Semi-Finals - Part 2 Snooker: Welsh Open
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You can only look back at the end of your career, and go, did I get it | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
right most of the time? When you start to play with confidence | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
results come. You don't have time to think about everything. Other than | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
what you are doing there and then. The experience of getting to a | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
semifinal, big crowd, I've had that a few times in my career now. As | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
long as you feel good in yourself you've always got a chance. It will | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
be a great experience, to put myself against the absolute best that is | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Ronnie O'Sullivan at the moment. Good evening. Two of the best and a | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
man made for prime time television, be prepared to be entertained, it | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
could be compulsive viewing, playing for the right to face Neil Robertson | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
in the final. Can Joe Perry steal the limelight from the man who has | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
been thrilling the crowds all week? Now obviously the semis, a one-table | :01:41. | :01:54. | |
set-up, it is nice to be there, but still a long way to go, the best of | :01:55. | :02:04. | |
17. It is my best run of the season so far, I did not come here in great | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
form but I felt better in myself and more confident and the results have | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
shown what I thought was happening to my game. He's a good player, I | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
had one of my hardest matches at the Crucible against him, very tough | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
match, he is a good tactical player. I need to be on my game, he beat | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Judd Trump and you must be feeling good about his game. He is | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
absolutely ridiculous. He's the greatest player anyone will ever | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
see, it is crazy what he does on a snooker table, and you can't help | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
but watch, I've watched all of his matches this week, he's fantastic to | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
watch. He's a great character, great charisma around the table and his | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
actual play is unbelievable. I've learned that mentally you cannot | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
sabotage your own success and I'm trying not to do that, but it has | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
been a long wait. But we are here now and I'm still in the semis, and | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
we will try to make the most of it. Yes, I can beat him, he is beatable, | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
but it will be a big task at the mood and form he is in, I will have | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
to play my best ever. Why not? I'm in the semifinal, playing good, why | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
not? I have got to have the belief I can win. This is how the players | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
compare, Ronnie O'Sullivan with 27 ranking titles. Joe Perry with just | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
one, that was last year when he won the players championship. The | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
head-to-head, 12 victories for Ronnie and just two for Joe Perry. | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
Joe Perry reached the semifinal in 2014, the last year that Ronnie | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
Victoria -- won this. People cannot wait for this. There is always a | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
harsh when Ronnie O'Sullivan plays, he brings everyone out to watching, | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
and I can't believe how relaxed he has been, he has said it has been a | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
long way, but he is playing what he considers his practice form on the | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
match table, and if we could all do that, we would have a great chance. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
It will be tough for Joe Perry, but he has a bit of form. He's playing | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
well now, and it will be a test for Ronnie tonight. He admitted that | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
himself, Joe Perry, he has not been playing very well going into the | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
tournament, but he has the momentum going through this competition. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
People say Ronnie is unbeatable, they keep on saying that. Joe Perry | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
says he has been watching his matches all week, but you have got | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
to get that out of your mind. You have got to play well to beat him, | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
but you can't keep on saying that he is unbeatable, because he has lost | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
matches in his career and he will lose more. How do you go about it? | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
You cannot afford to miss when you are in the balls, around the black | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
spot you have got to win the frame at that visit and your safety has | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
got to be watertight. We will find out what happens. The man behind me | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
is going to get the players out here. Now to the master of | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
ceremonies, Mark Johnston Allen. It is an amazing atmosphere here at the | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff. Welcome to the second semifinal of the Welsh | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
Open 2016, Saturday night snooker does not get any better than this, | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
the crowd are waiting and the players are waiting. We can get on | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
with the introduction is. First of all. -- introductions. | :05:42. | :06:07. | |
We seem to be having a problem with the Welsh Open snooker. We are | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
working on the problem and we will bring this back to you as soon as we | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
can. | :06:16. | :06:26. |