Day 4 Snooker: Welsh Open Highlights

Good evening. Welcome to highlight of day for here at the Welsh Open.

The final batch of second round matches were played today with two

Welshmen trying to get through to the quarter-finals. We will find

out what happened in a minute, but first, Mark Williams faced Ronnie

O'Sullivan. He is the best player out there, there is no question

about that. I am really looking forward to it. If I beat him, it

will be great. I am still playing, still enjoying it. It is important

to win, but to beer and to win at the best of seven is fantastic. --

to be able. We are friends. We have respect for each other. We get on

well. O'Sullivan has a terrific record against Williams. He has won

all of their matches for the last 10 years. But today, both men

settle down quickly. They vote took century breaks. We pick up the

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action in a frame for. -- in frame That was perfect. He had the

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opportunity to nudge the red out of Looks as if he has gone a little

bit too far to play that pink and He has missed the red. Another

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I think there was a fractional cake He double kissed it and it went

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These players will see it as an opportunity and I will be surprised

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He does not bother about the black. Very good clearance. It takes him

two frames in front. And there was no way back for Williams.

O'Sullivan took the next frame as well, maintaining his fabulous

record against the Welsh No. 1. He booked his place in the quarter-

finals with a 4-1 win. All credit to mark. He is a fantastic player.

-- to Mark. For me, I was pleased to get through today and we both

made a few areas. On the Hull, I was pleased with my form. Ronnie

O'Sullivan used to be the biggest box-office draw in world snooker

without question, but these days, Judd Trump might just want to argue

that. Tonight, he faced a dangerous opponent in at Stuart Bingham.

have got to set your standards high. I know I am playing well. If I

continue, I will be hard to stop. He does not frighten me. You do get

chances against him. It is all about taking them. Stuart Bingham

is full of confidence and it has taken him a long time to get to the

top 16. Now he is there, he will want to stay there. He has been

practising really hard. Bingham looked in at great touch, but Judd

Trump did capitalise on a mistake. Bingham is at the table and he is

I do not think that was the right shot. He pushed the ball a little

That did not get the desired case. He flicked about red for the second

time. Dash back that red. -- that The outside of the three reds will

Obviously, the way he has played that, it tells us the brick macro

next to the blue will pot. -- beat He called the red a little bit too

thick, but it is all right because He made such a positive start,

Bingham. One lapse of conversation and all of a sudden, it has gone

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He was not happy with that one. You 73 and counting now. A chance for a

Stuart Bingham thinking, I could have been leading 3-0. It is not

the result he wanted. Trump in front for the first time. We are

going to rejoin it in frame four. There is no score yet and Judd

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He has been missing the long balls Just having the look to see if he

can Mr kiss on the cushion. The red on the cushion is causing the

He played it hard enough to wrest the red on the cushion and knew

that there was a chance of going into the pack. He deserves to be on

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Back in perfect position there, They both went for a couple of long

Judd had a couple of wild ones, but He is looking good here again. He

is exciting to watch, you can't take that away from him. A massive

He has been a breath of fresh air. O'Sullivan is playing well again

now but a year ago, we were unsure whether he was bothered about

playing and we needed a new start. We have found it in this young man.

If he does go on to win this game, he will certainly be saying in the

press conference that he thought he would be 3-0 behind at one stage.

It just goes to show how one-shot contained again. -- can change

You can see Stuart bemoaning it to himself. At this level, you don't

I don't know if he has screwed back enough. Let's have a little book. -

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Once again, just over four minutes of play and he is in a position to

We are only just coming up to 36 minutes of play and will soon be

Some of the people watching here wouldn't have got the first frame

You are right, he doesn't hang That was the bore to make this

He could have had a century last frame and it didn't quite do it. He

has had breaks of 73 and now 70 and Absolutely beautiful. He will be

very disappointed if he doesn't It would be quite apt, because it

will be his 147 for century. -- 36 centuries already this season.

It may 35 all last season, we are only halfway through this one. --

he made. I think the record is a red 55, 60. He could be in with a

It is amazing, the top spin he can Once again, the frame of finished

Once again, the frame of finished in one visit. Judd Trump is going

further clear and Leeds, 3-1. -- is leading.

leading. He needed one more, would it come

in frame five? He is at the table, This is the safety I am looking out.

I can't imagine he is going for the Well, as we have already said, he

doesn't play the game the same way as the rest of us. That shot didn't

look on. I can only presume, he thinks he is going round the back

of the black. I think he knew he was going to Canada or the balls.

The way he plays, it is so positive. -- cannon all of the balls. You can

say it was reckless, but how can you say that when he puts

That pot has given him a fantastic chance. I can only think of a

couple of players who would have Amazingly enough, 43 minutes in

this match and we could be three With all of these loose reds, it

looks like he is sure to get at least 40. Just looking at the kiss

early. If he does Plater Nick, he might have the chance of a loose

That is break-building at its best. He knows that if he gets about kiss,

he is still the one -- on the one This could be a record. We could

have the match finished before the match on the other table, which is

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their first frame. That has never Judd still marching on, as they say.

It wasn't long ago he was sat in his chair looking like he was going

It is so hard to sum it up for Stuart Bingham supporters. Judd

made 73, 73, 100 and for us to be talking about Stuart Bingham may be

being able to have won the match. He got in front of this one again

and a couple of shots later, he didn't quite get hold of the cue

It hasn't cost him the match, because that was an unexpected

respite Judd. I say unexpected because he hasn't missed a ball in

the last three frames. He's usually proficient with the rest, I'm

That is a good example to a shot to nothing. Making sure he came back

I think we will see the same she sought buckshot from Stuart Bingham.

Yes, quite pleased that I am sure, Judd Trump, that these three reds

are altogether. He can roll into them and not leave anything on. --

He has actually gained control in this safety exchange. I don't think

Stewart can hit the thin edge of Did that make contact? A very close.

I think she is saying touching ball. The way he stabbed that that, he

could have all gone wrong. -- it could. They are awfully hard shots

It looks touching to me, but then again, I can't see any more. The

referee has called touching ball, I think he may have left the pot on

That looks like good night Vienna. A poor safety shot looks like

He can't say that Stuart Bingham hasn't had his chances, because he

But barring a miracle, Judd Trump It is a disappointing night their

four-day match. It all looked very positive at the start. -- he

Judd Trump playing at the top of his game, full of confidence. Like

the opening red he knocked in at the start of this frame. There was

no guarantee that the cue ball would land where it did. The key a

ball in the Joe Sullivan game this afternoon was going virtually all

around the stairways -- the cue In the game tomorrow, it will be in

the city centre. That is a match to What an amazing game. Stuart

Bingham while there he had a chance in every frame, he got in first in

all four frames, but Judd Trump all four frames, but Judd Trump

proved far too strong -- strong and goes through a worthy winner.

Stuart started off pretty well and I knew I would have to raise my

game. He missed a ball in the second of that was all he really

did wrong. I capitalised on it and made for good breaks. Ronnie has

played well this week, I know he is confident and enjoying his game, so

it will be a tough game either way. It is, quite an edgy start against

him, so I will have to try and get off to get off to a good start.

I'll just have to try and enjoy it. Last year's runner-up Stephen

Last year's runner-up Stephen Maguire killed off any remaining

hopes of a home-grown winner as he led from start to finish in his

match with Steffi Nerius -- Matthew Stevens. Despite a late rally from

the Welshman, Maguire to kit 4-2. He will play the winner of the

match between Mark Selby and Martin Gould. You don't go 24 hours to

play the way we did there. I feel OK, I feel I was cueing OK, I

wasn't missing edibles, it was the positional play that was so hard to

take -- Any balls. I will just forget about that and hopefully not

play on that table. Also today, Northern Ireland's Mark Allen

dispatched a seven-times world champion Stephen Hendry in fine

style. The world No. 9 still hasn't lost the frame in Newport this year.

He is into the quarter-finals with a 4-0 win. Next up for him, Shaun

Murphy. And joining him be the last eight, world No. 15 Stephen Lee.

The 2006 Welsh Open champion saw off qualifier Tom Ford by 4-1. He

will play Ding Junhui in the The final second-round match

involved world No. 1 Mark Selby and Martin Gould. And what a first

How would venturers will Martin Gould be with his positional shot

to the blue? -- how adventurous? They could pot with the rest. When

you have been playing such good safety for so long, this type of

It was tough. You can see he was beautifully on the pink if that had

gone in. But he does appear to have handed the frame to Mark Selby. He

It has been a mammoth first frame. All kinds of to-ing and fro-ing on

But in goes the pink and it is Mark Selby who wins a very long and

protracted first frame. He leads Martin Gould by one frame to nil.

Martin Gould by one frame to nil. That frame took under -- just under

50 minutes. It was all downhill for Martin Gould after that and he

ended up losing 4-1. Of Mark Selby through to the quarter-finals. So

through to the quarter-finals. So O'Sullivan against Judd Trump, the

master against the young pretender. And Mark Selby faces Stephen

And Mark Selby faces Stephen Maguire. We will see all of those

quarter-finals tomorrow. That match between Judd Trump and Ronnie

O'Sullivan has the potential to be one of the greatest of this

one of the greatest of this tournament so far. Coverage begins