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It's a great win by John Spencer. He becomes the first Benson and hedges | :00:34. | :00:56. | |
Masters. Terry Griffiths, shot to the top of World Snooker. The first | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
man to have his name twice on the Masters trophy. Alex "Hurricane" | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
Higgins. And extraordinary young snooker player. 24-year-old Steve | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
Davis finally has the one he wanted. And just look at that board. | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
LAUGHTER words escape me. It was Canadian Cliff Thorburn who | :01:30. | :01:47. | |
became the master of 86. Still the Masters champion. | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
CHEERING A tremendous cheer for young Mark | :01:55. | :02:09. | |
Williams from Wales. Congratulations to Paul Hunter. He wins his third | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Masters title. It's Ronnie Sullivan or Joe Perry | :02:14. | :02:26. | |
for the Paul Hunter trophy. Good afternoon Alexandra Palace has been | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
pulling in the crowds for over 140 years. Have another full house here | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
for one of the great occasions in snooker. Masters Sunday. The final | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
of the Dafabet Masters. Last week has absolutely flown after a quite | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
brilliant tournament so far. Ronnie O'Sullivan defending champion got | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
the party last Sunday. Stillbirth. The Rocket still on a trajectory | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
that could give him the outright record seven Masters titles. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Ronnie O Sullivan, playing his best of the week to take the Masters | :03:00. | :03:11. | |
title, 1995. Amazing, being in London, being a Londoner. Looking | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
forward to the future. This has been awesome. No other | :03:14. | :03:23. | |
word. It looks like his fourth Masters | :03:24. | :03:46. | |
title now... I love it! Well O'Sullivan was the pre-event | :03:47. | :04:27. | |
favourite and is now odds-on to be the least fancied player this week, | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
Joe Perry. But the 42-year-old from Cambridgeshire, gentle man Joe, has | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
defied all expectation to reach this, one of the finals of snooker's | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
three majors. But the first time in his 26 year career and for Murphy | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
showed to come back against good friend Barry Hawkins to win a | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
decider as we rolled towards midnight. Their previous results | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
don't make pretty reading for Joe, he's won only two of the matches in | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
the previous 15 against Ronnie and none for nine years but he will | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
remember a World Championship classic if you seasons ago when he | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
took O'Sullivan very close indeed. Perry seems determined not to settle | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
for second place today. We all take up snooker from watching these | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
events today, it's going to be an unbelievably difficult task. Just | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
the fact that I'm Ibe are playing Ronnie in the final of the Masters | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
is a dream come true. I like to play Joe, he plays the game the right | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
way, tapping the ball is in, play a bit of safety. He is not a jot | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
trump, taking about five minutes. He's not a Selby that is going to | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
tie you up and keep you under wraps, he wants to get amongst the balls | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
but play safety. You can get involved in the match. Everyone that | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
plays Ronnie at the Masters is the underdog, nothing new, not going to | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
be a surprise. I've always spoke highly of Ronnie, I think every | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
snooker player has the utmost respect for his ability, the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
greatest ever in my opinion. But he is beatable. You know. That's what | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
you have to take into the match, believe you can win, otherwise I | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
might just call it a day now. Some great matches with Joe, Plato in the | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
World Championship, 13-11, in the semis of the Welsh last year, 6-3, | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
one of the best I've played, played so well against him. Played almost | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
to the very best of my ability, producing something special to beat | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
him 13-11 on his way to winning the world title. I need to play close to | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
that again. I just bring my game to the table. I let them worry about me | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
and if they can play well enough to beat me I shake hands and say you | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
know what, well done. Otherwise I go there and then, you know what, I am | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
going to be tough to beat today. I started playing snooker at ten years | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
old, all I wanted to do was placed in a living. To achieve that would | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
be the absolute icing on the cake. One day, all my cue up and say, I | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
had a great career as a snooker player. This afternoon six time | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
Masters champion Stephen Hendry is facing up to the possibility that | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
the joint record may be overtaken, how do you feel? Not great, I must | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
admit. It was inevitable. This tournament has become Ronnie's home. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
Ronnie against Joe, tell me what there's been to admire about Joe's | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
amazing run. Two incredible victories against Bingham and Ding | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Junhui, coming back from the dead, 5-2, needing a snooker to clear up | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
and potting what was the part of the tournament. The favourite against | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
the man who was the joint outsider, 80-1, we remember the victory did | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Ronnie made over Barry Hawkins, what percentage of the snooker world | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
thinks Joe Perry will win today? Zero, to be blunt. Possibly even Joe | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
himself, he has got to trust his ability today. Perhaps his family | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
will believe, obviously. But the snooker world, 0%, will think. Going | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
to trust his ability and believe in his ability and come out and try and | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
enjoy this occasion and play his best snooker, if he does that, he | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
has a chance. With so much expectation on Ronnie does that ring | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
its own pressure? He has expectation on himself, he wants to win, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
tremendous desire to do it, but he will want to do it with style and | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
that brings its own pressure. A 41-year-old against a 42-year-old, | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
who said it was a young man's game? It's getting like that. Maybe Steve | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Davis will even win. You are getting your QR at for the world stage, but | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
it might be slightly late for John Parrott and Steve Davis. You know | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
the stick we get from that woman. Doesn't she know who we used to be? | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
Once upon a time we were marvellous. After tip gate, how well did he | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
play? Ronnie O'Sullivan realised he had control of the Kubot and he | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
upped the play, positional play perfect, he outclassed Marco Fu who | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
up until then had been the classiest player in the tournament. His focus | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
for me, you could see the determination, he relished that. I | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
haven't seen his adrenaline pumping as much as that. The only thing, | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
might be an anti-climax, if it's possible. You have a theory about | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
this match today, expand. It's only a theory, Stephen said about 0%, | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
there was a match in the 80s, it might have been 85, someone was | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
given no chance and it was a bad outcome! Let it go, Steve. You like | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
this. We have found interesting -- someone interesting for Ken to talk | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
to. I am down in the queues, Peter | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
Terry, the father of Joe, your nerves must been jangling. Really. | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
When he made that snooker, got that clearance to win the frame, I | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
thought, he has a chance, he said to me afterwards, if he could do that | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
and make a big break to go through 5-4, he thought he was back in the | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
match. But what about that clearance in the last frame? The brown along | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
the baulk cushion, would you have gone for that? No. I spoke to him | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
afterwards, he said he had no choice, if he tried to play safe, or | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
the other balls was, trying to get that safe, go for it, when, or go | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
home. He saw his chance and he took it. What was he like when he came | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
off? Must have been buzzing. Electric, couldn't believe it. I | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
think he had a tweet from Barry this morning, saying... I ain't going to | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
go into that one. I could only imagine. They are still mates. What | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
about today. A big occasion. The biggest of his life. How is he | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
feeling and how are you? I am feeling great, he's had some great | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
matches with Ronnie over the years, Ronnie come out on top most of them, | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
but Joe has beaten him. In the USA some years ago, he can do it. He | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
starts producing what he'd done in the first and second match, the end | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
of the match, he can win. I hope the nerves hold-up, best of luck. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
Cheers, thank you. Peter Perry certainly believe that history is in | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
the making, Ronnie going for a record seventh Masters title and Joe | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
hoping to become the oldest first-time winner of this event | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
since Ray Reardon in 1976. Fascinating. Settle down, here we | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
go. Rob Walker, it is all yours. Good afternoon, ladies and | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
gentlemen. This is it, the big one. We started with 16, only two remain. | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
Welcome to the 20 17th Dafabet Masters final, this could be epic. | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
They are ready, we are ready. Let's get the boys on the baize. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
Please welcome a player who after 26 years as a professional finds | :12:26. | :12:47. | |
himself in a Triple Crown final but the very worst time. What a way to | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
do it. From 5-2 down and needing a snooker he climbed back from the | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
brink with that emotional victory last night and he said in a press | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
Conference after, standing on this tour is today and hearing his name | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
being called as a finalist would be the best moment of his career by | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
far. Ali Talley, let's remind him this is more than a dream, for the | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
gentle man Joe Perry! And his opponent, a player who has | :13:12. | :13:47. | |
been snooker's box office draw for more than two decades. His | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
celebration at the end of the match against Marco Fu yesterday proves he | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
cares as much about the Sport Today as he did when he first won the | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
title in 95. Will it be magnificent seven for the Rocket, Ronnie | :14:01. | :14:01. | |
O'Sullivan? This is one of snooker's three major | :14:02. | :14:38. | |
titles, the final, the best of 19 frames, eight of them this | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
afternoon, 11 tonight, Ken Doherty and John Fergal already. One of the | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
great occasions Good afternoon, Hazel, and good | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
afternoon everyone. You can tell from the reception both players got, | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
there is a tremendous atmosphere at Alexandra Palace. It gets you | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
jangling. Absolutely. The heroes at the back of the neck of both players | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
must be standing up. Coming down those stairs, what a fantastic | :15:11. | :15:11. | |
reception. Joel mentioned the biggest match of | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
his life. How will he hold himself together? That is the big question. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
First frame, Ronnie O'Sullivan to break. | :15:27. | :15:38. | |
But the cameras away, please. Playing for the Paul Hand Trophy, in | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
memory of the greater champion himself. His mum and dad are here. | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
-- Paul Hunter. Ronnie has lived about six times. Going for the | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
magnificent seven. Yes, when Stephen Hendry won it six times, you wonder | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
whether that could be bettered. -- lifted it. Joe will have something | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
to say about that. I feel he's got nothing to lose, he may be able to | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
relax and produce his best snooker. Ronnie will get the first | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
opportunity. He's just refusing. Didn't think he | :16:27. | :17:07. | |
would be able to get on a colour. You would have to field, it's an | :17:08. | :17:35. | |
important start, more so for Joe, to get off to a good start, settle his | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
nerves. His first major final. One of these big BBC tournaments. | :17:41. | :17:58. | |
Ronnie was hampered by the yellow, did well to get Kubot bad for back. | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
I think Stephen Hendry alluded to it, he has got to try and enjoy the | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
occasion and if he can, then it can bring out the best in you. | :18:12. | :18:22. | |
Pots like that will certainly settle him down quickly. | :18:23. | :18:47. | |
Purposely getting on the red below the black, that will free up the | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
black into the bottom left pocket. Just concentrating a little bit on | :18:53. | :19:08. | |
the cannon from the red. Unforgivable. Playing the cannon | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
don't take your eyes off, it was a natural cannon. Cannot afford to | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
miss. That is for sure. Just played a little cannon, into | :19:17. | :19:48. | |
the cue ball too much. This is not the red he wanted to be on. A little | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
work to do with the cue ball. Stunning around the back of the | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
black. As to find the gap between the red at the top cushion and the | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
black. The red immediately above the black | :20:02. | :20:19. | |
is available. Slight angle on the black, can play for that. | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
Deciding to play for the red along the top cushion. | :20:26. | :20:47. | |
He has to judge this well. Got to be careful with the split. Played it | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
superbly. Just had a word with the referee. I | :20:56. | :21:31. | |
don't know what that was about. Tried to pinch a bit of the pocket. | :21:32. | :21:51. | |
Joel was trying to avoid the case on the second red. A little bit of a | :21:52. | :22:05. | |
balance. Whenever he missed it Joe has to take full advantage. When he | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
missed his red in the corner, he may have thought it cost him the frame | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
but it hasn't. Just thought I heard Ronnie | :22:11. | :22:28. | |
mentioned something to Paul Collier about the practice table. Maybe just | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
the sound of the bolts on the practice table may be to kiss | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
concentration of slightly. -- may be took his. | :22:37. | :23:16. | |
That little cannon on the red makes this black more awkward. | :23:17. | :23:38. | |
Excellent part! As long as he got bad, it was always the red, close to | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
the yellow pocket, top left-hand corner pocket, was always there. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
Under the circumstances, very, very good. Just got to be careful here. | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
Control the cue ball off the baulk cushion. May have to use a little | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
bit of left-hand side. But that camera away, please. There is a | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
light on the front of it. Probably more difficult than this red. | :24:14. | :24:26. | |
The flick on the brown hasn't hindered him too much. | :24:27. | :25:18. | |
Concentrate on the pot. He's done, but not perfect on the pink. Can't | :25:19. | :25:31. | |
play yet to the far right corner or right middle, the right middle is | :25:32. | :25:32. | |
the easier. Good opportunity. To take the first | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
frame. Nice angle on the black if he wishes | :25:42. | :26:21. | |
to disturb the two reds. Get the points on the board. | :26:22. | :26:31. | |
Leading by 27. He is going to need three more reds with colours. | :26:32. | :26:42. | |
Another opportunity to play this little cannon. Just looking at the | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
scoreboard, this will put him 35 points in front. Played the cannon. | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
Worked out. APPLAUSE | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
You wouldn't expect a mistake now. Actually looks a bit more relaxed | :26:58. | :27:22. | |
than he did last night in parts of the match. Started off a bit | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
nervously, rallied a very, very well. | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
Looks very, very good this afternoon, relaxed walking around | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
the table, confident stride. Would be a real confidence boost if he | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
could make a century. Ronnie now needs two snookers. This | :27:43. | :27:55. | |
would really be eight secular if he could make a century. -- a secular. | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
Still a possibility. Ronnie O Sullivan missed an easy | :28:01. | :28:35. | |
read. Joe Perry gets a frame-winning 72. | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
Studio-macro Ronnie just having a chat with the referee about | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
something, fantastic start from Joe and he said last night my plan is to | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
get in front and stay in front. Go positively and believe I can this. | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
Mission accomplished. Great theory. It's great. Good to get your hands | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
on the table and it is nice to see your opponent miss. His contribution | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
will have settled him right down and let's face it, we're not talking | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
about someone who has just come off the streets. He is world number | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
nine, Ronnie is 13. He might be an 80-1 outsider and he's been around | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
the block a long time. Talking about her special occasion this is but | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
this is an adept and comparable player, when he's in a positive | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
frame of mind. Steve... The bookies made Ronnie a strong favourite and | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
everyone is thinking it will be a one-sided match but you're talking | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
about this, a player who has quality, class, experience, been on | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
the road and the ropes plenty of times, played at the World | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
Championships. Done everything to withstand what is going to be thrown | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
at him. Interestingly, I don't know... I was putting my head | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
around, trying to work for the conversation about, rather than | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
might Ronnie wasn't upset, but he was concerned, Paul Collier has had | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
a word with one of the organisers, it's something backstage. It appears | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
to be the noise on the practice table. Ronnie is properly a little | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
bit worried, who is knocking balls around on tables that are supposed | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
to be for professionals? I am sure we will get to the bottom of it. | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
Contrast and start from Joe, he lived ten to did against Barry | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
Hawkins. For more is a dearth from him. | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
Absolutely, he needs to get in front. All the players know when you | :30:27. | :30:33. | |
play Ronnie, if you get behind him, he just runs away from you. You | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
don't get a foothold in the match so that's why it's so important, the | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
opening session. In terms of its comfort levels, even the memory of | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
that brown Joe Perry sank last night to beat Barry Hawkins will give him | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
confidence because was a very late finish for him. He's not had a huge | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
amount of time to turn this around. This is a different day and Joe | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
Perry, chance to get in the final and he may have frozen a bit. He got | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
over the line in the end. This is different, he is the underdog. It's | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
a lot easier playing as the underdog. Frame two. | :31:10. | :31:18. | |
Decent length. Ronnie will take on that red. | :31:19. | :31:32. | |
At least he stopped short of the baulk line. A fraction too far. | :31:33. | :31:51. | |
That the idea where he wanted to play that shot. Get it really tight | :31:52. | :32:01. | |
to the snooker ball. Cut out the easy one-cushion escape and when | :32:02. | :32:07. | |
he's done that... A delicate touch particularly on these superfine | :32:08. | :32:29. | |
clots. -- cloths. . Foul and miss. That was a bad misjudgement from | :32:30. | :32:31. | |
Joe. May elect to take the green here, | :32:32. | :33:11. | |
screw off the left-hand side cushion if you can. Just two reds above the | :33:12. | :33:22. | |
pot. Still not going into the pack. Playing the loose one. That is inch | :33:23. | :33:30. | |
perfect. Couldn't place that much better with his hand. Fantastic | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
shot. Bringing a couple more reds into play here. | :33:37. | :33:50. | |
Just hampered slightly with the red. Made it more tricky, particularly | :33:51. | :34:05. | |
when they are playing with a new tip. | :34:06. | :34:18. | |
The first round would have irritated Ronnie, missing that straightforward | :34:19. | :34:21. | |
red. Now Joe is just going to come around | :34:22. | :34:41. | |
and look at the red above the black spot. Will pot into the bottom | :34:42. | :34:44. | |
right-hand pocket. I'm sure it will. Now he will pot this and leave a | :34:45. | :35:03. | |
nice angle on the black. Into the pack here. Good pace. | :35:04. | :35:13. | |
That's pretty good. It was always going to be on that | :35:14. | :35:25. | |
red. If you can avoid the blue when he's | :35:26. | :35:42. | |
plotting this, he could go for the baulk colours, he's OK. | :35:43. | :36:11. | |
He knew he would always have a chance at the black. Straightforward | :36:12. | :36:18. | |
pot. A bit of work to do with the cue ball. | :36:19. | :36:27. | |
Settled for that. That's worked out perfectly. Obviously the priority | :36:28. | :36:38. | |
was to pot the black. Look at that, inch perfect on this red. | :36:39. | :36:50. | |
Wiped its feet, that. Into the middle of the pocket. | :36:51. | :37:03. | |
That could've been a bit better. He's got the red on the left centre | :37:04. | :37:13. | |
but has been hampered slightly. He can only drop it in. He's got the | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
blue and black afterwards. No. Just hampered slightly. Made it a bit | :37:20. | :37:26. | |
more difficult than it could have been. I still fancy him to pot it. I | :37:27. | :37:35. | |
don't think he has left anything. No attempt at the pot. A very good | :37:36. | :38:11. | |
cue ball. On the baulk crush on. Although Joe Perry has a 22 point | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
lead, he's got to be very careful here. He may play the pot here if | :38:16. | :38:21. | |
you can find a path back to the ball. I don't think he played the | :38:22. | :38:29. | |
pot in the end. Just concentrating getting the cue ball back to the | :38:30. | :38:31. | |
baulk and. -- end. | :38:32. | :38:43. | |
APPLAUSE You've got to be careful if you play | :38:44. | :39:30. | |
safe down the right-hand side of the table. | :39:31. | :39:31. | |
There's one or two obstacles in there. But it's natural to play safe | :39:32. | :39:38. | |
down the right-hand side rather than the left-hand side as we look. | :39:39. | :39:46. | |
Played it well, but there's a red going towards the corner. And it's | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
not covered. Now will try to get the red out into | :39:52. | :40:03. | |
the right That was a nearly one. The red | :40:04. | :40:52. | |
didn't go into the heart of the pocket. The green is not on the | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
spot. Makes this a little bit easier. | :40:57. | :41:03. | |
The problem is, with this red, the left corner Ronnie is looking at, I | :41:04. | :41:46. | |
don't think the black goes into that same pocket. The black in the | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
opposite corner, it's not an easy task. | :41:52. | :42:07. | |
Yeah, didn't have the greatest angle on the blue. Tried to power it | :42:08. | :42:37. | |
through the baulk area and the kiss on the greenhouse cup is | :42:38. | :42:56. | |
chance. Ronnie has to show a bit of patience as well. He doesn't want to | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
force the issue much and give Joe too many easy chances to get | :43:02. | :43:12. | |
settled. A bit thick with that one. That's why he's not gone past the | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
baulk line. Slightly awkward cueing for Ronnie here. There is another | :43:18. | :43:26. | |
red, but his playing this one. Can eat you pass the yellow? If he | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
can't, he will have to put some side on their yellow. That's why the | :43:32. | :43:39. | |
straight one... There's a bit more pressure on this one. He would like | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
to play the one in the middle of the table but the yellow is helping him | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
slightly. He's playing this one. Good cueing. | :43:50. | :43:55. | |
So things not working out quite as planned for Ronnie at the moment. | :43:56. | :44:42. | |
Just a couple of reds, a couple of colours away from winning the second | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
frame, Joe Perry. If he parts of this red now, he will | :44:47. | :45:18. | |
go 44 ahead with just 43 remaining. -- if he pots this red now, he will | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
go 44 ahead with just 43 remaining. That should mean that Ronnie should | :45:23. | :45:44. | |
not bother coming back to the table. You have to say, this is just the | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
start that Joe needed. Yes, absolutely. Settling in nicely. | :45:51. | :45:58. | |
Looks to be enjoying himself at there. It's very important for him | :45:59. | :45:59. | |
to get off to a good start. This final, of course, two sessions, | :46:00. | :46:08. | |
best of 19, first to 10. He's not bothered about the black. | :46:09. | :47:40. | |
43 from Joe Perry there. He now takes a 2-0 lead over defending | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
champion Ronnie O'Sullivan. Last year we were remembering that Barry | :47:46. | :47:51. | |
Hawkins won the first frame last year and an winner frame afterwards. | :47:52. | :47:55. | |
Already has great friend Joe Perry has made great strides against | :47:56. | :47:58. | |
Ronnie than he did at this early stage and this is good stuff from | :47:59. | :48:04. | |
him so far. With hindsight, this many certainties in sport but before | :48:05. | :48:10. | |
the start, there's not many at all and the history of sports betting I | :48:11. | :48:13. | |
would imagine is littered with people who've put all their eggs in | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
one Ascot, lumbered on a very short priced and lived to tell the tale a | :48:18. | :48:22. | |
lot poorer. You mention that betting for this. 10-3 for Ronnie was the | :48:23. | :48:31. | |
most popular punt outside. Absolutely it was. Most people seem | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
to think it was going to be a cakewalk but it's not prove to be at | :48:36. | :48:38. | |
the moment but the funny thing is, I'm always into these things, how | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
people get to the final. Last Sunday, Ronnie O'Sullivan should not | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
be here. Remember this one? I hope Liang is not watching because this | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
was to knock him out last week. Frame ten and Ronnie came back and | :48:53. | :48:55. | |
made a century to knock him out but the margin is terribly small. Joe | :48:56. | :49:00. | |
Perry last night with probably the sort of the tournament. He makes a | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
clearance after being 50 behind and potted a brown which was superb. | :49:06. | :49:12. | |
Back we go. Ronnie, 2-0 behind. Break up shop. Leaving that | :49:13. | :49:26. | |
obligatory red in the right corner. It's a nice angle to get round the | :49:27. | :49:36. | |
back of the black. Courted to fix. If you are going to miss them, don't | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
catch them thick. This is a chance now for Ronnie. | :49:42. | :49:57. | |
First frame, he missed the black, that frame he was hampered. | :49:58. | :50:05. | |
A little bit too far. Two straight on the blue. He will have two stun | :50:06. | :50:17. | |
it in. He found an angle. To get closer to the red. This is what he | :50:18. | :50:23. | |
was always going to play for. That pink is not available. Back-up for | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
blue. He did have a look. He's always looking to get the black into | :50:30. | :50:33. | |
play. I'm wondering whether that read to the left of the black and he | :50:34. | :50:44. | |
can get on it? If, of course, he gets that red, it could go both | :50:45. | :50:54. | |
corners. Just a cannon, though here. Without moving the black. | :50:55. | :51:01. | |
Purposely staying low on this red now. He's going for the top this | :51:02. | :51:16. | |
time. Bringing two reds into play. He struck that absolutely | :51:17. | :51:39. | |
beautifully. When you consider he had a new tip on yesterday, there | :51:40. | :51:46. | |
didn't seem to be anything wrong to me. A bit of left-hand side now. | :51:47. | :51:56. | |
Lovely angle. Getting through the cue ball beautifully. No problems | :51:57. | :52:03. | |
getting through the black here. OK, he's not entered up in the left-hand | :52:04. | :52:10. | |
corner pocket, but he was knocking one or two reds towards the right | :52:11. | :52:11. | |
centre. They both pot. He will be very eager to try to win | :52:12. | :52:40. | |
this frame from this visit, just to settle his own nerves he may be | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
feeling. It would have been a shock to the system to miss in the first | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
round. The Blackie missed the second frame. -- black he missed in the | :52:53. | :53:00. | |
second I think he played for a choice of | :53:01. | :53:28. | |
two reds there. Just to the left of the pink. If you can kiss on the | :53:29. | :53:35. | |
black, it shouldn't be a problem. Full stretch, though. Yes, stop | :53:36. | :53:46. | |
himself. . The extension. -- yes, stopped himself. Got the extension. | :53:47. | :53:55. | |
Played the soft screw. Could be the pink goes in. Definitely the red to | :53:56. | :54:04. | |
the left as you can see. So he will play for that red. He needs to get | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
into this, though. Offer side cushion. -- off the side cushion. | :54:10. | :54:38. | |
He would like the cue ball to travel into the middle of the table six or | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
eight inches, but he is still OK. Now he needs an angle. Doesn't have | :54:44. | :54:55. | |
it on the green. Doesn't have it on the brown. And looks like he doesn't | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
have it on the yellow. It's not great. They're still 75 points | :55:02. | :55:07. | |
remaining. He will have to disturb something to keep this break going. | :55:08. | :55:18. | |
He's got a slight angle on the green but to put top spin, come off the | :55:19. | :55:27. | |
side cushion into the reds, that's a big ask. Don't get me wrong, he's | :55:28. | :55:36. | |
got the cue power to play it. Is there any value in potting one of | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
these baulk colours and playing a safety shot? I'm not sure here. He | :55:42. | :55:46. | |
has got the rest out which tells me is going to play the brown. Is not | :55:47. | :55:49. | |
going to play the pot. Yes, clever shot. No real value | :55:50. | :56:07. | |
potting the green there. Wasn't going to get any more points so have | :56:08. | :56:13. | |
a bit of insurance, put the brown say. He knows if Joe Perry is going | :56:14. | :56:17. | |
to win this frame commies going to need that brown, so made it more | :56:18. | :56:18. | |
difficult. What has he spotted here, a | :56:19. | :56:38. | |
three-ball plant? I think it might push to the left as | :56:39. | :56:53. | |
we look. Oh no it didn't. Into the pocket. | :56:54. | :57:11. | |
He might not have got tight, as we watch that plan to gain. Well | :57:12. | :57:22. | |
spotted. It will be difficult for Joe Perry to get this say. There's | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
always a gap. Between the yellow and blue. He can't get the cue ball back | :57:27. | :57:33. | |
to the baulk and. Is got to somehow that it say. And he needs to get it | :57:34. | :57:42. | |
say. Ronnie is only looking for one more red. | :57:43. | :57:49. | |
There is a read up into the green pocket here. He only needs one red. | :57:50. | :58:07. | |
He decided against it. Nice shot. And beautiful. Lovely control. Yes, | :58:08. | :58:18. | |
I think you alluded to it before, he's got to play at right. | :58:19. | :58:21. | |
Obviously, is never going to panic. He's got to treat Joe with respect | :58:22. | :58:28. | |
here. That is a good escape. Well played. Good shot. | :58:29. | :58:48. | |
Yes, he was a bit disappointed with that. | :58:49. | :58:55. | |
He was up straightaway. This is a chance for Joe. Close. | :58:56. | :59:10. | |
But he's not left an easy chance for Ronnie to close the frame. | :59:11. | :59:26. | |
Is Ronnie thinking of a possible plant? The only needs a red. Only 59 | :59:27. | :59:34. | |
remaining. No plant. Just a safety and a pretty | :59:35. | :59:46. | |
good one. When you look at the table now. | :59:47. | :00:21. | |
A couple of interesting spectators. The keyboard players of the Kaiser | :00:22. | :00:34. | |
Chiefs. -- player. And of course Paul Martin from flog it, kept his | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
tickets, obviously didn't flog it. Ronnie's attempt didn't go in. Now | :00:39. | :00:55. | |
the chance for the counterattack, not an easy one, he made the save | :00:56. | :01:04. | |
shot a few ago, got red leather side cushion, particularly by the right | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
hands so a lot of work to do for Joe here. He's just about on this | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
thread, 53 points behind, 59 available, he has points to spare | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
but doesn't want to be playing too many low value colours. Just about | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
on the green. Play that nicely. 49 behind, 51 | :01:31. | :01:52. | |
remaining. Off these last three reds he can afford one pink. | :01:53. | :02:21. | |
Now he has a slight angle on the black, you try to disturb the red | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
will try to dropping behind it? His choice. Disturbed it and it couldn't | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
have worked out much better than that. | :02:37. | :03:05. | |
A little bit low on the black, if it was a bit slower it'd be easier than | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
this but if you swing sets roundabout to conditions then he's | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
not certain to finish that good on the yellow. Forgot the black. | :03:18. | :03:32. | |
Didn't see that one coming. I think that will secure this first frame | :03:33. | :03:44. | |
for him and reduce the deficit. That was a golden opportunity for Joe | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Perry. Because that is what joker played had he had that opportunity. | :03:50. | :03:59. | |
-- Joe could have played. I think he over contemplated that black. Just | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
confuse himself a little. Was thinking about how he can get | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
perfect on the yellow but you never take your eyes off the pot which is | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
what he did. He played it very well but Joe Perry | :04:12. | :04:31. | |
will be very disappointed that he had the chance to take a 3-0 | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
advantage. STUDIO: O'Sullivan off the mark in | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
his fourth Masters final which is an extraordinary record in itself. Joe | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
Mr black and seem to second-guess himself? And nightmare shots for | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Joe, he had a few ways to get on the yellow but this is the classic | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
example of somebody who as a coach you would say right OK before you | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
get down to play the shot, make sure you know what shots you're going to | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
play. They teach every golfer in the book, before you go to the routine, | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
you know exactly what you're going to do. Snooker is not like golf | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
stopping and starting, it is more fluid so sometimes you think on the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
hoof so to speak. On a shot like that you have to stand up again, | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
make your mind up and then get down. Impression so far, it's not gone the | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
way many people anticipated and as a spectacle it is all about it for | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
that? It is intriguing. You couldn't really expect him to play to the | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
standard of yesterday. It's interesting, that was a very big | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
mess on the black, a bit of indecision and Steve said it. Your | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
routine is your routine, you have to stick to it and if it's not right | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
get back and start again. Mentioned rawness performance yesterday and | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
the Peak performance and how much it takes out of you, could that be a | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
factor? The only thing I would say is Joe had the same thing us last | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
night. He knows the situation, I don't think in that one today, if it | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
had come after two or three performances like Neil Robertson a | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
few years ago where he played unbelievable snooker but not after | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
one performance. Almost got to the final and had nothing left and was | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
beaten 10-2 by Shaun Murphy. In terms of Joe's performance so far, I | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
know Stephen Hendrie along with many people had much of a chance, it's a | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
positive thing for him and he appears to be in a positive frame of | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
mind as he attacks this. That's the first thing that went wrong all day | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
long so I suppose of somebody said three frames you would be 2-1 in | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
front, he would've bitten the handoff because you don't know what | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
will happen at start of a match. Joe has done that and now we are in the | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
second phase of the match really, we passed the part of the manoeuvring | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
part in getting down to seeing who has the bigger guns. You made a | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
point about a certain 1985 and final but being in a World Championship | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
final in 2015, Stuart Bingham had a fairy tale together and many people | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
thought Murphy would have the better of him but fairy tales definitely | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
happen in the sport. The mid-session interval will come | :07:31. | :07:51. | |
after this frame. It's an important one. Joe would love to have a two | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
frame advantage going into that mid-session interval. | :07:58. | :08:12. | |
For someone who has had a few bets over the years, the only uncertainty | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
I know is after the one. He was 80-1 before the beginning of the week Joe | :08:22. | :08:22. | |
Perry. Try to hold for the black but at | :08:23. | :08:41. | |
that distance playing below centre, it gets off-line. Ronnie had a look | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
to see what he's got left, he hasn't left an individual pots but is there | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
a plant? A bit of distance between the two reds but one he could | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
certainly make. There is a gap to go off the pack as well to get the cue | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
ball back up in the middle as well. Very well played. | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
That's a poor shot. He really wanted to be up higher on the cue ball. | :09:15. | :10:22. | |
Just dropping it in for the black. The previous shot was a very poor | :10:23. | :10:37. | |
positional shot and he had so much room for error here. | :10:38. | :10:48. | |
You don't get many opportunities against the likes of O'Sullivan but | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
he is in top form, when you do get the easy chances you have to make | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
more of them. And as you said no excuse for coming up short. Plenty | :11:00. | :11:11. | |
of margin for error. I don't think he can miss going back to the ball | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
unless he decides he has seen enough of the red to pass the pot. Decides | :11:17. | :11:31. | |
to play the containing safety. Safe enough. | :11:32. | :12:15. | |
That was a magnificent shot. He has had a bit of trouble there. The | :12:16. | :12:28. | |
judge has perfectly missed the black on the way down. Back up towards the | :12:29. | :12:40. | |
ball cushion behind the green. Always a possibility when you hit | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
the pack that hard that something will go over a corner pockets, has | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
he covered it? This looks like a certain plant into this pocket. | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
You think it's a plan to put if it was a straightforward plant I would | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
play the one near the middle pocket on to it. Because then he would be | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
guaranteed position on the blue. If he comes off the side cushion and | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
makes the plant then he's not certain to be on a collar. It's | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
something like that the angle, that's what he'll try to achieve, a | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
cushion first -- colour. Let's see how this looks. It's not bad. | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
CROWD CLAPPING I wondered how he would get off the | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
colour on that. He will be pleased with the outcome. Looks like one of | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
your trick shots that John. He will be very pleased with that. | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
Absolutely. Now the position at the moment, the black is not available | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
to either corner pocket you would've thought. See you would think the red | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
over the right corner, gets rid of that but it's one of those when it's | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
close to the cushion like that, you can't inject a lot of place so he | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
may just settle for a few blues here. | :14:22. | :14:34. | |
I think now he would play for the red over the right corner. | :14:35. | :14:47. | |
Definitely play for it now. It's one of these, because he's so close, you | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
don't have to hit it hard, you can hit it harder than half and the way | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
to play it is to play below centre, just strike it below centre. Play | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
with top and you can banana the shot. He will settle for that. He's | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
on the green. The pink I'm sure is available into | :15:08. | :15:33. | |
the bottom right-hand corner pocket, he has to be pretty precise with his | :15:34. | :15:34. | |
position. He is held at nicely. The little kiss on the road, trying | :15:35. | :15:57. | |
to get the red in the same pocket as the pink. I suppose he'll is new he | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
had the left corner but surprised it is not still in play for the red in | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
the middle. Andrew with the blue not being on its spots, wasn't that easy | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
to get a good position. A good shot here on the green. He | :16:13. | :16:28. | |
can cut the blue, a lot of work to do with the cue ball. Does he flick | :16:29. | :16:46. | |
it off on the red? Not quite. Because of the fin contact he needed | :16:47. | :16:56. | |
the pace. Just came a little bit narrow. Got the flick on the pink. | :16:57. | :17:37. | |
He will be disappointed with that safety. This thread just below the | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
pink does pot. -- Reid. The chance now for Joe | :17:49. | :18:08. | |
Perry. A big frame this now. Both players have chances. | :18:09. | :18:35. | |
This black will take Joe Perry four points in front. Leave this for | :18:36. | :19:26. | |
remaining reds with high values, it doesn't look too difficult. Just has | :19:27. | :19:37. | |
to keep the cue ball under close | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
control here. Ronnie will be kicking himself that he didn't make that | :19:49. | :19:49. | |
opportunity. A good performance so far with Joe | :19:50. | :20:09. | |
Perry in this first session. He has held himself together very well. | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
This frame would be a great steel. The great confidence booster. | :20:17. | :20:31. | |
This black will put 28 points ahead so we just need the red after this | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
black. Wonderful. Good stuff. You get the feeling he | :20:35. | :21:05. | |
would always get a chance or two, that's the nature of the game but if | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
he would take them. Honestly I didn't see him getting this many | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
chances. Fair play and he will go into the interval on a high you | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
would think. Not many people gave him a chance in this match. | :21:22. | :21:44. | |
74 break from Joe Perry. And now leads the defending champion 3-1. | :21:45. | :22:25. | |
Fascinating story and not the one many predicted. 3-1 to the underdog. | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
In terms of the break, 74, 72 and this is much better than what we saw | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
from Joe in the final. I agree with commentary, I didn't think you'd be | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
getting this many chances. Ronnie is not there, but difficult two days on | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
the spin. Joe will be sitting there are very happy with a 3-1 lead. How | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
big a task is this for people just coming into this match, objectively | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
speaking, for Joe Perry to beat Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
today? The task gets greater as he gets closer to the finishing line. | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
These are the early exchanges so he has done as well as he could ask for | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
and I think from Ronnie O'Sullivan's perspective and Joe's, its levels of | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
expectation, where does he go after this performance after Marco Fu, Joe | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
can't do any worse than the last, he scraped over the line, he can't play | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
any worse than that really. Therefore perhaps the writing was on | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
the wall that Joe would play with more freedom and perhaps that Ronnie | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
Wood possibly have too much expectation on himself and there is | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
the possibility that this is Ronnie's 12 final at the Masters and | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
he has won six, if he would lose this, his strike rate of finals is | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
50% which is not as good as normal champions so it's a strange | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
situation. It is and even stranger when you think about the levels of | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
belief that Joe Perry will have to summon today. As we said at the | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
start, he has only beaten him twice in 15 attempts and not since 2008 so | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
we are going back an awful long time to summon that feeling again. The | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
last seven matches have all been Ronnie. I don't understand where it | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
has come from. This is why as a snooker player just punch and hang | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
on in. He turned up and I think he lost his last five matches turning | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
up, he won a 6-1, got against Barry Hawkins and a couple of weeks ago he | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
was thinking about packing in, you have to keep playing and practising | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
and sometimes when you least expect it it goes your way. Funnily enough | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
he said it had stopped his thoughts of quitting the game after beating | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
Bingham, he said he fell out of love with the game and suddenly as John | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
said this comes out, and incredible patch. If you think about what | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
happened to Mark King recently. You get somebody bashing against a brick | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
wall for seems like a long time having some success but failure as | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
well. Then down the line it all clicks into place. As long as you | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
are optimistic enough then you have a chance and that is what has | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
happened today. It doesn't sound like Joe Perry has tweaked anything | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
in his game, he has just plucked away. He sure is and has produced a | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
trickle to this week. Speaking of tricks, you probably remember last | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
Sunday when we showed you one of the most incredible trick shots we have | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
scenes. We've edited this upper bits because it does run over two | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
minutes. It was at the all stars club in Bristol. This took four | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
hours to set up. It was set up at closing time in the club and they | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
kept tinkering until about dawn when the cleaners were about to come in. | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
It involved stairs and snooker tables and two American pool tables | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
and 60 notable tables and it's definitely worth seeing again | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
because it's an extraordinary thing. It is nice to know there's a level | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
beakers that cue ball could have rolled off early and we would have | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
to get the fitters in and all sorts. Great use of all of these. And it's | :26:23. | :26:33. | |
obviously not the same ball that goes into the hole at the end that | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
started out but is nonetheless a feat of engineering and here it | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
comes. The ball has travelled over 500 feet. I believe they are already | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
planning on topping that the man responsible for that, Shane O'Hara | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
from Bristol is with Dennis trying to pass on some tips. That is one of | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
the finest trick shots I have ever seen, how long did it take you to | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
set that up? I will never get tired watching it that's for sure. It took | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
me nine hours start to finish. I used to manage a snooker club, you | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
close at 11 and open at half mindset how did you manage it? That was | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
pretty much it, you can see the clean air in the background waiting | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
to claim and I to shove out the way and get finished. Where was the | :27:23. | :27:31. | |
club? All-stars in Bristol. To be fair the lot of reason why it works | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
is because it is a spectacular venue. If it was a bit rougher it | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
might not work. Are you a snooker player or a bit of pull? I'm a bad | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
pool player and it even worse snooker player. How did you even | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
think about the shot? Just a bit of marketing and it was a slow news | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
week so it has taken off because there wasn't a lot of going on in | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
the world. To get over 100 million people watching it is something | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
special. I'm going to put you under real pressure here because I've | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
trick shot setup and its live so you can't not, you have one go at it. | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
You can borrow my cute. No pressure here. Live is not my friend but I | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
will have a lash at it. I'm shaking, is that normal. | :28:25. | :28:40. | |
What about the 80 cakes do I get them? You only get the one it take | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
for that. You show me how to do it. Have we got the white ball? Here we | :28:46. | :28:55. | |
go. There will be 100 million people | :28:56. | :29:20. | |
happy to see me niss that up. Well done guys. We've had 23 centuries, | :29:21. | :29:33. | |
five final frame deciders, two near misses in maximums and in other | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
words, plenty of opportunities and indeed contenders for the shot of | :29:38. | :29:38. | |
the tournament 2017. What is he going to attempt here on | :29:39. | :29:58. | |
the green? Something special? He is. Look at the action on that cue ball. | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
What a positional shot that is, by the way. Oh my goodness. What a | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
shock but is. To get the work on that around the angles, what a shot. | :30:10. | :30:23. | |
He has got it this time and he has got away with it. | :30:24. | :30:35. | |
Easy safety, but the pot wins you the frame. | :30:36. | :30:48. | |
What a pot that was! Listen to the raw. | :30:49. | :31:00. | |
A little bit strange. He's got the wrong angle on the yellow. One thing | :31:01. | :31:09. | |
he has got is an abundance of cue power, Stuart Bingham. Watch the | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
white spin. Well played. Unbelievable amount of side on that. | :31:17. | :31:33. | |
Come on Ding. There is the cue ball. Flicked on the brown. It looks | :31:34. | :31:44. | |
really good. What a shot! He couldn't have put it better than | :31:45. | :31:46. | |
that. A big smile. Look at this for a shot. Absolutely | :31:47. | :32:14. | |
delightful. He knew he could not force that one in because of the red | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
on the cushion, but we have seen him knock a few of those in but that | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
cannon was exquisite. I tell you what, what an effort to | :32:23. | :33:09. | |
that is. I mean, that is as good a positional shot as you will ever | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
see. Loads of top spin there. That was a bit special. | :33:14. | :33:28. | |
Not often Ronnie thinks about a shot this length of time, but it very | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
understandable here. It was worth waiting for. I said he | :33:33. | :33:47. | |
would do well to find a path down the table, and he found a pot and | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
he's on a brown to get back up to the reds. | :33:54. | :34:00. | |
Even if he got to the right-hand side he has got the blue to miss, | :34:01. | :34:10. | |
the green, to miss, good luck. Good luck. Good luck with this one! Great | :34:11. | :34:17. | |
shot! What a shot! To vote for your favourite, go to | :34:18. | :34:35. | |
the website. We will announce the winner | :34:36. | :34:55. | |
receiving. That escape was part of the high drama last night in the | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
semifinal win over Barry Hawkins and it's the underdog who holds a 3-1 | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
advantage and let's get the view from the Kerry camp at the moment. | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
Great excitement, I'm sure. I'm here with Joe's father Peter, and his | :35:09. | :35:15. | |
good friend Barry. What a fantastic start from Joe Perry. Brilliant, | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
yet. To be quite honest, he was pretty nervous, but he's not firing | :35:20. | :35:28. | |
as well as he did in his first two matches but he's getting there. He | :35:29. | :35:31. | |
looks a lot more calm and confidence and more sure of himself, even | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
walking around the table. The semifinal in his eyes is the match | :35:37. | :35:43. | |
to the final, win it, brilliant, come second, brilliant. You know | :35:44. | :35:46. | |
what I mean? That's why he is a lot,. Is that what you would have | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
said to them, he's got nothing to lose? Everyone is expecting Ronnie | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
to win but he is the underdog and he's got nothing to lose. No, he's | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
made a great achievement to get this far. He's got to go out there, enjoy | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
it, try and relax, and played the best he can. And hopefully that will | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
be good enough. Peter, tell me about Joe's mother. She can't watch it. | :36:11. | :36:19. | |
She won't even be watching at home? She works at Barnardos, she works | :36:20. | :36:23. | |
there during the day and recorded obviously live. She won't watch it. | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
If I ring up and give her a good result, she might watch it because | :36:31. | :36:36. | |
she knows the result, but she said give Hazel ring because anybody will | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
know I gave birth to him. His younger brother is coming down | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
tonight. OK, the nerves will be jangling but a great start for Joe | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
Perry. Lots to look forward to in the second half of the match. And | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
there's lots of work forlornly to do at this stage. The best of 19, the | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
first 210 and this evening's session to come. He's got some work to do to | :37:00. | :37:06. | |
change the order in terms of snooker 's majors. We've been showing you | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
this graphic over the last couple of days which indicates the state of | :37:10. | :37:14. | |
play in snooker's three major titles, and O Sullivan has a chance | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
to get the most number of wins in the Masters, he currently shares | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
with Stephen Hendry, but for the first time in 18 years, there could | :37:24. | :37:30. | |
be a revision of the record books in snooker's record books because not | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
since Stephen Hendry overtook Steve Davis and Ray Reardon has somebody | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
set a new benchmark in these events, and you have been in this situation, | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
Steve, and I wonder how significant it could be in terms of snooker? I'm | :37:47. | :37:52. | |
not too sure the players, when they're competing in the tournament | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
at that moment, think about it, but when you look back over your career, | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
it's something to be proud of so it matters. As we know full well, from | :38:00. | :38:06. | |
the amount of disappointment Stephen Hendry has felt when some of his | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
records have been broken, it does hurt. It shows they are far too | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
greedy. You wanted all of those tournaments, let someone else when. | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
We have got another four frames this afternoon in the final of this | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
Masters. Lets remind you of what the story has been in the first four so | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
far. At the start of the 2017 final, odds-on favourite against 8-1 | :38:31. | :38:37. | |
outsider, Ronnie missed this in frame one and Perry grabbed the | :38:38. | :38:46. | |
lead, 72. A foul from Ronnie gave Joe another chance and he stepped in | :38:47. | :38:53. | |
for a second frame. 53. A 2-0 lead for the outsider. In frame three, | :38:54. | :38:59. | |
Ronnie made a 58 break that Joe was on the chase with a chance of a | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
steel before missing that black and Ronnie wins his first frame and his | :39:05. | :39:12. | |
12th final. And then, in frame for, another clearance of 72 for Perry | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
with this long red has given Job and unexpected very, very unexpectedly | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
-- Joel. Four more to play this afternoon and | :39:23. | :39:30. | |
we will enjoy them in the company of Dennis Taylor and Stephen Hendry now | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
in the commentary box. Good afternoon, Hazel. Great reception | :39:35. | :39:42. | |
for both players. A lot of this Alexandra Palace crowd went | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
expecting to see 3-1 to Joe Perry, but Joel and his fans will be quite | :39:49. | :39:54. | |
pleased forth I spoke to his dad before the interview, and he was | :39:55. | :40:01. | |
very optimistic. He's hoping for great things from his son. Ronnie | :40:02. | :40:12. | |
O'Sullivan to break. As we always know, things can be changed around. | :40:13. | :40:28. | |
Yes, Joe has got to be expecting an onslaught at some stage. He's got to | :40:29. | :40:39. | |
keep believing. I think, if he can keep unforced errors to an extreme | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
minimum, when he's got the lead in a match, it could happen. | :40:47. | :41:03. | |
Four more frames in this afternoon's session. He could have a lead going | :41:04. | :41:17. | |
into tonight 's session. If he keeps saying good safety shots like that, | :41:18. | :41:26. | |
he will get chances. We know Ronnie is a terrific tactical player as | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
well, but he needs a good return here. | :41:32. | :41:37. | |
That's not the return he was after. The cannon on the yellow has left a | :41:38. | :41:48. | |
straight red for him. A slight angle. It looks to be dead straight. | :41:49. | :41:52. | |
Now you see it. It's been interesting in the first | :41:53. | :43:00. | |
four frames, his body language, complaining about things, getting | :43:01. | :43:01. | |
agitated. Is almost trying too hard. That's a very good point, Stephen. | :43:02. | :43:33. | |
He would take a record away from you, second Masters title, looking | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
forward, but sometimes if you do try that little bit too hard, it makes | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
things much more difficult. Just lost the cue ball. Depends on | :43:44. | :44:13. | |
the angle he has got on the Akrotiri. | :44:14. | :44:23. | |
He will have to come in and out of baulk. | :44:24. | :44:58. | |
Enough left-hand side to avoid coming back and catching the green. | :44:59. | :45:06. | |
Played that very nicely. Something very, very relaxing about Joe out | :45:07. | :45:12. | |
there this afternoon. Beautiful touch player, Joe Perry. Very rarely | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
see him hit the ball too hard. Carrying on from where he left off | :45:18. | :46:04. | |
before the mid-session interval. He had a break of 74 to go into a 3-1 | :46:05. | :46:15. | |
lead. Every chance now of clinching this fifth frame with this visit. | :46:16. | :46:51. | |
Got enough angle on the blue, not a problem. For the next red. I say no | :46:52. | :47:06. | |
problem, he could've played that better. He's hampered this one to | :47:07. | :47:16. | |
the left corner. A slight lapse therein concentration. He's got to | :47:17. | :47:18. | |
be careful with this one. Doesn't matter how good you are. If | :47:19. | :47:35. | |
you are sitting in the seat, you can't do much about it. | :47:36. | :48:08. | |
Not going to be easy to make a century break, the way the balls | :48:09. | :48:17. | |
have situated. Disturb the two every chance of doing that. This will be | :48:18. | :48:27. | |
the 24th century, 28 if he can get one. This is tricky. If it's tight | :48:28. | :48:37. | |
on the question, a better chance of rolling it into the pocket. | :48:38. | :48:47. | |
Just about. He hit the cushion halfway. | :48:48. | :49:01. | |
This is a fantastic performance in this frame. And never looked in any | :49:02. | :49:10. | |
danger from the first pot. Absolutely fantastic. Joe Perry. | :49:11. | :49:18. | |
Terratec reception in this packed audience here. # terrific reception. | :49:19. | :49:30. | |
That was Joe's fourth century in this year's Masters. Good timing. | :49:31. | :49:45. | |
141 is still the highest. Marco Fu have that. Doesn't matter about the | :49:46. | :50:02. | |
cannon on the brown. Can clear the lot. He has done more than enough. | :50:03. | :50:13. | |
Surely he couldn't cut this in? Not quite. A good start after the | :50:14. | :50:20. | |
mid-session interval. Joe Perry got one chance. He made a century break | :50:21. | :50:24. | |
and he now leads Ronnie O'Sullivan by 4-1. If it hadn't been for that | :50:25. | :50:30. | |
on the brown, you might have had a better angle on the yellow because | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
he was on for 142 and the highest break of the championship so far. It | :50:36. | :50:41. | |
is the 24th of the week, and in this current format of the Masters, a | :50:42. | :50:48. | |
wild card round, 28, so will it be beaten? We shall see. I'm sure Joe | :50:49. | :50:53. | |
was absolutely delighted with his fourth century of the week. This is | :50:54. | :50:59. | |
great stuff from Joe. Yes, it is. I'm not going to disagree with what | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
Stephen Hendry said at the top of the show because a lot of people | :51:04. | :51:05. | |
felt there was only one winner today. But I would be interested, | :51:06. | :51:11. | |
I'm not having a laugh, but what Stephen thinks. What percentage of | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
people now think Joe has a chance? It has gone up a bit. A fair bit I | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
would imagine. We were discussing the fact that Ronnie has, by his own | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
admission, being in a losing habit in the final. Since October, is lost | :51:26. | :51:32. | |
three finals. The cell B1 was an unbelievable match. You don't want | :51:33. | :51:41. | |
that to become habit -- Selby one. It wouldn't be the seismic shock of | :51:42. | :51:48. | |
Leicester win the Premier League. But it would be a shock if he won | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
because one is the favourite. Joe Perry is a very accomplished player | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
full of confidence at the moment. Steve made a very good point. | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
Sometimes being the underdog takes the pressure off. More cliches | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
coming out as well. Everyone has got a marathon in them. A good book in | :52:08. | :52:13. | |
them, whatever, and maybe this is Joe's moment. Expected nothing of | :52:14. | :52:21. | |
himself this week when he came to Ally Pally. He beat Stuart Bingham, | :52:22. | :52:29. | |
6-1 and struggled to get past John Higgins, 6-5, but he is flying here | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
in this final. Just picking up from what Steve | :52:34. | :52:49. | |
Davis was saying, I don't think the snooker world expect him to win. | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
Some of those people will certainly be having doubts. Even at 4-1 down. | :52:55. | :53:09. | |
If Joe can just believe in his ability, he can win this match. | :53:10. | :53:20. | |
This will really open up the frame, this next shot. Careful on the cue | :53:21. | :53:51. | |
ball. He has hit it far too hard. If it goes to the middle, that would be | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
a bonus, but a little bit of adrenaline there. He misjudged that | :53:57. | :54:02. | |
one completely. If it goes to the middle, it will get him out of | :54:03. | :54:10. | |
trouble here. Is it there? It is not. A little bit of frustration | :54:11. | :54:14. | |
that there. The shot from the black to the red | :54:15. | :54:30. | |
he was disgusted with, a very loose shot. That screw shot, he's | :54:31. | :54:41. | |
brilliant at, Ronnie O'Sullivan. I mean, this was clumsy, really. | :54:42. | :54:54. | |
The black is their easy enough. That was a wee bit careless. | :54:55. | :55:15. | |
You can't let up for a minute in this competition. Unforced errors, | :55:16. | :55:31. | |
you can't afford any. If he's going to win this match. The only | :55:32. | :55:37. | |
consolation for Joe there is that the black one is safe and he did not | :55:38. | :55:43. | |
get on the red as he intended. Having a 4-1 advantage, he's knows | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
he's going into this evening 's play, you can't be behind. Anything | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
else now would be a nice bonus for Joe. And keep the pressure on his | :55:52. | :55:56. | |
opponent. A little bit of an awkward frame | :55:57. | :56:16. | |
with the pink tied up and the black certainly tied up on the side | :56:17. | :56:18. | |
question. Joe would love to bring the black | :56:19. | :57:39. | |
into play here but if you place off that red and he's got to be careful | :57:40. | :57:46. | |
he doesn't get the double-kiss on the way back down, change of plan. A | :57:47. | :57:55. | |
change of plan. But wasn't the plan that he had in mind. He planned to | :57:56. | :58:02. | |
screw their white back into the baulk area. Just wobbling in the | :58:03. | :58:07. | |
jaws is what he was after. He's doing remarkably well, Joe, a | :58:08. | :58:23. | |
player after 25 years going for his first major title. His one ranking | :58:24. | :58:30. | |
event, 2015. But this would be some win for gentleman Joe. | :58:31. | :58:39. | |
An awful long way to go. You can see Ronnie's plan there. Get the black | :58:40. | :58:47. | |
back up on its own spot. Never looked like missing anything | :58:48. | :59:53. | |
like that in the semifinal against Marco Fu. There's a little bit of | :59:54. | :59:58. | |
pressure on the six time champion here. | :59:59. | :01:12. | |
You play the cue ball into the area, he could play for one of the two | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
ripples the right side corner or the left. He played for the one read to | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
the left corner. -- Reid. That one John to Little but it's OK. | :01:22. | :01:51. | |
Just giving the black a clean there. It's not a straightforward run to | :01:52. | :02:18. | |
the winning line in this frame, they are not completely out of position | :02:19. | :02:19. | |
these last two reds. That's pretty good. Just drop on the | :02:20. | :02:33. | |
pink here. Joe Perry 33. As soon as it hits the | :02:34. | :03:00. | |
cushion you know it's not going to drop. You can see it's just going to | :03:01. | :03:14. | |
the right slightly. The little head movement there, not the smoothest | :03:15. | :03:15. | |
stroke in the world. In the best of 19 there is going to | :03:16. | :03:36. | |
be little twists and turns in turning points. And this could be a | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
big one. Joe had a chance there to go 5-1 in front. | :03:44. | :04:13. | |
Just needs the blue to make absolutely sure but that's unnatural | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
angle to come back out for the pink anyway. | :04:19. | :04:30. | |
This might just relax Ronnie O'Sullivan this. He looked a little | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
on edge. And he looked as though he could lose the frame. I opened the | :04:38. | :04:48. | |
door for Ronnie O'Sullivan and he walked right through it. That was a | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
frame he badly needed but is still two behind. 4-2 to Joe Perry. A | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
couple of loose shots and that when you are saying perversely the | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
realisation of the scoreline kicks in at this point. It's a funny | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
thing, he would just think give me a good start, he goes for - one ahead | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
and he has that red. You have to hit the file draw with those, if you | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
don't hit the near one they don't go in and I hate to be pernickety about | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
it but when you get the best players, they know a part of the | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
match that is so important that they jump over the chance that is given. | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
There is weakness being shown by Ronnie today, he's not playing his | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
best and you can bet your bottom dollar that Stephen would be all | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
over that knowing it was the chance drive home. In agreement with that | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
because it difficult part of the match, you have a healthy lead and | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
feel good and then suddenly you know who is behind you. Going back to the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
levels of expectation, it's easy to play as the underdog and 4-1 looks | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
like 5-1 and you think you are the favourite and clinching it is a | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
different matter. The finishing line for Joe Perry has come a lot earlier | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
than we would have expected that that is the sign of what can happen | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
when you see the potential for a massive lead. The other thing is you | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
know you will be in front for the evening session, that's why it is | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
more important, you go five and you know you are into the night with a | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
lead. How vulnerable is O Sullivan today? Not so vulnerable now he won | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
the frame but that can change because a player in the ascendancy | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
doesn't take much before one relaxes and the other freezes or stalls. | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
They bit of panic sets in and so many things happen when you sit in | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
that chair. All of the twists and turns. | :06:48. | :07:06. | |
People like Steve Davis, Stephen Hendrie, they are used to winning, | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
this is the biggest day of his professional career Joe. If he could | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
lift the Masters. It is putting that in the back of your mind and getting | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
on with the game. He's caught that all wrong. An early | :07:20. | :07:40. | |
chance for Ronnie. Although saying an early chance, as we showed you | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
the safety shot, the black is available into the left corner and | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
of the White was a little bit of a left it would be easy to hold for | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
the black. He had to go all the way around the back there because he | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
didn't have the angle to hold for the black to the left corner so it | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
wasn't straightforward. In fact it might only be a safety shot now. | :08:11. | :09:42. | |
Good shape the shots from both players. -- safety. | :09:43. | :09:55. | |
That is coming up a bit short but looking at the red to the left | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
corner, he could cannon into the black so not a lot of value in that, | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
can find another way back down the table again. | :10:07. | :10:24. | |
The excellent length of the safety shot from Solomon. -- O'Sullivan. | :10:25. | :10:50. | |
He could drop this dead weight and finish on the black, this is a tough | :10:51. | :11:08. | |
shot. Brilliant pot. It didn't look as though that was on but the pace | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
he played attacks, he made the angle, just a little trace of the | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
right-hand side helped. What superb cueing that was. It's not going to | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
be easy to get in here with the awkward pink, the black fairly | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
awkward. If you can find a way to get on the | :11:30. | :12:10. | |
black then you can play the black and play for the red closest to the | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
black now and then you don't have too played black at any pace. So | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
possibly has been thinking about that for two or three shots time, | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
this red isn't a gimmick. Wide. Disappointing visits to the table | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
for Joe Perry. As some boys were saying in the studio this is such an | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
important time in the match for Joe Perry. He doesn't want to get in the | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
mindset that it can be 4-4, he has to keep lead. I think you mentioned | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
Ronnie was trying a bit too hard, I think it's a case that Joe is trying | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
a bit too hard at the moment. And Ronnie is looking much more relaxed. | :13:08. | :13:27. | |
One could split her. He could be in business. If this red comes past the | :13:28. | :13:41. | |
green it might block the path up into the right corner, he was | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
looking at that, the one between the pink and the blue would pot up into | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
the corner but that red has come off the cushion and block the path for | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
that. So the cannon didn't work at this time. | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
Just a little screw on it that brought it backwards. That been that | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
horrific shot had he picked it off but it was a bit of a free shot, | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
this red cuts into the right middle but that was very difficult. | :14:23. | :14:46. | |
Should be easy enough not to leave anything here. | :14:47. | :15:25. | |
The first four frames set the target, possibly winning 3-1 and if | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
you can get that advantage you would look at the second mini-session at | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
3-1 but if you share that and you know you're still in the driving | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
seat. Joe knows if he can get to five NES lead going into this | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
evening and that adds a little bit of pressure. Certainly to the | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
players who are not used to winning the majors. | :15:59. | :16:36. | |
Wants to avoid the double case, the red has turned out as a pretty | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
decent safety shot. He is looking at the possibility of | :16:42. | :16:57. | |
cutting this into the middle pocket and finishing on the black believe | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
it or not, he has to be careful who doesn't leave that one almost near | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
the middle but this would be some shot if he could put this and get on | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
the black. Without the cannon of the blue he | :17:08. | :17:22. | |
would have finished on the black, he thought he would slide past the blue | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
puts what a great opening pot there, is he going to be taking on the | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
pressure green? Now he has a chance. Just making absolute certainty what | :17:29. | :18:48. | |
he wants to do, no point playing the shots when you have a little bit of | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
indecision. Struck that well. Best break so far for Ronnie | :18:51. | :19:21. | |
O'Sullivan 58, not many finals he has played six frames and that is | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
his highest break. This could be a frame when the next | :19:24. | :20:24. | |
shot. Already 40 in France. -- front. A couple of the reds are | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
available so no need to play a cannon there. Just be careful you | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
don't screw back to the middle pocket. | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
Has he got enough angle? He's pretty straight on this. | :20:41. | :20:54. | |
That might be tight. Just enough room. A bit of distance between the | :20:55. | :21:11. | |
reds but I think he could make it. That was a nice little bonus to have | :21:12. | :21:31. | |
that available to him once he got straight on the blue. One more frame | :21:32. | :21:51. | |
to be played in the session. Doesn't matter about that. | :21:52. | :22:01. | |
That would have made absolutely sure of the frame but Joe is still in | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
with a glimmer of hope. A couple of snooker is needed | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
though. Not often you get a snooker with | :22:16. | :22:35. | |
three reds on the table spread out like that but he is snooker on them | :22:36. | :22:36. | |
all. -- snookered. I didn't see the match last evening | :22:37. | :23:02. | |
but neither did Barry Hawkins otherwise he would have gone out | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
6-2, he got the snooker and went on to win the match, what a win that | :23:08. | :23:09. | |
was for Joe. I was in studio for that match and | :23:10. | :23:25. | |
had never seen such a change in body language in a player, it was | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
phenomenal once he pinched the frame to go 5-3. | :23:29. | :23:59. | |
Still needs to snooker so he's OK taking the pink there. | :24:00. | :24:36. | |
Joe needs to four point snooker is, to reds, to blacks, a tall order | :24:37. | :24:48. | |
when the black is out of commission. He needs to get up to the pink here | :24:49. | :25:13. | |
from this red. Only 35 remaining as you can see, 44 | :25:14. | :25:53. | |
behind. That's one way of getting four | :25:54. | :26:24. | |
points. Very unlucky there. You could stand there all day and | :26:25. | :26:37. | |
not get that shot again. He has miss it this one completely, | :26:38. | :26:50. | |
should have been tight in behind the brand. -- brown. But he did bring | :26:51. | :27:02. | |
the black interplay which may help his cause. But still two snooker is | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
needed. This is a good one. That's a little | :27:09. | :27:24. | |
beauty that is. He would have loved that red to come a bit further away | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
from the cushion though. This is still a very tough snooker to hurt. | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
At least three cushions he would think. Might be able to achieve it | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
off to. If he goes all the way around its three cushions, has to go | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
around the back of the green then. It might even hit... What an escape | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
that is. He would do well to find another | :27:52. | :28:00. | |
snooker as good as that one. He has to be a bit careful coming | :28:01. | :28:27. | |
off the side cushion, it's so easy just to clip the green. Well judged. | :28:28. | :29:20. | |
That seemed to jump a little bit otherwise, about halfway through the | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
next frame. He knew Ronnie Wood pot the red. | :29:26. | :29:44. | |
Ronnie O'Sullivan on his way back. 4-1 down and now just 4-3 and one | :29:45. | :29:52. | |
left to play. STUDIO: Two on the bounce for Ronnie O'Sullivan and | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
great tactical stuff. Enjoyable when you have clever snookers and | :29:57. | :30:03. | |
fantastic escapes. Ronnie O'Sullivan had more adrenaline in the early | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
part of the frame and smelt a bit of blood. A little nick from Joe Perry | :30:09. | :30:17. | |
and pounced more. He will be feeling happier and the favourite to win the | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
last frame, not a massive favourite, but the favourite. A very important | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
frame. If you are Joe Perry and you come out of this 4-4 after leading | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
4-1 and your opponent is off his game you will be kicking yourself | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
because the opening session has been a chance to stamp his authority. If | :30:37. | :30:44. | |
you come with it, great, if he doesn't, he will be disappointed. | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
The heavy scoring from Joe Perry making a century and a couple of 70 | :30:50. | :30:58. | |
plus breaks. 58 the high break from Ronnie. Is he just warming up? What | :30:59. | :31:05. | |
is your take? He had a tough start to the match and he has played catch | :31:06. | :31:13. | |
up, which is not easy when you are. He is doing his job well. He has not | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
shown frustration, he has waited for chances and they have started to | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
come and if he comes out for - for he will be philosophical. He has | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
passed the point of trying to win looking pretty only more, he enjoys | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
different challenges in the game. He has talked about being a fierce | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
competitor and he has worked on mental skills with Dr Steve Peters | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
and seems to enjoy the fight. Against Marco Fu, perhaps this | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
trying to come back from a position of adversity, particularly with the | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
tip against Marco Fu and this situation, 4-1, seems to be grist to | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
his mill. Sometimes you need to challenge. He has been around a long | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
time. Sometimes you need something different, a challenge, and he has | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
not been great today but his matchplay has been fine, he has | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
played the right shots. You cannot have your best form every session | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
you play. He is hanging in. Will it be 5-3 to Joe, or will it be for- | :32:16. | :32:25. | |
four? Let's find out. DENNIS TAYLOR: Once again, a very good length of | :32:26. | :32:28. | |
the break-off shot. I agree with John Parrott. Joe Perry | :32:29. | :33:09. | |
has missed an opportunity this afternoon. He may still win the | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
frame and have a lead. But maybe his lack of experience in big finals, | :33:17. | :33:22. | |
not recognising that you can win long matches in the afternoon | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
session, or go a long way towards winning them. | :33:29. | :33:36. | |
When you have your opponent down, Dennis, you stamp on them. | :33:37. | :33:45. | |
Yes, I could not agree more. Joe needs a thin contact here. Well, | :33:46. | :33:55. | |
that is a thin contact. The days are long gone when Ronnie | :33:56. | :34:14. | |
O'Sullivan loses his cool, he has not done that for a number of years | :34:15. | :34:21. | |
and as Hazel said, he works with heaters, a sports psychiatrist, who | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
keeps him in quite a happy place mentally. | :34:26. | :34:33. | |
I have never seen Ronnie... Well, he was buzzing after the semifinal. You | :34:34. | :34:41. | |
have a highlys and come-down after the match, and you have to get | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
yourself up for the next match. It is a tough old game. It looks like | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
his will to win has overtaken the need to entertain. Winning has | :34:52. | :35:02. | |
become the most important thing. Even over playing well, just get the | :35:03. | :35:03. | |
result. This is a gem of a shot he has | :35:04. | :35:17. | |
played here. Almost got in behind the green, but | :35:18. | :35:33. | |
that was a tough shot. He hit it thin, and also finding the gap. | :35:34. | :35:40. | |
There is a gap for Joe. He has hit this a bit too thin. He might be OK | :35:41. | :35:46. | |
and might have covered the one to the left corner. Maybe he has not. I | :35:47. | :35:52. | |
think Ronnie has the angle to swing it around the table and get onto the | :35:53. | :35:58. | |
blue. Pink might be available but that is the gap for this one. | :35:59. | :36:34. | |
Again, not pinpoint position. The positional play we have come to | :36:35. | :36:44. | |
expect. But still on the red. That is a terrific recovery shot. It | :36:45. | :36:58. | |
is worth another look. I think the pink might also now be available. | :36:59. | :37:05. | |
He's on the red to the left of the pink. | :37:06. | :37:10. | |
Not available to the left corner, the pink. Might be available into | :37:11. | :37:17. | |
the right corner. Clearly enough room. | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
If he does not have a good angle to stay on the pink, no problem getting | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
back for the blue. Looks almost the natural angle to | :37:28. | :37:54. | |
follow through to the black and red, but you are not guaranteed a red | :37:55. | :37:56. | |
after that shot, so... Not 100% guaranteed where the cue | :37:57. | :38:18. | |
ball is going. He would settle for that. | :38:19. | :38:26. | |
Have a look at the reds, where they finished. | :38:27. | :38:34. | |
What a chance now to knock a sizeable contribution. It always | :38:35. | :38:43. | |
looked inevitable, as soon as he got in in this frame, what was going to | :38:44. | :38:50. | |
happen. You get a sense, when a player is upping his game, finding | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
another gear. The players will have about three | :38:56. | :39:13. | |
hours to get themselves ready for this evening's session at 7pm. Joe, | :39:14. | :39:21. | |
well, he will be a bit disappointed if it is four each, that is an | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
understatement, after leading 4-1. Ronnie is not safe in this frame | :39:28. | :39:33. | |
yet. All it takes is one little lapse in concentration. | :39:34. | :39:45. | |
That is a little further than he intended. He will have to cannon the | :39:46. | :39:54. | |
pink. If he had not been straight on the red, it would have been | :39:55. | :39:55. | |
straightforward. He is all over the table with this | :39:56. | :40:10. | |
effort. Keep getting position. Has he got the right side of the | :40:11. | :40:45. | |
blue? I think he is straight again. Absolutely dead straight! This has | :40:46. | :40:53. | |
been hard work, but a very important visit to the table. It is a frame | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
that will get them all square at four frames each after being 4-1 | :40:59. | :40:59. | |
down. That helps. The cannon on the yellow | :41:00. | :41:35. | |
has left him perfectly on the brown. He would have been on the green | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
without the kiss on the yellow but that was better, easier to get these | :41:40. | :41:41. | |
two reds. I suppose you would have to say it | :41:42. | :41:51. | |
is an all-round good break that will take him level because he has been | :41:52. | :41:53. | |
all over the table with this effort. Oh. Why did he hit it so slowly? I | :41:54. | :42:12. | |
know he was near the cushion, but that is the first real bit of | :42:13. | :42:15. | |
frustration we have seen this afternoon. After working so hard. He | :42:16. | :42:23. | |
is still a strong favour at the way the reds are, but... | :42:24. | :43:19. | |
If you have the angle to you risk going into the pink and still hoping | :43:20. | :43:28. | |
to be on the black? He has done. Good shot. | :43:29. | :43:45. | |
Ronnie was odds-on to level at 4-4 and now there is a glimmer of hope | :43:46. | :43:55. | |
for Joe Perry. To take a 5-3 lead, but an awful lot to do. The angle is | :43:56. | :44:01. | |
there and he can move the difficult last red. He does not want to hit it | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
too hard, does not want to send it past the middle pocket if he gets | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
the cannon, but keep your eye on the black. He didn't. He put everything | :44:13. | :44:18. | |
into the cannon. He hit the red perfectly but forgot to keep his eye | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
on the black. Amazing the number of times that happens. He concentrated | :44:23. | :44:31. | |
solely on the cannon. What a chance he has let slip. As I mentioned he | :44:32. | :44:40. | |
has three hours to recover, and if someone said you will be 4-4 with | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
Ronnie O'Sullivan at the mid-session, he would have taken | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
that, but to show you the black again, he missed it by a long way. | :44:51. | :44:57. | |
He has to take the positive out of this session. For- four with the six | :44:58. | :45:08. | |
times Masters champion. For - one up, he had a golden chance to extend | :45:09. | :45:10. | |
his lead. Not bothering with the black. Not | :45:11. | :45:27. | |
the best session Ronnie O'Sullivan has ever played with his highest | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
break 58, but he will go to the interval delighted, from 4-1, he has | :45:33. | :45:41. | |
got him back to all square. STUDIO: There will be positives to take out | :45:42. | :45:46. | |
of the first session from Joe's perspective, but will he be ruling | :45:47. | :45:51. | |
the miss in frame six which might have given him a 5-1 lead? The red | :45:52. | :46:00. | |
down the rail was the first sign of Joe seeing the winning line and not | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
pulling the trigger as he would have liked. We have all been in that | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
situation. He let a big fish off the hook. He will never see him again, | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
is sometimes how it pans out. Stephen Hendry said if your opponent | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
is down you had to stamp on him. You know as a player, you know when your | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
opponent is struggling, you think it is time to press home the advantage | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
and a chance comes up and you don't take it. We had a black off the spot | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
in the last frame, which he would never miss in practice, but he | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
looked at the cannon, took his eye off the black. The expectation of | :46:39. | :46:46. | |
being in front and doing damage to Ronnie in that session. For- four, | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
two or three hours to wait and walk out again as the underdog. He is | :46:52. | :46:57. | |
back to square one. It is not terrible because he will probably | :46:58. | :47:00. | |
play with more freedom at the start of the next session. He has to take | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
heart in the way he has played. The people around him, they have to say | :47:06. | :47:10. | |
that is a great start, you are for- four with Ronnie O'Sullivan. They | :47:11. | :47:20. | |
have to forget he was 4-1 up. They have to say, it is a good start in | :47:21. | :47:26. | |
the final, you are in there. It is a good final. It has been interesting. | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
I am not sure Ronnie will see it in those terms because he has not got | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
into his scoring group. But he will have been mentally stimulated by the | :47:37. | :47:40. | |
session, because it is not always about breezing through the frame is, | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
different mental challenges the players get. He was alerted the end | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
of that. Sometimes we see him in his chair and he looks bored, not | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
engaging, that was not the case. If he comes in after and says it is not | :47:56. | :47:59. | |
the best game he played, he will have enjoyed it in his own way. We | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
spoke about Ronnie's losing habit and he spoke about going deep into | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
tournaments and the satisfaction but he says that nothing brings you the | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
satisfaction of lifting silverware, and he will be hungry after three | :48:14. | :48:20. | |
big losses in three finals. The last final, he lost to Mark Selby, but | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
there is a weight of expectation. Everybody expects him to win. There | :48:26. | :48:29. | |
was merit in his performance, he was nowhere near his best but he has got | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
out level. Before we go off air, because we will come back at 7pm, | :48:35. | :48:40. | |
there is a second chance to mull over options in our shot of the | :48:41. | :48:42. | |
tournament you cast your vote. What was he attempt on the green? Is | :48:43. | :49:01. | |
he going to try something special? Look at the action on that cue ball! | :49:02. | :49:09. | |
What a positional shot. Oh, my goodness, oh my goodness, what a | :49:10. | :49:14. | |
shot Batty is. To get the work on that with the side around the | :49:15. | :49:15. | |
angles, what a shot. He has got it this time and he has | :49:16. | :49:29. | |
got away with it. Easy safety, but the pot wins you | :49:30. | :49:39. | |
the frame. The pot wins you the frame, what a | :49:40. | :49:50. | |
pot that was! He has the wrong angle on the | :49:51. | :50:10. | |
yellow. Too far for the brown into the same pocket. But he has an | :50:11. | :50:13. | |
abundance of Duke Power, Stuart Bingham. | :50:14. | :50:24. | |
-- cue power. Unbelievable amount of side on that. | :50:25. | :50:35. | |
One good shot. Come on, how is the cue ball? It looks very good. What | :50:36. | :50:45. | |
they shot! Look at this for a shot. Absolutely | :50:46. | :51:18. | |
delightful. He knew he could not force that one in because of the red | :51:19. | :51:23. | |
on the cushion. We have seen him knock a few of those in but not so | :51:24. | :51:27. | |
much the pot. The cannon was exquisite. | :51:28. | :51:42. | |
The reason he played for the black to the left corner. | :51:43. | :52:06. | |
I'll tell you what, what an effort that is. That is as good a | :52:07. | :52:17. | |
positional shot you will ever see. Loads of top spin. That was a bit | :52:18. | :52:18. | |
special. Not often Ronnie thinks about a shot | :52:19. | :52:36. | |
this length of time but it is understandable here. | :52:37. | :52:44. | |
It was worth waiting on. I said he would do well to find a path down | :52:45. | :52:53. | |
the table. He found the pot and the way back down the table and he is on | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
the brown to get back up to the reds. | :52:58. | :53:04. | |
Even if he got the right hand side cushion he has the blue to miss, the | :53:05. | :53:12. | |
yellow to miss, the green. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck with this | :53:13. | :53:23. | |
one! Great shot. What a shot! LAUGHTER. | :53:24. | :53:41. | |
STUDIO: That may be your favourite but which ever what it is, go to the | :53:42. | :53:49. | |
website and click on the shot of your choice. The voting closes at | :53:50. | :53:54. | |
7pm just in time to go back on air and we will announce the winning | :53:55. | :53:59. | |
shot in the evening session programme this evening. Interesting | :54:00. | :54:05. | |
to see what you choose. There is a ?200,000 first prize on offer for | :54:06. | :54:12. | |
either Ronnie or Joe. The side issue is the high break prize of ?10,000 | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
and that moment Marco Fu is on tenterhooks because he owns it after | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
a superlatives effort in the semifinal against a certain Ronnie | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
O'Sullivan. If you did not see it, it is worth watching in the closing | :54:27. | :54:28. | |
stages and we join now. DENNIS TAYLOR: He is in line for the | :54:29. | :54:51. | |
high break prize in The Masters. He has had five centuries so far this | :54:52. | :55:01. | |
week. STEPHEN HENDRY: I think he made 11, 12 in winning the Scottish | :55:02. | :55:08. | |
open just before Christmas. He is turning into a scoring machine. It | :55:09. | :55:13. | |
is the biggest attribute you can have as a top player to win frames | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
in one visit like this on a regular basis. | :55:19. | :55:25. | |
From a psychological point, after watching Ronnie win the last frame | :55:26. | :55:35. | |
with a 95 break and a new tip, this is what the doctor ordered for Marco | :55:36. | :55:43. | |
Fu. Also, how quickly is he playing? It helps when you are in perfect | :55:44. | :55:49. | |
position every shot. Brilliant. Absolutely superb from Marco Fu. The | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
22nd century so far this week. Look at that. It is not often | :55:56. | :56:23. | |
somebody has a quicker shot time on Ronnie O'Sullivan, but down to the | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
fact he has the cue ball on a string. It is not down to his coach! | :56:29. | :56:34. | |
His coaches Wayne Griffiths, but originally he was with Terry | :56:35. | :56:41. | |
Griffiths, so he did not get the 16 seconds shot selection from Terry. | :56:42. | :56:48. | |
He could beat his own high break by one point. What an effort. | :56:49. | :57:10. | |
He made absolutely sure of the black. What a response from Marco | :57:11. | :57:18. | |
Fu. He quietly gets the ball is out of the pocket but he has just | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
cleared the table with a magnificent break of 141. STUDIO: That is the | :57:25. | :57:30. | |
target. Marco Fu was one of the success stories of the week, a | :57:31. | :57:34. | |
pleasure to watch him play. Not just this week, but the past few weeks, | :57:35. | :57:40. | |
24, 25 centuries in the past few weeks but was not there when Ronnie | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
turned up the afterburners in the semifinal. That is what it took to | :57:46. | :57:50. | |
beat him. 60-1 for the World Championship and backing him for 28. | :57:51. | :57:58. | |
And the Mark Selby slammed that was not to be, he would have been only | :57:59. | :58:03. | |
the fifth man to hold all major titles in snooker at the same time. | :58:04. | :58:09. | |
He hit a brick wall and did not get going in the tournament. For a few | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
players, with the build-up to the World Championship, they have | :58:14. | :58:17. | |
questions to ask. They are not necessarily in the best of form. | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
Lots to come, but the only issue to sort out is who will be the 2017 | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
Masters champion? At 5:15pm we have highlights of the Australian Open | :58:29. | :58:34. | |
tennis. Andy Murray and Dan Evans inaction. And we will see you for | :58:35. | :58:46. | |
the final session in this Masters final at 7pm. Goodbye for now. | :58:47. | :58:48. |