wasn't it. As

:01:41. > :01:43.Barry comes off the side cushion to land in the pack, on one of the

:01:44. > :01:48.earlier occasions I was introduced and couldn't find my way into the

:01:49. > :01:50.arena of the there was a little door that used to open and I couldn't

:01:51. > :02:02.find it. Happy days, but I do think this is a

:02:03. > :02:10.wonderful venue, I really do. A brilliant atmosphere. And that was

:02:11. > :02:23.where the MC introduced Jimmy White as Jimmy Young.

:02:24. > :02:31.And home of the infamous streaker as well. I remember that one. I was in

:02:32. > :02:35.the commentary box when she went underneath it. I was looking at the

:02:36. > :02:39.table at the time. LAUGHTER.

:02:40. > :03:00.REFEREE: Settle down please. Thank you.

:03:01. > :03:31.This is a little bit of trouble for him. Going to play off the side of

:03:32. > :03:35.these, you're going to hit this very thin indeed. You can't guarantee

:03:36. > :03:42.that you're going to not contact the blue on the way past either. On the

:03:43. > :03:44.way back, I should say. Yep, there was a fair degree of difficulty in

:03:45. > :04:12.that shot. We might as well call this a half

:04:13. > :04:17.chance, as the pink is out of commission. I don't think the black

:04:18. > :04:19.goes into the left corner. And the two reds are tied up next to the

:04:20. > :04:30.black. If the black does pot, it will help

:04:31. > :04:37.the situation for a few shots' time. It looks as if it's the available,

:04:38. > :04:39.so it is not tied up. A few more shots to be played before he is able

:04:40. > :04:46.to get on to the black. He's had a quick look at it. It is a

:04:47. > :05:17.fairly tight one. It is one of those situations you

:05:18. > :05:21.really need to be that side of the table where Judd is to properly see

:05:22. > :05:25.whether that goes or not. Players can look from behind the pocket but

:05:26. > :05:30.I don't think that makes too much of a difference. You can always seem to

:05:31. > :05:34.feel as if you can make the pot go from behind the pocket. It needs to

:05:35. > :05:39.be the other side to make a good judgment on it. But if he is looking

:05:40. > :05:44.at it for this length of time it is obviously very tight. As we zoom in,

:05:45. > :05:59.it looks as if it will go. I don't think he's got an angle on

:06:00. > :06:01.the red to play for the black on this occasion, so he'll have to

:06:02. > :06:14.concentrate on the blue. You see, that type of shot, he hits

:06:15. > :06:27.that so well without really forcing it. Beautiful timing. Barry Hawkins'

:06:28. > :06:31.positional play so far today has been a little tighter than Judd's

:06:32. > :06:37.cue ball control when heed that these two breaks. It was superb.

:06:38. > :06:41.Judd is such a good pot per. So much cue power he seems to be able to

:06:42. > :06:48.rescue the situation when he slightly goes awry. He still isn't

:06:49. > :07:05.sure about that black. He's been shaking his head.

:07:06. > :07:20.And if he's got an angle he can he's looked at

:07:21. > :07:25.And if he's got an angle he can nudge the other reds away. But he

:07:26. > :07:29.may not have that. No, not on this occasion. You've got to play it now,

:07:30. > :07:39.Amazing. In the end we did think it Judd.

:07:40. > :07:45.Amazing. In the end we did think it was tight and in the end he put it

:07:46. > :07:54.on to the red. It was always looking like that, really tight. In fact it

:07:55. > :08:01.was not directly in line with that red. That confused the issue there.

:08:02. > :08:03.No top class professional will take a shot on something they don't think

:08:04. > :08:10.goes. That was extremely tight. At least he got away with it. He

:08:11. > :08:30.didn't put Barry in. APPLAUSE. Excellent shift shot.

:08:31. > :08:38.Excellent weight on the cue ball. A bit of a free shot here, a shot to

:08:39. > :08:47.nothing. Brilliant pot. APPLAUSE. That will teach him to

:08:48. > :08:54.plain a good safety shot. An incredible pot. When we call ate

:08:55. > :08:58.shot to nothing it is where you take a pot like this on a very difficult

:08:59. > :09:05.pot and you know you're going to get a safety shot if you happen to miss

:09:06. > :09:12.it. But in the end rolling up behind the brown has given him a slight

:09:13. > :09:15.advantage. He's gone twice across the table here to land on the red.

:09:16. > :09:22.He doesn't want to slip past this. the table here to land on the red.

:09:23. > :09:28.Otherwise he'll leave it up. Oh, that's a bit careless from Barry.

:09:29. > :09:32.And the worst part is he's just got to drop this red in dead weight.

:09:33. > :09:40.These can be pretty difficult down the top cushion, but just dropping

:09:41. > :09:45.it in... That's a perfect position. So you feel as though the momentum

:09:46. > :09:52.has changed in this match. I'm going to hark back on about that pink but

:09:53. > :09:57.it was 2-0 and he was in the balls, that miss on the pink could be

:09:58. > :09:59.crucial in this match. He had his opponent on the rack, did Barry

:10:00. > :10:08.Hawkins. Even in the best of 11 you can

:10:09. > :10:16.always pick out one shot that can turn a match, and that was the shot

:10:17. > :10:22.that John was referring to. Oh, he hasn't judged the cannon. Is he OK?

:10:23. > :10:37.Just about, I think. Yep, no problem.

:10:38. > :10:44.Steve was talking in the studio when we went back before saying some

:10:45. > :10:48.players are a little bit more ruthless in their capacity for

:10:49. > :10:53.keeping the pressure on. We know that Steve was certainly one of

:10:54. > :10:59.those. Hendry was another one. Great champions here. If they felt there

:11:00. > :11:06.was any weakness, they would keep new your seat. They would be trying

:11:07. > :11:14.as anybody to do that to do that. 2-0 became 3-0 became 4-0. That's

:11:15. > :11:21.why they were great champions. A little bit of a test here. Not

:11:22. > :11:30.straightforward, this, but he makes them look easy. Well played.

:11:31. > :11:35.APPLAUSE. So many players now playing to such a high standard, but

:11:36. > :11:38.Steve Davis, if you made a mistake, you used to sit down and get rough

:11:39. > :11:58.ready for the next frame. Just needs another red after this

:11:59. > :12:02.black. And it may be a possible plant, which would secure the frame,

:12:03. > :12:07.if the plant goes in. Is it in line with the pocket? That looks good to

:12:08. > :12:29.me. APPLAUSE. They'll be feeling much

:12:30. > :12:33.better now after watching the two opening frames there. They would

:12:34. > :12:42.have been wondering what was going on. Had a little bit of help in

:12:43. > :12:47.frame 3 with Barry missing a couple of opportunities, Judd Trump, but

:12:48. > :12:51.he'll be delighted to get to the mid-session interval 2-2. He's

:12:52. > :13:00.played very well in this frame. When you are sitting in your chair and

:13:01. > :13:11.watching your opponent start with breaks like that, a great response.

:13:12. > :13:29.He got a terrible kick there which has spoiled the break. Is he going

:13:30. > :13:47.to double the pink across the table? APPLAUSE. I don't think these two

:13:48. > :13:51.are a plant. There's just a possibility he could make a century

:13:52. > :13:54.break. I don't know if he can squeeze that. It is going to the

:13:55. > :14:00.left of the pocket. If they were touching the he might be able to

:14:01. > :14:05.squeeze the second red. No, it wasn't on.

:14:06. > :14:13.APPLAUSE. But I will tell you what, Judd Trump will be delighted with

:14:14. > :14:18.that break of 58. And we go to the mid-session interval two frames all.

:14:19. > :14:22.I'm sure he'll be relieved. To what extent has he weathered that storm

:14:23. > :14:27.do you think, Steve? He'll be delighted to have got out of that.

:14:28. > :14:31.At one stage he looked like he would be under pressure. From a fishing

:14:32. > :14:36.analogy point of view Barry Hawkins has had a big one on the hook. And

:14:37. > :14:42.let him off a bit. Would you agree with that Ken? Absolutely. It was a

:14:43. > :14:47.test for him. Two search ries against him, but he has shown a lot

:14:48. > :14:51.of composure, a lot of character. Set up nicely now for the second

:14:52. > :14:54.part. It is interesting his response. He talked this week about

:14:55. > :14:58.being favourite and not really enjoying that position. He likes

:14:59. > :15:03.being the underdog. Likes having to prove something here. It is a

:15:04. > :15:07.reversal of psychology that he faced against Neil Robertson yesterday. He

:15:08. > :15:13.couldn't do much at the start. Barry Hawkins was magnificent. A first

:15:14. > :15:16.chance, Judd Trump, potted a red and missed a forgettable black. You

:15:17. > :15:21.could feel he was under it but he was let off. It only takes one hot

:15:22. > :15:26.from Barry Hawkins' perspective for him to take his foot off the gas and

:15:27. > :15:30.the other guy can get the engine started. All of a sudden you think

:15:31. > :15:35.normal service has been ruined for Judd Trump and you now go, OK, we're

:15:36. > :15:39.back, it is going to be Judd Trump that wins the match. But don't put

:15:40. > :15:42.it past Barry Hawkins to have a breather, have a chat in the

:15:43. > :15:47.interval and come out firing again. It is funny. Even though he played

:15:48. > :15:51.so well in the opening frames, he won't be thinking about those two

:15:52. > :15:55.centuries. He won't be thinking about the positive talks about the

:15:56. > :16:00.two centuries. It will be, how did I let him off the hook by missing that

:16:01. > :16:04.pink? It will be Terry's job to get that out of his head and think

:16:05. > :16:09.positively for the second half. We'll talk more about Barry shortly.

:16:10. > :16:14.Judd Trump is already a UK champion. He won that in 2011. In snooker's

:16:15. > :16:18.three tournaments he got to the UK final against Ronnie O'Sullivan in

:16:19. > :16:24.2014. It was a pulsating match, which he lost in a final frame

:16:25. > :16:27.decider. Last year Stuart Bingham beat him at the Crucible in the

:16:28. > :16:32.semifinal there. So ironically when he turned up here for all of his

:16:33. > :16:37.achievements in the game and the near misses he seemed short on

:16:38. > :16:46.confident. Listen to this interview he did earlier in the week. Your man

:16:47. > :16:50.who plays with a lot of confidence, you go with the shots, try and

:16:51. > :16:54.entertain all the time, but what's been missing in the last few months?

:16:55. > :17:00.I think the standard is so high. As soon as you lose your game or lose a

:17:01. > :17:04.couple of games in a row through no fault of your own, there's no easy

:17:05. > :17:07.rules. You've got people playing really well now. You are starting in

:17:08. > :17:12.the first round, so it is hard to get any run going. You've got to win

:17:13. > :17:18.a lot of matches to get to the last 16 and then you are playing people

:17:19. > :17:23.normally you would only have one game to play before. So it is very

:17:24. > :17:28.hard to keep the momentum for seven games in the tournament. But you are

:17:29. > :17:31.one of those guys, you are a top player and every time, you are one

:17:32. > :17:34.of the favourite to win any tournament. Do you feel you have

:17:35. > :17:39.that confidence that you might have had a few years ago, or are you

:17:40. > :17:44.trying to get it back a little bit? The confidence is nowhere near what

:17:45. > :17:49.it was when I first broke through. I think my all round game is 100 times

:17:50. > :17:55.better but confidence is the big thing for me. If I can get it back I

:17:56. > :17:59.think ky go a season oar two winning four or five events like Ding did.

:18:00. > :18:04.Do you think looking back to the World Cup eight or nine months ago,

:18:05. > :18:08.that semifinal, had you got through that and maybe gone on the win the

:18:09. > :18:13.World Championship, do you think those matches do, they linger in the

:18:14. > :18:20.back of your mind, or do you just look forward? No, that was a great

:18:21. > :18:24.chance for me to win it. In the end the only reason I lost was I put too

:18:25. > :18:29.much pressure on myself. That was the only reason I lost that. 90% of

:18:30. > :18:35.the games I lose nowadays is because I feel like I shouldn't be losing to

:18:36. > :18:39.the players. I've got such an expectation of myself that a lot of

:18:40. > :18:44.the times it is a hindrance. I need to let that go and all these players

:18:45. > :18:49.I'm playing in the Masters I think for me every game is a 50-50, so for

:18:50. > :18:54.me it is probably better that I haven't put as much pressure on

:18:55. > :18:58.myself. Sometimes I just feel like I'm playing people that I should

:18:59. > :19:02.beat quite easy. As soon as it goes close I get a bit embarrassed with.

:19:03. > :19:07.Some really bad thoughts that shouldn't be going through my head,

:19:08. > :19:11.so I just need to go back to when I was enjoying it when I was 21 or 22

:19:12. > :19:16.and going for my shots, rather than trying to win too much. Judd Trump,

:19:17. > :19:20.when we see around the circuit, you are quiet, shy 2014 unassuming lad.

:19:21. > :19:24.What are you like for people who are watching at home away from the

:19:25. > :19:31.table? What do you like to do? What are your interests? We know you like

:19:32. > :19:36.flash cars and nice holidays. I've kind of gone off that a little. I've

:19:37. > :19:41.matured a bit, trying to invest my money, get a lot of houses. The next

:19:42. > :19:45.thing hopefully is a nice big house ky stay in for a while. Other than

:19:46. > :19:50.that I like to enjoy myself. I don't really go out as much. I like to go

:19:51. > :19:57.shopping and watch other sports and take inspiration from the leaders of

:19:58. > :20:02.other sports. If you following you on Twitter you used to have pictures

:20:03. > :20:08.of Vegas parties. Are you calming down now? Is there a mar mature side

:20:09. > :20:12.to Judd Trump outside of snooker? Yes, I've wasted a lot of money on

:20:13. > :20:16.that life. For me it is not going out as much in London as I used to.

:20:17. > :20:21.I used too be out every week, two weeks. Now I've been out once since

:20:22. > :20:26.my birthday in August. I'm still 26 and if you look at the age obvious a

:20:27. > :20:30.lot of the top players, they are 35 and 40, so I feel like I've got a

:20:31. > :20:35.lot of time left in the game, but I want to get all my achievements out

:20:36. > :20:39.of the way so I can relax from 30 onwards rather than trying to win

:20:40. > :20:44.the world later on in life. Is there someone who has a calming influence

:20:45. > :20:53.on you? Not really. I think I go through spells. I think the defeat

:20:54. > :20:57.to Wen Bo sunk in and I'm not practising hard enough. At lot of

:20:58. > :21:03.the players are overtaking me. I feel like I've got into it my head

:21:04. > :21:07.that everyone is working much harder than I am. I decided to practise

:21:08. > :21:12.every single day, even if it's the only for an hour or two, even over

:21:13. > :21:17.Christmas. No days off. Just to get my Ministry of Defence-set that I

:21:18. > :21:21.know I'm working harder than everyone else, so I've got that

:21:22. > :21:24.confidence that I've worked harder than you. What about the naughty

:21:25. > :21:29.snooker, is it always going be there? It is always going to be

:21:30. > :21:35.there. At the end of the frames I enjoy having a whack. I watched a

:21:36. > :21:40.lot of snooker recently on TV and sometimes it account be a little bit

:21:41. > :21:45.slow, so just for the crowd to shout out and get involved and I know when

:21:46. > :21:49.I'm going for it the crowd gets a bit of the excitement, so that

:21:50. > :21:54.brings me on as well. The very best of luck. Thank you. Wasn't that an

:21:55. > :21:58.extraordinary interview? He revealed a sensitive side to him, a

:21:59. > :22:02.vulnerability that he's rarely shown to us. I wonder about this identity

:22:03. > :22:07.crisis he seems to have gone through. He's the the flair and the

:22:08. > :22:11.talent of an Alex Higgins and a Jimmy White and a Ronnie O'Sullivan.

:22:12. > :22:15.It is almost like he he had to live up to the paternity as well. With it

:22:16. > :22:20.is the expectation and maybe the pressure to try and live up to that

:22:21. > :22:24.sort of lifestyle outside and away from the table arena. But he doesn't

:22:25. > :22:28.have to do that. He can just still be a maverick on the table but it

:22:29. > :22:31.looks like, talking to him it was quite open. I was surprised by how

:22:32. > :22:38.candid he was during the interview. I get the sense that he has matured

:22:39. > :22:42.a little bit and said, I've enjoyed myself and blown a bit of money on

:22:43. > :22:51.flash cars and parties, which is well and good, but he has to knuckle

:22:52. > :22:57.down. He has the talent to compete with the Selbies and the Ronnie

:22:58. > :23:02.O'Sullivans of this world. He could take over the mantle of Ronnie

:23:03. > :23:06.O'Sullivan if he steps down. He can be the people's champion, it looks

:23:07. > :23:10.like he is maturing as he gets older. And there is no doubt that

:23:11. > :23:16.Barry Hawkins has put the work in as well. Three years ago he turned up

:23:17. > :23:19.at the Crucible and had never been past the last 16 there either.

:23:20. > :23:25.Suddenly it was a breakthrough run. Got through to the final. Same

:23:26. > :23:28.situation here, never been past the last 16, bang! He's in the

:23:29. > :23:37.semifinals. It is another click moment and he's been talking to John

:23:38. > :23:43.Parrott. So, Barry Hawkins, semifinal of the Masters, what's

:23:44. > :23:47.happened?! I dunno. It is a bit similar to the Crucible really. I

:23:48. > :23:53.won a match there. I suppose it settled me down a little bit. I

:23:54. > :23:57.dunno, it is strange how it's happened. I'm delighted to be here.

:23:58. > :24:00.It is your sixth appearance and five times, didn't even get past the

:24:01. > :24:06.first round. Up believable that isn't it? I Kim close a couple of

:24:07. > :24:11.times but crumbled. I played good stuff here, but it was finally nice

:24:12. > :24:15.to win a match. It was obviously a difficult match, because I'm really

:24:16. > :24:19.good friends with Jo, but I was delighted to get through that. It is

:24:20. > :24:23.not the venue is it? You are used to playing here. It is not one of those

:24:24. > :24:27.things you get in your mind you don't like playing a certain

:24:28. > :24:34.veteranue. No, it's not to do with the veteranue. A lot of tournaments

:24:35. > :24:39.it is multi-tables and this is a single table. It takes time to

:24:40. > :24:43.settle. If you can settle down and play some good stuff. That's

:24:44. > :24:47.probably what's happened really. What's your form been like for the

:24:48. > :24:53.last six months or so, has it been good? Not really. It's been

:24:54. > :24:57.terrible. I started off well, won a little event in Riga, so I was

:24:58. > :25:01.started off well, finished at the semifinals in the Crucible. The

:25:02. > :25:06.first tournament I played in I won, so I thought, that's handy. Perhaps

:25:07. > :25:11.that weren't a good thing, perhaps I took my foot off the pedal a little

:25:12. > :25:14.bit, didn't work as hard maybe for a little while. Maybe that had

:25:15. > :25:19.something to do with it. Sometimes I get a little bit down with the game,

:25:20. > :25:23.and travelling and stuff like that. There is nothing like a good few

:25:24. > :25:27.kicks up the bum to get your attitude back again. You said there

:25:28. > :25:30.you sometimes get down on yourself with the travelling. You've got a

:25:31. > :25:36.young family, that makes it difficult. Yeah, I've got a young

:25:37. > :25:42.boy, he's 7 now. What Barry's done for the game is great. But the

:25:43. > :25:47.downside is you are away a lot more going to airports, planes and stuff

:25:48. > :25:50.like that. That. I've not had a great record abroad. It is something

:25:51. > :25:56.I'm trying to work on. Just get on wit. Because I probably haven't got

:25:57. > :25:59.long left in the game. You mentioned the Crucible. It was only a few

:26:00. > :26:05.years back when you reached the final. That was a tremendous buzz

:26:06. > :26:08.for you. Unbelievable. Something I will never forget. Especially

:26:09. > :26:12.playing Ronnie in the final. Can't get much better than that. By all

:26:13. > :26:16.accounts what everyone told me it was a really good standard of final,

:26:17. > :26:20.so it is something to look back on. I will always be proud of reaching

:26:21. > :26:23.the final. I probably know the answer to this question, but do you

:26:24. > :26:28.believe you can win this tournament? I definitely can now. There's only

:26:29. > :26:33.four people left, so, and everybody says it, but if you can take your

:26:34. > :26:36.practise game out there, and you know that you can place, you've got

:26:37. > :26:41.a chance. If you don't do that, you'll be going home. I need to be

:26:42. > :26:46.at the top of my game. I wish you best of luck. Thank you. I'm sure

:26:47. > :26:51.Barry's son Harrison will be proud of his dad's effort. Eagle-eyed Mr

:26:52. > :26:55.Davis has been analysing the life out of something from the first four

:26:56. > :27:00.frames and will now attempt to recreate it live on television, but

:27:01. > :27:06.only if it's the easy enough to use with someone else's cue. Thank you

:27:07. > :27:10.Hazel. Judd Trump let off the hook a bit in the first half of that match.

:27:11. > :27:15.Especially at 2-0 behind. He was left with a black cut back into the

:27:16. > :27:19.corner pocket into a blind pocket as we say. Barry Hawkins let him off

:27:20. > :27:24.from that position, but let's look at that shot. There's the shot.

:27:25. > :27:29.White ball low and he's got the black. Here's the white ball, the

:27:30. > :27:32.other side. It is exactly the same angle but the two shots appear

:27:33. > :27:37.different. One is considereded to be cutting back into a blind pocket.

:27:38. > :27:40.The other shot you have to pocket in your field of vision. So here's the

:27:41. > :27:45.other shot from this side. You are on the black and you can see the

:27:46. > :27:50.pocket. It is not much more off the line. But if we go round to this

:27:51. > :27:54.shot, where you're cueing up cutting it back, you are looking in this

:27:55. > :27:58.direction and the pocket is right over there. And also you don't see

:27:59. > :28:02.so much of the pocket, because it seems a bit cut off. You can't see

:28:03. > :28:06.the depth of the pocket. But it is exactly the same shot. They are both

:28:07. > :28:11.exactly half-ball shots. I've set them up the. So here's the position.

:28:12. > :28:15.If you are able to put a ball, an imaginary ball or a ball in front of

:28:16. > :28:19.the black in line with the pocket, all you've got to do effectively

:28:20. > :28:24.from wherever you are is to imagine where that ball's got to be, the

:28:25. > :28:28.imaginary ball, and aim your cue ball along the line. So it doesn't

:28:29. > :28:33.really matter where the ball is on the table. It can be even thin ter.

:28:34. > :28:38.It can be around here. If you can somehow imagine where the ball has

:28:39. > :28:45.to be and then simply just play the one ball, op to the imaginary ball.

:28:46. > :28:48.Let's take you to the blue spot area. Here's a practise routine for

:28:49. > :28:52.you. These reds area. Here's a practise routine for

:28:53. > :28:54.imaginary ball. If you are struggling cutting balls in, do

:28:55. > :28:59.imaginary ball. If you are as a routine. Put a white ball by

:29:00. > :29:02.the blue. You need a friend with you as well, and play from different

:29:03. > :29:07.positions around the blue spot to get used to where the ball's got to

:29:08. > :29:10.arrive. It is easy for a centre ball strike. You've got replace the whole

:29:11. > :29:16.of the cue ball with the blue. But let's take you to this point here.

:29:17. > :29:20.All of a sudden you go around. It is harder to judge, but as long as you

:29:21. > :29:23.can play the white ball to the imaginary ball. If you are

:29:24. > :29:28.struggling, get down to the ball in place and get a friend to remove the

:29:29. > :29:31.other cue ball from the table and then just hit the cue ball in a line

:29:32. > :29:46.with the blue. You have a ball here that is a half

:29:47. > :29:53.ball shot. This is called a quarter ball pot and they happen all over

:29:54. > :29:59.the table. Effectively, potting is nowhere near as difficult. You can

:30:00. > :30:08.simplify things by doing this. HAZEL IRVINE: Thank you very much.

:30:09. > :30:12.He is doing this tonight on the BBC Facebook page, questions you will

:30:13. > :30:19.answer this evening, yes? Keep them clean and make them good and he will

:30:20. > :30:24.certainly answer them. For real, here they come again.

:30:25. > :30:31.Barry Hawkins and Judd Trump. All square after an interesting four

:30:32. > :30:33.frames. Remember it is the first to 6 who will go through to the final

:30:34. > :30:52.tomorrow. Both players back into the

:30:53. > :30:54.auditorium and myself and Dennis had a cup of tea and both players seemed

:30:55. > :31:12.very relaxed backstage. Both players enjoyed a little bit of

:31:13. > :31:18.downtime in the middle of this cracking semifinal.

:31:19. > :31:23.No need to go to the practice room. They are both playing fairly well.

:31:24. > :31:29.They have been here just over a week and their game is very sharp. You go

:31:30. > :31:37.to the practice table if you are struggling a little bit.

:31:38. > :31:51.The pot success rate is identical. That is for the tournament. Amazing,

:31:52. > :32:02.both on 85% for the safety success. That tells you a story.

:32:03. > :32:09.Judd Trump has changed his game slightly and for the better, it has

:32:10. > :32:14.to be said because you cannot keep putting your way into winning

:32:15. > :32:18.tournaments, you have to have a good tactical game. This frame is already

:32:19. > :32:36.awkward with two reds up the other end of the table.

:32:37. > :32:43.You always have to be careful with that shot. Sometimes you get

:32:44. > :32:50.obsessed with getting the cue ball so tight the red can flick out and

:32:51. > :32:57.go to the middle pocket. On these fast cloth is the reds open very

:32:58. > :33:09.quickly. Judd played that pretty well. He could have a go to the one

:33:10. > :33:12.in the middle pocket but he cannot risk that because he would put Judd

:33:13. > :33:27.right in amongst them. It is amazing whether red finished,

:33:28. > :33:33.in the final frame against Neil Robertson the White was in the jaws

:33:34. > :33:35.of the pocket and Judd knocked a red like that in and won the match with

:33:36. > :33:52.a century break. That was not easy. He had a go at it

:33:53. > :33:57.but he knew he would get a reasonable cue ball. There are no

:33:58. > :34:22.plants on. Two on for the right corner and

:34:23. > :34:27.another two on the left side of the bunch.

:34:28. > :34:50.He took on the double. It was a clever shot. Very clever shot. I

:34:51. > :34:57.could not agree more. The double and also elements of safety. Only really

:34:58. > :35:03.the red he played he could stick up. The way that was played was very

:35:04. > :35:07.smart. He does play shots different to other people, which makes them

:35:08. > :35:14.attractive to watch and difficult to play against. Sometimes there is not

:35:15. > :35:27.a uniformity to the game when you play against Judd Trump.

:35:28. > :35:39.He does play a lot of different shots and that one was very clever.

:35:40. > :35:54.Well. That is a lapse in concentration. He was a couple of

:35:55. > :36:06.shots ahead of himself. How he missed one that easy, it is amazing.

:36:07. > :36:07.This game, if you did not give every shot 100% concentration, it is

:36:08. > :36:21.incredible what can be missed. I am in a state of shock he missed

:36:22. > :36:36.that and I am sure he should be. Really, that was an absolute sitter.

:36:37. > :36:49.Good shot. Lots of top spin. Straight through the pack. You can

:36:50. > :36:54.see the cue ball jump. In the old days that could have been a foul

:36:55. > :36:58.shot but you have to jump over an intervening ball so you can play a

:36:59. > :37:06.pot like that and it does not matter if the white bounces over the balls.

:37:07. > :37:13.He still has a little bit of work to do. The next red has to be the one

:37:14. > :37:14.on the top cushion, unless he can manufacture something else. Good

:37:15. > :37:36.cueing required. They are not too bad when you are

:37:37. > :37:39.just dropping them in, but when you play them with pace, you have to be

:37:40. > :38:16.spot on. No problem. He seemed to get a bit of Czech side

:38:17. > :38:24.on that that he did not want. -- check.

:38:25. > :38:38.It has helped the situation, he has pushed a red to the left corner,

:38:39. > :38:50.which he can get onto after the pink. I say that, as he gone far

:38:51. > :39:05.enough? I think he is OK. This is a great chance. If you can punish that

:39:06. > :39:55.bad mistake from Judd, it will give Judd something to think about.

:39:56. > :40:04.He was reluctant to play the cannon. He has the balls nicely open. You

:40:05. > :40:14.know when you risk playing a cannon, it can always go wrong. His heart

:40:15. > :40:20.was in his mouth. He did not want the cue ball going anywhere near the

:40:21. > :40:32.middle pocket. He got a little bit lucky.

:40:33. > :40:38.Now it has happened, it is perfect position.

:40:39. > :40:49.I remember reading many years ago, AJ Davies book, saying there is no

:40:50. > :40:53.such thing as an easy shot. It still applies today as it always did. -- a

:40:54. > :41:06.Joe Day this book. -- Joe Davis. It was one of the easier shots, but

:41:07. > :41:28.it will cost him the frame. The interval came at the right time

:41:29. > :41:32.for Barry Hawkins. He made two magnificent century breaks, missed

:41:33. > :41:37.an easy pink. A fairly comfortable red. But now he is back where he

:41:38. > :41:58.started the match. With a little help from his friends.

:41:59. > :42:05.It is a horrible situation, if you are Judd Trump, just sitting in your

:42:06. > :42:11.chair, after the mistake you have made. You have to sit and watch your

:42:12. > :42:22.opponent pot the balls that should have been yours.

:42:23. > :42:29.No century break, but he will not be too disappointed about that. The Mac

:42:30. > :42:36.office and break of 74 is more than enough to get him back into the

:42:37. > :42:41.lead. I wonder a miss like that, is it

:42:42. > :42:45.more perplexing and worrying for Judd Trump, given the form he was in

:42:46. > :42:49.yesterday? It is a shock to the system. As we talked about before,

:42:50. > :42:52.when Barry missed the straightforward pink, you thought he

:42:53. > :43:01.had missed a trick but Judd Trump has missed a trick, because the

:43:02. > :43:06.momentum was with him. When you are in position, you have to press home

:43:07. > :43:11.your advantage and if you miss easy balls, you give your opponent the

:43:12. > :43:16.chance to win the frame and also you give him more confidence. John

:43:17. > :43:21.Parrott talks about trying to follow up a peak performance and that is a

:43:22. > :43:26.another example, after playing as good as you could yesterday. How

:43:27. > :43:33.great a factor can it be for you as top-class players? It depends on the

:43:34. > :43:37.individual. Some players, it gives them more confidence and they are in

:43:38. > :43:43.the zone. A shot like Judd missed, it comes out of the blue. There is

:43:44. > :43:50.no such thing as an easy shot, as John said. But you have effectively

:43:51. > :43:55.taken it for granted on a shot like that. The top players to some degree

:43:56. > :44:03.have to take the pots for granted. Out of the blue, you miss a shot you

:44:04. > :44:08.would not miss in practice. It can be a shock to the system and destroy

:44:09. > :44:16.any confidence you had. It remains to be seen if it has any bearing,

:44:17. > :44:23.but it certainly lost timber frame. -- lost him the frame.

:44:24. > :44:40.He could not take the pot on because he would go straight into the pink.

:44:41. > :44:51.Oh. I think everyone in the Ally Pally thought that red would drop.

:44:52. > :45:07.It was a poor safety he played. Judd could do with knocking a few

:45:08. > :45:19.in, just to erase the city he missed in the previous frame. -- sitter.

:45:20. > :45:27.He played in an area where he had the option of two. The bottom red is

:45:28. > :45:33.available and if he gets this, he will move or reds about. That was a

:45:34. > :46:21.nice controlled shot. Looking to see police reds, because

:46:22. > :46:38.they are not a good pack to go into at the moment. -- the police

:46:39. > :46:58.loose reds. . There are still a few reds available.

:46:59. > :47:12.That might just be OK. There is one to the site that will go.

:47:13. > :47:27.He let that go and that is a lapse of concentration.

:47:28. > :47:57.A terrific recovery. That is a tough shot, into a blind pocket. You

:47:58. > :48:06.cannot see the pocket in your I -- eyeline. That was a row of somebody

:48:07. > :48:12.putting in hours on the pack to his table, which he did in the Christmas

:48:13. > :48:17.period. He did not go home for Christmas this year, he stayed where

:48:18. > :48:25.he practises, putting the hours in. So he is making sacrifices. He

:48:26. > :48:29.realises he is at the stage of his career when he should be winning

:48:30. > :48:36.major championships. He is paying his dues. His family live in the

:48:37. > :49:14.Bristol area. It is still a straightforward pot,

:49:15. > :49:17.but he will have to can the red. He could have done without that, so he

:49:18. > :49:29.is looking at the more difficult pot.

:49:30. > :49:37.He was trying to stay on the black, but the important thing is to clinch

:49:38. > :50:17.the frame. This is showing his class after the

:50:18. > :50:26.previous frame. Missing that absolute sitter of a red into the

:50:27. > :50:53.middle. That is well out of his mind, now.

:50:54. > :51:08.This is very impressive. The shot earlier in the break. To keep it

:51:09. > :51:14.going. It was fabulous. It was an acute shot. He could not have played

:51:15. > :51:17.it better and he deserves everything he got after that. It is a great

:51:18. > :51:32.response. And this yet another century at this

:51:33. > :51:42.year's masters. What a standard. Superb. His 375th career century.

:51:43. > :52:00.The 22nd in this year's masters. You cannot do better then get one

:52:01. > :53:05.chance and get a century. A good way to draw level. Three frames each.

:53:06. > :53:16.In fact that was the 23rd century this year. The record is 31,

:53:17. > :53:22.achieved in 2009, John. Yes, it has been a phenomenal standard this

:53:23. > :53:29.week. Yesterday with Judd and Neil Robertson. You will not say better

:53:30. > :53:32.than that, ever, in my opinion. This is a fascinating contest, off that

:53:33. > :53:42.there is no doubt. Barry Hawkins starting with breaks of 130 and 128,

:53:43. > :53:46.Judd coming back. The scoring has been fantastic in this match and he

:53:47. > :53:57.is doing well today, Judd. The question at the start, would he be

:53:58. > :54:05.able to do it? Meanwhile, Barry is back in the arena. It has a 6-5

:54:06. > :54:32.written all over it. That was not the best break off from

:54:33. > :54:33.Barry. The way Judd knocked that century, he has an early chance. He

:54:34. > :54:47.is so good at this type of shot. That is what we call a Judd Trump

:54:48. > :55:10.special. The longer pot success is very good

:55:11. > :55:40.indeed, 83%. Such a fantastic weapon in the

:55:41. > :55:48.arsenal, to put the long pots in, get yourself amongst the balls. OK,

:55:49. > :55:55.Barry's break was not good. It is something the players should work on

:55:56. > :55:57.more, the break of shot. It is important, these days. It is

:55:58. > :56:23.something you would not normally practice.

:56:24. > :56:30.This will be awkward. He will probably need the extended spider

:56:31. > :56:33.because there are so many balls to bridge over. He took a risk and he

:56:34. > :56:52.was unlucky to finish where he has. All of those balls to bridge over.

:56:53. > :56:57.He is switching hands. It will be useful, but that is just as awkward.

:56:58. > :57:08.I am not sure he can get near the cue ball extended. It is not very

:57:09. > :57:14.often you are bridging over three in a line. Very tricky.

:57:15. > :57:27.often you are bridging over three in be a safety.

:57:28. > :57:41.Will he have a go with the extended spider to see what it looks like? It

:57:42. > :57:57.is worth a shot. It will be interesting to see if he can reach

:57:58. > :58:07.over. He is quite tall. He is smiling because he does not fancy

:58:08. > :58:10.this one little bit. No. He just wants to keep potting balls, but I

:58:11. > :58:28.think he will have to play the safety.

:58:29. > :58:48.He will be disappointed, but he played the correct shot.

:58:49. > :58:57.I do not know whether the two reds are in line for the plant. Looking

:58:58. > :59:08.at Barry's face, it tells me it is on. The one thing you have to do

:59:09. > :59:11.with this, if you know it is a certainty, is to play a good

:59:12. > :59:23.positional shot from it. APPLAUSE. And he's got a good

:59:24. > :59:29.positional shot off it. In a couple of shots' time he can get on the red

:59:30. > :59:39.next to the black. Might even be able to do it from here. He's OK.

:59:40. > :59:44.Found the gap for this one, but that's the first chance he gets

:59:45. > :59:55.he'll get on that red that's closest to the black and get into it play.

:59:56. > :00:01.Here we go, that's the plant into the corner. Nothing worse when you

:00:02. > :00:07.are stand ing with your cue in your hand and you look at the table and

:00:08. > :00:13.think, oh, no. I've left the plant on. We could see it in his face. He

:00:14. > :00:15.knew straight away that he had left it on and there could be a few more

:00:16. > :00:37.to come here. Some very good quick frames indeed.

:00:38. > :00:45.We've had 11, 13 minutes, the longest frame believe it or not was

:00:46. > :00:53.just over 16 minutes. Refreshing and really good to watch.

:00:54. > :00:59.Quick-fire snooker at its best. And he looks like he's got the momentum

:01:00. > :01:32.now, Judd, to turn this match around.

:01:33. > :01:48.APPLAUSE. That's virtually frame ball there. Just the black to make

:01:49. > :01:54.absolutely certain. Still a possible 67 on the table. It is just a

:01:55. > :02:12.formality here. APPLAUSE.

:02:13. > :02:32.This was the safety shot that Barry played. He thought he had got it

:02:33. > :02:36.reasonably safe and then he walked round, seeing that the plant was on.

:02:37. > :03:01.And that was his last shot. Look at that, 365 points each.

:03:02. > :03:24.That's a point for each day of the year.

:03:25. > :03:32.He's taking a bit of time over this. He's mad clean on clearing up or

:03:33. > :03:41.making a century. Oh, what a try that was. He got too much action on

:03:42. > :03:45.it, so is there a double that will keep... Let me show you this shot

:03:46. > :03:50.again. Look at the action on the cue ball there. He'll have to pull off a

:03:51. > :03:56.fantastic double to give himself a chance of that century break. A

:03:57. > :04:06.treble will do! APPLAUSE. That really was what you

:04:07. > :04:11.call a naughty double that turned into a naughty treble. And he's got

:04:12. > :04:19.the angle here. Pot the black and flick the red out, if he wants. Oh,

:04:20. > :04:23.he's missed the cannon. Even Judd Trump can't pot this one. Right,

:04:24. > :04:31.hint it as hard as you can. There you go! Go on red, get in somewhere.

:04:32. > :04:39.That was a magnificent effort from Judd Trump and that break of 72 gets

:04:40. > :04:42.him into the lead. It is 4-3 to Judd Trump.

:04:43. > :04:49.STUDIO: Into the lead for the first time. That plant, which Barry

:04:50. > :04:54.perhaps didn't see. No, and that is why you see players always walk

:04:55. > :04:58.around the table before they play a shot. Just to make sure there wasn't

:04:59. > :05:03.a plant on or the balls couldn't be made into a plant. It is only when

:05:04. > :05:07.he played the safety shot, he has a look and realises the plant is on.

:05:08. > :05:10.It cost him the frame. That's why you should always come around the

:05:11. > :05:16.other side of the table just to make sure. And he made a face like that

:05:17. > :05:28.earlier on. Schoolboy error. As Willie Thorne would say, that was

:05:29. > :05:31.careless. There had been a face like that from Barry earlier on.

:05:32. > :05:36.Yesterday there were six frames 1 to 0 and we saw that in the match

:05:37. > :05:40.between Mark Selby and Ronnie O'Sullivan. You have to be so

:05:41. > :05:45.careful off the break these days Not so much the best of 11 but in the

:05:46. > :05:50.best of seven, which a lot of matches are these days, it used to

:05:51. > :05:56.be the case, yeah, I'll break, but now all of a sudden you would prefer

:05:57. > :06:02.three break-offs than have to do the four. It is a safety shot that's

:06:03. > :06:06.unlikely to put your opponent into trouble but can cause you problems.

:06:07. > :06:11.Especially the long balls Judd Trump was demonstrating. We saw in one of

:06:12. > :06:16.the frames there, Barry Hawkins's break, he was disappointed because

:06:17. > :06:22.he couldn't get the cue ball behind the green. He grimaced because he

:06:23. > :06:27.couldn't get it and Judd Trump obliged. Sometimes when players win

:06:28. > :06:35.the toss they let the opponent break. At the beginning of the match

:06:36. > :06:40.you don't want to know how the cloth is going to react. Judd Trump is

:06:41. > :06:54.ahead. It is 4-3. Will he kick on from here? Let's find out.

:06:55. > :07:02.Remember, back in the '70s when Pot. In black was going, just one frame.

:07:03. > :07:04.If you won the toss you didn't want to break off because you were so

:07:05. > :07:09.nervous. Didn't to break off because you were so

:07:10. > :07:16.nervous. -- when Pot black was going. With standards the way they

:07:17. > :07:21.are, it is never more important. It is partly because of the cloth. The

:07:22. > :07:27.cushion slides so much with the cloth being shaved, it is difficult

:07:28. > :07:38.to widen the angle and get the cue ball down behind the ball sometimes.

:07:39. > :07:44.This is a very big frame for Barry Hawkins. First time he's gone behind

:07:45. > :08:03.in the match. APPLAUSE. That shot shows you how

:08:04. > :08:11.fast this table is. Hardly touched that and look where the cue ball's

:08:12. > :08:17.finished up. This is a tricky little shot to get on the red and pot the

:08:18. > :08:25.brown. He's playing to drop it in and... It's gone wrong. It was a

:08:26. > :08:28.delicate little cannon that was need there had. Elicate

:08:29. > :08:31.delicate little cannon that was need there had. -- that was needed there.

:08:32. > :08:41.I think he thought he was going hit the red on the way across the table

:08:42. > :08:45.there. Talking about the cloth, I was in pretty early this morning and

:08:46. > :08:50.the auditorium was empty. The table fitter was brushing the table down,

:08:51. > :08:56.ironing it. He said come and have a feel of the nap. It was like a sheet

:08:57. > :09:01.of glass. There's virtually no nap on it. If you haven't got a good

:09:02. > :09:05.strike on the cue ball, the cue ball flies all over the place with a bit

:09:06. > :09:09.of side, and it won't be coming back, so you do have to hit it

:09:10. > :09:14.properly. The clothe goes through a process of being shaved two or three

:09:15. > :09:21.times to get it down to that specific length. Like the greens at

:09:22. > :09:35.Augusta. Where is the red going? He almost

:09:36. > :09:42.fluked it but he got it straight away. He might have got away with

:09:43. > :09:46.this. He might not be able to see the potting angle here. It is just

:09:47. > :09:49.away from the pink, so he is just OK. Judd got up straight away when

:09:50. > :10:03.he played this shot. Now, watch Judd's reaction here.

:10:04. > :10:07.Straight away he knew he hadn't made the correct contact. Don't think he

:10:08. > :10:11.got a kick did he? No, he put a little bit of side on that and bit

:10:12. > :10:15.into the cue ball and straightened it up. It is one of those you needed

:10:16. > :10:20.a little bit of left-hand side to come round the angles. A little

:10:21. > :10:35.touch of side on it to straighton ball up. Oh.

:10:36. > :11:27.he didn't cue that very well. So both players are starting to feel

:11:28. > :11:31.the pressure out there. Neither of these boys has ever been to the

:11:32. > :11:53.final of the Masters, so it is a big day for them.

:11:54. > :12:07.APPLAUSE. A big pot, that was. Lots of pressure on it. When you practise

:12:08. > :12:16.you fancy knocking it in, but this isn't practise. He cued that

:12:17. > :12:20.beautifully. While Judd got helped in the third frame with Barry

:12:21. > :12:23.missing a relatively simple shot, Judd's just helped Barry Hawkins

:12:24. > :12:29.out. He must have been thinking in the chair there, I could be going

:12:30. > :12:42.5-3 down. That was a very poor miss from Judd.

:12:43. > :12:53.Just a little bit of movement. Sometimes he does move, Judd, but

:12:54. > :12:57.you heard Shaun Murphy had a chat about the players, he was expressing

:12:58. > :13:28.how Judd just moves a little bit with his body on the shot.

:13:29. > :13:37.Of course, Shaun Murphy was defending champion here. Mark Allen

:13:38. > :13:44.played very well to knock Sean out 6-4. I know Sean's an avid snooker

:13:45. > :13:52.fan. He'll be watching all the snooker. Yes, I can tell you

:13:53. > :13:55.something else, he won't be missing the reds three times on the trot

:13:56. > :13:58.again. He did it in that match. First time ever at the Masters and

:13:59. > :14:37.for fitted the frame. To mark Allen. We've had magnificent snooker here

:14:38. > :14:43.but both players have missed a couple of siters.

:14:44. > :14:51.but both players have missed a under tremendous pressure going for

:14:52. > :14:57.the first ever Masters final. This is a lovely opportunity, a series of

:14:58. > :15:06.stuns and screws around the pink. No need to even contemplate the black

:15:07. > :15:10.the way these are positioned. 27 point lead at the moment and more to

:15:11. > :15:15.come. Didn't play the last shot particularly well. Needed to leave

:15:16. > :15:20.an angle to stun over the two reds. He didn't want to leave the cue ball

:15:21. > :15:36.there. Should have been more over to the right.

:15:37. > :15:43.This is a very big frame, obviously, in the context of the match, but if

:15:44. > :15:49.Barry Hawkins doesn't win it from here, he'll absolutely kick himself.

:15:50. > :16:41.This is a brilliant chance. This red and colour should see him

:16:42. > :16:50.over the line in this frame. It's anybody's game at the moment.

:16:51. > :16:59.I mentioned it had 6-5 written all over it. The last time they played

:17:00. > :17:01.here, in 2015, Judd won 6-5. That was in the first round on that

:17:02. > :17:16.occasion. I can tell you two other people who

:17:17. > :17:36.would love a 6-5, Dennis, O'Sullivan and Stuart Bingham.

:17:37. > :17:42.APPLAUSE. Might have to play another double if he hasn't got an angle to

:17:43. > :17:47.get over to the last red. He has a bit of angle here. Come on, knock

:17:48. > :17:56.this in, Barry, and give us another century. It is a tough one though.

:17:57. > :18:04.No, doesn't really matter that that's not going in at the moment.

:18:05. > :18:12.It is one mistake that's cost him the game. That was a magnificent

:18:13. > :18:20.break of 78 from Barry Hawkins. He is all square at four frames all.

:18:21. > :18:26.Fantastic quality. It is now down to best of three. This is what we love

:18:27. > :18:30.isn't it? Tough at the top. The standard seems to be ever increasing

:18:31. > :18:37.the World Snooker, as you would expect from the Masters. Going back

:18:38. > :18:41.to the '80s a few games might have been scrappier. But it seems with

:18:42. > :18:48.all the competition the players are getting it is dragging the standard

:18:49. > :18:56.up, in my opinion. Not necessarily in every analyst's opinion. Steven

:18:57. > :18:59.played a different game really. Ken, this performance from Barry Hawkins,

:19:00. > :19:03.having let him off the hook largely in the first part of this match,

:19:04. > :19:07.where do you think that puts him, in terms of 4-4, could he have suffered

:19:08. > :19:11.a crisis of confidence when Judd was coming back at him? It looked that

:19:12. > :19:16.way, because he gave Judd a couple of chances. All of a sudden Judd was

:19:17. > :19:19.like a Rab it in the head lines of the. Judd

:19:20. > :19:24.like a Rab it in the head lines of the. -- like a rabbit in the

:19:25. > :19:30.headlights. He led his opponent back. As it gets closer you will see

:19:31. > :19:35.a few more misses. They are trying to get into their first Masters

:19:36. > :19:41.final. Best of three to get into a Masters final. What do you draw upon

:19:42. > :19:44.from your previous matches, from your career, your history as you go

:19:45. > :19:51.into this situation. All you do is play and hope. You don't think? You

:19:52. > :19:53.just got play the balls. There is the possibility that Judd's

:19:54. > :19:58.suffering a bit being more the favourite in this match than he was

:19:59. > :20:02.the last. And he may have to call upon a few big shots down the line

:20:03. > :20:05.to get over the line. But Barry Hawkins is not out of it. Back we

:20:06. > :20:20.go. Hazel was absolutely right. She

:20:21. > :20:25.knows this game inside out. He did go for it. He didn't manage to pull

:20:26. > :20:34.it off and it is a half chance here for Barry. It is not an easy starter

:20:35. > :20:39.for him. But if he can slot this one in, it will be an early chance for

:20:40. > :20:44.him. Might just choose to play this a little bit like a shot to nothing

:20:45. > :20:49.where maybe the black will cover the pocket if he didn't get it. But he

:20:50. > :20:55.played it full-bloodedly. Well done. It is one of those shots you could

:20:56. > :21:00.play it two ways there. That was the aggressive way. No thought about

:21:01. > :21:12.missing it. First chance, Barry Hawkins, in

:21:13. > :21:31.frame 9. You can see his intense there to get

:21:32. > :21:49.on the pink in such a way that he can pot it and go into the reds.

:21:50. > :22:01.Has to be played with top spin here. You can see him striking the cue

:22:02. > :22:06.ball up near the top. I was going say he was unlucky, but maybe the

:22:07. > :22:10.one next to the cue ball might have a slight angle to pot it and get on

:22:11. > :22:13.to the black. It is a bit close to it though. Makes it slightly more

:22:14. > :22:28.difficult. The way Barry's looking at it I

:22:29. > :22:41.don't think there's too much doubt he's going to take it on.

:22:42. > :22:45.Got to be careful with your cueing. The balls are close together. Well

:22:46. > :23:08.played. APPLAUSE.

:23:09. > :23:17.If the pink goes into the corner it wouldn't be a bad ball to play on to

:23:18. > :23:25.bring reds into play. Dennis, I'm surprised he hasn't had a little

:23:26. > :23:29.look around there. I agree with you there, if he could have played a

:23:30. > :23:33.stun-out and come out on the pink and left it high he key have potted

:23:34. > :23:37.that and certainly opened the reds out. It is a bit more difficult off

:23:38. > :23:59.the black. Will he do it this time? He's coming

:24:00. > :24:01.round to look at the pink now. Yes, that's definitely the shot that will

:24:02. > :24:26.open the game up. Decided to play and leave it on the

:24:27. > :24:34.low side, so he's going to play the little cannon, three reds into the

:24:35. > :24:43.left of the pink. Has to be careful when he plays this, because coming

:24:44. > :24:51.near the pink spot... Couldn't have done enter better.

:24:52. > :24:59.APPLAUSE. Good call, Dennis. You picked the shot out.

:25:00. > :25:06.It's happened a few times where Judd took a difficult long pot on, which

:25:07. > :25:15.he's always going to do anyway, but he's being punished for that one

:25:16. > :25:21.mistake. Barry's won a few frames with just the one chance. Certainly

:25:22. > :25:33.the two opening frames. 130, 128. Then a 74 to go back in the lead.

:25:34. > :25:38.78, and the last, great stuff. Yes, and that straight red miss in the

:25:39. > :25:43.last frame from Judd, that's proven to be costly. Cost him the last game

:25:44. > :25:50.but thrown the momentum back to Barry Hawkins, who looks like he is

:25:51. > :25:59.cueing in the opening two frames again.

:26:00. > :26:07.Here's the red. Could play all day and he wouldn't miss that in a club,

:26:08. > :26:14.but it is proving at the moment to be costly.

:26:15. > :26:25.This is how Barry played when he got to the final of the world

:26:26. > :26:29.championships a few seasons ago. Cueing superbly well. And it took

:26:30. > :26:34.Ronnie O'Sullivan to beat him in the final, put up a good

:26:35. > :26:36.Ronnie O'Sullivan to beat him in the there. Very daunting coming out of

:26:37. > :26:40.the Crucible for your first final and you've got arguably the best

:26:41. > :26:42.player who has ever lived in the next chair. He acquitted himself

:26:43. > :26:59.very well in that. APPLAUSE. Not far from the winning

:27:00. > :27:16.line in this frame. A couple more pots will be enough.

:27:17. > :27:32.68 ahead. And there's a few more to come here, it has to be said.

:27:33. > :27:38.APPLAUSE. Judd's going to have to go to the well and drag up

:27:39. > :27:43.concentration and focus and all his ability. There'll be two frames he

:27:44. > :27:50.needs to win and he has to find it from somewhere. Played brilliantly

:27:51. > :27:55.yesterday. As good as I've seen him play, but he's going to have to do

:27:56. > :27:57.the same in the last two frames, as Barry Hawkins looks like he's back

:27:58. > :28:46.in stroke. This really is a bit special from

:28:47. > :28:51.Barry Hawkins. Has to be able to produce this standard on one of the

:28:52. > :28:57.biggest stages in World Snooker when it means so much to you. He's a big

:28:58. > :29:01.biggest stages in World Snooker when feather in his cap. This really is

:29:02. > :29:09.excellent stuff. And this red just for his third century in this match

:29:10. > :29:22.alone. APPLAUSE. Fabulous from Barry

:29:23. > :29:27.Hawkins! That's the 24th century in this year's Masters. He sacrificed

:29:28. > :29:31.the position and made sure of the century, but doesn't matter whether

:29:32. > :29:37.he pots the black or not. He would like to.

:29:38. > :29:50.And has he got the cannon also? The cue ball is in the middle pocket,

:29:51. > :29:55.but it doesn't really matter. Again, Barry Hawkins with that century and

:29:56. > :30:02.he now leads 5-4, just one frame away from a place in the final.

:30:03. > :30:06.Well, the standard here, John, has been superb. Judd Trump, all he is

:30:07. > :30:13.doing in a few of the frames is having a go at that long first part,

:30:14. > :30:17.he knocks a high percentage in, but against Barry, he knows that if he

:30:18. > :30:21.misses one of these, he can lose the frame. This is his game, he is

:30:22. > :30:26.always taking them on and I don't blame him in the slightest. He

:30:27. > :30:31.usually knocks them in but he did that and left that situation and I

:30:32. > :30:35.thought Barry Hawkins' opening red was a cracker. On these tournament

:30:36. > :30:39.tables along the top cushion, they are not easy and he played it

:30:40. > :30:52.correctly, no thought about I might miss this, this is the red he drops

:30:53. > :30:57.in, I really admire him for that. He has had 130, 128, 74, 78 and another

:30:58. > :31:04.century there, it is an incredible standard he has produced in his

:31:05. > :31:08.first semifinal at the Masters. And the question is, what has Judd Trump

:31:09. > :31:12.got left? Has he got enough petrol in the tank to turn this around and

:31:13. > :31:17.win the final two frames to get into the final. He was asked plenty of

:31:18. > :31:18.questions yesterday by Neil Robertson, this is the biggest

:31:19. > :31:44.question to answer now. Philae Judd get a frame can under

:31:45. > :31:49.way. -- Judd gets frame ten under way. He will be hoping it is not his

:31:50. > :31:54.last one. I know this Ally Pally crowd would like to see the deciding

:31:55. > :32:04.frame. It is a fantastic arena, Barry, that will have other ideas --

:32:05. > :32:11.but Barry will have other ideas. The cue ball is close to the corner

:32:12. > :32:12.pocket. He hit that safety much too thin but he was never really going

:32:13. > :32:32.to leave anything. Much too thick on his safety, he

:32:33. > :32:39.will be delighted the blue has come to his rescue. If the red was

:32:40. > :32:45.sticking out, he would definitely be taking it on. The chance for Barry

:32:46. > :32:47.to play a good safety but you have to be careful not to knock a red

:32:48. > :33:25.over the corner. I think he has got away with it

:33:26. > :33:28.slightly, this is not an easy red that Barry is faced with. If the

:33:29. > :33:32.black was available, he might be able to take it on but he would have

:33:33. > :33:39.to punch this in and get up for the blue.

:33:40. > :33:47.You can see he is going to attempt that shot, just cueing below centre

:33:48. > :33:50.to see where he could leave himself on the blue. The harder he hits it,

:33:51. > :33:54.the less chance he has of knocking it in. The way he lined it tells me

:33:55. > :34:00.there is not much angle in this. These tight pockets, as soon as you

:34:01. > :34:18.try to force them... It is an easy starter for Judd, but

:34:19. > :34:19.the paint is out of commission, the black is tied up. He has to screw

:34:20. > :34:37.back for the blue. -- the pink. Not a bad effort from that position.

:34:38. > :34:41.And he heated with the rest, that is excellent. We talk about his cue

:34:42. > :34:51.power generally but to get that there, fabulous.

:34:52. > :35:27.Just needs the cue ball to bounce up a touch.

:35:28. > :35:35.That has knocked the black safe. It was in an awkward position anyway.

:35:36. > :35:42.But he will have to call on all of his cue power here to screw back.

:35:43. > :36:05.Just got a little bit of angle but it is far from being an easy chance.

:36:06. > :36:07.Just had a look to see that if he stuns, he will leave a little cannon

:36:08. > :36:17.on the reds to the left of the pink. I think your shot is a good call,

:36:18. > :36:36.this could open things up somewhat. He has decided to go through for the

:36:37. > :36:44.bloom again. But I think the pink might now be in the open -- for the

:36:45. > :36:45.blue again. If it goes into the right corner, he will have blue and

:36:46. > :37:18.pink to go out. -- go at. I don't think the pink is on its

:37:19. > :37:23.spot. If he potted it, I don't think it would go back on the spot, but he

:37:24. > :37:29.has the blue to work with for the time being. He might only be on 28

:37:30. > :37:33.points after this, but it has been an excellent break so far, it was

:37:34. > :37:37.far from straightforward when he came to the table. He is just

:37:38. > :37:39.scrapping for position in this break, he has been slightly off in

:37:40. > :37:53.the last three or four shots. Once again, the cue ball is too low,

:37:54. > :38:09.so he has to go in and out of the baulk area.

:38:10. > :38:19.How is your luck, Judd? Doesn't look very good.

:38:20. > :38:26.It was very, very difficult. The previous shot, he couldn't get the

:38:27. > :38:31.correct side of the blue. If he had screwed back any harder, he would

:38:32. > :38:38.have screwed into the middle pocket. He has a nice 34 point advantage.

:38:39. > :38:39.Yes, I said he was scrapping for position and

:38:40. > :38:45.Yes, I said he was scrapping for up with him. He is unfortunate to

:38:46. > :38:48.finish where he has done, but when you have a bit of doubt about

:38:49. > :38:57.whether cue ball will finish, that can happen. He can come of the red

:38:58. > :39:03.near the middle pocket and leave the white up fairly safe.

:39:04. > :39:18.A straightforward safety shot but he thought he could maybe just sneak

:39:19. > :39:22.that red into the middle pocket. Yes, I think he also played that on

:39:23. > :39:24.the understanding that even if he left the cue ball fair, what was

:39:25. > :39:28.Barry going to do off it if he left the cue ball fair, what was

:39:29. > :39:41.the red that is out in the open? -- left the cue ball fair, what was

:39:42. > :40:03.if he pots. So quite a cute shot by Judd.

:40:04. > :40:18.What I pot. Fantastic -- what a pot. Brilliant.

:40:19. > :40:24.Nothing wrong with that, tucking your opponent away.

:40:25. > :40:32.Nothing wrong with that, tucking you get out of this one? He has

:40:33. > :40:35.tucked him in tight behind the yellow, he has to get around to the

:40:36. > :40:40.reds by the black spot area because there is nothing near the cushions

:40:41. > :40:46.to land on, so he has got quite a problem here. If he can swerve

:40:47. > :40:50.around the yellow, he could maybe get to the... But he is so close to

:40:51. > :41:04.the yellow, it is not going to be easy to do that.

:41:05. > :41:10.Because he is so close to the yellow, he can't play that escape

:41:11. > :41:16.shot. If he was slightly away, he could maybe get there. He would have

:41:17. > :41:24.to really swerve around to make that angle. He is thinking about it.

:41:25. > :41:36.If he goes there, he has got an awful long time to travel to get to

:41:37. > :41:39.those two reds. But that is what he is trying, he doesn't want to hit

:41:40. > :41:44.the red on the right side of the table.

:41:45. > :41:49.This is a pretty good effort. It is a brilliant effort. He has got to

:41:50. > :42:01.those two reds. Fantastic. What an escape he has played there,

:42:02. > :42:29.terrific. Another clever little shocked by

:42:30. > :42:36.Judd if he gets past the brand... He took the chance there, because he

:42:37. > :42:41.just chipped the red onto the side cushion. -- gets past the brown. He

:42:42. > :42:48.thought it was well worth the risk, sticking the red safe. Didn't quite

:42:49. > :42:50.get the cue ball right, though. Where is the cue ball going if he

:42:51. > :43:01.pots this? Can he find a gap? Well, the black was out of

:43:02. > :43:27.commission! What a shot. I think he was playing the gap, it

:43:28. > :43:40.was a bonus to knock the black over the pocket, but he will take it.

:43:41. > :43:52.Now, then... What a chance for Barry Hawkins. Yes. And the red that is on

:43:53. > :43:56.the left hand side cushion that Judd Trump stuck there with the last

:43:57. > :44:02.shot, OK, it wasn't the best safety shot in respect of the cue ball, but

:44:03. > :44:06.will that red come to his rescue? There is a lot of snooker to be

:44:07. > :44:10.played before then, and the amount of pressure these boys are under, we

:44:11. > :44:14.always think they are going to clear up without thinking about the

:44:15. > :44:18.circumstances, they are that good, but the chance to reach his first

:44:19. > :44:19.Masters final here and he will be under the cosh, don't worry about

:44:20. > :44:58.that. He has had five attempts and never

:44:59. > :44:59.got past the first round, but he has made up for all of those defeats,

:45:00. > :45:16.the way he has played this year. He does strike the ball beautifully,

:45:17. > :45:26.Barry Hawkins. Lovely to watch. Great rhythm around the table. If he

:45:27. > :45:28.can just stun up onto the pink here, once he pot that, he should be on

:45:29. > :45:53.the bottom red -- pots. Do both of those red pot? He may

:45:54. > :46:01.take the chance to try and develop the difficult read. -- red. He has

:46:02. > :46:03.just missed it, that could have been a matchwinner, had he got the cannon

:46:04. > :46:19.correctly. And not only did he just missed the

:46:20. > :46:22.-- just missed the red, this has gone awkward. It could have been one

:46:23. > :46:27.where he missed it and still ended up on the green or the brown Ouray

:46:28. > :46:41.baulk colour, but it is not easy for a pot.

:46:42. > :46:51.He can get in behind the black, I think, if he judges it. They are

:46:52. > :46:57.tough, they are not easy. In fact, he might even be able to see enough

:46:58. > :46:59.of this red near the pink spot to cut it in, but that last shot he

:47:00. > :47:15.tried is so difficult to judge. But don't be surprised if this

:47:16. > :47:21.doesn't going... -- go in... Fabiola Sharp and he has got a bit of angle

:47:22. > :47:28.on the brown. If anyone can get to the last round, it is Judd --

:47:29. > :47:32.fabulous shot. Can he missed the green and screw back? I don't know,

:47:33. > :47:39.but now he is thinking, why did I put that red safe? Funny the way the

:47:40. > :47:43.frame works out. If he can muster up a positional shot to free the red,

:47:44. > :47:48.why not go in behind the brown and leave him in a very difficult

:47:49. > :47:53.snooker? But if there is half a chance he can get to the red, he

:47:54. > :47:57.will take it. He may have to play a banana type shot, when he screws it

:47:58. > :48:07.back, but now he is looking at going in behind the brown, which wouldn't

:48:08. > :48:13.be a bad choice. I like the shot. I don't think that is the best way of

:48:14. > :48:18.playing it, cutting off the top cushion.

:48:19. > :48:30.Gives him the opportunity to drop on this dead weight.

:48:31. > :48:44.UMPIRE: Foul and MS. -- and a miss. He won't mind a couple of penalty

:48:45. > :48:48.shots, but I am with you. It could have been an absolute stinker to get

:48:49. > :48:55.out if he blocks the line off, but he will just keep playing the same

:48:56. > :48:56.shot. If he hits it harder than he intends to, he could push it over

:48:57. > :49:10.the middle pocket. APPLAUSE.

:49:11. > :49:16.Well, it is a containing shot, but he could be in behind the pink here.

:49:17. > :49:28.Barry made sure he played cushion first.

:49:29. > :49:33.We haven't had many close frames in this match, it has been about heavy

:49:34. > :49:44.duty scoring, but we have It is great to see the big breaks

:49:45. > :49:47.and that, but a lot of people enjoy this just as much. It is much more

:49:48. > :50:00.tense when the frame is like this. His main concern here is to try and

:50:01. > :50:27.get that red ball safe. Well he knocked a similar part in

:50:28. > :50:39.the other way around, but this time the red is on the brown spot. -- a

:50:40. > :50:42.similar pot. How close was that? He needs the cue ball to get tied on

:50:43. > :50:48.the cushion to make it awkward for Barry. -- gets tight.

:50:49. > :50:58.He would be looking for it to be bowled straight.

:50:59. > :51:14.Still a tough pot. False but was far from easy and throw in the

:51:15. > :51:20.circumstances, that must've looked like the size of a football. Look at

:51:21. > :51:39.the expression on Barry's phase. -- face.

:51:40. > :51:54.Judd's parents there and they will be so tense. It is worse sometimes

:51:55. > :52:00.watching. That is one of Judd's good friends there next to his parents.

:52:01. > :52:09.Yes, follows him to all his tournaments, his biggest fan. It is

:52:10. > :52:14.terrible watching. Will he risk swinging this around the angles to

:52:15. > :52:22.try and get in behind the green and black, which are in a good position.

:52:23. > :52:30.He has hit it far too thin. He has made a bad mistake there. But the

:52:31. > :52:36.blue has gone into an awkward position, but that was a good

:52:37. > :52:42.chance. A good chance to play a snooker and he hit it far too thin.

:52:43. > :52:54.As you say, just too thin to make it round there. Ordinarily, it would be

:52:55. > :52:58.read that would be food drink to Barry Hawkins, but this is not

:52:59. > :53:04.ordinarily, and I am not sure the blue has gone safe.

:53:05. > :53:30.He is already looking at the blue, not for this shot, but he will need

:53:31. > :53:36.that and if he can get in behind... I am looking at it and it is a

:53:37. > :53:43.perfect angle. The green is going to go past the brown. He could drop the

:53:44. > :53:46.blue in. He would have a straight shot at the yellow, even though he

:53:47. > :53:59.would be a little closer to the cushion.

:54:00. > :54:06.I was just thinking for later, blue to think, it will be more awkward,

:54:07. > :54:12.but he will come to that when he gets to it -- blue to pink. When he

:54:13. > :54:18.pots the yellow, it will be all square.

:54:19. > :54:25.So he will need the pink and even if he gets onto the blue, I don't think

:54:26. > :54:27.he can do much with it to get close to the pink, so there is a little

:54:28. > :54:44.bit of tension left in this frame. Yes, this is the big shot. If he can

:54:45. > :54:48.get this in and get the correct angle on the blue, just to give

:54:49. > :54:53.himself a little chance of pushing through it and getting closer... But

:54:54. > :54:59.as I say, the way he is cueing it, it is not great. He can't do much

:55:00. > :55:00.with the blue, he can only drop it in and it will lead a very difficult

:55:01. > :55:17.pink. -- it'll leave. That is why he has tried to move it

:55:18. > :55:26.slightly. He is pretty close to the blue. It will go into the left

:55:27. > :55:28.corner, but what a shock to judge. UMPIRE: Settle down, please. This is

:55:29. > :55:58.so awkward. It is there. And he is perfect on

:55:59. > :56:02.unbelievable shot. Judd Trump thought he had a lifeline there, but

:56:03. > :56:13.what are shot that Barry Hawkins pulled off. Unbelievable match, and

:56:14. > :56:18.that is what it means to Barry Hawkins. He has made three century

:56:19. > :56:26.breaks and it is nice to see the two boys having a chat. He gets revenge

:56:27. > :56:30.for a couple of years ago and he is a very popular winner, Barry Hawkins

:56:31. > :56:36.speeds Judd Trump 6-4, great match, boys.

:56:37. > :56:41.HAZEL IRVINE: Well, and exceptional performance from Barry Hawkins.

:56:42. > :56:45.Remember, he came here this year to the Masters, he had never won a

:56:46. > :56:49.match here but he is in the final, extraordinary stop and that turned

:56:50. > :56:53.into a battle on the final red, but that blue was one of the best shots

:56:54. > :56:57.we have seen this week. STEVE DAVIS: He took a chance to

:56:58. > :57:01.move the blue out, he was close to it and we talked about whether he

:57:02. > :57:05.could move it out but it was a judgment shot, wasn't it? And when

:57:06. > :57:10.they are that close, it is so difficult but he couldn't have

:57:11. > :57:15.played it better. And from 4-3 behind, to win the last three frames

:57:16. > :57:21.against a man who showed so much form yesterday, what more did we

:57:22. > :57:24.learn about Barry Hawkins today? He came out yesterday full of vigour

:57:25. > :57:29.for the match, three centuries yesterday, fantastic. Perhaps as the

:57:30. > :57:32.underdog, it helped him that Judd had played so well and all eyes were

:57:33. > :57:37.on him. Judd wasn't as good today but was still playing good start, it

:57:38. > :57:43.is just the standard Barry Hawkins' game had risen and he must be

:57:44. > :57:48.delighted. How big a surprise is it? Not for a snooker players, but maybe

:57:49. > :57:54.for the public out there. We all know how good he is, we all know. It

:57:55. > :57:57.was a fantastic performance. Brilliant, Barry. Rate that

:57:58. > :58:00.performance, especially the latter part of it and the blue that you

:58:01. > :58:06.took on at the end, it was a real judgment call. Well, it was a

:58:07. > :58:11.chance, I had to... You have to go for it come you can't refuse that,

:58:12. > :58:16.he knows if you get it, it is game over. On the TV, the blue was too

:58:17. > :58:20.difficult from where it was, you decided to move it. Before I potted

:58:21. > :58:25.the long red, I was thinking if I get on the brown, I will get the

:58:26. > :58:32.blue and he can only draw. But I could force it down to the pink. It

:58:33. > :58:35.is a blind pocket shot, it is horrible, you just pick an angle and

:58:36. > :58:40.hope for the best. And luckily for me, it went straight in the middle

:58:41. > :58:45.but even the pink, I was shaking all over the place. How did you approach

:58:46. > :58:48.the game? Judd was fantastic yesterday but did it calm you down,

:58:49. > :58:52.make you think you were the underdog and you could relax? He was

:58:53. > :58:55.obviously favourite to beat me, the way he played yesterday but I always

:58:56. > :58:59.knew that if you can take your practice game out there, you have a

:59:00. > :59:04.chance and today, I managed to do that. You started like a train,

:59:05. > :59:09.back-to-back centuries, it was a sparkling start and end the third

:59:10. > :59:14.frame, you had a chance, missed that pink, to really put him under the

:59:15. > :59:17.cosh. I was a bit disappointed at the interval because when you are on

:59:18. > :59:22.a role like that, I was thinking that if I get 3-1 at the interval,

:59:23. > :59:30.I'll be over the moon, and it was a chance to be keeping him off the

:59:31. > :59:34.table ,, so I was disappointed. We were watching the Judd Trump Neil

:59:35. > :59:39.Robertson match together and he said, I hope he is wearing himself

:59:40. > :59:41.out. The way you started was a flyer. Three centuries, 74, 78,

:59:42. > :59:50.fantastic. Where has this come from?

:59:51. > :59:54.CHUCKLES Don't ask me. You have been coming

:59:55. > :00:00.to the master since 2007, you have never won a game, why this year? I

:00:01. > :00:04.don't know. Similar to the Crucible. I won a game there, it settled me

:00:05. > :00:10.down. I can't believe I'm in the final. I had a chance of winning. I

:00:11. > :00:14.am over the moon. That run to the final at the Crucible, 2013, you get

:00:15. > :00:19.there, you meet O'Sullivan in the final. The consistency you had shown

:00:20. > :00:23.after, two semifinals, you are the only one who has done that over the

:00:24. > :00:26.last three years. I just wonder what it has done for you, those

:00:27. > :00:32.performances, in your career overall, what it tells you about

:00:33. > :00:36.yourself. It tells me I can do it on the bigger stage. It gives me

:00:37. > :00:42.belief. I need to try and get the mentality for the other tournaments.

:00:43. > :00:45.It isn't a bad thing, just in the big ones, obviously, but if I can

:00:46. > :00:48.try and get myself to the same run, up for it in the other tournaments,

:00:49. > :00:52.maybe I can be a bit more consistent. Something to work on. I

:00:53. > :00:56.don't know why, I just seem to enjoy these ones at the moment. Having

:00:57. > :01:00.been in the World Championships final, having come up against

:01:01. > :01:04.O'Sullivan. It was maybe the season afterwards, he found it a let down,

:01:05. > :01:08.I remember. Was it difficult to live up to that, to follow that

:01:09. > :01:13.performance, and achieve again? I don't know what it was. I played so

:01:14. > :01:17.much in the last few years. There were so many tournaments. You felt

:01:18. > :01:22.like you were playing every single one. It was unusual for us to turn

:01:23. > :01:26.down tournaments. We felt like we had to plan everything. That is what

:01:27. > :01:31.I did. Maybe I got fed up with the game for a while. Nothing like some

:01:32. > :01:38.defeats the kick you up the backside to get the motivation back, really.

:01:39. > :01:42.Trying to get that. Sounding like Ronnie, but it is about getting the

:01:43. > :01:49.balance right little bit. How special is it? Your hometown. In the

:01:50. > :01:52.final. What does it mean? Amazing. Watching the players over the years

:01:53. > :02:01.getting to the final. To finally get a final. This is an believable

:02:02. > :02:06.filling. , regulations. Well played. -- this is an unbelievable feeling.

:02:07. > :02:14.It will either the O'Sullivan, or Stuart Bingham. This is a repeat

:02:15. > :02:17.match. You might remember it, April last year, at the Crucible, I wonder

:02:18. > :02:25.if there will be an element of revenge, or whether Bingham will

:02:26. > :02:31.have the day. Let's get some perspective on The Rocket.

:02:32. > :02:38.Snooker is lucky to have him. The way he is and the way he carries

:02:39. > :02:41.himself. He picks and chooses. Also unlucky, because if he dedicated

:02:42. > :02:46.himself the way that Stephen Hendrie did, I think we would see snooker a

:02:47. > :02:59.lot more in a different light. What can you say? It is a mess when he

:03:00. > :03:05.isn't playing. -- miss. I have taken a lot of advice from him. Talented,

:03:06. > :03:10.but mentally sometimes not there. That makes them vulnerable. But that

:03:11. > :03:17.is also why people come and see him. Jekyll and Hyde. That is all I can

:03:18. > :03:26.say. When he's on the top of his game he almost impossible to beat.

:03:27. > :03:33.Best player I have ever seen. I think most people agree with that

:03:34. > :03:38.now. With Ronnie over the past four, five years, mentally he has been as

:03:39. > :03:43.good as he has ever been in his career. Ronnie... I have known him

:03:44. > :03:52.since he was nine. He came into the club, I was 14. I thought this lad

:03:53. > :03:58.has serious ability. He was just potting balls. Could have been the

:03:59. > :04:01.best player we have ever seen. The records suggest otherwise. On his

:04:02. > :04:05.day come he can beat anybody wants when he wants. If he is on the right

:04:06. > :04:09.frame of mind he cannot be beaten. We haven't seen running one of the

:04:10. > :04:13.big three events since that defeat to Bingham. But the question

:04:14. > :04:17.remains, Bingham's record at this championship hasn't been great. This

:04:18. > :04:28.is the first Army has been beyond the quarterfinals. Is he in the same

:04:29. > :04:34.kind of form that befitted his World Championship status? The last match

:04:35. > :04:38.the won against Higgins, it has probably settle the nerves for him.

:04:39. > :04:43.-- he won. He probably has less heat on him. It would be a great victory

:04:44. > :04:50.to turn O'Sullivan so soon after that World Championship when Ulster

:04:51. > :04:57.I wouldn't put it past him now. -- win. . O'Sullivan is the favourite.

:04:58. > :05:01.Nobody in the game wants to be a favourite that strong. You would

:05:02. > :05:06.rather have a fair fight, or be the underdog, occasionally. I think he

:05:07. > :05:14.will watch this. He will have drawn inspiration from this. He will draw

:05:15. > :05:18.inspiration and say, I have done it before. I have beaten O'Sullivan

:05:19. > :05:23.before. Hawkins was the underdog he did it, can't I? In that

:05:24. > :05:30.quarterfinal at the Crucible, Ronnie was 9-8 up and Stuart won the last

:05:31. > :05:36.nine frames to beat him. It was an amazing achievement. Something I'm

:05:37. > :05:39.sure he can drop on tonight. Bingham's performance in a

:05:40. > :05:42.championship, it gave him confidence. Now he will relish the

:05:43. > :05:50.occasion and the challenge of playing O'Sullivan. Effectively more

:05:51. > :05:54.in his own office. Stuart Bingham will be rubbing his hands thinking,

:05:55. > :05:59.bring it on. I am sure he will. Thanks very much. It has been a

:06:00. > :06:03.fantastic afternoon. I hope you have enjoyed it. Hopefully you can join

:06:04. > :06:07.us for Saturday night at the Alexandra Palace because it is the

:06:08. > :06:08.rematch...