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Blink and you'll miss him, the Rocket, Ronnie O'Sullivan and! Here | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
comes the musician, Sean Murphy. At just happy to be out there and play. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Every snooker player loves playing and you have to embrace at all. I | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
came here in good form a few months ago and he slapped me to one side. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
You are capable of anything coming not just playing him, you're playing | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
the entourage and his intimidation factor and the crowd and last time I | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
got too involved in all of the other stuff unforgotten A. It is round two | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
at the Crucible and the boxing analogy may be apt because this | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
evening we had ourselves a proper heavyweight contest. You know and I | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
know that Ronnie O'Sullivan and Shaun Murphy are not exactly best of | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
pals but that gave their second round match an extra edge amidst a | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
heated build-up and a lot of strong words on the way. Stand-by for the | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
magician against the Rocket, that was evening offering. Earlier in the | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
afternoon Neil Robertson got across the line in comfortable fashion | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
against Noppon Saengkham. The Aussie had earlier in the match knocked in | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
a landmark 500 strolled over the line 10-4-macro. Today we saw more | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
of the knock-on who qualify to get here. Yesterday was very daunting to | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
come here for the first time and I was speaking to him straight after | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
the match and I said that he would do better next time here and he said | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
he was very nervous in the first session yesterday so he came out and | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
played much better today but it was very tough to lose from 8-1 down in | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
so many things have to go against you and I was lucky to finish off | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
the match pretty early. This evening Barry Hawkins became the last man to | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
book a place in the second round after beating Tom Ford. He hasn't | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
failed to make it to release the quarters since 2012 and he now faces | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Graeme Dott, another Crucible specialist. I am delighted to get | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
through that round and I am expecting a tough game. Tom is a | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
great player when he gets going but I will take it and the main thing | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
was together a past that first round really. I think winning 7-2 in the | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
session yesterday against him didn't really kill the match off but it put | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
a lot of doubt it is my, that's official. If I get a chance I will | :03:02. | :03:34. | |
score. I am happy with my form and this is a tough place to play but if | :03:35. | :03:35. | |
you can settle that they're as I have done in the last few years then | :03:36. | :03:36. | |
I can play good snooker and hope you do that again. The second round draw | :03:37. | :03:36. | |
is now complete and here is how it looks. | :03:37. | :03:57. | |
Earlier this week Ronnie O'Sullivan caused a Ferrari amidst all the | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
accusations of bullying and intimidation at the highest levels | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
of the sport, accusation strongly denied, and then Shaun Murphy waded | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
in and accused Ronnie of washing his dirty linen in public and a slanging | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
match between the games authorities and players doesn't look good. | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
Factor all of that into your computations and you have got the | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
makings of a Rather combustible encounter, to say the least. The | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
bell went on it tonight and we join the refrain one with Shaun Murphy to | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
play and 14 points behind and we are in the company of Steve Davis and | :04:31. | :04:42. | |
John Virgo. The cue ball is coming up the table. Money will be tempted | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
by this one. He will look at what he would be left with if he puts his | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
opponent up again and Sean will play a more successful safety. He has got | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
to go for this. Absolutely. If he had it replaced John -- Sean could | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
get the safety shot just right and he would be in trouble. There is a | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
little bit of something in the cloth that has caught his eye. Good cueing | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
needed for this. Just off straight and he will play the run-through for | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
pink or blue. That is solid. A good shot. A good finish and a little bit | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
betwixt and between. 2.5 for the pink and not enough of the blue. -- | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
too hard for the pink and not enough for the blue. Not absolutely sure | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
what he played for there but I think he played for the blue and once | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
again these conditions are at the moment playing a bit slower. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Trapping a bit. When they are hitting the cushions | :05:49. | :06:03. | |
Square on, but when they are hitting it sideways they seem to be sliding. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
He played for one of the reds in the middle of the table and he got one | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
to the right of a black. He can just get through to. | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
Not the right angle on the pink so a little bit of work to do with the | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
cue ball. He can use a fair bit of force here. He played that well. He | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
deserves everything he gets. He has got choices now. Should the | :06:36. | :06:51. | |
red away from the path of the black. -- shift the red away. There is a | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
red by the black spot but he won't like the look of as well. | :06:58. | :07:08. | |
You don't want to be playing the black, as Steve said, the black spot | :07:09. | :07:18. | |
is almost tied up by the red. Just hit nicely to get on the pink. I | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
would say that if there was any player in the game that you would | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
pick to tune into a table as quick as possible, it is Ronnie | :07:28. | :07:28. | |
O'Sullivan. He needs to get to 61 points. He has | :07:29. | :07:44. | |
screwed back a little bit too far and there is a little gap year. He | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
has to find it though. He won't mind that cue ball keeps running, and it | :07:54. | :07:54. | |
has, he is now perfect the blue. You can see it as a nice angle. The | :07:55. | :08:13. | |
right side of the blue line. The Bulls could not be better placed. A | :08:14. | :08:23. | |
snooker player 's nightmare, the wrong side of the blue. On the days | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
when you judge that particular shot by Ronnie O'Sullivan has judged to | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
perfection correctly, it makes the game a lot easier. The red colour | :08:38. | :08:55. | |
and a red would be enough as Ronnie glances at the scoreboard. He has | :08:56. | :09:06. | |
overdone slightly but after this blue just one point needed. It was | :09:07. | :09:17. | |
never going to be a problem. The next red to go 57 ahead with only 51 | :09:18. | :09:37. | |
remaining. Inigo Ros. -- in it goes. He needed two chances but Shaun | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
Murphy blade two pour shifty shots and he capitalised on the second | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
one. -- Shaun Murphy played two pour shifty shots. | :09:54. | :10:08. | |
He won't be able to make the century but he will be keen to clear the | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
table. He doesn't want his opponent coming back and getting some | :10:15. | :10:15. | |
practice time. Clever use of the middle pocket. He | :10:16. | :10:28. | |
looks wonderful touch. Sending out a signal to Shaun which | :10:29. | :10:59. | |
I'm sure he knew before the start of this match, that if he is going to | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
get anything out of it he will have to play well. But that is what you | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
expect at this level and that is what you expect in the World | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
Championship at the Crucible Theatre. | :11:10. | :11:25. | |
Wonderful stuff from Ronnie O'Sullivan. It is Ronnie O'Sullivan | :11:26. | :11:36. | |
who takes the first frame. He leads 1-0. Ronnie was springing out of his | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
corner to land the first blow and incidentally he has twice beaten | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
Shaun here in Best of 25 frame matches at the Crucible, most | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
recently in 2014 which was a thumping 13 frames to three. We go | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
into frame to with money trailing by 46 points. -- Ronnie is trailing by | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
46 points. Didn't see that coming. The bridging | :12:01. | :12:12. | |
is awkward and I think it certainly got a kick, the red came off a bit | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
thick. It was the type of shot that he has misjudged the fact that he | :12:18. | :12:18. | |
was putting top spin on. Surely now pot the black and get | :12:19. | :12:39. | |
into those roads, just use those roads as a buffer. He didn't have to | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
do, I know, but he thought he might as well have done. He can get over | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
the line without them, I know. This will put in 62 points in front. | :12:54. | :13:13. | |
You still need to read and the colour. It looks like the top right | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
of that cluster of four goes to this one way, but it doesn't, he is very | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
proficient with the rest. The red and the black will do. | :13:27. | :13:50. | |
In goes the black, 70 points is the lead now. Just 67 remaining. He is | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
on this read to the right middle. 25. He made a couple of mistakes in | :13:58. | :14:20. | |
this frame, Shaun, but he wasn't punished for them. Yeah, I mean we | :14:21. | :14:30. | |
may not be correct in digging him out for not going into the pack of | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
reds. There are plenty of ways to play the positional side of things. | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
He will be happier now he has a frame on the board, that is for | :14:47. | :14:47. | |
certain. 41. He has got into this a little bit | :14:48. | :15:42. | |
too much. When you play this shot you're trying to win the yellow | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
under brown. It doesn't matter now of course. Funnily enough, if he was | :15:45. | :15:56. | |
to clear up here he would have a 91 break. That would equal one his | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
break in the first frame. Tit-for-tat, or what? | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
Tonight 's session, however it unfolds, one thing is for sure, you | :16:13. | :16:21. | |
are witnessing two of the greatest cue wastes that the game has ever | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
seen, -- two of the greatest cueists that the game has ever seen. So | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
relax and enjoy. Not bothering about the black. That puts Shaun Murphy on | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
the scoreboard. It is one apiece. So, at counterpunch from Murphy and | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
into the next it was Ronnie, this time with a break of 75, going 2-1 | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
in front. Now we're into the last before the interval, frame four, and | :17:01. | :17:01. | |
it is Murphy to This game has been going on over | :17:02. | :17:26. | |
41.5 minutes. The average frame time at the moment is just under 14 | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
minutes. Now let's see how Ronnie queues this one. | :17:32. | :17:43. | |
That is better. They are tough shots to play. He had to hold for the | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
black and seeded. You cannot decelerate with those. A good shot. | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
You really have to get the cue few through. It is interesting that the | :17:59. | :18:08. | |
shot but Ronnie O'Sullivan played, if he misses it he presents Shaun | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
Murphy with reds at the top of the table. It is very difficult to try | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
and explain which shots are the ones who have to go for and which ones | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
you should leave alone. That is whether you are sitting in a | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
commentary box, fan, a player at home, or the players out on the | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
table. They all have different opinions. | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
25. There is a loose read up near the blue but he has a nice angle if | :18:45. | :19:35. | |
he should wish to go into the red tear. I don't think it is one of | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
these situations that you can guarantee. One is had a quick look | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
at the pink into the red corner and if not I play -- I see value in | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
playing the cannon here. He decided not to. I can only assume that the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
red just below the kink -- pink does go. And it does. | :19:59. | :20:12. | |
Play the red to the left middle here, I would have thought. I know | :20:13. | :20:36. | |
he was low on this red here, but I suppose he could play at an open up | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
the reds but he wouldn't have a clue where the cue ball would finish. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
This is quite a shock to take on. It is a frame-winner if he putts but it | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
is a risk. Summing up this red in the middle pocket. This is the one | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
for me. OK, it is a tough spot but if you miss it you will be bringing | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
everything into play. But he did not miss it and he will be black, black. | :21:08. | :21:20. | |
-- back on the black. It looks like the end of 147 if he is dead | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
straight. It will be tough to keep the break going from here after the | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
black, does he have a fractional angle? Just. He may be able to force | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
it to the condition. If he comes in very low on the red he turned down | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
before. He is on it but he won't be able to play on the black off it. He | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
is a bit closer to the red. He'd get his hand on the table and it is | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
close enough that it makes it a bit easier, this pot. In Ros. He is on | :21:54. | :22:09. | |
the pink. -- in it goes. This is snooker of quality. Break shot. | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
Didn't leave much, but now Short is suddenly seeing he is looking at the | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
mid-session interval and see he will be 3-1 down. Only ever been two 146 | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
breaks at the Crucible apparently. I remember Doug Mountjoy making a 145. | :22:29. | :22:43. | |
Mark Allen Graham got one. It was a pub quiz question. A nice -- the | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
highest break at the moment is Ding Junhui, it will get broken, but just | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
when? He is a little bit betwixt and between there. He will give this red | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
every due care and attention. Nice plate. He controlled the cue ball | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
perfectly. A quick glance at the scoreboard. This blue will put in 67 | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
points in front but there are still 75 remaining so he is looking for | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
another red. That will put him 68 ahead. There are just 67 remaining, | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
he will want to clear up here because this will be a good target. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
At the moment there is a possible 142 if you took blacks with these | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
remaining reds. He has decided to play for the pink. That just means | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
now that there is no way that Shaun Murphy will win coming back to the | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
table. A good break this, Steve. Yes, and also made without risk as | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
well, forgetting any types of 147 prize money or anything like that, | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
when the frame at all costs. He looks as we speak very workmanlike, | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
Ronnie O'Sullivan, apart from his natural genius which was makes him | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
look like a virtuoso. Yeah, workmanlike, I am not sure if Ronnie | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
and workmanlike together, I'm sorry. But the way his attitude, around the | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
table more than any body language. Yes, claimed the correct shot and | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
play the expansive shots, if you like. That is what I hate about | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
golf, when you hit your best drive down the middle they all go, steady, | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
steady! It's my best shot! He has played these absolutely wonderfully. | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
He has already made two centuries in the tournament so far. He could have | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
made it 140 but I don't think he is particularly interested in high | :25:13. | :25:28. | |
breaks. Wonderful stuff. Beautiful. 139 was possible, but not now. It | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
has gone down again and it is 135. His early break was 136. He just | :25:35. | :25:49. | |
wants to pot all of the balls. Remember, if you put all of the | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
balls you are bound to rain. Judging the reaction of his first-round | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
match against Gary Wilson which was such a tough work-out, there is only | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
one thing on his mind, and that is lifting the title to Mondays from | :26:03. | :26:11. | |
now. Somewhere he has been written off as not being so dominant but | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
when he is on top form, how could you write off? Never. This is an | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
absolutely superb break. Never looked in trouble. Clear the table | :26:23. | :26:36. | |
completely. All Shaun Murphy did was break off, sat down and enjoyed it | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
with the rest of us as Ronnie O'Sullivan makes one to wait because | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
he leaves at the mid-session interval 3-1. That was won his third | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
century here so far this year and the 20 fifth of bit tournament so | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
far. Blink and you miss and the interval was gone and we are into | :26:58. | :26:59. | |
frame five, only 20 behind. Six. It looks as though he has come | :27:00. | :27:54. | |
straight on this red. Just to roll it into the black. He did not want | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
to risk that. He thought he had to be too precise so he played that the | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
blue. A nice angle on it, no harm done. | :28:08. | :28:18. | |
You know Ronnie, he would like to get the black on the spot sooner | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
rather than later and there was a chance now to do that. 13. You do | :28:24. | :28:33. | |
get the feeling that once Ronnie O'Sullivan gets amongst the balls he | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
is likely to make a frame-winning contribution but at the moment Shaun | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
Murphy hasn't settled down in that department. He made an 80 break | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
early on but just being found wanting a fraction more in the | :28:50. | :28:51. | |
positional Department of the game. Yes, and the cue ball control is the | :28:52. | :29:01. | |
essence of this game. They can all part, but it is having good control | :29:02. | :29:08. | |
of the cue ball which can make the difference between winning and | :29:09. | :29:09. | |
losing a match. One of the problems with playing a | :29:10. | :29:33. | |
player of the standard and stature and break-building capability of | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
Ronnie O'Sullivan, is that it does put a lot of pressure on all | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
departments of your game, including break-building. When you get amongst | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
the balls, you feel like you must take advantage. He wasn't | :29:47. | :29:55. | |
particularly happy with that potting angle, so in potting this black | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
comedy will try to cannon the red in the middle of the table. He just | :30:00. | :30:13. | |
missed the cannon. He just brushed past it but wanted to hit it full in | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
the face. It is unlike him to miss a cannon like that. He played it quite | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
softly. He could have played it harder and he would have still been | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
on a red. He could have struck the ball with more authority and | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
guaranteed the back spin and the cannon. As he played it, he let it | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
drift past a fraction. But this red is still on. | :30:38. | :30:47. | |
No problem. It always amazes me, because he plays so many shots | :30:48. | :30:57. | |
left-handed, his standard with the rest is unbelievable, because he | :30:58. | :31:05. | |
very rarely uses it. He had to punch that in off the cushion. He now has | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
a 32 point gleed. These reds in the middle of the table with blacks | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
would put him at the snooker required stage. | :31:15. | :31:28. | |
It is a giddy 15 and a half minutes, the longest frame of the match. | :31:29. | :31:49. | |
He made certain of the red and there is no way back to the table for | :31:50. | :32:05. | |
Shaun. There is a chance of another | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
century. He made one before the mid-session interval. If he gets on | :32:11. | :32:12. | |
this red, a chance of another one. Not quite. It is a pity, but an | :32:13. | :32:29. | |
excellent contribution. Shaun laid a marvellous opening red and did not | :32:30. | :32:36. | |
make the most of it. Ronnie now leads by four frames to one. When he | :32:37. | :32:41. | |
took the next as well, you got the feeling Shaun Murphy did not have | :32:42. | :32:46. | |
many tricks left up his sleeve, at five frames to one down. A huge | :32:47. | :32:53. | |
frame coming now in the seventh. Ronnie, 57 points to 44 ahead, with | :32:54. | :32:56. | |
just four colours remaining. What on earth has he done there? Oh, | :32:57. | :33:12. | |
no! Well, it just shows you, he thought of everything but that. And | :33:13. | :33:20. | |
now... Gee-whiz. Unbelievable. What a gift for Shaun. Shaun has gone too | :33:21. | :33:33. | |
far with the cue ball. He has to do more mileage with the cue ball. OK, | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
you think he escaped to get there, but... | :33:38. | :33:46. | |
This is not going to be good unless it runs on a lot. He still needs | :33:47. | :33:54. | |
pink and black. The points are level. He needs to take a big | :33:55. | :34:01. | |
breath, Shaun Murphy, take the negative thoughts out of your brain. | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
Approach this like Ronnie had just played a bad safety shot, and then | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
you are in a different frame of mind. Stop thinking about the fact | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
that you have messed it up and try to play the right shot. I think he | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
has to go for the cut. I think it is cuttable and the cue ball comes in | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
and out of baulk for the black somehow. | :34:26. | :34:33. | |
He had to hit it hard, and when you hit it hard, you lose your accuracy. | :34:34. | :34:42. | |
What has he done here? Is the black going to snooker Ronnie on the pink? | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
It has done. There you see it. The things that can happen on a snooker | :34:49. | :34:54. | |
table that is only 12 foot by six. It's amazing. | :34:55. | :35:07. | |
It is safe. I am sure that Ronnie thought for a moment that the pink | :35:08. | :35:13. | |
was running towards the corner. But he had gifted Shaun a chance, and | :35:14. | :35:18. | |
Shaun was unable to take it. This is now a big frame, particularly for | :35:19. | :35:25. | |
Shaun Murphy. Good shot from Shaun Murphy. He was not tempted to try to | :35:26. | :35:31. | |
get the cue ball behind the black, that was too difficult. Ronnie has a | :35:32. | :35:42. | |
two, three-cushion safety behind the black. The pink will be in open play | :35:43. | :35:50. | |
a bit. He played the pot. Wow! I did not think he would play the pot. | :35:51. | :35:57. | |
Well, it surprised me. But the pace that the pink arrived at the pocket, | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
it was difficult for it to escape, really. Another chance for Shaun, a | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
bit more difficult, but the natural line for the cue ball is back | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
towards the black, if he can pop the pink. Would you believe it? Would | :36:11. | :36:18. | |
you believe it? He is having a nightmare. | :36:19. | :36:25. | |
He did not hit it with the right amount of pace. He was trying to | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
play the control shot, but surely you have to make sure of the pot. | :36:31. | :36:38. | |
Ronnie also needs pink and black. Never easy to get the cue ball up | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
the table from a ball in the pocket. And this is a tough one. This is a | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
massive turning point in the frame from Shaun Murphy's perspective, if | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
he misses it. And Ronnie knows the significance. | :36:53. | :36:58. | |
Not there. Is the black going to stop short of a middle pocket? It | :36:59. | :37:08. | |
is. It was a tough black, as Steve explained, and he made certain he | :37:09. | :37:15. | |
got a good cue ball. Everybody is susceptible to the tension at the | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
Crucible at different times in the match, even from in front. Shaun, | :37:19. | :37:25. | |
twice across safety, cue ball up the table. Good effort. Yes, could have | :37:26. | :37:33. | |
done with a bit more role on the cue ball to get tight to the baulk | :37:34. | :37:34. | |
cushion, but safe enough. Ronnie plays the side to side, | :37:35. | :37:46. | |
guaranteed to be safe. And he has a little bit of an angle on that, | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
enough of an angle that Shaun could be tempted into the cocked hat | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
bubble into the right middle, with an element of safety. It was too | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
straight. It was not like that. So another containing safety. The only | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
problem is that he has not put distance between cue ball and object | :38:05. | :38:08. | |
ball, so you would fancy Ronnie to play a better safety shot. | :38:09. | :38:16. | |
Advantage, Ronnie O'Sullivan at the moment. He could not afford to hit | :38:17. | :38:23. | |
it too thin, so he has left it up. My goodness! Everything is happening | :38:24. | :38:30. | |
in this frame, bad shots, bad misses. The difference between six | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
frames to one, and five frames to two, coming up now. Straight in the | :38:36. | :38:43. | |
heart of the pocket, and much appreciated by this packed crowd. | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
Ronnie O'Sullivan will be kicking himself. He had lots of chances, as | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
did Shaun, but Shaun will not be kicking himself because he won the | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
frame. Now three behind. Ronnie's domination of the session | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
is slowed up for now but much depends on the outcome of the final | :39:02. | :39:03. | |
frame of the evening. He missed it completely and it will | :39:04. | :39:14. | |
run back and leave the red to the left middle. | :39:15. | :39:27. | |
Ronnie will not be immune to the fact that he more or less threw away | :39:28. | :39:34. | |
the last frame. So he will look on this opportunity now with not so | :39:35. | :39:40. | |
much trepidation, but he will take extra care over every shot. | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
Particularly at the start of the break. He will not want to make any | :39:46. | :39:47. | |
silly mistakes. Once again, the judgment of pace, to | :39:48. | :40:01. | |
finish absolutely inch perfect on the blue. It gives him an | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
opportunity to play for the red just above the black. | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
Not quite far enough. In putting the red he will have to judge the cannon | :40:12. | :40:26. | |
on the black nicely. And he did. He did. Excellent shot. Tremendous | :40:27. | :40:37. | |
knowledge. There was a risk of the cue ball going behind the red. | :40:38. | :40:48. | |
He could have got into that Littlemore but it didn't matter, as | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
long as he made contact with the red. | :40:54. | :41:05. | |
Even though Ronnie O'Sullivan will have hated the last frame, and could | :41:06. | :41:13. | |
have got himself under it from in front, his vast talent and the speed | :41:14. | :41:16. | |
at which he plays around the table is usually enough to let that talent | :41:17. | :41:24. | |
do the talking. He can take his brain out of gear and play the shots | :41:25. | :41:31. | |
as if he is down the club. I think it is a fact, over the last few | :41:32. | :41:38. | |
seasons you can say that. But a few seasons ago, something like that | :41:39. | :41:41. | |
would have really knocked him out of his stride. | :41:42. | :42:07. | |
He would play the red to the right middle but it is too straight. Well, | :42:08. | :42:18. | |
he could. I don't know why he gave it that extra thought. I presume the | :42:19. | :42:21. | |
downside was that he was going to finish close to the cushion. | :42:22. | :42:31. | |
When you have to dig in, it makes the blue missable. Solid enough, but | :42:32. | :42:46. | |
he gave every attention to the pot and has just run slightly out of | :42:47. | :42:53. | |
position. Not perfect on the red. Dead straight, made it a bit easier. | :42:54. | :43:06. | |
Not certain to be on a red offer this shot. He could have pushed a | :43:07. | :43:17. | |
red towards the middle pocket. Don't tell me he is on that! I thought he | :43:18. | :43:24. | |
would play it softer and control it towards the middle but was obviously | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
opening up other reds. He is on this red, a massive bit of luck, really. | :43:30. | :43:37. | |
I suppose you cannot have it both ways. So many times we see players | :43:38. | :43:40. | |
go into the reds and finish on nothing and you say, that was | :43:41. | :43:43. | |
unlucky. So it is swings and roundabouts. But I think his purpose | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
was to open up more reds than just a single one, as you say. He was | :43:50. | :43:53. | |
fortunate it caught the bump on the middle pocket, and now a clear run | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
to the winning line and a four frame advantage at the end of the session. | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
And he certainly has not been tentative in this frame. We see | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
players so often, when things have gone wrong for them from in front. | :44:08. | :44:21. | |
All things considered, if this does become six frames to two for Ronnie | :44:22. | :44:30. | |
O'Sullivan, I think Shaun would have to say fair enough. It could have | :44:31. | :44:33. | |
been seven frames to one. Yes, I think it is a fair reflection | :44:34. | :44:45. | |
of what we have seen. Shaun can look at frames he should have won, and he | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
had chances to win, and under normal circumstances you would expect into. | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
But 81% pot success is really the Achilles' heel of Shaun this | :44:57. | :44:57. | |
evening. This pink will put Ronnie 72 points | :44:58. | :45:14. | |
in front with just 67 remaining. And an opportunity to finish with a | :45:15. | :45:16. | |
century break. He needs an angle on the blue, | :45:17. | :45:29. | |
because no reds are available. He may just be able to force it in and | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
come off the right-hand side cushion. Going round to see if | :45:34. | :45:36. | |
something is available, possibly a plant. He has not got the best angle | :45:37. | :45:41. | |
on the blue. But it doesn't matter, frame over. He played the cannon. | :45:42. | :45:53. | |
Unlucky. I don't think he banged his cue on the table on purpose, it | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
slipped out of his hand. Anyway, as I say, 78 points ahead, just 59 | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
remaining. There will be a handshake, and they have treated us | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
to someone before snooker. OK, Ronnie O'Sullivan has been the main | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
man, Shaun Murphy will be disappointed with his performance. | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
Ronnie waves to the crowd and gets good appreciation. Shaun will hope | :46:18. | :46:20. | |
to do better in the second session tomorrow afternoon, but thought | :46:21. | :46:26. | |
might, he is six frames to two behind. Intrigue, drama, big breaks | :46:27. | :46:31. | |
and black ball finish. What a start, and we will have more tomorrow | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
afternoon in their second session. The other second-round match today | :46:36. | :46:40. | |
featured the 2015 champion Stuart Bingham and the world 14 Kyren | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
Wilson, who held the psychological advantage. They have met four times | :46:45. | :46:47. | |
previously and Wilson has never been beaten. | :46:48. | :47:00. | |
The first of the second round matches, just about to get underway. | :47:01. | :47:09. | |
That settles the first frame. Kyren Wilson leads by one frame to zero. | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
That is fantastic cueing. Anywhere but there are. Kyren | :47:16. | :47:22. | |
Wilson, leading by three frames. He actually got a kick there. | :47:23. | :47:52. | |
Excellent pot. He now leads by five frames to nil. It will be a very | :47:53. | :48:01. | |
relieved man to get a frame on the board. He trails five frames to one. | :48:02. | :48:13. | |
Kyren had a look to see if he could pot the red in the middle. He needs | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
to be careful not to play a push shot. I think that may well have | :48:18. | :48:25. | |
been a push. So a very relieved Stuart Bingham wins the seventh | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
frame and trails five frames to two. It looks like he is playing the pot. | :48:29. | :48:45. | |
And it is there. It will be a delighted Stuart Bingham. He will be | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
absolutely delighted to finish only five frames to three down. They are | :48:50. | :48:56. | |
back for the second instalment at 10am, live. There were quite a few | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
candidates for shot of the day but only one winner, and what a winner | :49:01. | :49:02. | |
from Shaun Murphy. I am not sure what he is trying to | :49:03. | :49:18. | |
do. Well, he is coming off side cushion, top cushion, lots of | :49:19. | :49:21. | |
right-hand side. This is risky. What a shot this is. Unbelievable! | :49:22. | :49:41. | |
Unbelievable export --. What a shot! Brilliant, wasn't it? Trick shot | :49:42. | :49:45. | |
supreme in the heat of battle. We are back live at 10am with the first | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
session between Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo, with China guaranteed a | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
quarterfinalist, but which of these will it be? Catch you in the | :49:55. | :49:56. | |
morning. Goodbye for now. | :49:57. | :50:00. |