Day 11, Part 1 Snooker: World Championship

Good morning. We had reached the quarter-finals of the 2013 Betfair

World Snooker Championship. The news this morning is that Ronnie

O'Sullivan is through to the last eight, and here is how it is

Ronnie takes on Stuart Bingham later today. Judd Trump takes on

Shaun Murphy. England versus Wales, as Ricky Walden takes on Michael

White, and Goulding Be King, as he plays Barry Hawkins? -- will Ding

be king? We are concentrating on Get your crystal ball out, in 10

years' time, where his Judd Trump? I can answer that, known as a

perfect time for a single guy with no commitment to play snooker. I

think he can dominate the game if he wants because he's the only one

in his it age group -- the only one in his age group that can just play

snooker. If he dedicates his career, he can be in the game for a long

time to come. I'll ask you again. In 10 years' time, whereas Judd

Trump? -- where is? I can see him wanting to achieve in the game, but

although he is young, he is different and I was at that age,

where his whole life does not revolve around snooker. He likes to

have a good time with his friends, whereas I was snooker the whole

time. What about he never fulfils his potential because some part of

his game is missing? I have not watched Judd this year. I have

watched him a couple of times and seen him refused shots he would not

have done a year ago. So he is maturing quickly. A few players

have said, it is not all about potting balls! I don't know who it

is, but they're wrong! His game is changing but it will be interesting

to see if he has the same success, because that can affect you

mentally. If you think, I turned that down, and I wish I had taken

Matton, different things can into your mind. He is a dangerous player,

has strong cue action. I cannot see him not winning lots of tournaments.

There are not many people in his age group. He has an excellent

chance. I agree. He is a very powerful player. He splits open the

reds as soon as he can. Unbelievable cue power, and he wins

the frames with no effort. In 10 years' time, he will have won 15 or

I had no interest in snooker of whatsoever, and I asked Father

Christmas for a Commodore 64 computer, because my friends at

school had one. I came down that morning, looking forward to seeing

it, but there was a snooker table, I think it was a Steve Davis pot

black snooker table. And within a few weeks we had found a local

snooker club, and I had made a 50 break on the little table. Once I

got onto the big tables at 9 years old, I went silly then. There are

not many outside influences in snooker. 99% of the time you're in

control of your own egg -- destiny, and if you can do things well, you

will win our get a good result, and that is what I liked about it. In a

lot of other sports, you see a gust of wind mackerel can cause

something to go wrong in golf, or a bad line call in tennis. In snooker,

it is generally up to you. I never get bored with it. It is trying to

master something that you cannot tame, and trying to do the best you

can with what you have got in any given situation. It is a great job.

I do not see snooker as my job, it is what I do to earn my living, but

I do not look a bit like a job, and to do so was a mistake because a

job implies a good day's work for a good day's pay, but that is not the

life of a sportsman. I took the decision to go down the sporting it,

and understood that that came with certain risks. You might not get

the result but you want on a given day. If I wanted security, I would

have gone for an office job. It is in my blood, it is what I love the

most, and if I am able, I will always play.

Shaun Murphy has left the practice Stables, had a quick chat with him.

He says it is a good day to be feeling good. So Shaun Murphy is

very positive here, just before leaving backstage. Two players are

ready. Judd Trump and Barry Hawkins are there. It is going to be an

All-England much, and this is perhaps Judd Trump's moment. It

will be a difficult quarter-final against Shaun Murphy. The last

meeting between them was at the China Open, in 2011, which Judd

Trump won by 6-1. Ding Junhui, he takes on Barry Hawkins on table two.

Barry Hawkins knocked out Mark Selby. The big question everyone is

asking, can he do it again against the Chinese superstar, or is this

the year where a Chinese player wins the World Championship? He

played very well in the third and final session against Mark King

yesterday. King to come all the way but showed a little bit of class

towards the end, far too much for Mark King. We think the players are

ready. They are ready for the quarter-finals. We are down to the

last eight. It will be a great day of snooker. Let's go to the

Crucible Theatre. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

We started 11 days ago with 32 of the best players in the world. Now,

just eight remain. Please welcome first of all, a

player who produced one of the shocks of the tournament so far,

against Mark Selby. He won his first ranking event title in June,

down under. Now, here he is contesting his first Crucible

And his opponent, winner of six ranking event titles and the

Masters, but this is the one an entire nation want him to win. He

has been the flag-bearer for Chinese snooker for a decade, so

And welcome a class act. He needed all his experience to come through

a match against Graeme Dott. One of only 10 players to win the world

and UK titles. This is his 6th Crucible quarter-final, and he will

be seriously up for the challenge. He is the magician, he is Shaun

And finally, please welcome the most exciting player of his

generation. It to come just over one hour to take the four frames

needed to finish off Fu in the last round. Ladies and gentlemen, he is

the pride of Bristol, he is Judd Trump!

Here we go. So exciting at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Last

time Judd Trump played Shaun Murphy was in 2011, when Judd Trump won it.

Surely, Mrs such a different arena, such different pressure. That is

the match on BBC Two. If you want Ding Junhui and Barry Hawkins, that

is available on the red button, or on the BBC Sport website. Good

morning to Dennis Taylor and Stephen Hendry.

DENNIS: Good morning to everyone watching. Judd makes a poor break

off shocked. -- Oct. We see it many times, do not have the blue. -- hit

It will be a fascinating battle between these two great players.

Yes, two players who believe they They will consider themselves

unlucky that they are meeting as early as the quarter-final. That is

the way the game is these days. The This is already a good opportunity

In the practice run, I bet they never practise the rake-off shocked.

He could have closed his eyes and potted it. It is one of those times

when you get down and do not even look at the angle, you assume you

will poppet. -- pot it. Judd will try to open the reds as soon as

The blue was off its spot. Not If he plays a cannon on one of the

reds, he Mike D himself a chance with the black. -- he might give

A couple of years ago, in the World Championship I said he was the best

port and I had ever seen in the game. -- potter. What would you

think? There is no doubt about it, his potting his incredible. When he

gets to the end of a frame, some of He has more cue power than almost

He had a good chance to punish Shaun, but that was unfortunate.

You could see how far it left the bed of the table. You do not like

missing an easy pot, but when you get a kick like that it is not the

A how were you at playing at 10 in the morning? I do and mend, Ray

Reardon used to hate playing in the morning, but he was a bit of an

I remember Ray Reardon playing Bill Werbeniuk, and bill was playing as

well as he could, and Ray Reardon said to him, I see you can nip --

you do not like playing in the morning either? And he did not pot

It is a good contrast between these players. Shaun has -- has great cue

action, and job Trump plays an exciting game of snooker. -- Judd

Trump. No one comes close to the

That is the safety success rate. Judd Trump has a head of Shaun

Murphy, which might surprise people. He has been working on his tactical

game. He knows that you cannot pop your way to a World Championship. -

You'll get a few more chances if he He is definitely mixing up his game

a bit more this season. When you get scars from going for shots and

players punishing you, you start to learn that you cannot go for

everything. It took me 30 years to You can see the way that the reds

were. Two won the left, two won the One of the best in the business at

Shaun needs to just cut out the careless mistakes. His long pot is

as good as anyone, but he does not win as much -- enough reins at one

That was careless, just a lapse in He is working with one of your

former coaches, Chris Henry. He seems to be quite relaxed. Chris

works on his mental attitude. will start with technique, and he

looks for where the players are striking the cue ball. A lot of

players do not hit it in the middle, and you need someone to point that

They have just started working I have known Chris Henry for many

years, I knew his parents, and the family were all great singers from

backing them. We used to go there A very good safety shot from Shaun

Murphy. It looked as if this dream would be

open in five or six minutes, but it has turned into a tactical battle.

He would like to play the red at the left-hand cushion, but it is

It is a tricky shot. He is in a A misjudgment. If the black does

not pot, it might adopt cost him too many points. -- it made not

cost him. He would have to get back across the table to leave the black

He is just having a Lucasta where he would like to place the cue ball

Not the best. There is an escape No damage done. Gradually these

reds will come off the cushion Got to be careful this time. An

easy escape route, but if he plays straight onto the red need is the

black spot, it will open some of The scoreboard has gone off, I

think. I am not sure what happened. Judd supporter back and told Alan

Humphreys, the referee. -- spotted that. You can see the top of his

head. We have lost the scoreboard. There we go. Back to normal.

He has a bit of an angle on the blue. Watch the cue action if he

screws this back. He has to be careful he does not screw into the

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If he screws that bad, there is a chance of going the wrong side of

He has blocked the escape route to that side of the table. This is not

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A that is where they wear, let us That escape he is trained, there is

hardly any gap between the blue and For it is getting off the cushion,

which tells me that the shot is not really available. He is going to

That escape route that he has now tried twice is not available. He is

concerned about going the other way because he might leave he red it on.

That is much more straightforward. Yes, the shot that Shaun has played

me when him the frame, because I do That was the problem. That was why

he wanted to find out it if he could get through the gap between

the brown and blue. He has ended up leaving the red that we thought he

A little bit of a careless miss by That is a couple of easy pots that

Shaun Murphy has missed. He has spotted a couple of cracking along

ones as well. But Judd Trump has He cued right across that one.

Shaun Murphy trying to get in Where is the red going? Right over

the middle pocket. What a result he has had at the pink is snookering

him. He may have to bend it round But nor angle on the brown to move

the red Sea Tilstock the black is He could possibly het that red, but

It may be worth the risk, because even if he misses it, he would have

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He did not hit down all enough on That was at club or shot. He knew

that he would leave the red it near the pocket, but knew that he would

be cover by Eddie line of the pink, blue and green. But what a result

Shaun is looking at the angle. He has the chance of snookering Judd

As predicted. The escape route was available to Shaun and he could not

Nor, there was a little bit of it sticking it out. But I think Shaun

me take this on, because he could leave an angle on the pink, or blue,

to get up for that final difficult This is a clever shot. That was a

brilliant shot. Shaun Murphy tapping the table. He knew that was

a very good shot. Who would have thought this frame would have been

going on this long? We have been going for 27 minutes. At the start

of the frame it looked as if it would be over in six or seven

Yes, both of these players are much more comfortable with an open table,

making big breaks. But it is always nice to get that opening frame,

which is why things are a bit on It is always tough to judge the

angle. He would like to have come out off two cushions, but the

pocket is in the wake of that in He has had the result this time.

You never know where they are going to court and he would definitely

This needs to keep on running and He was slightly hampered by the

green, but I still expected Shaun to pot that. But he is quite lucky,

At first glance, the pink could be in no way of the to cushion escape

I thought that might have been a freak ball, but the referee has had

So difficult to pick out the angle Now, is that eight free ball this

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time. Nor, we're back where we He just made sure that he kept the

red safe. Although it is the best of 25 frames, it is always nice to

get the opening one on the board, He has returned the compliment.

That is even better. What a shot he That is what he has got to try, but

He is obviously going on the side of missing it warned that the side

of the red. But this could be bad Shaun Murphy is looking at the

scoreboard. He is looking at bringing that awkward brown it back

into the open table, which is Abol He looked at the potting angle and

still miss that. He has spotted a couple of cracking long pots, but

he has missed three or four or very What the gift for Judd Trump. I am

sure that he thought that there was no chance of in stopping Shaun

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Looks as if he got away with it. A few nerves around in this opening

frame. Yes, and with the brown going safe, we could be in for a

few minutes off safety play again. Neither of these players are used

to playing a 40 minute frame of snooker, but we are getting close

He knew that he could never get in behind the pink and black, so he

just made sure that he made the green safe. Now, this is a bit of a

chance. I thought he we be able to get the green and head up for the

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brown, but he may be does not have He was comfortable leaving himself

a medium range shot. This is where He hit that too well, finished in

no man's land. Always difficult to judge coming back of the red, but

He will need a little bit of help here, he might be able to stretch

over, but he cannot, so it will be I do not know how they do that,

holding up the rest like it is a The weight kept spinning. -- white.

It was generating so much spin, it came off the cushion and landed in

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He has given Shaun another I thought he could have stun this

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for the black, but he wanted to Let us have a look and see what

He was concentrating so much on getting the correct cannon on

finishing -- to finish on the black, he took his eye off the port. It is

a poor start from these players. Neither of them have got into their

There will come back out at 8:00pm this evening for their second

He has got to capitalise and push on from here, just to get some

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This is something you would do to get your cue arm going before you

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I think both players have settled That is a bit more like it. That

That was not a cracking pot! Both players will settle down now,

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and that 68 break has given Shaun That is the reason Shaun was one of

the most consistent players in the game, but he would dearly love to

win another world title. It was 2005 since he defeated Matthew

What has he left? If he has covered everything here, he is very

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He made be able to get past the It is early in the morning, but

In the slow-motion shot, you could It is like he is already shaking

his head, because he knows he has The worrying things with Judd is

that it is easy shots he has been It is normally the start of the

match where you are up for it and Steve Davis always started quickly

in a match, and a couple of times he knocked a century break. You did

the same thing, Stephen, through the 90s, you always got off to a

quick start. I always realised it was so important to get off to a

quick start in these long matches. Your concentration and focus is

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You have to get the cue out of the Just a little bit short of pace

there. He will not be taking it on now. He can play it in such a way

he is covering the pocket with the If he had hit the unlawful, the red

to the right of the blue was available. -- if he had hit the

Shaun has to be careful. If he does not get this right, he could leave

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It is a great chalk. There seems to be a gap between the

green and a blue. But he cannot see enough of the red behind the pink.

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Pots are never easy into a blind Shaun has to take advantage at this

stage in the match. Judd is not playing well, so he has to take

The one to the writer of the pink would open up ripping up here. --

They would probably have expected to be at the interval at this stage,

A little bit of noise coming from At the end of the quarter-finals,

there will be one table in the centre of the Crucible, when it

comes into its own, and it is like He only needs one more red. Two

very good friends for him. -- He is such a fluent player when he

Every chance of making a century break, now he has caught these reds.

What a shame. Shaun will not be too concerned about that, but Judd

Trump will. That is too narrow for I am not surprised that Zelboraf's

left the arena. He must be concerned at the shot he played.

There was one night respotted, where he seemed to cue across it.

But you spotted his head was moving. Yes, he went right across. It is

like he is really nervous and tense. Just after he strikes the ball,

watch his head. That tells me he is not relaxed at all. He has been the

world number 1, and he wants to go on and be world champion, and it is

a fine margin, isn't it? If you try too hard, you do not play well some

things. It is just trying to drive enough, but not too hard. Yes, and

they have tremendous respect for each other's games. This is a tough

match for them, in the quarter- finals. Look at the total points.

232-85. He has only potted 20 balls. But the success rate of pots is

very low. You are after over 90%. Shaun has taken -- overtaken Judd

in the safety balls, but Judd has played some tactical play. He does

not usually leave the arena, but I am wondering whether there is

something that is causing him a slight problem. The mid-session

interval will happen after this frame. Shaun sits totally relaxed.

Since he turned professional, he has always tried to play and

conduct himself the way that the old professionals did. That was a

great piece on the great Joe Davis. There were some great professionals,

and that is where we got the dress- sense prom. Joe Davis was an

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elegant player. You would have This is a tough shot because there

is no colour available. You know That was a lot smoother. He kept

his head that time, but that is unlucky. It was not going into the

pocket, but there was a double-kiss. There are two reds running together,

neither is going in the pocket them all of a sudden, that was so

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unfortunate. They look like they This is what hurts during the game

of snooker. The pot a colour, and send a reds all over the table, you

have a chance to win. But something like that happens, you have to

watch your opponent clear up the This is a little tester, he is

It is still not easy, the pink and black car out of commission at the

moment. He wants to free up a Can he screw back and leave the

black in the same pocket here? Obviously not. He was unlucky there,

play a good shot from the yellow. He might be able to Paul batten

then cannon to the black. It looks to be on. -- to port that. I wonder

if he can play to the pink in the Perhaps it is too straight for that.

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He is back to the one at the right The mid-session interval is coming

up. Shaun Murphy has got into his By like a the way that Shaun the

He would love to get rid of the red sitting next to the black, which is

making things and bit awkward at He has definitely settle down more

Yes, you do not get to the quarter final of the World Championship

As we keep saying, you play the long matches and were taught many

sessions. As I say, be mid-session interval coming up. And it is

looking as if Shaun Murphy is going It is all looking pretty good for

reform were world champion. -- v Shaun Murphy will be looking to

push John to get as big a lead as possible going into the seconds

I thing red Judd will be heading for the practice table took three

up his cueing arm and just bought a few balls. I do not think that

Shaun Murphy will go to the We have had 30 ft centuries so far

in this year's World Championship. Shaun has had four of them and

really made one in the last frame. Can you believe it? No century, but

he will not be too concerned about that. Shaun Murphy has a three

breaks of over 50 and he will be feeling good going to the mid-

Yes, a slightly shaky first frame from both of them, but Shaun Murphy

ended the first section of that match in fine form. He will be very

happy with that. They will be back for four more frames after the

interval. We will now turn our attention to the action on the

other table, with Ding Junhui from You want to have the good run here,

because everyone is watching this tournament around the world. There

is definitely extra motivation to have a good run, to make a name for

It is tense here. I have never experience the quarter final. Even

after I beat Mark Selby, my mind was still racing. And I need to

find ways to keep myself sharp. about that for a celebration?

know that you are going to have to beat the lot of good players to win

this tournament. You simply have to just take one game at a time.

Hawkins, well done. You have beating the number one player in

the world. If I can beat Ding, then I suppose I will then look at the

draw and see where I am. At the moment, I am not looking any

further than the match with Ding Junhui. That really was an

excellent performance by Barry Hawkins, in beating Mark Selby.

This is the record of Ding Junhui at the Crucible Theatre. He reached

the semi-final two years ago when he lost to Judd Trump in the semi-

final. Barry Hawkins won his first ranking tournament in the Australia

earlier this season. But this is his first appearance bent a quarter

final of the World Championship. We are joining the action in the

opening frame, with Ding ahead by JOHN VIRGO: Just looking at the

cushion. He seemed a bit surprised about the amount of pounds from

TERRY GRIFFITHS: We have already been running for 20 minutes and

that was the first mistake of the day from Ding. Over the course of

the long match, you are going to make some of these. If you're

having to move their cue ball 10 or 12 feet all the time you are

certainly going to make some It was never going to be the

easiest chance. He has come just the wrong side of the pink. He may

have to play this with a bit of They could break nicely if he took

the chance. He cannot make his mind up and it is best if you are in

that situation to stand up and He has got one red to carry on with

Well, again, and bit of a bounce off the cushion. He may actually

It was an ace second option. It is certainly an advantage do get a

But he has played that too slow. It is strange when that happens, if

you get a bit of a big kick bounced off the cushion with one shot, you

tend to play be next on a lot This is now quite tricky. The black

will obviously going to be opposite pocket, but he wants to finish high

Nicely played. The red at immediately below the black may be

available, but he would like He is on the red. He was having to

hit the ball a late harder than he would have liked so that he would

be able to Ken and into the two red Nor, he needed to miss the ground

for it to be any decent safety shot Beautiful shot. He could not have

struck that better and now he has left himself an opportunity to call

Once again, if you look at that, he did it not that hard enough anyway.

It was admissible because his He needed a bit of help and he did

not get it. I think that Ding will play this red. It is a bit risky,

but it is easier to play be pot and That was too thin and he knew it

straight away. He needed some help He got that too thick. He could

bought the blue and screw back, but the problem is that the red that he

wants to get drawn is only available into the bottom right-

The green was the much easier option, but that would also have

put some doubt into his mind. He has played this perfectly. If he is

He is not on the one in the open, but has got the tricky one along

He went full blooded for it and was a bit unlucky. He just skimmed that

red. I do not know what sort of angle he has on the pink. He is

having to play with a lot of back That was a tough shot. Any end, he

decided to play for it in the middle. He is now 26 points in

front and a red and the colour now In it goes and just this pink means

he will call 33 points in front, A long drawn-out frame which is in

its 33rd minute, but it looks as if it has gone the way of Barry

Hawkins. An excellent start by Barry Hawkins. Into the second

frame, Ding is at the table, Very unexpected. You very really

Under the tap goes up and goes over the top of the ball. But of the

A long drawn-out safety and tussle and it is Barry Hawkins who gets

the first decent chance. He already has a 24 point lead, but these have

Just flicking the blue has left him at any nice position. The black is

tied up, but the pink and blue are Yes, the red Sea barque ideally

Once again, control of the cue ball is the important part. When these

players are playing well, be do not even consider the pots. All their

concentration goes on the Yes, that was care less. It could

have cost them this frame. I know all we are only in the second frame

of the match, but you get the impression that we are playing the

match on Barry Hawkins terms. He is not bothered by these long bouts of

safety play. He played that one with too much pace. But perhaps he

was playing for the blue. Pool D Barry Hawkins's all-round game has

always been very good. He is now in the top 16 in the world and has a

Their leader is now 57 points, so he needs maybe three or four more

He just has to be careful he does not bring the boat into play and

Just when he needed tight control of the cue ball, he is just running

It is an unusual frame because of the amount of penalty points that

Ding gave away to Barry Hawkins If he pots the pink, he will got 78

in front with just 75 remaining. So, it looks like the second frame will

also call the wake of Barry and Ding Junhui simply cannot get in

So, but for snookers, Barry Hawkins will be two frames ahead. Ding

needs to do something. We moved back into the third frame and Ding

A number of the Chinese players live together in Gloucester. They

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He has taking these very well. It is very good, considering it is

really has forced real chance in the match. He is just a little bit

too straight on the black to play for the one he would like to do.

That is why he is electing for the Now looking for one more red and

With every red that you take, of course, you take eight points off

the table, the equivalent of both The blue will put and 69 points in

front, with only 67 points remaining. As I say, it shows you

the fractions and snooker. Barry Hawkins played an attacking safety

shot, look to have played it perfectly, but just left one red

sticking out. It looks as if it may It will do now. That has made

certain. Beautifully compile break by Ding Junhui. Yes, he fully

committed himself to that first red. He has won six ranking events, one

of them this year. He was three frames down against Neil Robertson

and came back to win 4-3. He has not been winning that much this

season, which is surprising. He does flatter to deceive some times.

Yes, but I think he will have gained a lot from the victory over

Mark King me yesterday. As you said, he had to make something happen and

he did it with that opening red, which has led to a frame-winning

Tried to deport that of the cushion, but it does not matter. It looked

as if Barry Hawkins had played a good safety, but it was not good

enough. Ding Junhui puts his first frame on the scoreboards. We will

bring you right up to date. Ding also won the fourth frame, thanks

to a break of 56. After any shaky start, he has found his rhythm and

it is 2-2. That is on Table 2. These are now live pictures back at

her match between Shaun Murphy and Judd Trump. It was a very tactical

opening frame, which mean that seven 1. Shaun Murphy then played

very well to take a 3-1 lead into the mid-session interval. Let us

He is playing very well Shaun Murphy. That matched continues on

the red button. You can see the other matches on the BBC spot

website. Both of the matches are available online. This afternoon,