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A week into the 20 17th Bedford World Snooker Championship, second

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round well underway on what a match this morning on BBC Two, and all

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China affair as Liang Wen Bo, the runner-up at the UK Championship in

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2015 takes on his very good friend, the man beating in last year getting

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Crucible final by Mark Selby, Ding Junhui. The art of making anything

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brilliant is making it look simple and when you look at the player on

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the circuit makes it look simple it's Ding Junhui with the amazing

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control. The cube or control is the best I've ever seen. I remember

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Steve Davis seeing through the 80s he was always the correct side of a

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bowl and Niang has taken that to the next level. When he's in and amongst

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that, getting from A to B seems so simple, never any complications, he

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never falls straight on the black if he needs to be offset. He's always

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on the right place. Some players have cube all that far away, it's

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always tight in. Making the game as easy as possible. He looks like he

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grew up playing on a table that a third of the size and he's used to

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being up there but we are sometimes over here. When I was a young player

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growing up, I grew up playing, we used to use Taylor's chalk and draw

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a line up that you have Wayne and this was the gutter. I wasn't

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allowed to finish in this area. I don't know if Ding Junhui has done

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the same thing. The shots he plays are so simple. You've noticed

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something different about practice routine. Things are not quite the

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same. I haven't seen him practice at his facility, I seen him practice

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and venues. We will do line-ups, any variation of break-building

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routines. Ding Junhui will practice frame scenarios where the reds will

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finish where they would naturally finish and he will be practising

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shots that come up in games and when you think about it, that's how we

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should be practising. It's like a golfer that practices only on the

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driving range and never goes to practice playing on the course. We

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are practising line-ups but we should practice actual frame

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scenarios. The pack splitting, is this the right to move the pack?

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Ding Junhui is very good at that. If he's trying to play the red here for

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the blue, he always finishes the correct side of the red. Ding is

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always on the correct side of the line to get the ball, never finishes

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straight. He's always on the black with the correct angle to play

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whatever shot he wants and when he does that correctly he's unbeatable.

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He reached the quarterfinals in 2008 and beaten by Ronnie O'Sullivan.

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Love looking at those celebrations when he got through to the final of

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the UK Championship in 2015. There he is, looking at the World

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Championship board. Will his name be on 2017? I have to say it wasn't the

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best performance in his first-round match against Stuart Carrington but

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if you know setting up a mouthwatering clash against is very

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good friend Ding Junhui. On table two, Stuart Bingham takes on Kyren

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Wilson, the second session of their match. Wilson took the first five

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frames. That is available on the red button this morning and on the BBC

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sport website and BBC sport app. The players are ready, let's join our

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MC. Good morning ladies and gentlemen,

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started a week ago with 32, now only 16 remaining, four qualifiers and 12

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top seed is bidding to become this year getting World Snooker champion.

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A massive session of the crew awaits us and lets not forget we still got

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11 full days of action to go in Sheffield. APPLAUSE

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Please welcome first of all on table two, a young player brimming with

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confidence after a great start yesterday. Winner of the Shanghai

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Masters in 2015, he made the Indian Open final this season, now

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established in the world's top 16, they call him the warrior, Kyren

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Wilson. APPLAUSE

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Liang and his opponent, making his sixth

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appearance in the second round here and from 5-0 down yesterday he drew

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on and on the experience to reduce the deficit, world champion in 2015,

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he won the Welsh Open in fine style this February, the pride of Essex,

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is the bull run, Stuart Bingham. Millions of people in China will be

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tuning in for the start of this match on table one. Please welcome a

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man making his first appearance in the second round since his debut

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back in 2008. Year after victory over Stuart Carrington, winner of

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his first ranking title this season at the English open, cracking win

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over Judd Trump. He wears his heart on his sleeve, that's why he is

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China's firecracker, Liang Wenbo. His opponent, facing his second all

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Chinese clash of the tournament after knocking out Zhou Yuelong.

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Training Shanghai Masters champion, winner of 12 big ones in all, and

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national hero back on, so enter the Dragon, Ding Junhui. APPLAUSE

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huge day on the BBC today, Shaun Murphy against Ronnie O'Sullivan

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live at 2:30pm on BBC Two. John Higgins starting against Mark Allen

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is later, for now, good morning to Willie Thorne and Stephen Hendry.

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COMMENTATOR: Good morning, very much looking forward to this battle of

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the two best Cheney sticker players in the world at the moment. It's 5pm

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in China, I bet there's a good few million people tuned in to this one.

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-- Chinese snooker players. I expect this to be full of breaks

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this morning, both incredible break-builders. The surprising fact

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that Liang Wenbo Holzer 3-1 advantage over Ding Junhui in the

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head to heads. Might find that surprising. Ding being a regular

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tournament winner. That's the pot success. It is very high.

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Ahead in the long pot department. Ding ahead in that safety success as

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well, not looking very good for Liang Wenbo at the moment.

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All the stats say that Ding should win this match but every match is

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different and it snowed the best of 25. Eight frames in this morning's

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session. APPLAUSE Ding was superb in his first session

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of his first round match. Three centuries. Couple of 60s. I still

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believe, Willie, he is miles ahead. I really do. I've got to admit, he's

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up there with yourself in the brick building department, he's super when

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he gets to this end of the table. At the moment, the best players in the

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game are Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins and Ding around the pink and

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black. Very really you see when these players are in form, going up

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for bold colours or blue. That's always a sign of great

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break-builders, some of the players after two shots they're playing for

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the green or yellow. 440 competitive centuries. We always say the chink

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in his armour might be the temperaments. Especially at this

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venue. He got to the final last year. Partly due to the fact he had

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to qualify, so there was less expectation on him. Huge expectation

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from China for Ding to be their first world champion. Massive star

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over there. Some players never settle here.

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Until you win and match here, it's a very hard place to play. Always talk

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about rookies coming here for the first time and very rarely does more

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than one rookie get through the first round battle until they've

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been here a couple of times. It's all to any other place. Walking

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through that stage door, arriving in Sheffield. It's the home of snooker

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for me. Always will be. APPLAUSE Liang Wenbo looked very serious. The

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two players had a laugh and a joke before they kicked off but when he

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was walking into his music, he looked very serious.

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Target here behind brown and green, that's where he will be looking to

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get. Good line. The cue ball well short. This was another factor of

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his first session in his first-round match, he potted ten of 11 long pot.

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That coupled together with his brick building is going to see him very

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difficult to beat in this championship. Found that path very

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nicely. The pleasing thing with Ding, the two shots he's played have

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gone right in the heart of the pocket, it reminds you when you're

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playing that you're cueing well. You can have a go at another few, if the

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balls were going off the jaws he'd wait but he's feeling good.

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He had a massive loss this year when he lost his mother, he always used

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to be over here with him. Looking after him and managing him. Maybe he

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has done little spare, he's going to do it for his mum.

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Still going off the jaw. It's strange because the players don't

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seem to doubt it's going to go in but the angle we have it does seem

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to be going high. Overhit that by a long way. Hit the left-hand jaw.

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Looked like he panicked and it wasn't going to go on. Does this red

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at the end of the pack go? Not the one he played for. It's OK, he's got

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this to the right middle. If that red at the end of the reds behind

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the pinks does go, it's a decent opportunity. He can take care of

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this first frame. He's another 27 points to make that a reality. The

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widow bullseye said there will be a few more than 27.

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Took a risk that maybe he didn't need to play. He just needed three

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more reds and three colours. As always, Ding sees it very early. You

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spent an awful lot of time in China doing various exhibitions. How big a

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star is Ding in China? He's huge. He's probably in their top two or

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three sports stars. If he was to win the world championship, it would be

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astronomical what would happen. Been to almost 50 cities in China and

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every time you go there and you speak to the media, one of the first

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things they always ask if his Ding Junhui going to win the World

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Championship? Playing pots like that, probably yes after he's

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playing safe. He was expecting the red to kiss that in the middle of

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the table but has left him reasonably on the blue. Liang Wenbo

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looking at the television to tell him whether that's blue is in.

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Easier to look at the table. Just one more red required after

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this black to make the frame safe. You sense you want to let your

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opponent known to -- that you're playing very well, so he'll do his

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utmost to clear the table. I agree it's very important to try

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and clear the table. Some players, as soon as the frame is

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mathematically over, they stop concentrating. Easy short, loose

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positional shot. 15-20 minutes of safety play or something like that

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breaks up the rhythm. Better to keep on it every ball. Sometimes you

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don't think it matters as long as the frame is won, but you go into

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the next frame and your concentration isn't 100%.

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Can play for either right here, he's perfect on the black. Might have

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been tempted to dropping behind the one on the cushion.

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That's the one that's going to stop Ding making a century in the first

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frame. He is planning to take it off and he's played it perfectly. That's

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obviously told me why he didn't play for the red on the cushion

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previously. He had that plan. In fairness he might not have had the

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angle but that was a sensational shot.

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Ding made it three centuries in his first match, so this is possibly his

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force. -- fourth. This is not a bad start. Absolutely

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brilliant. Very, very well played Ding Junhui. That is just the way to

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start. He leads 1-0. You were very impressed with the way, I don't know

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how you wear when you played here, when you pot the first shot, you get

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a buzz, if you missed the first shot you are a little bit tentative on

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the next one? Absolutely, to get your first long pot in makes you

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feel so good and we will see a couple of examples of Ding. He is

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comfortable, got his hand on the table which makes the first frame,

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right in the middle of the pocket, it gives you so much confidence. I

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thought that was a shock to nothing but this one, stunted and you hear

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that sound of the ball hitting the back of the pocket, right in the

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middle. Of course, we can show you a shot in a few moments time when he

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played to get the red from the cushion. This is the art of brick

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building, this is why he's so good and makes money century, could have

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dropped behind the red, deliberately plays this angle on the red, not

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only does he just can in the red, is the pace he plays, catches the red

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half wall, the cue ball down to the black, that's not a fluke. Quality

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stuff in the first round from Ding Junhui. Flawless, really.

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Just a reminder it's the sessions, two sessions of eight frames. One of

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nine. Mentioned in the opening frame, Liang Wenbo holds a 3-1

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record over Ding, so won't be too concerned, he knows he will make a

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few centuries in this match, he just hopes he's going to make more.

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Of course it so difficult for these Chinese players to come to this

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country and spent nine months of the year away from their hometown and

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had to learn the language. The first time Wenbo was here and a name was

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announced, it wasn't him and he walked through the curtains as if it

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was him and then realised and turned back. It was hilarious. They speak

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pretty good English now, don't they? Yes, both these men speak perfect

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English. Left this red on. This one, I think he can drop for the black.

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Just play it slowly off the cushion. Three out of three, very impressive.

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Another one that didn't touch the jaws.

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another perfectly played cannon. Not just all the top players see the

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shots, see the cannons that are on, it's the pace. It's the pace they

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play it at. There are so tight for the next ball. Great chance to go

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through the gap. His mindset is to play to kiss the pink? With that gap

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there and just play it reasonable pace and have a few reds to the

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corner. Magnificent break-builder, just sees it like you did, pitching

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every shot around the black spot. Every shot you play you wanted to

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try to make it to a possible frame on and that's what he's done. -- a

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possible frame-winner. Four reds, four blacks and still

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perfect position. Certainly no signs of tiredness for

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Ding Junhui on this early start. What time does he have to get up

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before at ten o'clock session? Six o'clock? Round about 730-8 o'clock.

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Get down to the venue for about nine, 20 minutes, half an hour on

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the table. Two reds at the same time. If he

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feels he may be kissing it for a black, he could go around the two

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cushions for the same pocket. Team will be playing for it --

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Junhui will be playing for it. Perhaps he feels he can hold it.

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That was always a problem. That was deceleration. That could be very

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costly. We have seen how sharp Junhui is

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this morning. Apart from that red he missed. How is Wenbo feeling? He can

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certainly play for the red on the left-hand side of the table. Screw

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back to that. Hard to say if he is hampered by the

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blue, but it was mostly played. -- it was nicely played. It was

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hampered. If he was right-handed it would have

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been no problem. But he is left-handed so it will be awkward. I

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felt the cue never used react. -- I thought the cue never used to react.

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That is a good recovery, well done. Looking at the reds. Unless he plays

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the brown he won't get onto one. A follow-through of three cushions.

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But he is obviously far too straight on the blue. He almost hit it too

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well. That was a fantastic shot. It was cued beautifully. We can almost

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call it a blind pocket. He is having a second look at the potting angle.

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He just had to pick the spot and hit the spot.

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Nice angle, if he wants to go into the four reds and the pink. It is a

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decent target. Is that a plant? The way he was looking. If he doesn't

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want to go directly into the reds from potting this red into the

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corner, he can play a half canon. Stay on the black. Although, I think

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it might be risky. Try and get an angle on the black. Perfect. Well

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played. Saying that, the cue ball has gifted a couple of inches too

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far. The red on the outside of the four. Canon that and it would leave

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a red. But I think he just has to go into the red between the pink and

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black. Any contact on the red is needed, but just make sure you pot

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the black. Well played. Doing this well this morning. We could be in

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for a fantastic session of snooker this morning between these two

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players. This would really hurt Junhui. He will be kidding himself.

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Why have I not gone for the pink? Why have I not gone for the frame?

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It just shows you that one mistake can be really costly, especially if

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your opponent is playing really well.

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He should learn how to win ugly sometimes.

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18 points needed. Two pinks isn't enough. He is going to need the

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yellow and green. But the angle onto the green is not going to be easy,

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unless he places the green in the middle. It helps that he is

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left-handed, though. This is the best angle he has got

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now on the black. He is looking at the possibility of

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leaving half bald pink to left middle. Then it would be easy to

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stand up to the right-hand cushion to get onto the yellow. -- stun up

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to the right-hand cushion to get onto the yellow. But he is playing

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the black now. A touch of left-hand side. The cue ball is somewhere

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where his body is just now. Oh! Careless. He wasn't concentrating on

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the positional side of that. That has... For a moment I thought that

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was going to go in. The black off the spot. White Hart. Well, as he

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was looking at the pocket, the right half of the pocket. -- right half.

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Somewhere between green and brown... Well, it may be flipped a bit of

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side on -- it may be flicked a bit of side on. Does he risk the pink?

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And then come all the way around the table. Or does he go for a safety?

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Possibly getting one lifeline in this. But he might be needing

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another one. Not as planned, but he will be happy

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with it. Canon on the blue, and then he checks the cushion. Concentrating

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automatically on the blue. Slowdown or speed up now. No need to

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think about position at all, obviously. Just pot now. It is

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there. APPLAUSE

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Excellent start from Junhui. He has a chance -- he had a chance of a

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very big break. Wenbo missed his chance. And it is Junhui who takes

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the lead. We talked about how this table seems to be... Let's have a

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look. Watch the red. Is this in when he hits it? That is not in for me.

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Never in. It looks half an inch off. This is only a quarter of an inch,

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the black. This looks in as soon as he hits it. We are going to watch it

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now. That is in there. And it just touches the front. Everybody talks

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about the table fitters. The officials have said that the pockets

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are the same, everything is the same, maybe it is the cloth. But

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that first shot, I just don't believe it is in. It just proves

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that you have to go for the far one. Not every tournament is the same.

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Sometimes it is the near tables, they will flick it off the near. But

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just shows how costly it can be. This game at the top level, you

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cannot let your concentration slip at any moment. He had no thoughts of

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missing that black. It was no pressure. It was just complete

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carelessness. Just concentrating on the cue ball. He took his eye off

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the pot. It will be a delighted Junhui coming back to the table. He

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missed out on the chance of getting a 147. He would have been very

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annoyed with himself sitting there. But the fact he pinched the frame,

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he will be delighted, as he breaks off in frame number three.

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To the right of the pack. He will want to get back to baulk. There is

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the gap. And that is a pretty good safety.

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Ding playing the rest to get the redback on the back cushion.

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Surprising choice. -- red back on the back cushion. But played

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beautifully. That could have gone so wrong.

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And has a look to see if he would be pushing a road towards the corner.

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He won't be doing that if he has hit it thin enough. -- has a look to see

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if he would be pushing a red towards the corner.

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A little bit of pace with the cue ball. So it is a relatively

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straightforward safety. As he found a pot? I don't know how he is going

:48:24.:48:37.

to miss the kiss on the two Reds. He played it nicely, but that was

:48:38.:48:43.

risky. Claim to perfection. He may have a thin cut, but he will have an

:48:44.:48:48.

idea of what the cue ball is going to go,

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though that is the first attempt at a long pot this morning that he has

:49:16.:49:22.

missed. And he has missed by a long way.

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This is awkward. He will have to screw up this red, cue ball back up

:49:36.:49:49.

the table. He didn't get into it. How about the black? He has had a

:49:50.:50:05.

result there. Obviously not. As we say, aim for the far jaw, but he

:50:06.:50:14.

does not fancy it. There is pressure on this. Good shot. He will have to

:50:15.:50:27.

have a look at what is left. He should have missed that green. It

:50:28.:50:33.

was a big shot to take on. Another one right in the middle of the

:50:34.:50:43.

pocket. The black in the right-hand corner is very tight. The left-hand

:50:44.:50:48.

corner is available. Whether he will play for it now... No, he has played

:50:49.:50:53.

for the blue. The red over the left-hand corner, nothing good on it

:50:54.:50:59.

if the black is available on the right-hand corner. So he really

:51:00.:51:02.

needs to go for the black after the next available red. Looks to be too

:51:03.:51:17.

straight on this. He is just looking at whether pink Wilko. If he goes

:51:18.:51:23.

for the pink in the middle. The black spot would tie them up. -- he

:51:24.:51:30.

is just looking at whether the pink will go.

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I am surprised he played for the pink. OK, it's over the right-hand

:51:56.:52:03.

corner, but stopping both the pink and black going into the right-hand

:52:04.:52:04.

corner now. Didn't really want to be playing

:52:05.:52:38.

this red yet. But he is playing for the red at the right-hand corner.

:52:39.:52:43.

This end, right in the middle of the table.

:52:44.:52:56.

He will play the pink here. Screw the two reds on the pink spot. He'll

:52:57.:53:06.

need to play with a bit of pace. He could snooker himself. Make sure he

:53:07.:53:15.

hits this hard enough. He has played for the single red. Obviously

:53:16.:53:21.

happier with the pink or black, none of them going to the left-hand

:53:22.:53:23.

corner. Happy with the situation. We have lost our live coverage.

:53:24.:53:52.

Hopefully back to the programme as soon as we can.

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And work -- that was very hard work, but break. Trying to get the cue

:57:34.:57:43.

ball close to the baulk cushion. He just doesn't entertain any

:57:44.:57:45.

possibility of missing it. It did not come into his mind. Frame ball,

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I agree, was the time to play that shot to nothing. Now he is playing

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the black to cannon. Apologies for the loss of picture a short time ago

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on the Junhui Wenbo match. Pleased to say that pictures are now

:58:12.:58:15.

available and being transmitted as they should be. But if you are

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watching on the red button this morning, a quick announcement just

:58:19.:58:21.

to say that the red button will cease to be showing the snooker for

:58:22.:58:28.

the time being. But you can carry on watching the other games on our

:58:29.:58:32.

website. Throughout this championship you can choose your

:58:33.:58:37.

matches on the app. In the meantime, let's go back to the Junhui Wenbo

:58:38.:58:50.

match. A really good effort from Ding. He pouched the black. And got

:58:51.:58:57.

a kiss on the two reds. A little bit fuller and he would have got the red

:58:58.:59:06.

interplay. He generated topspin. He could have brought all four red

:59:07.:59:12.

interplay. But it is very easy to get onto the black when the reds are

:59:13.:59:14.

eventually split up. I must admit, I would be tempted to

:59:15.:59:42.

pot the red. It is dodgy. But you could follow through the cue ball.

:59:43.:59:46.

Play with a bit of pace. Get the cue ball below where the black is. And

:59:47.:59:50.

if he missed it, hopefully the Redwood, way from the pocket --

:59:51.:59:57.

hopefully the red would come away from the pocket. We have discussed

:59:58.:00:02.

many times that it is a far jaw table. Here we go. It is a very

:00:03.:00:12.

tough pot, but I feel it is worth the risk. If the -- if he follows

:00:13.:00:19.

the cue ball to take it underneath the red and the Black. But I don't

:00:20.:00:27.

think it is going to take it on. -- I don't think he is going to take it

:00:28.:00:31.

on. He would like that to red to stop. It is a good shot in the end.

:00:32.:00:39.

Maybe the right choice. It remains to be seen, but that was a good

:00:40.:00:41.

safety shot from Wenbo. If Ding can play some sort of

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telling safety shot here will bring four reds into play. Liang Wenbo

:01:31.:01:34.

needs to put a red safe. Webb excellent length of cue ball.

:01:35.:02:16.

This safety shot is now fraught with danger. Very difficult not to put a

:02:17.:02:20.

red over the right corner pocket here.

:02:21.:02:35.

Ding just grimacing there. That was purely because of where the yellow

:02:36.:02:50.

ball has gone. Making contact with the girl has made this red pottable

:02:51.:02:57.

to the right corner. We'll play it with some left-hand side.

:02:58.:03:10.

That is frame ball now for Liang Wenbo. Ding needs snookers.

:03:11.:03:41.

I think he's helped himself together very well, Liang Wenbo, lost the

:03:42.:03:48.

second frame which he thought he was going to lose at first when Ding

:03:49.:03:54.

Junhui potted six reds and six blacks and then he had a chance to

:03:55.:03:59.

win it and missed an easy black and has done very well to keep himself

:04:00.:04:04.

together. Wonder if Ding will come back to the table. 60 points behind

:04:05.:04:06.

with only 51 on. I was talking, to the other day how

:04:07.:04:30.

many frames can be won from a one needing snookers. Without the

:04:31.:04:35.

championship -- throw the chav Egypt I wouldn't think there would be more

:04:36.:04:40.

than ten frames. I would go nearer five. -- throughout the

:04:41.:04:47.

championship. It's almost rarer than 147. Matches like John Higgins, Mark

:04:48.:04:57.

Selby. The two best in the world in that department, there was always a

:04:58.:05:02.

chance. It's so important when you win the frame mathematically to keep

:05:03.:05:05.

potting and to get back to the table. Here for 17 days, hopefully a

:05:06.:05:12.

lot of snooker to be played, you don't want extra 15-20 minutes

:05:13.:05:21.

because they add up. Not the two snookers he needs, to win this train

:05:22.:05:25.

he'd need to get seven snookers to miss two.

:05:26.:06:09.

Cue ball is very close. If you didn't pot a colour, he would

:06:10.:06:25.

certainly concede. I'm sure he'll look at Liang Wenbo and he's given

:06:26.:06:29.

him the frame, largely due to the break of 62.

:06:30.:06:42.

Stephen, we had a long debate in the commentary box about Liang Wenbo, he

:06:43.:06:53.

needed just a red, whatever happens with the red we're talking about, he

:06:54.:06:56.

could play it slow, he could play it hard but we've already found out

:06:57.:07:00.

that the red along the cushion from the farm job is very easy. We were

:07:01.:07:04.

discussing that we both thought we would have gone for this. He can

:07:05.:07:10.

leave the cue ball, somewhere where the black is, if he pots that red,

:07:11.:07:14.

it's a straight shot, if he goes for it with enough pace to follow the

:07:15.:07:19.

cue ball underneath where the bikers, if he misses the red he'll

:07:20.:07:24.

come away from the pocket. -- wherein the red is. Chose the safety

:07:25.:07:28.

and to be fair he played it very well, little but fortunate with the

:07:29.:07:36.

reds running list didn't go over a pocket -- the two reds running

:07:37.:07:43.

loose. Liang Wenbo is behind in virtually every statistic. You see

:07:44.:07:50.

Ding, the highest break of the tournament, long pot success. That's

:07:51.:07:57.

good with the long pot success, you only get three quarters of your long

:07:58.:08:00.

pot. Will be interesting to see what the stats of the winner would be

:08:01.:08:06.

with the long pot success rate. If you get 50% it's pretty good over

:08:07.:08:12.

the tournament. Both players back in and there is the wonderful arena.

:08:13.:08:19.

Two Chinese players, they're giving us a treat this morning, playing to

:08:20.:08:21.

a very high standard. Playing eight frames in this first

:08:22.:08:38.

session. This is the last one before the mid-session interval.

:08:39.:08:48.

Nice frame for Ding Junhui to win and be 3-1 up. Only has to win one

:08:49.:08:57.

of the remaining four to be at least level. These little mini sessions

:08:58.:09:06.

come into play in long matches. This is a test of caring for Liang Wenbo.

:09:07.:09:13.

Dead straight red to the corner, the sort of professionals buying up in

:09:14.:09:19.

practice and play for a couple of hours, medium length straight pots.

:09:20.:09:26.

Of all the World Championship 3-1, what was the biggest deficit, did

:09:27.:09:32.

you ever lose a session 7-1, 8-0 or anything like that? I certainly lost

:09:33.:09:40.

a lot of sessions, maybe not 7-18- zero, but somebody might correct me.

:09:41.:09:44.

Sometimes it would be damage limitation, the difference between

:09:45.:09:49.

7-1 and 6-2 over Anna four session match can be huge. If that was a

:09:50.:09:56.

test of straight cueing, then he's filled it. -- failed it. Sometimes

:09:57.:10:07.

when you get the cue ball cleaned it can distract you. He went down to

:10:08.:10:11.

play a shot, he thought he saw something, had to get back again.

:10:12.:10:23.

The blue appears to be on the way. We'll play to the bunch from the

:10:24.:10:32.

green. Could play from the pink to the yellow but there is the red at

:10:33.:10:35.

the back of the pack that will pass to the corner and the one that is in

:10:36.:10:42.

open play to the left of the pink. Didn't play for the ride down the

:10:43.:10:46.

cushion, that's for certain. -- didn't play for the red. Didn't time

:10:47.:10:51.

that want at all, he didn't want the cue ball anywhere near the cushion.

:10:52.:11:01.

Not only is the pot difficult, has to get the cue ball away from the

:11:02.:11:14.

cushion. That's well played. Very good. Definitely a bonus. He missed

:11:15.:11:21.

tying the first red. To finish on that red with an angle to get onto

:11:22.:11:24.

the black, a little but fortunate. May end up going to the bunch here

:11:25.:11:37.

because it's a flat line and they are very tightly bunched, he would

:11:38.:11:42.

need to hit it very hard to get the cue ball through them, might follow

:11:43.:11:46.

through to the cushion for the red to the left of the pink. He's going

:11:47.:11:50.

to play to the bunch but will have to be struck pretty firmly. That

:11:51.:11:55.

little gap, if he can get through there it would be a good way to play

:11:56.:12:00.

it. He got the gap. Good shot. Red to the left middle. There you see,

:12:01.:12:09.

just squeezes it through the tight gap of the reds.

:12:10.:12:14.

This is not straightforward. Has to play it with pace to go up for the

:12:15.:12:19.

green. Even though he has those loose reds,

:12:20.:13:16.

will try to land on this black. Not at this time. Just playing the

:13:17.:13:28.

run-through round the back of the red to the same pocket as the black.

:13:29.:13:34.

He played this done. Going to the back of the pack as well, that's

:13:35.:13:35.

handy. One more loose red, possibly the one

:13:36.:14:19.

to the middle of the reds will go as well but always good to call -- to

:14:20.:14:25.

go to the middle of the bunch for a bit of insurance. I never liked

:14:26.:14:29.

leaving it till the very end when there were no reds available. I

:14:30.:14:36.

think that's higher on the black than he would have liked but there

:14:37.:14:41.

is a red right in the middle that goes to the same pocket. That's

:14:42.:14:49.

perfect. Well played. Both tables were recovered yesterday

:14:50.:15:08.

morning. The commentator in the afternoon session, I thought the

:15:09.:15:11.

tables where playing very slow. Back to normal again now. The television

:15:12.:15:19.

lights have speeded things up as well as the under table heaters.

:15:20.:15:26.

Might have red that goes to the same pocket as the black year. That's

:15:27.:15:29.

what he's played for, things opening up nicely. Just deciding if he needs

:15:30.:15:41.

an angle on the black. Just had a quick look to see if it was

:15:42.:15:45.

available to the middle, the plant. If the plant is not on, he'd like to

:15:46.:15:50.

finish law on the black and cannon into the reds knowing it would be

:15:51.:15:54.

better going with the rights to the left and right corner.

:15:55.:16:05.

Needs one more close to win the frame. Just under the two trends

:16:06.:16:17.

away from the four, leave one to the right corner. I would suggest this

:16:18.:16:29.

time there will be an angle left on the black. Or pink he can go for.

:16:30.:16:36.

Pink is actually probably a better shot. Huge target now. As long as he

:16:37.:16:46.

doesn't get to the cue ball and head the left-hand side of the bunch.

:16:47.:16:51.

He'll play to the right-hand side and got a knife and click it and --

:16:52.:17:01.

he'd obviously try and flick it. If he's on this red he's very

:17:02.:17:05.

fortunate. You want to be anything but hitting the left-hand side of

:17:06.:17:08.

the reds there. That was careless. It was a poor shot for somebody as

:17:09.:17:15.

good as Ding Junhui. Take the half bottle on the other side because he

:17:16.:17:19.

might have sprung off the other two red. Very fortunate to get on that

:17:20.:17:26.

one. That could and should be a free manner and an interval 3-1 lead. Can

:17:27.:17:32.

go into the two reds if he wants, the right half of them. Off two

:17:33.:17:44.

cushions. There's been an excellent stuff the first four frames. It

:17:45.:17:52.

really has. I can think of one easy chance each they missed in the first

:17:53.:17:54.

four frames. Starting to look like Ding will make

:17:55.:18:09.

his second century of this morning in an session. We had a little

:18:10.:18:21.

friendly bet between myself, I've gone with two and under centuries in

:18:22.:18:25.

the first three frames and Stephen has gone for three and over. Not

:18:26.:18:34.

looking good for me at the moment. Already made four centuries.

:18:35.:18:42.

Wouldn't bet against the fifth coming up here. I think last year in

:18:43.:18:49.

the World Championship on the route to the final he made more than

:18:50.:18:55.

anyone, 15 centuries. He's a machine, Willie. Been studying the

:18:56.:18:57.

stats coming out with that information? This is flawless, isn't

:18:58.:19:07.

it, the first century made of the morning session was on a string,

:19:08.:19:11.

apart from that one shot where he kissed the wrong side of the pack.

:19:12.:19:15.

He's been excellent in this one as well. Very, very high standard. Yes,

:19:16.:19:29.

looks like already when Ding gets an early, the first opportunity is

:19:30.:19:30.

going to win it. Didn't quite get the desired cannon

:19:31.:20:13.

on the blue. What a shame it wasn't a total clearance. Tap from Liang

:20:14.:20:20.

Wenbo to appreciate that century. This morning's session has been

:20:21.:20:26.

flawless. Wonderful start from Ding Junhui, back to that match shortly

:20:27.:20:29.

after the mid-session interval and will surely the highlights of the

:20:30.:20:32.

other match taking place on the other table this morning at the

:20:33.:20:37.

Crucible. Stuart Bingham is trailing overnight 5-3. You may see just

:20:38.:20:43.

behind me, Ronnie O'Sullivan getting ready for today's match against

:20:44.:20:52.

Shaun Murphy. They saw that as nothing ever fans love more than

:20:53.:21:00.

watching a 147. Cliff Thorburn's 147 isn't on there but it's 20 years to

:21:01.:21:08.

the day -- to the day that that man rattled in the quickest 147.

:21:09.:21:13.

Everybody wants to make a 147 but do it at the Crucible is one of

:21:14.:21:23.

proudest moments. Magnificent, Jimmy White creates history. Massive

:21:24.:21:28.

achievement for me. Greatest memories. Listen to the raw if this

:21:29.:21:38.

pink and black goes in. I had to come up and down the table from the

:21:39.:21:42.

pink to come down to the black. The cue ball kept on running. Just don't

:21:43.:21:54.

leave it tight on the cushion. The third 147 maximum in Crucible

:21:55.:21:58.

history. Looking back at it now it was a horrible black.

:21:59.:22:09.

And he forced the cue ball into that cluster? Four minutes for the

:22:10.:22:24.

century. Amazing. What a fantastic five minutes from Ronnie O'Sullivan.

:22:25.:22:27.

Unbelievable maximum break. Now he's got them where he wants

:22:28.:22:39.

them. He's normally devastating when the reds are like this. ?169,000 for

:22:40.:22:53.

this pot. Wonderful, wonderful display from Ronnie O'Sullivan. Not

:22:54.:23:03.

a bad start, five reds, five blacks. Little bit of history. He'll be the

:23:04.:23:08.

first ever Welsh player to hit a maximum at the Crucible. Come on,

:23:09.:23:11.

Mark. Unbelievable. Mark Williams. I'm over the moon. I'm shaking a bit

:23:12.:23:22.

now. I bet you can't wait to tell Stephen Hendry the good news. Yes,

:23:23.:23:24.

he can't be far away. Deep breath now. Remember your

:23:25.:24:00.

technique. Marvellous! Marvellous! Ali Carter's first maximum in

:24:01.:24:07.

competition. What a place to make it. He's going to have to play it

:24:08.:24:17.

with pace and come out of baulk. Good shot needed. This cue ball,

:24:18.:24:24.

stop there. A marvellous champion, and

:24:25.:24:38.

marvellous moment. One of many in his marvellous career. Very similar

:24:39.:24:46.

to the shot that Cliff Shaun Byrne had on this very table. In it goes.

:24:47.:24:57.

Absolutely fantastic. There is only one Stephen Hendry. Absolutely

:24:58.:25:00.

fantastic. After almost falling Shaun Murphy

:25:01.:25:10.

Stuard, I'm delighted to see. What's your name again? . He's here

:25:11.:25:17.

alongside me. Thank you very much for the tweets saying you got Shaun

:25:18.:25:22.

Murphy's name long. You make one fatal error and that's it, the world

:25:23.:25:25.

knows about it. When you look back at that take there, great memories?

:25:26.:25:30.

Yes, that last one I made was my last ever time here at the Crucible,

:25:31.:25:34.

so a lovely way to end my career here. The plastic stuff, when you

:25:35.:25:38.

look at some of the players who done it, when you look back, as a snooker

:25:39.:25:43.

fan, apart from yours, which one excites you the most? Ronnie

:25:44.:25:48.

Sullivan's is incredible, will never be done again. Cliff Shaun

:25:49.:25:56.

this much backswing, to power the yellow was a phenomenal shot. We

:25:57.:26:03.

will see that one very shortly. What's your assessment of Ding and

:26:04.:26:09.

Liang. Ding looks very sharp, when he gets in the frame early, he looks

:26:10.:26:13.

like clearing up. Liang Wenbo looks very focused on getting up for it.

:26:14.:26:18.

Ding is a good bit above all the rest of the Chinese players, a level

:26:19.:26:22.

above and will be hard to stop this championship. Mark Henry, thanks

:26:23.:26:27.

very much indeed! CHUCKLES . You can stop tweeting, we all make

:26:28.:26:34.

little errors now and again. Stuart Bingham and on Kyren Wilson, 5-3

:26:35.:26:37.

overnight and will join it in the tenth frame, Bingham won the first

:26:38.:26:42.

of the second session. Early on in the frame.

:26:43.:26:48.

COMMENTATOR: The interesting thing for me, who's played a very poor

:26:49.:26:55.

safety shot, the shot he turned down there, that's the sort of shot that

:26:56.:26:59.

Mark Williams takes on and leaves the red on the side cushion. He gets

:27:00.:27:05.

the red, he's got an easy blue. If he misses the red, he leaves

:27:06.:27:08.

nothing. I think he's missed a trick there, Stuart Bingham. As you say,

:27:09.:27:16.

poor safety. It seemed like a second thought to play safe. He didn't give

:27:17.:27:22.

enough thought to it. So careless. Might cost him the frame.

:27:23.:27:35.

Obviously you can see Stuart's reasoning behind it. Got Kyren under

:27:36.:27:41.

a lot of pressure at the moment and wants to keep things tight but you

:27:42.:27:46.

can't refuse balls when you can play a shot to nothing. Fair comment.

:27:47.:27:54.

Once he decided not to play the pot, then you have to give the other shot

:27:55.:28:01.

you're going to play due thought and consideration. Little careless lips

:28:02.:28:06.

like that and the only seem to happen at the Crucible. It's

:28:07.:28:10.

sometimes that your mind plays tricks on you.

:28:11.:28:22.

Without any shadow of doubt, the pressure is magnified here the

:28:23.:28:28.

Crucible. Because it means so much to all the players. This is the

:28:29.:28:33.

World Championship. You get one chance every year and to be

:28:34.:28:37.

perfectly honest, it means more than any of the other tournaments put

:28:38.:28:38.

together. It's the thing that every player

:28:39.:28:46.

wants on his CV. If he gives the rest back, it's

:28:47.:29:12.

amazing if he plays this red. Can he reach it? He's going for the

:29:13.:29:22.

extension. Looks OK, just got to be a little bit careful, that's all.

:29:23.:29:27.

Should be a fairly comfortable run through for the black. And no, no

:29:28.:29:38.

reason why not to go into the cluster of reds. You've got a couple

:29:39.:29:43.

of loose reds but he's not guaranteed position on them, so this

:29:44.:29:48.

is an opportunity to bring more reds into play. And again the tendency is

:29:49.:29:53.

to play with a touch of right-hand side on the shot, so he needs to

:29:54.:29:56.

make sure he doesn't hit it thick with power. Played it well, decided

:29:57.:30:03.

not to go into the reds with too much pace. If he's not on this red

:30:04.:30:10.

he's been very, very unlucky. I think he's not on it. I think he's

:30:11.:30:13.

stuck to the pink. You can usually tell by looking at

:30:14.:30:19.

the player's body language. Maybe he is just on it. Well, John,

:30:20.:30:37.

he missed an easy red into the right-hand black pocket yesterday.

:30:38.:30:39.

Playing a similar shot with a touch of sight and he's played that very

:30:40.:30:44.

well. The shot that he missed yesterday in similar circumstances,

:30:45.:30:47.

when he caught another red first actually cost the 6-0 lead. Saw one

:30:48.:30:54.

of those frames that could turn the match.

:30:55.:31:09.

Played up nicely. -- played it nicely.

:31:10.:32:07.

The time to that one nicely. Very important to get it right on the

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blue. -- he timed that one nicely. That's very well played. He did have

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a loose red. He decided to go into the cluster. It is not ideal, to be

:32:35.:32:38.

perfectly honest, the way the pink and black finished. So he needs to

:32:39.:32:49.

get on the pink on a good angle to get back for the following red.

:32:50.:33:07.

It isn't obvious which red he can play for here. If the pink is not

:33:08.:33:18.

possible he may play a cannon into the cluster. But he would have to

:33:19.:33:23.

inject a lot of pace into the cue ball. But that is where he played.

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It worked out nicely. I was holding my breath with the red going near

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the middle. But he has played that well. And to be honest, John, he did

:33:40.:33:46.

look for a plant there. And there was a plant which was close to go

:33:47.:33:50.

into the middle. He did not look at that before he played the pink. Yes,

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he would have been unlucky if he had played the red in the middle, but

:33:55.:33:57.

you could also argue it would have been careless because as we could

:33:58.:34:03.

see, on the last shot, it was close to being a plant.

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He may even have reversed it off-line, John. In other words, you

:34:13.:34:19.

were saying he has no need to play the cannon. Anyway, that little

:34:20.:34:30.

scare over. He's played that nicely. It was two reds to the right centre.

:34:31.:34:37.

Only a couple of reds, and a couple of colours away from victory in this

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frame. Now you see the difference. 62

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ahead, 75 remaining. This has been a very impressive contribution from

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Wilson. Under tremendous pressure. Having seen a 5-0 lead slip. Bring

:35:14.:35:22.

on -- Stuart Bingham regaining his composure to come back. It has been

:35:23.:35:32.

very impressive. Yes, and as far as Stuart Bingham is concerned, he will

:35:33.:35:36.

be sacked there seeding. He decided not to take on a difficult pot. He

:35:37.:35:41.

played the safety. He hasn't played many worse safety shots than he did.

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And he has been sat down ever since. That is how cruel this game can be

:35:50.:35:51.

sometimes. Isn't this game both amazing and

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wonderful, John? He could go on to make a century year. All of the

:36:13.:36:16.

disappointment about perhaps throwing away a lead will go

:36:17.:36:20.

completely. His confidence will be restored. He will be back in the

:36:21.:36:28.

ascendancy. Amazing. Yeah, and all it takes is one shot. Just overran.

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It's not nothing. He can get through. Further than I thought.

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Still a possible century there. APPLAUSE

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He played that nicely. This black, his first century of the

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tournament. 31st of the championship. There you go, Wilson,

:37:34.:37:39.

105. It is a strange game in many ways.

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Stuart Bingham won the first frame. Got within one frame after beating

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5-0 behind. But he played a very poor safety shot. And, as Peter

:38:07.:38:13.

says, hasn't gone in. He missed the brown. But he made a century in the

:38:14.:38:16.

tournament. And that will give him the confidence to push on. He now

:38:17.:38:23.

leads by 6-4. Good stuff from Wilson. That much continues on the

:38:24.:38:27.

BBC sport website and BBC sport app. This is the scene at the Crucible in

:38:28.:38:32.

Sheffield. They are on a mid-session interval on that table. But our live

:38:33.:38:34.

match this afternoon is Ding Wenbo. COMMENTATOR: Ding breaks in this

:38:35.:38:55.

frame. This is to see who has the lead going into the second session.

:38:56.:39:08.

Long pot success for Junhui. Not quite what it was in the first

:39:09.:39:14.

round. Safety success, Ding has dominated so far. Having two

:39:15.:39:21.

centuries, he has dominated the highest breaks, as well.

:39:22.:39:32.

Wenbo did not want the double kiss, so he has left the choice of two

:39:33.:39:41.

reds. And neither of them are easy. The one to the right middle is the

:39:42.:39:47.

one that is least risky. The one he is looking at now, on the black, he

:39:48.:39:51.

must fully commit to that. Because if he misses it...

:39:52.:40:20.

We have been talking about balls going high of the pocket. But that

:40:21.:40:26.

one was never in, that one. The chance. -- good chance. Not leaving

:40:27.:40:40.

the cue ball there, though. The only good thing about this is he has a

:40:41.:40:43.

perfectly good angle to drop onto the red in the far right corner.

:40:44.:40:49.

Just concentrate 100% on the pot. Bound to be on the red. Got to keep

:40:50.:40:56.

very still on these shots. No, there was definite movement there. If you

:40:57.:41:02.

get movement, you put side on the cue ball, and that is what happens.

:41:03.:41:12.

He hit it too hard, didn't he? He was probably worried about playing

:41:13.:41:17.

the black like you did when he missed it a couple of frames ago --

:41:18.:41:23.

like he did when he missed a couple of frames ago. He has to think about

:41:24.:41:28.

damage limitation. He has got to get out of this situation no worse than

:41:29.:41:29.

5-3. If you are under pressure when you

:41:30.:41:47.

are 5-3 down. I was talking about these mini sessions of four frames

:41:48.:41:51.

in a long match. When Bo knows he would have to win all four to have a

:41:52.:41:53.

lead himself. -- -- Wenbo knows he would have to win

:41:54.:42:06.

all four to have a lead himself. That is the pressure on a little

:42:07.:42:12.

bit. When Ding get in early on a frame and the colours are open,

:42:13.:42:19.

straightaway you would say it looks pretty ominous. The red he is

:42:20.:42:30.

looking at right now, will he stay on the black? No, he is going to

:42:31.:42:42.

come around and go for the blue. If he was in the club, practising, he

:42:43.:42:47.

would have put the red in, screw into the events, and leave himself

:42:48.:42:50.

the black into the right corner -- screw into the reds, and leave

:42:51.:42:57.

himself the black into the right corner. Ding is working very closely

:42:58.:43:10.

with Terry Griffiths now. You spent many years with Terry. He will help

:43:11.:43:14.

him mentally, without a doubt. I'm not sure he will help him in the

:43:15.:43:17.

break building department, but maybe that one thing we've talked about in

:43:18.:43:20.

commentary is temperament. Somebody like Terry can help. Yes. Terry's

:43:21.:43:28.

influence, no doubt, is in the dressing room. Just tell him how he

:43:29.:43:32.

is feeling out there. It is very helpful to have somebody

:43:33.:43:49.

in your corner who has been there, knows what it feels like knows what

:43:50.:43:51.

you are going through. In the arena. Lowestoft is the most

:43:52.:44:00.

easterly point of our islands. Every morning the sun hits

:44:01.:52:17.

this bit of the country first. And when you actually get out here,

:52:18.:52:21.

you want to go out and greet the sun! Since the 1970s,

:52:22.:52:28.

11 piers have been lost completely. While others, like Lowestoft's

:52:29.:52:52.

Claremont pier, still struggle on. Hello, David!

:52:53.:52:58.

Can we go inside your pier? How many generations has

:52:59.:53:07.

it been in your family? A real responsibility!

:53:08.:53:11.

Huge responsibility! Surely these machines make sackloads

:53:12.:53:16.

of money? Not bags of money, Mark. What was this pier like

:53:17.:53:20.

in its Edwardian heyday? I mean, obviously a sense of

:53:21.:53:43.

occasion coming on to a pier. Everyone dressed smartly.

:53:44.:53:47.

There were theatres. Punters promenading up and down?

:53:48.:53:50.

Yes, absolutely packed! Coming down to take the steamer

:53:51.:53:53.

off the end there. Obviously it used to be

:53:54.:53:56.

a lot longer than it is now. With a T-piece on the end

:53:57.:53:59.

as well to moor up against. I can show you some old

:54:00.:54:03.

archive photographs. The steamer would stop off on the

:54:04.:54:06.

way to London and ferry people back. It wasn't just a pleasure pier?

:54:07.:54:11.

It had a commercial function? Like the Victorian equivalent

:54:12.:54:14.

of an airport. They were arrival points for

:54:15.:54:31.

passengers visiting the seaside. But unlike an airport,

:54:32.:54:35.

piers combined function with fun! No self-respecting seaside resort

:54:36.:54:42.

could be without one. In the 50 years between

:54:43.:54:55.

1860 and 1910, 78 piers were

:54:56.:54:59.

built around the country. The end of David's pier

:55:00.:55:03.

is now just too dangerous to walk on. a different perspective

:55:04.:55:15.

on the state of Britain's piers. where all the amusements

:55:16.:55:25.

are at the landward end, there's not much incentive for

:55:26.:55:31.

the owner perhaps to spend money. you can't get even the

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fishermen on there paying you money. From this angle,

:55:35.:55:40.

it's obvious to see the problems that pier owners

:55:41.:55:51.

like David Scott face. Without the revenue from paddle

:55:52.:55:54.

steamers and their passengers, over a million pounds has been spent

:55:55.:55:58.

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