Final Snooker: Welsh Open

Good evening and welcome to the Newport Centre for the 22nd Welsh

Open final, which has been riveting. You cannot separate Stephen Maguire

and Stuart Bingham. They have played each other eight times. At

the BetVictor Welsh Open final, it My first event I qualified for, I

got to the quarter-finals and then lost out. It is a nice place for me

with good memories. I feel as if I have under-achieved in 11 years I

have been a professional. It is not good enough, really. I hope to get

one and push on after that. I think he has come on this season. I think

he has been practising a bit and his game has come good. Stuart

Bingham in the last two years improved probably 50%. He could not

quite make that break through for whatever reason but it was all

about self belief that he never had. Obviously, he won a tournament in

Australia and he is a completely different player. Loads of people

have won this to start their career so to pick up the world -- Welsh

Open trophy would be great. I have had good memories here so we would

be great to pick it up. I came down to this tournament just trying to

get down to the quarter-finals. To get to the best of nines. Once I

got there, I relaxed and I seem to have pushed on after the matches.

One more match to go and hopefully And fabulous first four frames of

snooker. It is key to get a good start, whether it is best of 17 or

nine. Bingham wanted to get a good start. A terrific opening round. He

snookered himself on the black. the fourth frame, Stephen Maguire

made an excellent double into the centre. A good position on the

black. Went on to make the first century of the match it and took a

3-1 lead. Later on, Bingham was 4-2 behind. He had to win at least one,

two as a bonus. He'd just missed the kiss on the blue, potted the

red, got on the black and made it 4-4. In the last frame, Bingham

potted a good read, the last on the table. He needed to pinch that

frame. He played some really good stuff in the second half of the

first session because when you are fighting and you're 4-2 behind,

every shot is more difficult. Clearly all to play for.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a man in form - from

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And now, please welcome the at the MUSIC: "Here I Go Again" by

What a superb atmosphere here in the Newport Centre for this final.

Ken Stuart Bingham keep up this remarkable run of comebacks at the

Welsh Open to add to the title he won in Australia in 2011? Let's

find out in the company of our commentators, Darren Morgan and

Dominic Dale. Good evening everybody. Welcome to the final

session of the final. Superbly poised and I would not like to pick

a winner, Darren. You said it, Dominic. I went early on for

Stephen Maguire, because of experience. 4-2 up. To be fair to

Stuart Bingham, he played terrific towards the end to get out of that

session 4-4, so anybody's, really. It is he wants it the most. -- who

This frame is probably a bigger frame for Maguire. They are all

important but he has lost two on the trot and will want to stop the

rot. He will want to stamp his authority on the match. This will

be quite nerve-racking for him. The Both players, when they were

introduced by our MC, received a standing ovation. I am sure that

have lifted their spirits. At fantastic crowd at the Newport

Centre for this last session of the If either of the players on nervous,

they are not showing it at the moment. Safety at the moment in

this first frame of the evening I think he is having a little go at

That was such a big risk to take. Like Dominic said, there have been

a couple of good safeties. Even if he had made that pot, he was still

going to be clattering into the reds. An element of luck attached

That was one of those pots he had to get quite close to, if not pot,

to get the path of the cue ball That did well. I just wonder if

Stephen Maguire will fairly soon try to get position on the black to

get it back to the spot or whether he is comfortable enough playing

He would love to get the black back onto its own spot. He may play for

That was an error. He is having a look to see if he can snick the red

into the corner. From where we are, it looks very tight. Too much of a

risk. There is one to the right centre but what a risk that would

Stuart Bingham will be a little bit relieved that he has missed a long

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pot. It has not cost him more than He was trying to contact a thin

edge there. He missed it and cannoned another red on the way

back. I believe he has been extremely fortunate here. The red

is over the yellow pocket but the black is in the way of it. If he

can pot the red that is just below the pink in the red corner, it will

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be impressive because it is a In an ideal world, where the circle

is is where he will be trying to put the cue ball. That is just

So, what a chance this is turning into. It is not ideal with no real

He can concentrate on the blue. I think the pink will be tied up with

the reds. He would still have to get that black down there but for

now, just carry on working with the I think the pink will respot. It

would be better for Stuart if it did not and it went on to the black

spot. The problem is that the way these breads are positioned,

getting on the plant will not be We could see him play a clever shot

here. He is going to have to play the cannon off the other red. He

has noticed a foreign body of some He might leave himself for the pink

It wasn't easy, having to play with that much pace and stretching as

well. He cued across it slightly. Probably had some sides been on the

cue ball cull which deviated the He did not time that well. Slightly

hampered cueing but a trace of reds This is what I mean with the

butterflies. Both are not settled He will not be happy with himself

there. He will be quietly kicking himself. He is still in control. A

little roll-up either behind be duller all the brown -- the yellow

Well, what do you make of that? It looks like he has gone down and had

a wild day at that one with no thought. Do you really think that

was a hit and hope shot? If he has got away with this, he is very

I don't want to be cruel but what do you deserve after a shot like

that? He did not give it any thought at all. You just can't

believe it, can you? He had options there. Whether he has come out a

little bit frustrated with a couple of the shots that he has played

previously, I don't know. But this is only the first frame of this

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evening's session. That was an Depending on whether these reds go

to the right corner, we might see him playing a little cannon. He has

played the cannon. Has he been lucky? I think so. Awkward cueing

but I think he would settle for I can't believe that has gone in. I

can only put that down to the pace he has hit it at but it looked like

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You would have to say this is now He will not need to worry about the

two reds that are tight on the top cushion. A colour is all that

Often, Stuart Bingham has found himself a couple of frames behind

in matches before he gets going. He is the one who has got going first

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There has only been one frame in this entire match so far that has

not had a 50 break. There was a 41 The it is not there but Stuart

Bingham will not mind. An excellent break which is more than enough to

secure the first frame of the session. He leads for the first

time in the match at 5-4. A great start to the evening's

session. Terry Griffiths is with me. That is his 14th break over 50 of

the tournament. Both players have been pretty impressive in the first

session but Stephen Maguire lost it. He was after a snooker and just

smashed them all over the place. He could not find an easy escape.

Sometimes they just tip them really hard, hoping some of them will goes

safe. But it left him with a chance and he clear the table. This week,

Stuart Bingham has been a master of coming back into matches. The

question tonight is, if he gets his nose in front, can he stay there?

It is difficult if you start defending rather than attacking. It

is a natural instinct and it is very difficult to get over that

hurdle. But I always tell the players to just play as it goes,

forget about the score board. COMMENTATOR: I take on board some

of the stuff Terry said then but I don't totally agree with his

analogy of Stephen Maguire are not being able to find an out. I don't

the key looked. -- I don't think that he looked. Do you think other

professional players will be watching this match and seeing this

from Stephen Maguire, on many occasions, when he just lashes out

and does not look too hard for an escape? You could put a long red

against Stephen now thinking he would do just that. I don't know if

I would go as far as other players but certainly that last frame - he

should have spent a bit of time trying to find an out. To Tristan

lot and have a while clash -- trust in having good luck and have a wild

I wonder if Stephen may be tempted by the possibility of Dublin this

Not quite but it was worth it. He thought he could get on to a ball

Here is an option for Stuart Bingham.

He has gone the other way. It was a good red. He just tried to slide

If he can get through to the potting angle of the red to over

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from the black, he can play this as Super at length with the safety

I wonder if he has come out with a different tactic tonight. He seems

to be playing a bit of a cagey game A little flick on the yellow came

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I think that is another of snooker on all the reds. Unless he can just

get between the blue and delay to edge the red on the right-hand side

of the cluster. But if you can and it took thinly you could make

contact with another red on the top I think the middle draw is going to

come into play. He may have to Did he played the red audit the try

to come off the cushion and play the other one? He played that with

swing around side! I think he did The middle pocket is definitely in

the way to rest on this red at the Placing the cue ball is obviously

pretty important here, placing it As long as the line of the shot is

the same, I do not suppose that it It was a risky shot but he played

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If he is half ball on the red into the corner he could play a half

ball cannon into the one beside it. But he was quite straight. But he's

I wonder if Stephen Maguire feels a touch deflated because he must have

felt that the way that he played this afternoon was good enough to

carry some sort of an advantage Sometimes those thoughts can carry

with you for a few hours into the evening session. But here is his

He played that with a lot of running side and it pushed the cue

ball off line. Stephen Maguire it needs to do something here to lead

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his opponent know that he is still He played that very well. It would

have looked an easy shot putt the employment are not the easiest to

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World, we do believe it? -- well, it would you believe it? He has

been lucky there. But there may be a double on for Stuart Bingham. He

will be so disappointed that he missed that. He thought he had

A little chuckle as well. He is looking the most comfortable of the

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What a good shot. It was risky but Stuart is very focused but he looks

very, and relaxed at the same time. He is not happy with the way that

he played that and the reaction from the cushion. But he is lucky

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Stuart Bingham knows that when he missed the red across the cushion,

he was in the ascendancy. Stephen Maguire well saved now in this

Stephen Maguire like to show his Some of the faces that he Paul's

They came in and it was a best-of- nine match. Now it is back to level

so it is best of seven. That is what they played when they first

came to this tournament here at The pockets are starting to look

It is still going to be hard to He has kept the trend going, with a

Stuart Bingham had first chance in this frame and missed a relatively

easy red but Stephen Maguire and levels up.

You cannot separate these two. Are saying at the beginning of the

programme these two guys have played each other eight times and

it is for my Queen's Speech. And now we are level. We have seen some

dodgy plants over the past six days or so. I think Darren thought this

was a bit risky. When we reverse the plant, it is not aiming towards

the pocket. It is squeezing the red the other way. But Stephen Maguire

had already missed one chance and he does get, shall we say, a little

excited out there. But when it goes in, it helps. Back to Dominic and

Referee Zhu Ying just finishing Some of the audience just waiting

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He has to be careful with this next safety shot. That is why he is

He has hit it too thick and the red has gone towards the corner pocket.

The yellow has not saved him. He He thought he could stop the cue

ball for the black, playing it the way that he did, but it went on too

far. If he wants to continue this It is difficult sometimes, been you

have an opportunity, to refuse a pot when you run out of position. I

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think discretion he would be the I do not know if that is a good or

bad kiss. The blue will not cope. Brown and cream of blocked. --

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He certainly has a lot of his own - If he has a little angle on the

yellow he can pot and stand it up, but I still think the green is

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He has put the easy miss on the red You get a good perspective of the

Not something that you can homes He had an opportunity to disturb

the cluster then but with three reds out in the open he did not

He is on the brown and he could play into the cluster again,

straight on to the pink. But he has got two reds out in the open.

not like it because the way that the red below the pink's our

position, he is likely to clients off them and the cue ball could go

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Now he will play the shot with a full ball contact on to the pink.

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This is frame ball. Stephen Maguire is not happy. He is

I am pretty certain that Stephen Maguire will not have the

opportunity to play for a snooker because he will need to many

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Stuart Bingham has made three breaks in the 70s in the course of

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A wonderful round of applause from this near-capacity audience here at

This is as comfortable as I have seen Stuart Bingham look during the

Great stuff from Stuart Bingham. He takes the lead in this match at 6

We are going to have a look at a shot during the course of this

frame but Stephen Maguire played. He played a very good safety shot

here but he was just a few inches short of having Stuart Bingham in a

couple -- a lot of trouble. played a virtually to perfection

but when the one red came over, it was difficult to move that into a

pottable position. If it had, that would have put Stuart Bingham in

all kinds of trouble. But he got his 118. It's was a very good black

that Stuart potted from that red. He did not know where the cue ball

would go. It cannoned into a loose red and run forward about a foot.

The only pottable colour he had was very tricky. He potted it without

He expected the black to cover the pocket for the reds. There was a

lot of pressure on that. So what do you think is going to happen now?

It is a good question. 4 Stephen Maguire, you do feel that whatever

happens, he needs to win this frame to try to go into the mid-session

interval of this evening's session still square. If he goes to behind

with all to play, -- it goes two behind with four to play, it is

going to be difficult for him. Stuart Bingham looks by far the

most comfortable out there. That is absolutely how I see it. There

seems to be a world of difference between these two. Stuart looks

very comfortable and ready to win He can go for this red to the left

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If he can play one more good pot, Something Stephen Maguire has said

in a couple of interviews this week - he wants to win this trophy very

badly because he has lost in the last five finals that he has been

in and that must be weighing on his Of course, when a top player goes

through a bit of a bad spell, the press can sometimes get on the back,

I suppose, for want of a better way of putting it. I think Stephen has

mentioned that he does not like that, although all he needs to do

He played that very well. He would have expected more reds to command

of the pack there. It was quite unbelievable that only one

In his press interview, he just needs to make them leave him alone.

There would not be many press people there to interview him if he

It is the first to nine frames this evening who will lift the trophy.

It would be good for Stuart if a green went. If it does not, I don't

know how on earth he can get on a red from the yellow. Nothing

available in the cluster except that one loose red to the left of

A clever shot there. He used the brown. He put a bit of right hand

side onto the cue ball. Very well played. Very clever. He is going to

have to pull off a good pot, though, That was a tremendous shot from

Stuart Bingham. I wasn't sure whether he would run through to

give himself a better opportunity to pot the ball. What an angle he

has got here on the blue to go into the cluster. Just checking the

potting angle was, he needs to use Stephen Maguire would have been in

his chair willing him to miss it. He has got what he asked for. He

must make this chance count. Stuart Bingham has been behind the right

the way through in this match. He missed a relatively easy red across

the cushion. Maguire won the frame. He has gone one frame ahead. It

his lead. That blue was far from easy. If it had gone in, from this

position you would have expected him to have extended the lead. What

a lifeline he has thrown Stuart Well, would you believe it?!

Stephen knows he should not really have missed that. Sometimes you

just focus so much on not hitting I think Maguire was fortunate that

that black was tight enough for the red. If it had come out it would

have left him a nice easy red to the right corner and then it would

all have been on. As it is, he is on this pink but he is going to be

left a bit of distance from the cue The other colours are down the

other end of the table so this is It was a poor shot played by

I just think he has not caught the right potting angle. He could have

caught the near jaw, which would have missed, so he hedged his bets

but that was not a very positive and confident shot. As you can see,

he is completely and utterly He seems to have put himself under

so much pressure. Such a difference in the demeanour of these two.

Stuart looks confident and ebullient, and Steve McQuire looks

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like he is frightened to death. -- In it goes. The pink was an

important shot in this match. He needs to try to get onto the pink,

That is the problem when you stretch. You force things in. A

couple in the audience were shouting out a bit of encouragement

If Stephen Maguire what a pot four reds and four colours -- worked to

pot four reds and four colours, it would be a problem for Stuart

Stephen Maguire smiled but at the moment, he is a horrible place.

Everything was looking so good at the start of this match - positive,

a couple of centuries, 4-2 up - but ever since, you would have to say

it has been totally one-sided. He is trying to hold on and it is

hurting him. Even though they say it doesn't have an effective, he

has not won any of the last five or six finals see have been in since

2008. It is bound to have an effect. -- he has been in. You want to get

This interval, I think, is just about to the right time. It is just

pressure for Stephen Maguire. The next 15 minutes will do him good.

He might even go up and have and knock on the practice table to try

Every one is pottable now for Stuart. It has been a good

performance this morning. -- evening. I fancied him just rolling

the green then because he has not got play this shot on the red. We

might even see him just knock the black in and play a street plant. -

- is straight plant. Stephen has a lot to think about in the next few

minutes. Stuart Bingham will be more than happy with his evening's

work and extends his lead 2 7-5. You have to have a lot of sympathy

for Stephen but everything is going right for Stuart Bingham. I will

explain why we have swapped the lovely, cosy studio for a gym. I

have not been in the gym for a few weeks and I think it is starting to

show that I have had to drag Terry away from the bench pressing Casey

embarrasses me. He can lift about 150! I will tell you why we are

here in a moment. Nothing is going right for Stephen. No, nothing is

going right but Stuart Bingham has played very well and Stephen has

not really stayed with him. It is the first time in the match

somebody has made a move. He has won five of the last six frames and

that is a big move. From his opponent's perspective, he has not

scored a lot and is not having many chances and has just watching the

title slipping away from him. the fact that Stephen has been in

this position before and lost the Welsh Open to John Higgins in 2011,

does that trouble you? He had a lead in that as well and lost it so

it will be starting to trouble him now, thinking that he has given him

the game. You don't really notice the other player is playing really

well at that moment. It is more like what they could have done

because they are all perfectionists when they should strive a little

bit more for excellence - it is a bit easier. All footballers and

rugby players I know, who I see every week, spend a lot of time

here in the gym but I have been wondering how much time snooker

players spend working out. So Dominic Dale swapped his fancy bow-

tie for some Lycra and headed to a sweaty gym.

As a snooker player, I spent my life bend every snooker table in a

dimly-lit room - not an environment suitable for helping living. But

periodically, snooker players still I don't know if you're asking me if

I am fit but I am not the fittest. A run not many players that really

take it seriously. Ronnie was the first person that implemented it

and I am just looking to follow on. It did not do him any harm so any

advantage you can get, even if it is just 1%, is going to help.

the new world number one thinks it gives him an advantage, maybe there

is something to it. I ventured into the gym here at the Newport Centre

to see if getting fit would help with my snooker. Strength

conditioning is a major thing in any sport, at the top elite sports,

so even with snooker people can progress by having that little bit

more than somebody else. It will the real heart rate, which is good

because of your heart rate is lower, you will have better concentration.

But what we won today is to engage our core a bit more and hold in

some contractions. The first exercise is a squat. We are going

to replicate what we do at the snooker table. So when you are in

that position, your hands are going to be high, as if you are taking a

shot, and you are going to work both shoulders. Get into score

position. Legs shoulder with the apart, hips fightback and we are

going to sit into it and keep our hands high. Come a bit deeper and

we are going to hold that for a minute. Much of the stuff I do with

the guys is about posture so even squat techniques, your hands are

high so your lower back is engaged. Banks are really good for keeping

core stability but with your contractions, you're holding that

position so for a snooker player to beat doing a squat for about 10

seconds or 20 seconds, you can bring that to the training side and

to 30 or 40 seconds in that position, so you of replicating the

position at the table. How can you feel that? Hamstrings, call, lower

back? Everywhere. It is relaxed muscle. We don't want to feel heavy

legs and heavy arms. As you saw, you are only doing 10 seconds on

the table but I am training you for longer so for your flexibility, we

should do the same. Lie down on your back and get your leg up. What

is the lead that you stand on? What we are going to do is get you to

your normal flexibility so star footing -- pushing against me and

you are going to push for 15 seconds. Keep going. A snooker

player needs good flexibility but I don't want to build muscle mass

because that was short and every inch of motion. So then on the

table there cue stroke might be off. There long-range potting might be

different. Also when they are on the table, if there is too much

muscle mass, you get muscle fatigue so what I would be advising snooker

players to do is go into a more meditative state, like isometric

So my physical well-being can help better my game. Sport Wales works

with our elite athletes, providing them with analysis and data that

helps them build their performances. Tradition Lee, physiology would be

more involved with traditional marathon running, endurance cycling,

but actually come up with our Commonwealth sports team, we work

with shooting and balls so it is a different end of physiology and we

approach that differently in terms of it being about healthy living,

being confident about yourself, because everyone knows that if you

do a bit of exercise, you get your happy hormones flowing and you feel

good about yourself because you are looking after yourself and you are

in a better position. In terms of snooker, it would be about

maintaining and increasing confidence levels. If you are fit

and active, you reduce the risk of diseases and you get a feel-good

factor. Concentration is fundamental in our sport and apart

from the extensive hours of practice, there is one key

ingredient I have obviously been missing. You are about 50% water so

when you are dehydrated, you have lost some of that. When water is in

our bloodstream, every time our heartbeats it is pushing it round

the body so that is the blood volume. If you are dehydrated, your

blood volume decreases, said to pump the same event around your

body has to work faster. If you are dehydrated in snooker, your heart

rate is going to be elevated so it will be pumping a lot more to just

deal with providing oxygen to the muscles. That might make you feel

nervous and you will think about all sorts of things and it is

actually taking your mind off the game. Drinking water I can handle

but I'm not so sure about this physical education. What it has

proven, though, is that if I want to move back up in the rankings,

every little helps. Suck it up, Dominic! One minute, hold it. Hold

it there. This is where you need to concentrate, think about the

snooker shot and think about where it you or breathing. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6,

5, 4, 3, two, one. Good, Dominic! If I was coaching Dominic and I put

him in that position, instead of that man giving him a minute, I

would say that I would be back in an hour! Backing your day, did you

players keep fit? EU and Cliff Thorburn - did you have a bench

press competition? No, the June would be closed by the time we

finished. -- the gymnasium. If you think about how many frames Stuart

Bingham and Steve Maguire have played, it is 84! Fit this would

help them a bit. How much, I don't know. But in my day, there were not

many gyms about and it was not the way to go but today it is much more

readily acceptable to young and old. There must be something in it

because as Judd Trump said, even if it is 1%, it can give you the edge

to win the game. You work with so many players and give advice on the

mental aspect of the game to so many professional players. Do they

say, "I am having a morning in the gym and I will meet you in the

afternoon"? They may have said it but I didn't hear it. I am no

expert in the gym and I could not give them the advice. They would

need to go and see the experts to advise them what is needed in that

particular sport. So, what is going through Stephen Maguire's mind

right now? What is it like being in the final of a major event and

possibly being down and out? One man who knows his this fellow who

I turned professional in 1978. I wanted to find out if I could

the world. I set myself a target of three years and if I failed I would

go back to work. Little did I know what I was going to experience in

my first season. I led Rex Stevens 8-2, first to nine, in the first

round of the championship. I somehow managed to lose 9-8. When I

shook his hand I could not feel anything. I wanted to say well done

but nothing came out. There was an emptiness inside me that had

deadened by mind. It was a horrible defeat, overwhelming for me because

of its potential impact. Her career I had looked forward to was in

jeopardy but also because of the stupid, self-inflicted, almost

suicidal way in which I lost. First comes the sadness and you start

become a stranger to yourself. You being in the company of many. Your

eyes up to to the world. It takes strength to shift your attention

off the plane when you feel your soul has been stripped bare. I

stood alone in a cocoon of grief, emotionally cut it, wondering if I

had the strength to even put one foot in front of another.

Everything I have dreamed of professionally was in danger of

disappearing, just a few months after being realised. And yet,

there was something else going on inside me. A voice from down deeper

than the emotions, something stirred, that I had learnt over

many years in snooker and before that, growing up. Do me, I'm a

stand and fight again. Stand and fight, or it is all over.

Professional snooker, in my opinion, is the moral equivalent of war. The

on the person's basic spirit and self-esteem are incredible. It

takes an individual to the outer limits of their capabilities and

may provide one of the ultimate studies in people because this is

such a crawl, volatile and emotionally draining experience.

And less you have experienced this type of emotional shock and the

bleak interior landscape it creates, it is hard to comprehend the impact.

The memory now put the cue and acts both as a positive and negative

force. Sparing you to work harder and harder whilst also creating a

fear in sight as it might happen again. In 1979 I beat Dennis Taylor

24-16 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield and was crowned the

champion of the world. It happened only because at the moment of

to stand and confront the future instead of wallowing in the past.

Many cannot summon the strength, they can't get up. The fight is

over. Victory goes to another, a stronger competitor. Pursuing your

ambitions, has pursued those of any magnitude, can be cruel pink and

hazardous and produce agonising failure along the way. But

achieving those goals is amongst lives most gratifying and thrilling

experiences. The ability to survive and overcome the former to attain

the latter is a fundamental difference between winners and

losers. And that is what we lot about snooker. That is what makes

this pot a very special. Some wonderful images in that item.

Durham, how did you handle pressure? To be fair to Terry, he

has opened his heart there. Pressure is a funny thing. Some

days, it was good, I handled it well, and other days I collapsed,

like every other player has done. It was a strange thing, really. I

used to try to think positive at all times and try to let bad things

go away. But pressure, when it comes on, it can destroy you very

quickly. We can say a good evening to Willie Thorne who is in the

commentary box, looking fault the rest of this fascinating final and

what has been a brilliant week of snooker. I would like to ask you

about Stephen a quiet and Stuart Bingham, who is the pressure on?

Now that Maguire is behind, possibly more on him. But Stuart

Bingham has not won a ranking event in this country. The fact that he

has won the Australian Open will stand him in good stead. Stephen

Maguire has won for my titles before, so he is pretty used to,

but not since 2008. Stephen Maguire has beaten a beaten finalist here.

Does that help him in this position what does he walk past a trophy and

think, I walk past but trophy the last time and I'm not going to let

it happen again? Stephen Maguire is very strong. He doesn't stop at it.

When he is angry, he is a very tend to shun men. I think it is the key,

this first couple of frames, as to whether he has any chance. But

Stuart Bingham is hitting the ball Both players are going to have to

dig very deep, Stuart Bingham to win his first ranking event in this

country, Stephen Maguire to win his first five -- ranking event for

five years. TERRY GRIFFITHS: They have all got the skill to win the

He is sitting there, where most people would dream of being, in the

final of a major ranking event. It is time for him to start P been

there. He has not played so well in The way that the white has finished

I were to just he was not intending to pop that. -- pot that. That was

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When you have a player struggling, But it has been mentioned available

in match is played. Stuart has won a couple of close pond but in all

the others, of one player was well He does not appear to have got a

good angle on the brown to play It is unusual to have the brown on

He would just be pleased that he is potting balls. That is all he has

to do to win the title. It sound so We know what he is going to do but

And he did not. You have to get the amount of spin and the pace that

you have the ball to get the perfect angle on to the top red. A

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Beautifully played. And he appears He has to get his scoring boots

pack on. He was so impressive in Playing it like that, you would a

thought he would have got the pink or black into play. A little bit

We are getting to the stage where every frame is a must for Stephen

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He did not get the action on the cue ball that he needed. Anywhere

but there. He may be forced into playing the alone now. -- the

With the rest, it is not a Very good and, once again, very

If he plays it slow enough he could play to get on the pink. But it is

He has to retain the balance are being aggressive without being

desperate to try to win it every The brown is available but worth he

can hold for the red next to the cue ball is doubtful. The brown

will go back to the black spot so He just a lost the white a little

He has not got an angle on the screen to screw down to the two

This is a good effort. Absolutely, He is going to need three of the

You would not have put much money on him clearing up when he started,

But he has missed an easy red. I did not see that one coming.

Neither did he. A little bit too much concentration on getting good

position on the brown for the next He would like to play the pink from

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Stuart Bingham was p a bit of a nightmare to play against. He

misses the easiest shot and then he does a clearance of 80. He'd look

so good in the balls went he kept This is the key positional shot

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Green to brown will be a tricky That has gone wrong. He played to

come between the yellow and the black to play the yellow back into

the corner pocket. It could have Stephen Maguire can hit the yellow,

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he can certainly swerve around to That is the problem. It is missable

at that speed. The cue ball was He was trying to get the cue ball

back up the table for the green. He got to the gap between the brown

and the blue. It is come into that time when he knows he has a chance

Yes, you could field that was a shot that you could hit that it

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I do not see the point in pushing Is he on the brown? Both players

have come right under pressure for I think he could not see enough of

it and decided to play the safety Both players realising how pick a

frame this is. Stuart Bingham to be one away from victory, Stephen

Maguire to get back into the match. At the end of the day, these of the

frames that count. You can have the big breaks, but the man he wins

this frame will be happier than That could cost him the frame and

You would not want to pot this for your next meal. He is two point in

front, and I cannot see any way he can pot the blue and get on the

pink. But there's not an easy If he had missed the pot it would

have stayed on the pocket. It was a wise choice and a very good shot.

The best shot we have seen in the The most tension in any of the

Always a bit dangerous playing this shot. Always dangerous but

brilliant when you get it. For a second, it looked to be going in

the pocket and I am not sure if it That could be the difference from

8-52 7-6. All a sudden the breaks That has to be called a miss

because it was a relatively easy snooker but that is when the miss

rule is questionable. It was such a difficult stage of the game.

differences that next time, should he miss, Stuart will only need the

blue. And somebody is going to have to fall over the line. Nobody is

grasping the nettle. Even if he hits this, it is going to be tough

Just do not get past the middle pocket was very well played. He may

be snookered on the next visit but that was excellent. -- to knock it

Stephen Maguire hasn't been able to see a ball for a while. Good stuff.

He needs the blue to miss the kiss He is going to have a go at this, I

He went for it and over-committed. Long pot 68%, Bingham. That is

quite good over the match. 33% for Stephen Maguire. One of the reasons

why he is not in front at the The frame is running now for almost

28 minutes. It will probably be the longest of the match by the time

As we said earlier, probably the He needs a pair of stepladders! He

is going to have to get the full extension out. If he slightly

misjudges the little snooker, it will be a very easy safety shot for

Stuart Bingham. This could be the It will be such an easy safety shot

He did not play that. That was a fluke! If he can pot the pink

without fouling it, it will win him He has got it. He is on the black.

The frame moves on to 30 minutes, What an important frame that could

be. We could tabby 8-5 down. -- it could have been. We go stint his

state of mind, given that pressure he is under, but what a fantastic

frame. Brilliant. We have had breaks in

every frame apart from one. There were no breaks there but what a

thrilling game. It had everything. Mrs, Phillips, the whole shooting

match. -- misses and flips. Pressure is a funny thing. Your

opponent puts you under pressure but the only person who can really

put you under pressure is yourself. You put it on yourself and it

builds until you don't really know what you're doing. I o was asking

Terry earlier run about Stuart Bingham, given the fact he has been

behind in a lot of the matches and then has won matches. Now he finds

himself in front, it is a different mind set.

That's was a massive frame for him because if he had gone 8-5 up

before, you would have fancied him whatever had happened. Now it is 6-

7th, the pressure is back on. He has won overseas but it is a big

step for him whereas Stephen Maguire has already won. We have

just seen Bingham go off for a short break. If you are Stephen,

you are feeling on top of the world. He has got to be because he was out

of it. He had resigned himself. Stuart Bingham, not to take

anything away from Stephen Maguire, has been the better player. But

Maguire is a fighter and he wishes to win. He has beaten himself up.

He was rubbing his eyes, head down. He was desperate to win. You were

to looking about Stuart Bingham being a fighter, there was a

fantastic shot when he looked a very focused. You have to go back

to 2009 at the UK Championships in round 24 Stephen Maguire's last win

over Stuart Bingham. COMMENTATOR: That will be on his

mind now. He will be delighted to have won that frame. The match was

virtually over at 8-5 but it is now He would not have left anything on

but now he has the possible opportunity of having to leave a

He had got along want him between the brown and the pink and he will

take it on. He needed the reds near the pink at a gentler pace. It will

take the pressure of this red. If he plays for the blue, he will need

one of the reds on the left-hand side. Go for the brown or yellow,

you could play it as a shot to Well done. That was a pressure pot.

He'll have to stick a 70 or and 80 in to get rid of that disaster he

had in the previous frame when he had a few chances to win and pull

It appeared that his timing has gone a little bit. Will he get into

He is usually very proficient with the rest. I am sure he is still, in

the back of his mind, thinking of What happens when you come under

this type of stress out there is you try and make sure that you pot.

Normally, you don't think about the pot and just concentrate on the

The mind tells you what shot to play and you should let the body

That is a great pack to go into from either the blue or the black.

He would be better playing for the top side of the blue. He could get

He did a similar shot to this in the semi-final. He played the split

perfectly and the red went to wreck the into the pocket after he spread

them out. He has lost a bit of It is a nice change to see two

players who are not regular winners on the circuit. At the moment on

the circuit, we have not really got dominant figures. Selby has been

dominant in a few games this season but Murphy went out. Of course,

dinner was there till the end. -- For these boys to become consistent

winners in the events, they have got to get there and do it. He is

He had just lost his way a bit at I o am not sure how he is getting

from the pink to the reds anyway. He may be playing for the yellow,

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for all I know. He was getting all So it has gone a bit quiet out

there. The tension tends to thicken What a shot that was! Shot of the

match. Under the circumstances, the way things have gone in the last

half-hour of play, to have the guts to play a shot like that was superb.

He has got the perfect angle on the black. He just has to avoid the

first red to. He has hit it. That is why he has only got one in the

If this was the first frame, you would fancy him knocking it in.

There comes a time when you miss a lot of easy shots, which both have

done in the last frame, you have to fully commit. When you see the shot

played as you would normally, you can just carry on with it otherwise

you can only see yourself missing You are kidding! Really struggling

out there at the moment, for some What is he thinking in his chair

after missing that? Certainly not The way things have gone, the 4-

point lead which she had -- 40. Lead to -- the lead of 40 points

that he has seemed like an awful Stephen Maguire looked like he has

lost Burnet lot of covering his face. He said in the interval that

he did not sleep very well last That was a better shot than it

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The kick for Stephen Maguire. I was going to say, it has gone so quiet

out there, I think the crowd are more less expecting a mistake to

You always have the extra chance of getting the cake when you are

cueing down on the cue ball. -- the If he plays this gap between brown

and pink, it is a lot tougher He decided to roll it. Both players

are suffering out there. Has Stuart Bingham recovered from his previous

miss? It is not an easy shot at any time. The one he would expect to

That is a bonus. He made a magnificent double in frame four,

went on to get 114. In some ways, that double could prove to be a

We had cakes and within easy pot, there is a good chance to win the

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frame. -- without kicks and with an If he can just drop the blue in he

This is when it hurts when you are a players sitting in the chair. You

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know you could have won 9-5 and now Bingham wipes his brow. He knows

that it is going to be 7-7. Amazingly enough, this is going to

Stuart Bingham stays in his chair and it is a frame he probably feels

We have had a magnificent week hearing Newport at the BetVictor

Welsh Open. We have got the final we deserve, as well, after some

thrilling snooker. This is brilliant stuff. It is under the

pressure has transferred to Stuart Bingham. He looked like he was

going to take the last two frames and ended up losing them. Let's

look at one of the key moments from that frame. This is Steve Maguire's

double. I think he played this in frustration more than anything.

Stuart miss the long red which, earlier in the match, he has been

potting all of them. He did a good one earlier in the day and won the

frame. I think Terry in the previous frame said that it was a

crucial frame when both players were making mistakes and there was

a bit of cat-and-mouse. He was right because suddenly, the impetus

is with Stephen. He has not played great tonight. Stuart Bingham has

played very well, don't take anything away from him, but Stephen

Maguire has struggled. Now all of a sudden it is seven all and it is

the toss of a coin. What is is missing the pot that he was

potting at the end of the first session and at the start of this

session. That is what makes it so intriguing. He has sat in his chair

now and the demons will now be possessing his head a bit. He knows

he has had a chance to run out the winner and now he is going to have

to start again from scratch and fight for it. The frames are

getting longer. The 13th frame was 30 minutes, the 14th frame was 38

minutes and 36 seconds. You can feel the tension in the arena.

Darren, you know what it is like. Yes, I know what it is like to win

in that arena and I know what it is like when you are getting battered.

Neither of these players are getting battered but it is so tense.

It is gripping. It is the final of the BetVictor Welsh Open. It is

Stephen Maguire against Stuart Bingham. Who is your money on,

Terry? We are not sure. We are WILLIE THORNE: He will still does

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levitating this on. -- definitely He is having to bridge other top of

the cushion and that makes it more He thinks he's going to kiss the

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outside red but he will still be on Stephen Maguire when Ted form a run

this morning. And I went there for breakfast, he said he had not slept

well and was a to freshen up the bed. He looked about half an hour

I think Stuart Bingham may have been seen to winning post. He will

have to dig deep now. He has done all week. He played superbly under

pressure against Ding Junhui. You needn't again now. -- he will need

I think Stuart Bingham has found out that you're at your weakest

when you think you're at your This could go wrong or it could be

He has a shot on the pink but it is He certainly went with a positive

He could do not really get nicely onto a red there. But it was a good

There are few choices here and he has to set his mind on one and go

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4th that is what I like about diesel longer matches, it gives you

a chance to recover if you have a Bohdan -- at that moment in the

That is why the players like to longer sessions per to have to earn

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the right here, to get the final Stephen Maguire has been given a

new lease of life and he has taken it with both hands. He is the man

with a spring in his step now. He looked out of it not so long ago.

On what we have seen, pick will almost be her shame if it does not

go to final frame. -- it will A fabulous break of 77 from Stephen

Maguire, right at the right time. He now leads for the first time. He

won the opening two frames for it feels like the first time, the way

the match has gone. We have had a lot of twists and turns and once

again Stuart Bingham is being a some big questions here. He has

come up with the answers so far in this tournament. That will help him

in his thoughts. It does give you some hope when you have done that

already in the tournament. clearance against Neil Robertson at

5-five was one of the best I have seen. But Stephen Maguire has

certainly got the bit between his What a great match this is. It has

had everything. Big breaks from both players. Players going ahead

and getting caught. Lots of missed Frame 13 will live in a lot of

people's memories, how nervous He needed a bit of luck and I do

not think he has got any. He hit that quite well. He was hoping for

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The referee is looking behind the shots because she needs to know if

there key where the cue ball is in case a player plays a safety shot

At times like this you have to find the strength to turn the shot down.

It is very difficult. Some people say it is a brave shot but the

truth is you have bottled it by That was right into the heart of

the pocket. And when you consider he has missed one in every three

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That was excellent. A lot of Not the best of safety shots but

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He must hit that one, definitely. He will play this as the semi-

safety, taking the cue ball back He has played two very good long

pots. He could cut the brown in but That could be the telling safety

There are three reds in nine just below the pink, and he could rest

Sometimes you have a to cushion escape where you can skin a red and

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then go back to baulk but there is He has got a pot on here. Looking

at Stephen Maguire's face, he knows, Another good safety shot putt there

He may have to put the touch of That was a clever shot. Bringing

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reds into play and making it They may have to rack again now

Both players have agreed. It was going there were there for the next

few minutes. -- nowhere. They both had half a chance but it got a

little scrappy. All points are wiped off any to start again fresh.

Quite a bit of effort went into the early part of that frame. There was

some good safety and a couple of good pot. The long potting from

Stephen Maguire has not been very good to see Hibbert he potted a

couple of good ones there. -- this Whatever else you do, do not hit

He fold the blue. That is very nice of Stuart Bingham to own up to luck.

I think his body was hiding the It is worth a try, this red. It is

a very thin cut but he will have to play it with a lot of left-hand

Either way he played that, it was very risky. Stephen Maguire has his

He's not on the blue or the pink in the middle but it goes in the

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Has he left a nice angle on the What a horrible kick. That has

completely spoilt do shot. That was probably the biggest kick we have

But I do not know how he was getting on the black playing the

It has gone in-off the blue, which you could say is very mucky but on

the other hand, he is not on a If he plays the blue, the blue

could go in which she does not want to happen. It might be better to

play this cushion first so he It was part of the plan when he

The tension is really in this match now because Bingham has not won a

made in this country for five or six years. It is really beginning

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That could have been very good with Stuart has a free shot on here. It

He has it that so bad that the white has come out and left a red

The white is automatically going to cannon into the red if he takes

this on. As Terry mentioned, very lucky to get near the cushion. When

you consider the white is supposed to be a foot off the cushion, you

just can't believe how bad he hated. But as Terry mentioned, it is

A good shot. That was a pressure He had a monstrous cake in the

One good positional shot here and he will have an opportunity to get

on the blue. That will give him an It looks like he played for one of

It is definitely worth the risk. This right. How is the cannon? As

he still got one? There could be one available on the right-hand

If he is not on one there, he is very unlucky. He did not put a lot

of power into that. It was the accuracy of the strike. It makes

He could push this off line. He will be glad to get that one out of

the way. 10 out of 10 for keeping still and pushing through. Still

one shot away from making it. The Very well done. He did not play the

cannon but played a choice of red. Still not in prime position just

He had to put so much attention and then did so much attention to the

pot. He could not think too much of Very nicely played. Cannoned a red

Not too sure whether he has got a He has made something happen but

both reds are tricky. Still one good positional shot away from

making this a frame and match winning chance. He has played two

good splits and not got much out of it. He is still going and there are

still reds available but not what you would call easy at this stage.

Not easy at any stage, as a matter of fact. Very thin cut back into

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He played it slow enough. Not That is the end of the break. There

is nowhere else he can be on anything. 47 points in front. I

don't think he can see the red. He It is in a! Once again, he has not

got good position. He may have a slight angle but from here, it

He is going to have to roll the blue in and leave this long red and

even that is not a certainty to get This is the key shot. This is going

If you run it in on and off the cushion, you know you are on the

That was the right way to play it but it could be costly. REFEREE:

Quiet, everybody, please. He has done it before from 53 behind and

I don't think that is anywhere. He is on nothing. That is tension in

the arm. He wanted to come another six inches across. We are looking

at it thinking it is a great chance to clear up but he has been sitting

in his chair thinking, "I am going to lose this match," for the last

A good shot. He needs to get onto a colour. Needs a big bounce.

Does the green pass the brown into the corner? There is nothing on.

Got play a good safety now. He deserved a bit more after potting

That is a clever shot. He could not have played that any better. A very

Why would he play a hit and hope there?! Why do that? I can't

Obviously, he is hoping to put some reds safe for something but I would

never have played a shot like that. I would have tried to find a way

out rather than just hit and hope. The two-cushion escape was on. You

can't just hit and hope! Still, Stuart Bingham still has it all to

do. This clearance is going to be I wondered if Stephen Maguire was

upset because he has been in the balls twice and played too good

splits and got nothing. Perhaps he is feeling things are going against

him. You can do when you are out there. It is all about that last

red that is on the cushion. You expect him to pot the next red and

black. That is going to be the tough one. Ideally, he would like

to get up tour baulk colour but he cannot because of where the red is.

I thought it was far enough from the cushion not to do that. This is

tough. He will have to hit this quite firm, which makes the red

He is taking the time and having the white cleaned and the black. A

bad contact there. It is risky to play for the pink in the middle. To

get on to the delay is tough. To get onto the blue would be best.

Good pot! To get on the black is even better. What a pot that was.

Stephen Maguire can only sit there and only he knows what he played on

I think he lost control there, I'm afraid. Control of the mind, of

course. He is going to need the pink and the black. The blue would

It is always best to finish higher on the pink, rather than low on the

pink. You don't want be going in and out of baulk. That has gone

high. He does not want to have to A brilliant shot. Brilliant shot!

Brilliant stuff from Bingham. The crowd are loving it. That 58 from

Bingham was his best break for a while, under the most extreme

pressure. Who is going to win now? We are going all the way here

tonight. If you are looking for Jeremy Clarkson, you have me and

Darren Morgan instead but that programme follows the conclusion of

the snooker. What a week we have had but what a final! It has got

everything. One minute we think one is given to win, then it is going

to be the other one, and it is evenly poised now. Let's take a

look at the crucial moment. Terry Griffiths said he had just lost

control of the mind. What has Stephen Maguire done? He has got

options and he played a shot earlier on when I was in the

commentary box - same sort of thing. He could have gone on the red on

the top cushion and he just had a real wild go and are equipped for

the best stock twice tonight he has played that. -- hoped for the best.

Tonight he has played that twice. What would you have played?

definitely would not have played the shot he has just played and I

would be sitting in my chair now wanting to head-butt or wall.

has gone off for a toilet break but he was in such good position.

looked like he had won the final and why he played it in such a way

is beyond me. He still has to pot the balls but whether he edges

quicker, he may have thought that he would not pot. He had other

options. He could have played a much better shot. We were impressed

with this shot from Stuart Bingham because this is a precious shot.

Sheer control. It was not an easy shot. He put all his eggs in one

basket. If he had missed that, it would have gone safe. And what

impressed he was the positioning on the black. To put the black down

this end, he never do needed it for a complete clearance. -- and

knowing he needed it. Let's rejoin are fantastic commentators who are

going to talk us through who will lead the fantastic review.

COMMENTATOR: This crowd deserved the match to go all the way. The

crowds have been fantastic. They have not witnessed the standard of

snooker you would expect from some of these top players but we have

had tension in this match and it deserved to go 8 all and it has. He

You would have to age with Stuart Bingham at the moment. He has the

momentum after that clearance under pressure and has done it twice

already this week. Should Stuart go on to win this, it will stand him

in good stead for future tournaments, having done what he

has done this week. He has had a very good season anyway and won a

number of smaller events. He is in the top 16 now where he has been

trying to get four years. He has cemented his place. I have not

played for 15 years and he was a very good player when I was playing

so it just shows you that it has taken an awful long time for him to

produce good match play snooker. beat Stephen Hendry, didn't he, in

the World Championships in his first or second year? He has always

had good pedigree and been an Wins do not come easy. You have got

to go out and fetch them. He has been doing that for the last couple

REFEREE: Foul and a miss. It is the last frame so anything

can happen but there was a very easy safety shot for Stephen to

play there. You just know Stuart is going to get it right this time. I

can't see the point of putting it Stuart Bingham is helping the

It is going to be a harder shot. Snookers when the pack is tight is

no real advantage. I would rather the players play a safety shot off

the pack. He has played it well. He looked at a plant but I don't

The crowd are on edge out there, aren't they? It is great.

Tremendous entertainment, I must It has been a pleasure to be here

this week. It really is a wonderful He is looking at a plant again.

It has come out awkward for him here. He may just have to touch

He is going to have to play the outside red, which could make it

He would have to reverse it a lot by the look of it. It is six inches

out of the pocket. It is high risk anyway, obviously. Any plant where

the cue ball is directly in line with it is a certainty but at this

stage, he is giving the shot a lot of thought. If he can get the cue

ball anywhere near the blue, it is OK. He does not want to get back

We could have another re-rack. They Stephen Maguire is more likely,

possibly, to take on one of these do or die plant. The white ball is

it right in line. He can't get to the red. He would have to hit

A lovely atmosphere here at Newport. There is nobody even, that's for

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There is no shot on offer unless he has bridging over the green and

cutting very thin. He could just drop on the red to the right of the

He needed to avoid the brown. There If it had not been the final frame,

right-hand side and kissing into the black but not in the final

frame. But he wants to take it on there is no way back into baulk so

he is going to have to play to get He found a gap! That is amazing.

Very, very good shot, that was. Thin as you like of the pink. There

is room to get in behind the yellow. He thought it was too thin to get

in behind the yellow so he has played it behind the brown and made

a pretty good job of it. It is a wonderful contest, two men

during their very purse to every shot. Over five hours there, a lot

of concentration has gone on in He knows that Stuart could get him

in a bit of trouble Hibbert sometimes you have to take a risk.

At times like this you can keep looking and there must also in

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REFEREE: Foul and a miss. The miss will not be paid because he can

snick the red on both sides of the He knew as soon as he hit it. He

got the pot, clean as a whistle, but not quite he intended spin on

the cue ball. He was playing close to the middle pocket on purpose but

He looks to be building himself pot for pick long pot here. -- himself

He could play the plant as a shot to nothing because he can get the

Decisions of hitting hot and. -- decisions are getting hot it now. -

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He would have preferred to stay on the green. This is the first real

chance. But with only the pink being available it will be tough to

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The pink will go on its own spot but it did not know whether it will

be available into any pocket for It is available. All of a sudden,

it is different. This is a chance Well you ask for in a final frame

is a chance and this could be a chance for Stephen Maguire to get

Because of worthy four reds and apply a car, any sort of lead in

Has he got the angle to come back Just short enough to give him the

end could get in and out of the He cannot play it slow and just

Two Mall reds and pinks and he will will have won his first

championships since the China Open This is similar to the break from

Stuart Bingham in the previous frame where he had to clear from

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The big cheer from the cred because it has taken him into a safe

position but he is a any three It is possibly over now. Probably

broken his knuckles but he has his The 58 from Stuart Bingham in the

previous frame was first class. The 64 and counting was very good. It

just shows you what it means to someone like Stephen Maguire who is

the seasoned campaigner but a top eight player for many years. That

still means the world to win a major tournament. It look at times

as if he was not going to win it. This but sleep when he trailed 7-5.

Really pleased for Stephen Maguire. It has been a while and he is too

good a player not to have won more tournaments. A fantastic effort,

both these players have played their part. A standing ovation from

this crowd. Stephen Maguire is the Ladies and gentlemen, before we

interviewed these two warriors of the baize. We have just witnessed

one of the crate Welsh Open finals. Another round of applause, please,

Stuart, you have more than played your part in a wonderful week here.

You have had a great season. Sometimes you just come up short

but it was so close. Perry. I had a chance at 7-5 and I missed it. I

flicked the blue and missed an easy pink. I just felt today that I

threw it away a little bit. But of Disley, Stephen played really well

to come back. He showed his spirit and what a world-class act he is.

Congratulations to him. The crowd have been great all week. The

heated have such a hard run to this final. We were calling you've he

comeback came. Willie Thorne said they your comeback against Neil

Robertson was one of the finest clearances under pressure but he

had ever seen. So you're right on top of your game. Definitely. I had

a message from John Ferguson was the best clearance he had seen. I

still cannot believe that I missed that plant. If I go for a plant it

is normally take said. It is down to one of my mates who has come,

John Smith. Laura he is, I was soon to lose when he comes! John, do not

come to the World Championships! has been great this week, some of

the matches I have pulled out, especially against Ding.

Congratulations to Stephen dad thanked everyone for being a great

tournament. Thank you, Stuart Bingham, a gallant run up. And here

is the guy he knows what it feels like to finish runner up because

she did a couple of seasons ago. You have one big ranking events

before but it has been a while. This surely is born of the sweetest

moments of your career. Yes, I forget what it feels like to be the

winner at the end of the tournament. It is the best filling ever.

have just look so hungry for it this week. Add bit win against Judd

Trump and one of the jailer said he would the underdog, and you said,

really? What has clicked this week? I honestly do not know. Maybe it is

the fact that I had been playing snooker since then you yearn non-

stop. I have played so many great players in the last three month

that perhaps one just man shot. I cannot put my finger on it, if I

could I would keep my finger on it. We can see how much you care. There

was a great shot of the punching to table. Is there hand okay? It has

gone! It will hurt tomorrow. He what does this mean to you? People

have talked about in mints talents you have got. -- he immense talent.

This is a big moment for you to keep time of the season. Yes,

leading up to the World Championship in a couple of months.

It's just to push on for the next couple of months and have three

there are another three tournaments before the world and if I can get

my name and another trophy, I would take it. Do you feel this is the

momentum there you need going on towards the he season climax? It is

a wide open World Championship. cannot get any better than winning

a tournament. It is getting harder every year. I thought for on it but

I had thrown it away at 8-seven, and there would have heard. -- that

would have hurt. I think there will be a little party deceiving.

Another round of applause for you Ladies and gentlemen, please

welcome your presentation party. The director from BetVictor and a

representative from World Snooker. Your runner up, what a marvellous

week he has had, and receiving the silver medal and a cheque for

And your winner, with bruised knuckles and all. Receiving a

cheque for �50,000, the trophy, and the title of a Welsh Open champion,

Ladies and gentlemen, your champion, Stephen Maguire! There he is, many

congratulations to Stephen Maguire. Beaten finalist in 2011 and now the

winner. So often we talk about Judd Trump and Mark Selby and the others,

but these two fellows have been magnificent. It has been a

fantastic week for both players. But final was second to none. One

of the Best finals there have had for a very long time. Both players

played their part and it could have gone either way. Reading the

newspapers this morning, Stephen Bull's same, I am getting sick and

tired of people reminding me that my last major was in 2008. He said

I want to run those was back down the throat of the journalists, and

he has done that in terrific style. Yes, he will tell them now, print

about my latest win. It is always hard. He has made five or six

finals. He has won it now, it has gone, he is a tournament winner

again. These are beautiful pictures of Mackay who has worked extremely

hard this week. Stephen Hendry earlier in the week described him

as an animal when he is playing. No better illustration of that than

when he realised perhaps that he had won the Welsh Open and he bangs

the table. Just take a look at this. This is what it means to him.

might pay for it in the morning. What is he like around the table?

He is a real nice fellow. He had a spell of five frames where his

break-building was prolific and he started today with two centuries in

the first six frames. Stuart Bingham will be really disappointed

that he led the match get away after putting himself in a winning

position. But Stephen Maguire took his chance at the end. What a week

we have had here in Newport at the Welsh Open. The next snooker here

on the BBC is the big one, and we are all looking forward to going to

the Crucible in Sheffield for the World Championships. It starts on