Quarter-final Snooker: Welsh Open Highlights

Good evening. Welcome to do Newport Centre for the Welsh Open. Quarter-

final day today and the last four It is important to have somebody

like Judd Trump, who can appeal to different audiences, he is young,

trendy, attractive, all of those things. One of the most exciting

play years we have ever seen, one of the most naturally gifted I have

ever seen, and he pots balls like I have never seen anybody else.

Totally fearless. The best thing to happen to snooker for many years.

hope it carries on playing the same way for the next 10 to 15 years, I

He has got away about him and I like it. He is a bit arrogant, he

don't really care. But he is a nice kid as well. He is probably the one

to take the game forward in the He is a breath of fresh air. He is

playing a game that not a lot of us know and he is playing it

Indian to make it into the finals of the ranking event. Pankaj Advani

had never played the Englishman before. We join them in the second

Judd Trump does not meet any tempting into safety shots, he just

has a go at them any way! -- need We used to call it dangling a

carrot in front of them, the safety play in the years gone by. If they

felt they opponent was struggling, they would leave them something

Albert was difficult and they couldn't resist it -- something

Modern players, at the way they pot Look at the green Jimmy White, Neil

Robertson, they were all left- handed players. I don't know why it

should be that they are good potters but it is certainly the

I know plenty of left-handed players to cannot pot a ball! -- he

cannot! But you are right. There is Everything a bit scrappy at this

end of the table. The black is available, the pink is just about

available, but he does not have a really good chance to win the frame

at this visit. But no been him, he will work something out. -- knowing

him. That was an excellent And he had to avoid the reds as

What a clever shot that is. He knew he was going to be pushing the

black towards the corner. He played it at such a pace that he knew the

white would stay in the middle of the table as well. An excellent

shot. He will have to play one more I didn't think he could see that

Nobody else would have looked at that probably. Unmissable for Judd

This has been a big break. The The at has freed the pink so this

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has been an excellent break. -- This an excellent chance to get

back into this frame. But it is a lot more difficult than the chance

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That was a poor positional shot. He has just lost his rhythm with the

cue. His temper has gone and he is miss hitting the ball -- tempo.

These places do visualise the shot before they play it. When it goes

wrong, you get a bit mixed up in Just 14 points. He will have to do

Why do you want to play safe when you can pot shots like that? Tight

on the cushion. Head straight, just Look at Judd Trump's hit when he

plays his shot. He moves a little bit as he delivers the cue, it is

very unusual. Mark Selby also does that, he moves his head as his

strikes the ball. And they are Is he taking the yellow on? Watch

You thought I was joking... Closer the second time. Advani is too far

behind so Judd Trump wins the The world number two looking very

good. Into frame three. Advani is at the table and is trailing by 14

This third frame is going at a slower pace and that will suit

Advani. Get a few safety shots under his belt to settle him down.

You could say he is lucky to be on the blue but when you pot a ball

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like that, you deserve to be on a Our referee is from China, she is

having to clean the white. She tells the lads to call her Ivy. A

very nice young lady and a very He is moving the cue ball so far he

You have to be exact with that touch shot. He needed to kiss the

red before the black. Then he would have been on the black in the

What a shot! An absolutely ridiculous narrow angle. The look

He is such a talent, he really is. I think I will report him to the

disciplinary Committee for that Purposefully playing to get onto

the black of course, which will He is 41 points in front. Two reds

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Should he go on to win this frame, Not really easy, was it! You can

see why the crowd come to watch this young man. He is so exciting

I wonder whether he will try to cannon into the green for a bit of

exhibition! Or drop onto the yellow. You never know. He tried to cannon

into the green! Another super break. He is improving every frame. The 52

takes into a 3-0 lead. Advani cannot get into this match.

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Let's go into frame four. Here is This is probably his third good

chance in the match. He will be disappointed if he does not make it

count. He is desperate to get a frame, going into the interval. If

you go in 3-1 down, you are disappointed, but 3-0 down, you are

pleased to get a frame on the board He is struggling to reach that. He

The white did not go through very Ken Doherty is playing on the next

table. What is he doing here?! It is good to see him. Alan McManus is

also through. Very good. It is nice to see the young players getting

through, but it is also nice to see the last generation. That is a

picture of Ken Doherty on the other table. The audience are able to see

I think the audience has increased because of that. There was

criticism when it was started by Barry Hearn. That is a lovely

picture of the arena. It is a lovely place to play, we have been

coming here for 25 years. A terrible shot. Trying to bring reds

When you play shot like that, you go back to your chair and say to

yourself it is there were shot you have played in your life, and

actually it is just a bad shot. That was an excellent safety shot.

The pace of the cue ball. Make that He will have to be careful. He has

a lead for the first time in the He does not want to protect it just

yet, which is easy to do when you Again, he got into the cue ball.

But the pace, it was almost like playing a blue off its spot the

power he put into it. Incredible. We will have a chance to see how it

works, it is the timing of his grip and the wrist releasing. It is a

special skill. Not many can do it. If it were easy, everybody would do

it. Tough to get on to the colour Even using the rest, he played a

The release and when it comes back, it is the actual time it comes back

on in relation to the delivery of the cue. If it is too early, too

He is so quick. He has got back into the frame in the best part of

a minute. The beauty and pace of the cue ball. Absolutely perfect.

We talk about getting top side of the blue. The last two shots, to

Barring accidents, this is end of It is beautiful to watch the skill

of a top player. I would defy anybody to go into a room with

themselves with nobody else in there and they will always hit the

balls, even if you have never That is the basic side of things.

At this standard, it is different. Both were available. This break has

been superb. He has the cue ball on This is a baptism of fire for

Pankaj Advani. We had chances in three of the four frames. He could

have won two of them. He had good chances. The balls were in open

play. He will be a lot better for He has managed to halt the yellow.

He did not think he could at first This is a blow to Pankaj Advani. He

would have been thinking he had got in front in this frame. But he

played safety not up to his normal standard. That forces you into an

Surely he cannot pot the black? I told you! But that is enough to win

the fourth frame. We rejoin the He should not think after this

match that his game is not good enough, it is that he did not play

well enough. His safety game there has been wonderful. It has been a

joy to watch him. He did not execute the shots properly so far,

He would get the biggest round of applause today if he clears up from

How badly did he hit that? He He could not afford to miss that.

He would have been 51 behind with 51 left if it had not gone in. She

is like a fish out of water today. That will have inspired him. It was

a very good part and an excellent He is not timing the ball today.

Not as good as it has been in If you leave shots like this with

That is amazing, he played the snooker. He did not have a better

chance to get on to a colour. was surprising. It is the type of

shot he likes. He could have got on The referee called a miss. There is

Having some help from the freeze frame. Helping them to replace the

balls in the same position. It can be quite important. It is a big

target for Judd Trump. You can hit There is a dispute between the

referee and the scorer. They will have to get another refereeing. Jan

Verhaas houses in, he is The referees sometimes asks you if

you are happy with that when they have replaced the ball. He is

snookered. Yes, I am happy! He hits the top cushion a fraction too far

to the right on the first attempt. It is not so important the white

The referee had to ask both players if they were happy and Pankaj

Advani wasn't. Got it this time. He did not get a good angle. He is

straight again. How many times has he stopped short of position in

this match? If he had had an angle, he could have got the cannon into

I will be amazed if he plays to get He does have the perfect angle to

dropping behind the brown, but the Well done. He gave himself a

lifeline. You asked me which odds, I would have said he jobs. It is

He does not have the right angle on the blue, so he will have to leave

This is one you have to roll in and He twitched at that but it went in.

A remarkable frame of snooker. It was a million to one chance of

winning the frame. Very, very well played. An excellent break. He

Judd Trump wrapped it up in frame seven with the help of breaks of 69

and 29 to book his place in the last four. The adventure is over

for Pankaj Advani, or what a super for Pankaj Advani, or what a super

week India has had. Credit to him. He has not played his best and he

picked it up a couple of notches. I enjoyed myself thoroughly in this

event. Even if I lost in the quarter-finals, there is no shame.

I got a couple of frames back and I lost respectably and hope to come

back a stronger player. My safety was good and my long potting. I

still missed a few easy balls at the end of the last couple of

frames and that has to be cut out frames and that has to be cut out

if I am to win the tournament. can bring you up to date with what

happened in the quarter-finals. The defending champion beating Robert

Milkins. It was a great match between Stephen Maguire and Alan

McManus. Beating his fellow Scot, Stephen Maguire. And what a semi-

final line-up. Stuart Bingham has already seen off Neil Robertson and

Ken Doherty. And the world number two taking on the world No. 6,