:00:40. > :00:42.What an atmosphere once again here in the Crucible Theatre. It is
:00:43. > :00:57.something special. That is beautiful shot Marco. It is
:00:58. > :01:08.there. The 47th century of the tournament. We are still all square,
:01:09. > :01:11.now at six apiece. Absolutely fascinating stuff between these two
:01:12. > :01:18.world-class exponents of our beautiful game. Nothing can separate
:01:19. > :01:23.Marco Fu and Neil Robertson at eight apiece. Good evening, Neil Robertson
:01:24. > :01:27.and Marco Fu have got the Crucible stage all to themselves and that is
:01:28. > :01:30.because of an earlier finishing one of our second round matches
:01:31. > :01:35.yesterday. It is entirely appropriate that we have an
:01:36. > :01:37.unrestricted boot of the classy Australian and the perfectly
:01:38. > :01:42.polished player from Hong Kong because there are matches perfectly
:01:43. > :01:46.poised at eight frames apiece. One of them will become the last man
:01:47. > :01:51.threw into the quarterfinal draw in the World Championship. We will see
:01:52. > :01:54.that live shortly. Earlier today, another two men by their place in
:01:55. > :02:00.the quarterfinal draw and no surprise that the defending champion
:02:01. > :02:08.was one of them. Mark Selby's progress was slowed up yesterday by
:02:09. > :02:15.his opponent. Today he sprinted away with his first century of this
:02:16. > :02:21.Championship to win 13-6. I am over the moon with that. I wanted to do a
:02:22. > :02:29.forward roll. I have been playing OK, I am breaking down. It was nice
:02:30. > :02:34.to start the match off with a century. Barry Hawkins did not hang
:02:35. > :02:39.about, really not the last three frames he needed to barge past
:02:40. > :02:45.Graeme Dott. His top break was 98 and he will face Stephen Maguire in
:02:46. > :02:51.the last eight. I am delighted to beat someone of the quality of
:02:52. > :02:57.Graeme Dott and to get through. I am really pleased. I cued better today,
:02:58. > :03:02.the big breaks are not flying in, I have the -- had a few 90s but I was
:03:03. > :03:08.pretty solid all-around. I would not say I am in top form, but I am
:03:09. > :03:13.playing and I am happy the way I am playing and hopefully I can do
:03:14. > :03:19.better. We are joined by Stephen Hendry. You are well used to
:03:20. > :03:24.starring in one-table set-up, but how much can you enjoy this, Central
:03:25. > :03:29.curtain up, all eyes on you and your opponent? It is great atmosphere.
:03:30. > :03:35.Both players have to enjoy it. It is surreal, there is another table
:03:36. > :03:40.there, it is a bit strange. No noise from the other side tonight, so they
:03:41. > :03:44.can concentrate on their own match. Mark Selby awaits the winner of
:03:45. > :03:48.this, Neil Robertson, Marco Fu, how would you characterise this so far?
:03:49. > :03:52.Neil Robertson took an early lead but since then no one has been able
:03:53. > :03:56.to stamp their authority on it. No one has been able to get more than
:03:57. > :04:02.one frame ahead. It is difficult to pick a winner. Neil knows what it
:04:03. > :04:09.takes to win, he was a champion seven years ago, Marco has twice
:04:10. > :04:12.been a semifinalist. Marco is the highest rank, who is your pick? I
:04:13. > :04:17.would possibly side with Marco. Over the season, he has had the better
:04:18. > :04:22.results, he has been at the semifinals business end more often
:04:23. > :04:28.than Neil Robertson. Neil Robertson, he is not scoring as heavily as
:04:29. > :04:32.normal. I would shave with Marco. That is how you like it, all the
:04:33. > :04:37.world is the state and belongs to to bed tonight, three men, actually,
:04:38. > :04:43.because first all here comes Rob Walker. Thank you, good evening
:04:44. > :04:47.ladies and gentlemen. We find ourselves temporarily down to the
:04:48. > :04:52.one-table set-up tonight at the World Snooker Championship for the
:04:53. > :04:55.epic climax between two men who have made a huge contribution to the
:04:56. > :04:59.global game. The trouble is there is only room for one of them in the
:05:00. > :05:00.quarterfinals. This could be absolutely huge.
:05:01. > :05:22.APPLAUSE. Please welcome, a player who arrived
:05:23. > :05:27.from Australia just over a decade ago with a head full of dreams and
:05:28. > :05:33.barely a penny in his pocket and how he has since taken the game by
:05:34. > :05:37.storm. Twice a UK champion, a world champion, a Masters winner, bidding
:05:38. > :05:50.for a seven Crucible quarterfinal, can you hear the Thunder from Down
:05:51. > :06:03.Under, here is the Robertson? -- Neil Robertson!
:06:04. > :06:08.And his opponent, a player whose achievements have helped promote the
:06:09. > :06:14.game in Asia for decades, bidding for his fourth world quarterfinal,
:06:15. > :06:19.14 years after his first and from 4-1 down he is right back in this
:06:20. > :06:21.match, an absolute gentleman of the modern game, from Hong Kong, here
:06:22. > :06:42.comes Marco Fu! MUSIC: 'Superhero - The Script.
:06:43. > :06:46.Eight friends all it is the straight best of nine tonight for the last
:06:47. > :06:50.place in the quarterfinals and already on the edge of their seats,
:06:51. > :06:54.we say good evening to John Parrott and Dennis Taylor. A very good
:06:55. > :06:59.evening and good evening everyone and what a reception for both
:07:00. > :07:05.players here this evening, a real international match if ever there
:07:06. > :07:11.was one. Australia versus Hong Kong. 17 frame, Neil Robertson to break.
:07:12. > :07:14.It is the former champion who's going to get this first frame under
:07:15. > :07:32.way. Not a bad break, he has left a
:07:33. > :07:37.tempter for Marco to look at it, but whether he takes it on, that is
:07:38. > :07:42.another matter. Tough to pick a winner here, isn't it?
:07:43. > :07:50.Exceptionally, Dennis. Both absolute class acts. Neil Robertson, champion
:07:51. > :07:57.in 2010. And that was a big shot for your first one of the evening. He
:07:58. > :08:01.has made a mess of it. These top boys now, when they get a chance
:08:02. > :08:05.like this, when you see the cueing, it was not easy from under the ball
:08:06. > :08:09.commission, when they get a chance like this, they know how important
:08:10. > :08:14.it is to stamp their authority on this final session. The type of shot
:08:15. > :08:20.that Marco just mess, I was doing the Barry Hawkins match, so many of
:08:21. > :08:23.that type of shot, it is shot the players practice because they know
:08:24. > :08:31.it will come up during the game and sometimes the start of a frame, he
:08:32. > :08:38.is doing a little survey of the table. He has got plenty of reds, it
:08:39. > :08:41.is a good chance, it has to be said. He does seem to be taking a bit of
:08:42. > :08:47.time with this one, but the one in the middle...
:08:48. > :09:00.All right. But I would have liked a little bit more on the cue ball. The
:09:01. > :09:06.pink would actually be taking him slightly away. From the reds he
:09:07. > :09:09.would want to play. Those two towards the right-hand side are
:09:10. > :09:13.pottable for the middle but the cue ball angle he has God would go
:09:14. > :09:39.pretty close to those two reds after pots the pink.
:09:40. > :09:45.Just managed to get in -- inside. Just to hold position. Fabulous
:09:46. > :10:02.chance. He has been pretty consistent with
:10:03. > :10:09.his breaks, he has had a couple of 60 plus breaks and 90 plus breaks
:10:10. > :10:14.and of course that 105. He has been very steady indeed, but Marco has
:10:15. > :10:16.also had a century and quite a few breaks over 50, so they are very
:10:17. > :10:44.evenly matched. You can see him striking the cue
:10:45. > :10:54.ball on the left side of the cue ball there, get a little bit of side
:10:55. > :10:58.to swing it over for the black. Two reds on the left in pottable
:10:59. > :11:02.positions, there is the one that Dennis was on about, the cue ball
:11:03. > :11:06.wide of the angle to come back for the black. The reds are in the
:11:07. > :11:11.clusters, they are not great at the moment. He will have to move a few
:11:12. > :11:14.of those in the middle, the bottom one will not even pot, it is the
:11:15. > :11:26.outside one foot in the middle pocket. Which he has not hit very
:11:27. > :11:30.well. In fact, that was all caused really by the red on the top cushion
:11:31. > :11:33.because he would have liked to have played the black and came around the
:11:34. > :11:38.angles to get the reds in the middle, but that red was in the way.
:11:39. > :11:42.If he has lost position, that is a chance gone and it is.
:11:43. > :11:58.He has got such a great temperament, the Australian. He played a bad
:11:59. > :12:02.positional shot there, but he never bothered. He accepted it, just got
:12:03. > :12:07.down and played a very good safety shot. And played it properly as
:12:08. > :12:11.well, lots of times you can be disappointed with losing your
:12:12. > :12:15.position, lose a bit of cool and do not play the right shot, but not
:12:16. > :12:19.there. It happened the other day during the match with John Higgins,
:12:20. > :12:22.he lost positions, a rare occurrence, but he lost position and
:12:23. > :12:28.played the best safety shot afterwards and came back and won the
:12:29. > :12:31.frame. An example to any young player playing, make sure you play
:12:32. > :12:35.every shot correctly and with attention.
:12:36. > :12:59.That is so good, there is no easy way back down the table. The one to
:13:00. > :13:03.the right is not even a double book sometimes you can spot a double,
:13:04. > :13:10.have a go at it and not leave anything. It has left him with very
:13:11. > :13:42.little choice of shot. That was all Neil could do there.
:13:43. > :13:49.That was very interesting, Neil Robertson set a little chat, tapped
:13:50. > :13:53.into the reds and said what will you do and probably Marco should have
:13:54. > :14:04.trapped back, but he tried to play the more positive safety and got the
:14:05. > :14:13.double kiss. How costly will not be? -- how costly will that be? If he
:14:14. > :14:47.had played it thin, it got the old dreaded double kiss.
:14:48. > :14:56.That is OK. I am saying it is a choice, the one on the right
:14:57. > :15:00.certainly goals in the middle and it looks like the one that goes on the
:15:01. > :15:06.left as well, so he does have a choice. One good shot here, just a
:15:07. > :15:14.little run through, he might be able to flick off the reds.
:15:15. > :15:29.And this may look nothing on your screens, but this is quite a good
:15:30. > :15:39.little cut in the middle this, it is not absolutely straightforward.
:15:40. > :16:06.But if he knocks it in, the frame could be at his mercy.
:16:07. > :16:13.Well, it was not an easy pot by any means but I expected Neil to knock
:16:14. > :16:18.that then but he put it onto the other pocket. We will show you it
:16:19. > :16:22.again, it touches the jaw of the pocket, it will not go in. He just
:16:23. > :16:35.left himself with a little bit to do, didn't he?
:16:36. > :16:41.He has got a 29 point lead, Neil Robertson, but he will be kicking
:16:42. > :16:46.himself that it is not more and Marco must have been thinking he
:16:47. > :16:48.would be a lot more behind as well. What is his scoring like this
:16:49. > :17:14.evening? First chance. An awkward little shot, once you put
:17:15. > :17:19.the top spin on, it gets trapped by the cushion and reverts into back
:17:20. > :17:23.spin, that is the way -- why the cue ball went the way that it did. The
:17:24. > :17:43.good mid-range pot here. Excellent pot, just in between the
:17:44. > :17:49.positional play, not ideal on pink or blue.
:17:50. > :18:02.One good shot, with the rest required.
:18:03. > :18:19.APPLAUSE. It has finished just a little awkward for Marco here. He
:18:20. > :18:23.might just be OK with this one, if it is straight come, he could follow
:18:24. > :18:29.it through. If he is heading towards the pink with the cue ball, it is
:18:30. > :18:33.not ideal, that is why he is looking at the cutback, that is not a good
:18:34. > :18:38.angle, if he ran it straight, he could leave the pink on the left
:18:39. > :18:43.corner. He can stun it in and leave the pink on the right middle. He
:18:44. > :18:54.feels they can get through, to leave at the thing on. -- to leave the
:18:55. > :18:59.pink on. That was a bad shot from Marco, he was convinced that he
:19:00. > :19:03.could run that through and get on the pink. It did not look like it
:19:04. > :19:08.and then it took his concentration from the pot. I feel a little bit
:19:09. > :19:12.for him, he played a decent shot and where he finished, he was not plumb
:19:13. > :19:18.on any of the three reds he could have been on. He normally manages to
:19:19. > :19:21.sort that one out. Slightly worrying signs in this opening frame for
:19:22. > :19:30.Marco, this is the third chance that Neil Robertson has had. They don't
:19:31. > :19:36.usually get that many. They have been sharing frames for quite some
:19:37. > :19:41.time since they 4-1 lead for Neil but I feel if someone can open up a
:19:42. > :20:08.two frame advantage now, it will be huge for them. First to 13.
:20:09. > :20:13.Totally different from the crowd in the Crucible this evening and
:20:14. > :20:19.totally different at home because there is no noise coming from the
:20:20. > :20:25.other table. Yes. It is a slightly strange atmosphere when you are the
:20:26. > :20:29.only table there. When you get to the semi-finals and the final, you
:20:30. > :20:36.are the only table, but it is in the middle of the room. It is slightly
:20:37. > :20:45.different witness happens. That middle pocket. A few easy ones
:20:46. > :20:46.missed in there. Neither player has settled down here. Settle down
:20:47. > :21:10.please. In a few shots time, if he could get
:21:11. > :21:14.on that red to the right of the black spot, he could roll it in and
:21:15. > :21:22.leave the black for the other corner. All, Marco! You cannot be
:21:23. > :21:27.hitting the green full ball in that situation. I don't know whether they
:21:28. > :21:31.are a little bit edgy. He completely misjudged that. Big gap to get
:21:32. > :21:36.through. We give the players plenty of praise but at the moment, it is
:21:37. > :21:43.like a club handicap. Both of them, the chances they have had.
:21:44. > :21:50.Obviously, the tension, I think it is that psychological thing of
:21:51. > :21:54.getting 9-8 in front getting on your way to the magical 13, but both
:21:55. > :22:06.players have had three chances are not made anything of them.
:22:07. > :22:12.I have to say, it is pretty good sometimes when you get frames like
:22:13. > :22:18.this, we are so used to seeing them make 80s, 90s and hundreds, a few
:22:19. > :22:22.shock misses arrive and it is no less entertaining. Just makes the
:22:23. > :22:57.game look what it is, pretty hard. Is all he is going to get really,
:22:58. > :22:59.for a good shot. Just a matter of where he can leave the most trouble
:23:00. > :23:05.for Neil Robertson. Nicely played. Have a little
:23:06. > :23:38.shocked. -- shot. It signs like there is an alarm
:23:39. > :23:44.going off, someone's phone or something. -- it sounds like.
:23:45. > :23:54.They are going to have to wait. Trying to find out where it is. It
:23:55. > :24:01.is as if someone has set an alarm on their phone. If he has done it, he
:24:02. > :24:21.must work shifts. Well... Looking up the stairs, there
:24:22. > :24:27.is a security man and they are looking to see, he is in everyone's
:24:28. > :24:47.handbags. Well, he is not in his own handbag! It is like a Mexican wave!
:24:48. > :25:02.Nice shot at, a little bit of swerve and just clipped the red. And the
:25:03. > :25:07.way these balls are at the moment, they are awkward. Not easy to
:25:08. > :25:13.promote one over a corner pocket if you're not careful.
:25:14. > :25:22.That is why Marco is going down the left side of the table so he does
:25:23. > :25:31.not do what John said there. And this looks pretty good. Very good
:25:32. > :25:41.shot from Marco Fu there. That is absolutely brilliant. Best safety
:25:42. > :25:45.shot this evening by a long way. The referee having a good look at this
:25:46. > :25:54.because he might be able to clip that red that he is pointing the tip
:25:55. > :25:55.of the cue at. That is just in case he does foul and the ball has to be
:25:56. > :26:14.replaced. Don't blame him for taking his time,
:26:15. > :26:21.I'm struggling to see what shot he has. I think he could hit that red
:26:22. > :26:24.past the blue. I think he is playing a two cushion escape trying to hit
:26:25. > :26:26.that red on the way back on the right-hand side. He will settle for
:26:27. > :26:40.that. Yes, he was not snookered there, but
:26:41. > :26:46.he didn't want to try and play safe off the red just give. Marco would
:26:47. > :26:53.normally go down and send this red right around the angles but the
:26:54. > :26:57.green is in the way of doing that. The safety shot with the two reds
:26:58. > :27:01.steered the black spot is awkward, he cannot play the one closest to
:27:02. > :27:06.the spot because it would come in on the red and he does not want to clip
:27:07. > :27:08.the bottom one towards the corner. This takes some thinking. Which is
:27:09. > :27:39.what he is doing. GROANS FROM CROWD. It would make you
:27:40. > :27:42.wonder if he did not attempt that. He certainly did, he thought he
:27:43. > :27:47.would get it safe, but this red that is closest to the cue ball will go
:27:48. > :27:50.into the left middle pocket, it is a bit of a free shot and he would be
:27:51. > :28:02.nicely on the black. I think he is trying it, in the
:28:03. > :28:11.middle, is he? Yes. Great shot. Very good shot. He has missed a few in
:28:12. > :28:29.this frame already, but that was superb.
:28:30. > :28:36.He has got a slight angle on the black but he cannot power the black
:28:37. > :28:40.in and come off the cushion and get in behind that difficult red as you
:28:41. > :28:44.can see there. What he was thinking about was just potting the black and
:28:45. > :28:49.attempting to get the snooker and send the red back up the table. 40
:28:50. > :28:57.years doing here, John, he is certainly not rushing things, is he?
:28:58. > :29:03.No. He said to be, he was certainly playing a little bit sore -- what he
:29:04. > :29:09.is doing here. He is not in the best of form. A little bit of grinding,
:29:10. > :29:14.trying not to make a mistake. We do not know how he is feeling at the
:29:15. > :29:20.moment. It is not the usual fluent Neil Robertson that we see scoring
:29:21. > :29:34.so quickly. As I say, we do not know how he is feeling out there.
:29:35. > :29:46.And that is a very clever shot. He has knocked the red around and put
:29:47. > :29:54.it in a really pottable position. This is a problem. I am just
:29:55. > :29:58.wondering if Marco came off the bottom decent and landed on that red
:29:59. > :30:03.near the baulk line, if he would leave the red over the right corner
:30:04. > :30:07.pocket. He would need the pink and brown, look where he is cueing, that
:30:08. > :30:13.tells me he will come off petition and land on that red and hopefully
:30:14. > :30:23.not leave the one the pocket. -- come off that cushion.
:30:24. > :30:32.Looking to try and clip it on the way back. That is fraught with
:30:33. > :30:35.danger. I think I prefer your shot. Drop it on
:30:36. > :30:40.The opponent knocks one in from there. Fair enough.
:30:41. > :30:50.Very clever. I say very clever, because I think
:30:51. > :30:54.if he had landed on the red he might have left that one. Neil's got this
:30:55. > :30:58.red up the cushion. There's so much pressure on this because of the one
:30:59. > :31:09.that's near the pocket where the green is.
:31:10. > :31:13.One of the best potters in the game and has been for a number of years.
:31:14. > :31:28.Now, this will test his skills. He 's playing the safety shot. He
:31:29. > :31:31.hasn't made a good fist of that. That red shouldn't have been
:31:32. > :31:35.anywhere near that left corner pocket.
:31:36. > :31:39.He was obsessed with the one on the right-hand side, wasn't he? Just to
:31:40. > :31:41.make sure the yellow and blues doing its job and forgot about the one he
:31:42. > :31:52.was playing. This is not a gimme. He may have gotten away with it.
:31:53. > :32:07.Wow! Amazing, isn't it? The other one
:32:08. > :32:12.might cut in. That's what he's looking at now. It's a very thin
:32:13. > :32:16.snick. He might just be able to cut this in. I don't think the white
:32:17. > :32:17.will go anywhere near the left middle pocket. I think the brown's
:32:18. > :32:33.in the way. He may attempt this. That was a clever positional shot,
:32:34. > :32:53.wasn't it? The only thing with this pink, it's
:32:54. > :32:57.so close to the pocket, it's difficult to control the cue ball.
:32:58. > :33:04.Would you be tempted to play cushion first? I think I would hit it
:33:05. > :33:14.thinner. It doesn't matter what contact, it will go in.
:33:15. > :33:22.He may be thinking about cushion first. We'll see.
:33:23. > :33:27.It is a personal preference this one, I would think. Just the way he
:33:28. > :33:32.cued over there, maybe that's what he's doing. He has to be careful he
:33:33. > :33:36.doesn't go in the right middle pocket, then. He'll also have to be
:33:37. > :33:49.careful he doesn't snooker himself with the green.
:33:50. > :34:13.Well, he's on that red. It wasn't, as he played it.
:34:14. > :34:21.Brown would be enough. 32 in front.
:34:22. > :34:29.With 35 there. He looked at the scoreboard on the way around.
:34:30. > :34:59.Make sure you knock this in and any position on the red is good.
:35:00. > :35:04.Not quite safe yet. But barring that one snooker, Neil's got himself in
:35:05. > :35:26.front again. Marco just checking the scoreboard,
:35:27. > :35:30.seeing whether he can take the blue or the pink, instead of taking
:35:31. > :35:37.black. Of course he can.
:35:38. > :35:44.That green is not in a bad position for snookers here. OK you can get a
:35:45. > :35:50.snooker lining one other balls. If you can get in, the green is the one
:35:51. > :35:53.near the cushion. Get somewhere in behind there, might make it a bit
:35:54. > :35:59.more difficult. You could also play him behind the black as well.
:36:00. > :36:55.Tried to play behind the black. Be careful with that one.
:36:56. > :37:03.Sometimes you just have to play a decent safety. You have to keep the
:37:04. > :37:42.object ball safe and wait for a better opportunity.
:37:43. > :37:57.I'd be tempted just to roll this in or over the pocket.
:37:58. > :38:03.Definitely would have just rolled the yellow to try and make sure of
:38:04. > :38:09.the pot. Even if he left it right over the pocket, as I say, no harm
:38:10. > :38:12.done if Neil was to get Marco to pot the yellow. Then he'd have to move
:38:13. > :38:16.that green away because it's the best ball, as John was saying, to
:38:17. > :38:56.get the snooker behind. But not from this position.
:38:57. > :39:01.This frame itself is over half an hour.
:39:02. > :39:24.Certainly not been easy. Might have got the snooker behind
:39:25. > :39:28.the blue and pink, but the green is a far better place now, if Marco
:39:29. > :39:33.ever gets a chance. If you get in behind that green, it would be
:39:34. > :39:35.sufficient a tough snooker to escape -- such a tough snooker to escape
:39:36. > :39:52.from. He's not knocked it safe. One can
:39:53. > :40:28.pot and he'd be off with the second frame of this session.
:40:29. > :40:34.Hasn't really had many decent opportunities to play snookers yet,
:40:35. > :40:37.Marco. As you mentioned before that, knocking in that green for Neil was
:40:38. > :41:40.pretty dangerous. Obviously doesn't really want to pot
:41:41. > :41:55.this. If this has gone behind the green,
:41:56. > :42:13.that is brilliant. What a shot! That was wonderfully controlled.
:42:14. > :42:19.Well, I mentioned if he did get behind the green, it would be
:42:20. > :42:21.difficult to escape from. That is a big square of what he'd have to
:42:22. > :42:38.play. There's enough room to go around the
:42:39. > :42:43.back of the yellow as well. I think to actually get out of this
:42:44. > :42:48.snooker, the easiest way is off two cushions. Of course if you don't hit
:42:49. > :42:52.it and leave firmly you could leaf three balls and everything, so --
:42:53. > :42:55.leave three balls and everything, so... You prefer to play the swerve,
:42:56. > :43:17.but, it's a big one. No miss called because he needed a
:43:18. > :43:22.snooker. Really, as it has turned out, Marco can win, but he flicked
:43:23. > :43:26.the black into a safer position and the blue into a safer position.
:43:27. > :43:39.It is the sort of it is where you can possibly gain an advantage from
:43:40. > :43:42.playing. Would he attempt to get behind the green again? Got to keep
:43:43. > :43:47.the yellows safe also. He's making sure that he gets a good
:43:48. > :44:13.yellow here Played the full-length shot. Very
:44:14. > :44:18.well played it was, too. And this is very dangerous now for Neil
:44:19. > :44:36.Robertson. As ever, it's not hitting it, it's what you leave.
:44:37. > :44:44.He's left him a good chance here. Good cueing required. Don't have to
:44:45. > :44:55.do anything with the cue ball. The green's over the corner.
:44:56. > :45:03.He seemed to hit that a little harder than he needed. It wasn't a
:45:04. > :45:07.straightforward pot, but when you hit them at that pace it's much more
:45:08. > :45:10.difficult for the pocket to accept the ball. Neil having this cleaned
:45:11. > :45:13.here, because he's going to try and just chip the yellow in. He doesn't
:45:14. > :45:37.want to be getting a kick. Good pot under the circumstances.
:45:38. > :45:43.He's missed a chance there, Marco. He really has to get that wonderful
:45:44. > :45:57.snooker behind the green and then have a shot at the yellow.
:45:58. > :46:09.Marco had a very good chance on that yellow there.
:46:10. > :46:24.Coming up to 39 minutes of this opening frame of the session.
:46:25. > :46:31.The Australian will be delighted. He won't care about that. He's got
:46:32. > :46:35.himself back into the lead. 9-8 to Neil Robertson.
:46:36. > :46:42.It really has been evenly balanced between the two of them. And
:46:43. > :46:47.Stephen, there's a shot in there that might reveal a little bit of
:46:48. > :46:52.Neil's thinking. It wasn't the most confident of starts. This brown, I
:46:53. > :46:58.am very surprised he didn't play position on the red. A little bit of
:46:59. > :47:02.right-hand side. He's just birdied the brown, I know he's gone for the
:47:03. > :47:07.red. It was a negative shot and shows me that he's not 100%
:47:08. > :47:13.confident, Neil Robertson, that sometimes what we are used to seeing
:47:14. > :47:16.two or three years ago. It's not the way I expected both players to
:47:17. > :47:24.start. They've had a lot of chances each. I expected one player to come
:47:25. > :47:30.out firing. Very nervy. Very nervy. A huge amount of respect. They have
:47:31. > :47:34.actually moved up in the provisional rankings, but five and six teen
:47:35. > :47:39.them. They are very cagey. Very well aware of each other's strengths and
:47:40. > :47:43.weaknesses here. Very close to the third session. You think, before you
:47:44. > :47:48.go out, I am going to win this match. I am going to out attacking.
:47:49. > :47:55.Neil doesn't look the attacking force. Sometimes he gets bogged down
:47:56. > :47:58.in matches. His shot time is not, doesn't inspire me with a lot of
:47:59. > :48:03.confidence. The thoughts of a seven-time champion. Back we go to
:48:04. > :48:08.gentlemen who know what it takes to win this title as well.
:48:09. > :48:15.THE COMMENTATOR: Thank you, Hazel. It is interesting, mentioned from
:48:16. > :48:21.his body language, he's certainly taking his time, Neil Robertson.
:48:22. > :48:26.He's grinding a little bit. Thinks his game is not 100%. He's
:48:27. > :48:28.got to find a way to win. Maybe that's what he thinks is needed this
:48:29. > :48:59.evening. The yellow might be in the way of
:49:00. > :49:07.Neil coming off the side cushion. He wouldn't leave that red. If he
:49:08. > :49:11.landed on the side of the reds, wouldn't leave that.
:49:12. > :49:58.I don't know if the yellow is preventing him from doing that.
:49:59. > :50:05.That was a very delicate operation. He was trying there just to roll at
:50:06. > :50:11.that pace and just glance off the red.
:50:12. > :50:17.How close was that! I don't think that was the table. That was just a
:50:18. > :50:31.really good attempt. As ever, when you play that shot,
:50:32. > :50:39.it's in the middle of everywhere. Can pot the black, but it's much
:50:40. > :51:03.more difficult than it looks. Never even got it in the jaws of the
:51:04. > :51:22.pocket. It was a tough one. Plenty of cue power to get this
:51:23. > :51:31.around the angles here. Oh, he got the power into it, but
:51:32. > :51:40.cannon on the red was always going to spoil that positional shot.
:51:41. > :51:45.I'm not sure what he was looking around at. Maybe it was because of
:51:46. > :53:06.how he played the shot. That's an excellent safety shot. It
:53:07. > :54:05.really is. The only way he could get back into
:54:06. > :54:08.the baulk area. You do that, you make sure you get a good white. And
:54:09. > :54:14.that's exactly what that was. The percentage for your safety
:54:15. > :54:42.success. I think Neil's got a similar shot
:54:43. > :54:44.that Marco played. Maybe rest on that right-hand side. That's the
:54:45. > :55:29.only thing he's got, really. This is really, tough, hard match
:55:30. > :55:52.snooker that we're watching here. As I mentioned during the first
:55:53. > :55:58.frame, the player who can get a couple of frames ahead at this stage
:55:59. > :55:59.will be at a huge advantage. That was an excellent safety shot from
:56:00. > :56:11.Neil. Obviously yellow and blue are
:56:12. > :56:13.stopping the right-hand side escape. They couldn't have played that much
:56:14. > :57:49.better. The reason they're being so careful
:57:50. > :57:51.here is the way the reds are situated. One mistake and it could
:57:52. > :58:35.be very costly. ??FORCEWHITE
:58:36. > :58:40.STUDIO: A lot of drama. You can share the rest of this match with us
:58:41. > :58:45.when we move now to the red button coverage. We are staying right here
:58:46. > :58:49.to enjoy it all with you. Prepare to press red and we shall see you on
:58:50. > :58:54.the other side. Otherwise, I'll be back with the highlights here for
:58:55. > :58:58.you on BBC Two at 11. 15pm. The choice is yours. Either way, you
:58:59. > :59:02.don't want to miss it. Who will be the last man to the quarter finals?
:59:03. > :59:03.We will find out soon enough. Goodbye
:59:04. > :59:07.This is all Roz, she's trying to frame me!
:59:08. > :59:11.This is the final push, we cannot fail.
:59:12. > :59:15.He sent you, didn't he? Are you expecting someone else?