:01:03. > :01:12.A very good evening to you. Welcome to the highlights of the World
:01:13. > :01:16.Snooker Championship. Ding chewing is out of the top 16 per is here in
:01:17. > :01:29.Sheffield looking to land the big one.
:01:30. > :01:36.The pressure the boy is under from China is immense. It shows what he's
:01:37. > :01:48.capable of. Very good score, off the table. At the start, his English
:01:49. > :01:54.held him back, but he's really starting to enjoy himself now and
:01:55. > :02:00.show his character. He is probably the next best thing to Ronnie
:02:01. > :02:06.leggings. On his day, formidable. I think is probably the best of that
:02:07. > :02:09.in the whole sport. He is better than anyone else's. It's just
:02:10. > :02:17.questionable whether he believes he is one of the best players on the
:02:18. > :02:21.planet. Ding Junhui for me is closest to textbook technique. The
:02:22. > :02:28.way he pauses at the boar and pauses how he strikes a cue ball. He did
:02:29. > :02:32.not really speak to anybody. He has come after shallow bit more.
:02:33. > :02:37.Fantastic player and great for China. I could not want anyone to
:02:38. > :02:45.win it more than him. He's such a nice kids. I don't want anyone to
:02:46. > :02:53.win anything but as is player and person, I won him to win it. And
:02:54. > :02:57.Ding Junhui is up against this man, Martin Gould, who is having a pretty
:02:58. > :03:04.decent season having won his first ranking title this year, the 2016
:03:05. > :03:08.German Masters. Also a finalist in the Australian open in 2015. When it
:03:09. > :03:14.comes to the Crucible, he reached the last 16 in 2010-11 and lit up
:03:15. > :03:18.the Arena earlier this morning when 5-3 down, rattling in one of the
:03:19. > :03:42.greatest century breaks we have ever seen here.
:03:43. > :04:01.Another cracking plot. This will be one of the best centuries we have
:04:02. > :04:06.seen for a long time. It never looked on. He will need the awkward
:04:07. > :04:36.pink. How come and hang on, hang on! Yes!
:04:37. > :04:47.Unbelievable. Don't miss the pink. What century break that was.
:04:48. > :04:59.Wonderful entertainment from Martin Gould. That was something else,
:05:00. > :05:06.wasn't it? Who says Snooker was boring? So we will pick up with
:05:07. > :05:28.Martin Gould, leading by 7-6, Ding Junhui to play, and he is trailing.
:05:29. > :05:37.You would have to be very precise to finish there. He would like to take
:05:38. > :06:00.that red away from the black, put it into one of the two corner pockets.
:06:01. > :06:08.He has tried to get onto that red. He always had the other one
:06:09. > :06:15.available as a little bit of insurance and it looks as if he has
:06:16. > :06:32.judged this to perfection, little screw shot to put the black into the
:06:33. > :06:46.pocket. Now a chance. Time to go to work the Ding Junhui here.
:06:47. > :06:57.Just about OK but that is not what he was intending there. A fuller
:06:58. > :08:40.contact on that red rather than the left side.
:08:41. > :08:49.Just made it a little awkward for himself, the fact he is coming up a
:08:50. > :08:58.little bit short for the two reds. He intended to be short so it's a
:08:59. > :09:07.change of plan. And that looks pretty good. He can roll the pinky
:09:08. > :09:17.in and getting the -- get on the two red Sea intended to be an
:09:18. > :09:21.previously. Gradually developing into quite a good chance, this. Only
:09:22. > :09:47.two easy red is available. Key shot coming up. As to whether he
:09:48. > :09:50.can get to that 64 points, that is what he is after, as you can see on
:09:51. > :11:11.the right side of your screen. The rate is touching the pink. I
:11:12. > :11:20.don't know that one is available to the right corner. A cannon on the
:11:21. > :11:21.pink here. He has missed a couple of these blues, so concentrate on the
:11:22. > :11:41.pot. He has put the pink and black out of
:11:42. > :11:43.commission. I think that shot brings Ding Junhui back level in this
:11:44. > :12:22.match. Martin thinking about it but Ding
:12:23. > :12:43.Junhui is all square at 7-7. These are my favourite shots coming
:12:44. > :13:19.up now. Never missed one of these. Free Snooker is required at the
:13:20. > :13:30.moment. -- three Snookers. Might be able to swerve this. The cue up in
:13:31. > :13:40.the air, left-hand side, dig down on it. Banana and it's too much. It's a
:13:41. > :13:47.free ball and suddenly the whole frame can change around. It needs to
:13:48. > :13:54.keep running that. Free ball. So he put the pink as a red, he has got
:13:55. > :14:05.the black, another seven, all of a sudden, Martin Gould is right back
:14:06. > :14:12.in this. He can win a peep pots the pink and black. He can win with the
:14:13. > :14:24.red, black and all the colours by one point. You don't see that very
:14:25. > :14:29.often, when a player needs three Snookers, and after one shot, he is
:14:30. > :14:34.back in the frame. He would be very disappointed, Martin, with that shot
:14:35. > :14:37.he has just played. That was a poor positional shot. He has got the
:14:38. > :14:49.power to get up there, right hand side.
:14:50. > :15:02.This could be a big let off. He has put himself under unnecessary
:15:03. > :15:11.pressure now in this frame. Well, that's what he thinks of that. Got
:15:12. > :15:14.far too much on it. Is he going to risk keeping the red ball in play
:15:15. > :15:24.and getting the snooker behind the other one? It's pretty
:15:25. > :15:28.straightforward, you would think. He wants the red to bounce away from
:15:29. > :15:39.the commission to leave a gap around the back of it. -- cushion. Should
:15:40. > :15:45.be OK with the two Cush and get out here. Can he see enough of the first
:15:46. > :15:55.cushion? He needs to hit the road from behind. I think he's OK. I've
:15:56. > :16:00.do for you was OK. He tried it of one cushion and look where he has
:16:01. > :16:13.finished. All of a sudden, your second favourite.
:16:14. > :16:30.He can't believe what has happened in this frame.
:16:31. > :16:42.What a turnaround this is going to be. This could cost Ding Junhui the
:16:43. > :16:45.match, this frame, because it will take a massive effort to put this
:16:46. > :17:18.frame out of his mind. Never in his wildest dreams did he
:17:19. > :17:22.think he would lose this frame because you have got to carry on,
:17:23. > :17:33.just putting the blue and then decided to play a cannon. At the
:17:34. > :17:39.time, when he missed that black, Martin was debating even whether to
:17:40. > :17:52.get out of his chair. He will be glad he did now. That's not the best
:17:53. > :17:56.of shots, wanted it to be further up the table with the cue ball and
:17:57. > :18:01.closer to the pink. He has got to play this on the left-hand side. It
:18:02. > :18:08.becomes admissible. He is playing for the black to the same pocket. He
:18:09. > :18:33.played that well. Good shot. What a frame. Doing Junhui had made
:18:34. > :18:41.a break of 65, marketed and needed three, never give up because he
:18:42. > :18:46.pinched the frame and he now leads 8-6. So-called would-be advantage.
:18:47. > :18:49.We wondered how Ding Junhui would bounce back. He responded in fine
:18:50. > :19:22.style, firing in this break. Ding Junhui missing the black but
:19:23. > :19:37.that has brought him right back into this. How all Martin Gould now
:19:38. > :19:37.react? 41 points to the good. Just one
:19:38. > :19:55.awkward shot. Not getting into a good position. Tricky, the pink is
:19:56. > :19:57.not available, the black ghost one pocket, good chance for a attack
:19:58. > :20:12.though. -- counter attack. I think this right corn is the shot.
:20:13. > :20:53.He is reluctant to use the rest. I never thought that was guaranteed.
:20:54. > :20:57.There word two reds to the left of it. The red to the left corner that
:20:58. > :21:08.refused was a guaranteed position on the pink. I thought for a moment he
:21:09. > :21:22.would be frustrated and go for the green.
:21:23. > :21:43.Is he taking it on? Great shot. Could that be a frame-winner? That
:21:44. > :21:53.was a little beauty he has pulled out the. From a slight angle so he
:21:54. > :22:07.can force out onto the black. Create an angle.
:22:08. > :24:10.Martin Gould knows how good a shot that Green was.
:24:11. > :24:21.He is certainly flying along now. I think losing that frame has really
:24:22. > :24:36.given him a boost. He is playing the way we know he can. He has used that
:24:37. > :24:47.anger in a good way, it has made him play a lot more aggressively. He is
:24:48. > :24:58.playing his natural game. Generally, he has looked a different player
:24:59. > :25:02.since he lost that terrible frame. He never seemed to get a perfect
:25:03. > :25:05.position an outbreak. It's a shame because the reds are all in the
:25:06. > :25:29.middle of the table and in the end, it caught him up. He has underhit
:25:30. > :25:35.this one. He can still cut it in and avoid the yellow. And that is pretty
:25:36. > :26:07.good. He did well to hold that. He did not
:26:08. > :27:05.want to go in and out so he only needs the yellow or green.
:27:06. > :27:17.Doing Junhui left Martin Gould, who could not make enough, and with that
:27:18. > :28:24.prolific clearance, they are all square at eight frames each.
:28:25. > :28:34.Will it say 2016 finalist this year? Cracking encounter this. Ding Junhui
:28:35. > :28:41.won the last meeting at the Shanghai Masters by 5-3 and after bubble
:28:42. > :28:45.earlier in the evening, he soon his rhythm, knocking it another century
:28:46. > :28:55.break to really polled the pressure on Gould. -- pile. Ding Junhui was
:28:56. > :28:59.knocked out of the first round in 2014. And this year, he was
:29:00. > :29:14.determined not to fall at the first hurdle.
:29:15. > :29:20.Still plenty of work to do. Let us move into frame 18. Can Ding seal
:29:21. > :29:49.the deal? Gould trails. Play a little cannon, the three reds
:29:50. > :29:56.together, the top one, if he hits them side of that, as we look at it,
:29:57. > :30:11.it should open perfectly. Yes, pretty good. The red on the side
:30:12. > :30:14.cushion is the problem here. He could cannon that write-off from
:30:15. > :30:20.here and you would be guaranteed to be on the blue but he hasn't got the
:30:21. > :30:22.ankle. With slightly more ankle he could have played the cannon to move
:30:23. > :30:35.that led and he would have been guaranteed the blue. He has just
:30:36. > :30:39.come at a bad angle of the pink, when the pink goes back on its own
:30:40. > :30:47.spot the two rates below that become a bit more tricky to get on. He has
:30:48. > :30:49.to hit this school on the right-hand side, he has to hit it well. Has he
:30:50. > :31:24.got the side? Yes. Where he is now, in a couple of
:31:25. > :31:27.shots time, if you can get the white subway near the reds and pot the
:31:28. > :31:32.pink and move the difficult read, but just looking at these two, when
:31:33. > :31:34.the pink when back on its what you said it would make them a little
:31:35. > :32:10.awkward. He can put this now and just nudge
:32:11. > :32:12.the other red then he would be nicely on the pink for the left
:32:13. > :32:31.middle pocket. He might be able to play for the red
:32:32. > :32:36.in such a way that if he gets a good angle on the ready could pot the red
:32:37. > :32:40.and move the difficult read, that is not a bad thing to do whenever you
:32:41. > :32:46.know you are guaranteed to be on a cannon. Let us see how it goes
:32:47. > :32:52.against this. He has to play that shot and get an angle on this road,
:32:53. > :32:54.and he has done. Maybe a touch more angle on this red than he had
:32:55. > :33:09.planned. He would have rather had half ball
:33:10. > :33:19.Paul Dunne this is more potable. -- he would have rather had a half ball
:33:20. > :33:24.pot and this is more quarter ball. I think you might just be OK because
:33:25. > :33:27.he has to get close to that red because it has just gone past the
:33:28. > :33:40.middle pocket, further than he intended. Yes. He would have to get
:33:41. > :33:42.very close to the red, somewhere near that of the right just the
:33:43. > :34:01.right of that be perfect. Not quite. This is a very difficult
:34:02. > :34:08.angle he is looking at if he is going to take this on to the right
:34:09. > :34:15.corner, and he is so close to its. What a big shot this could be. This
:34:16. > :34:20.is a shot that could keep Martin Gould in this year's World
:34:21. > :34:31.Championship, so here we go, it is tough to judge when you are that
:34:32. > :34:34.close. No. It's not there. But he has got second prize, though, I
:34:35. > :34:40.thought the red was going to stay over the pocket once he missed it.
:34:41. > :34:41.He is 13 points in front. If that red Hat have stayed over the pocket
:34:42. > :35:23.it was end of match. Very well played, there was always
:35:24. > :35:26.the possibility with the way he played that that he could get the
:35:27. > :35:34.snooker. How will the luck be of Martin Gould here when he escapes
:35:35. > :35:42.from the easy snooker. Where is it going to go? I think it will pass
:35:43. > :35:48.the yellow. That might just be the last shot for Martin Gould. One long
:35:49. > :35:50.pot on this red and he knows he could be out of this year's
:35:51. > :36:23.Championships. A good solo pot. Now, you think
:36:24. > :36:26.there is one good position. Green to yellow and then yellow to green,
:36:27. > :36:37.because the brown there is just making it slightly awkward.
:36:38. > :36:48.When you think this is the last problem here is going to have. The
:36:49. > :36:50.great performance, you have to say, if he goes on to win this from 8-6
:36:51. > :37:16.down. And that is just perfect. His back was against the wall. Hang
:37:17. > :37:23.on, he has come up a little bit short. Another few inches and it was
:37:24. > :37:28.just straightforward. Martin is just anxiously awaiting to see if he can
:37:29. > :37:42.negotiate the brown to get on the blue. Ding had to century breaks and
:37:43. > :37:45.three frames. He didn't like this extension earlier in the match when
:37:46. > :38:00.he had a brown and he never got to screw it back.
:38:01. > :38:09.Safely end, and it looks to be spot-on. He doesn't need the black
:38:10. > :38:12.that is off its spot. Martin Gould has played so well, he was looking a
:38:13. > :38:25.strong favourite. Yes, I think Martin knew he got or
:38:26. > :38:35.the toughest draw for the qualifiers in the championship and it has
:38:36. > :38:38.proven so. It wasn't looking good for Ding Junhui when he let that
:38:39. > :38:42.frame slip away when three smokers were needed, but didn't he come back
:38:43. > :38:47.strong, and what a performance from this Chinese player. It goes through
:38:48. > :38:54.to the next round, with a terrific win against Martin Gould, 10-8. When
:38:55. > :39:03.I started thinking, thinking good, you know, the whole match it puts a
:39:04. > :39:10.lot of pressure on myself and I tried to enjoy it and Terry try to
:39:11. > :39:19.help me a lot between the match and 4-1 up and after he came back I lost
:39:20. > :39:25.some bad frames and it hurt me. After 8-6 I went for everything and
:39:26. > :39:33.I don't want to think about that, just go, experience, faster, and
:39:34. > :39:38.think more concentrations. Don't think a lot of other things because
:39:39. > :39:45.I am spinning fast so I don't get time to think about anything else.
:39:46. > :39:49.It works under play good. Congratulations to Ding who is now
:39:50. > :39:55.working alongside the Welsh snooker legend Terry Griffiths. He is into
:39:56. > :40:00.the last 16, alongside Barry Hawkins and Mark Allen. Mark Alleyne resumed
:40:01. > :40:05.his match against Mitchell Mann and he was leading 6-3 Eddie had his
:40:06. > :40:09.sights on a quick flesh. He rattled off the first four friend this
:40:10. > :40:12.morning and he booked his place in the second round. The first round
:40:13. > :40:20.here is not very nice at all and you just want to get through it, no
:40:21. > :40:23.matter how, ten - nine or 10- 08, done it doesn't matter. I knew with
:40:24. > :40:28.Mitchell's style of play would never be an open game or an attacking
:40:29. > :40:36.game. I felt like I handled everything pretty well. Also leading
:40:37. > :40:41.6-3 overnight, Barry Hawkins faced a tougher challenge against the
:40:42. > :40:44.high-scoring Shang and a half. The 2013 finalists claimed the two
:40:45. > :40:58.friends who needed for victory, finishing off in style. -- Zhang
:40:59. > :41:04.Anda. This for a 141. Well played, Barry Hawkins, what a way to finish!
:41:05. > :41:10.I had not really been looking forward to coming and yesterday I
:41:11. > :41:15.couldn't concentrate all focus. It was very frustrating really and I
:41:16. > :41:20.was so lucky really that Zhang Anda struggled as well and I ended up
:41:21. > :41:23.making a 6-3 lead overnight so I was doing cartwheels with the way I felt
:41:24. > :41:28.underwear played out there yesterday so I am really delighted to still be
:41:29. > :41:31.here. Well done to Barry Hawkins. We have seen Ding Junhui make it
:41:32. > :41:35.through to the second round and he will play the winner between the
:41:36. > :41:39.match between Judd Trump and the man who made the final of the UK
:41:40. > :41:46.championship in York this season, young rainbow. The China man had his
:41:47. > :41:54.nose in front all afternoon and it just Trump couldn't pick up any
:41:55. > :41:58.rhythm at all. We join the action in the night frame. What a pot that is!
:41:59. > :42:26.Wow. What a pot! What to put it was to
:42:27. > :42:34.get the, to knock at that pace. It did wobble a few times but safely in
:42:35. > :42:40.the pocket. Oh, no. A long way off. He cued right across that. As John
:42:41. > :42:43.had said, this is such an important frame and it shows you what the
:42:44. > :43:02.tension can do even to a top player in the game. Amazing. He has missed
:43:03. > :43:15.two easy blacks off the spot. A lot for Liang to do, especially with big
:43:16. > :43:19.NSA. -- with the yellow safe. Liang Wenbo's temperament has been very
:43:20. > :43:22.good in this match, much better than it was in the early pot of the UK
:43:23. > :43:35.where we saw him slapping himself on the face quite hard.
:43:36. > :43:41.The yellow is the key and also the red next to the pink will play a big
:43:42. > :43:49.pot in how many he can put here, John. Yes, but if we hark back to
:43:50. > :43:58.the black off the spot, that was a very poor miss for Judd and he can't
:43:59. > :44:03.be missing those. He would later pot that and a couple more reds that
:44:04. > :44:05.Liang is taking here and it would have been 5-4 and shaking hands are
:44:06. > :44:46.not a bad result. Well, that was a nervy one. He was
:44:47. > :44:51.just trying to get in behind that. He has managed to just about do it.
:44:52. > :44:54.It might still pot but this is a thin cut and he mentioned earlier
:44:55. > :44:58.today that there was a similar shot on the pink and it is difficult when
:44:59. > :45:08.it is a blind pocket, playing away from it. These are always a little
:45:09. > :45:10.bit thinner than you think. What about potting the red and moving the
:45:11. > :45:33.yellow? What about that for a shot? How did he do that? Watch him again
:45:34. > :45:36.when he gets that lovely little cue ball. Watch it off the green, he
:45:37. > :45:40.flicks the green and moves the yellow. I forgot to mention the
:45:41. > :45:58.green, yes. 24. OK, he has got a nice angle on
:45:59. > :47:29.the blue and every chance now. Blue and pink needed and he has got
:47:30. > :47:33.a good angle on the blue to come off the ball cushion with a little bit
:47:34. > :47:40.of side and drop-in behind this pink. If he can live the pink for a
:47:41. > :47:44.couple of pockets he is looking at it into the left middle pocket but I
:47:45. > :47:49.think they will be coming off the cushion and swinging it in behind to
:47:50. > :47:58.give them the choice of pockets. That is what he has done. It could
:47:59. > :48:05.be one of those, no, he is OK. It was always going to be a chance for
:48:06. > :48:08.the middle of the corner and the corner it is. Well, just can't
:48:09. > :48:23.believe that he has cleared up from here.
:48:24. > :48:29.Oh, showing a little bit of emotion. He is over the moon with that
:48:30. > :48:33.clearance. It started with back-to-back centuries and he has
:48:34. > :48:37.won the last two frames and how important is that last frame going
:48:38. > :48:44.to be because Liang Wenbo has beaten Judd Trump by 6-3.
:48:45. > :48:50.Could we be looking at another big-name going out? Kyron Williams
:48:51. > :48:57.and leads Joe Perry after their first session by 5-4. That is just
:48:58. > :49:00.about it from us for now but snooker extra followed us in about ten
:49:01. > :49:06.minutes time and that is followed by Crucible classics. We will be back
:49:07. > :49:09.at 1pm on BBC Two with further live coverage of the BetFred World
:49:10. > :49:11.Snooker Championship and we show you the conclusion of Judd Trump and
:49:12. > :49:19.Liang Wenbo.