Day 1 UK Snooker Championship Extra

Hello again. It's been an eventful opening day in this William Hill

United Kingdom Championship at the Barbican centre in York. One of the

games was between a two-time former UK champion, Wei of China and Davis

of Sussex who has quietly crept up the rankings recently. He's

flirting with the releet top 16 club. We will join this one in

Frame 1 of a possible 11, with Willy Thorne and Neil Folds in the

Championship. We are getting this first round match under way against

a good player, Mark Davis, he's been a pro for years but has yet to

fulfil his potential. A good player, not someone you would like in the

early rounds. But this UK Championship, best of 11 rather

than best of 17. The better of the two would be

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slightly more apprehen sieve, the the red drop in there. Player also

be pleased to see their pockets are red would be in the way. But it's

not. This is now an early chance to get

a sizeable lead if not a frame- have a bad opening session and

trail 6-2 and come back to win, but this match.

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third frame. He would have been danger to be honest. If he missed

either one, you would expect him to lose the frame.

I think this is a case of the dump shot, leaving the cue ball on this

but sometimes you have to bite the you fancy you could be in more

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green and brown, best way to play is between grown and brown. It

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gone a couple of inches slower than with a right-hand side. That makes

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Mark Davis perhaps when he was on a break of 32, played a back

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positional shot. Since then he He's been a pro a long time.

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Bit of a stretch, but no problem whatsoever.

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just yet for Davis, but he's good above the pack, almost protecting

you have a chance of either pocket. Stephen Hendry plays with more

screw in that, he developed that pots very well.

Two in the first frame, which he ended up wining in the frame. Again,

crunching long wall, sadly for him, free the black, he's done that.

Just a half chance of being in the middle. He will take it on because

he can't leave anything on the pot apart from the way it's going to

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A player's biggest nightmare when you hit the safety shot too quick.

The cue ball doesn't get it past amazing how you get vibes sometimes.

black there. The reds are so well placed in the

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going 2-0 behind. on this pink.

But as you can see from the angle it's not that difficult to get on a

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played the red in the corner pocket but if he wants to he can play the

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Played well that plaque. Not much Maybe to take him into the pack, on

the right hand side, but a lot of danger involved in this shot.

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far. missed one of these.

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That bounceed a little, the white, table for the next red because he

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has one near the pocket. pocket but it will go into the

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can see the red pots as well. the table. Doesn't matter who you

are, if you're sat down you can't play. This is a good performance so

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seasons with Mark Davis, he's a of the match, playing it quickly.

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We talk about shots that could match, though only frame 3.

He's one positional shot away from making the reds and pin x

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an easy black and now an easy red both because he's too near the

cushion. Careless with his position. Similar shots. Almost a blienr

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blind pocket. at the moment having missed two

balls. We talked about turing points

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earlier. I think that could be a far in this match and he's come out

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because he's 3-0 behind. could have been possible to go on a

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He got a shot at a black, but far shot, but you may as well take the

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than at the start of the match. He was struggling to find his game,

albeit not with that many chances. Don't know if this black will pot

in the black, but he'll try to flick the red out or whether it

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will pot from where it is. The went down on the pink so he's right

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but if he pots it he will get on the yellow spot.

He can get three or four reds and blacks. Shouldn't be causing too

that, all of a sudden it puts pressure on you.

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He's made hard work of this, that Mark Davis requires. If he

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wins this game I think he will be this shot has given him the right

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It looks to me like this is a canon that could go wrong if he's not

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one into the pocket from that sort of an angle. I don't know what why

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into the green pocket and run through to the blue. If it's dead

straight, he's entitled to have a go. I'm not too sure he can't avoid

the kiss on the pink, and whichever way he will do it, he wants to

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leave the white near a cushion if head. He knows he had a chance to

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be and the green, as long as it didn't kiss to those who, I think

the double is the shot frplts think he wanted to play a canon but

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finished two straight. It might you play the canon. Now he's left

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the white tight on the cushion six inches from the hole.

I suppose he had to avoid snookering himself, but then it

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black six or seven inches, so the the brown into its own pocket. He

would have to play the brown I think if that was the case, unless

he wants to take the cue ball to play.

No margin for error with that one. This is where this is not quite

right. He will be trying his hardest. There's no advantage in

missing this and so as long as he gets close, I don't think it should

be called a mis. We will see here green to brown is slightly more

difficult. He's got a good angle on the yell

le to get on the green, he might be able to get close to it. That could

have been a situation where 20 odd points were given from that snooker.

And Mark could have had it put back despite the fact he has at least

half a chance here, to get on the green nicely. A wonderful chance to

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corner pocket, I think with less pocket has given Mark Davis another

brown. He ends up at the black end of the table, then he could snooker

himself, I suppose. Got to watch the cue ball on this. Not forgeting

nearly missed that. The fact he hit it on the thin side

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meant the cue ball drifted down too Championships, once here at the

Barbican in York and once down in Telford. But he's close to going

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He didn't mean to finish that close the two balls, the cue ball and the

object ball. What would you play? He might try and double the black

but I blame him at the pace he played that. You have to play it

hard so the top-spin keeps the sure if how I fancy him knocking

-- like it. But now, Ding could have lost the match. We're all

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When you get down to a decider you Makes it more difficult to land

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He's left himself hampered here, that is a poor shot.

Very poor shot that. Didn't want to be anywhere near

Davis. He would like to kiss the red in the middle of the reds. If

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he kissed that ball he would be on thing you know about Ding and --

Ding Junhui is when the chance comes he's prepared to take it.

That's why he is the great player CHEERING

That really has hurt him. I have not seen him react like that before.

How has he missed it? Can only think he took his eye off it. It

never seemed possible. He missed it There's been lots of twists and

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That just went in, but it doesn't matter.

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I think he had to play it that way second it seemed the blue would

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hang over the middle pocket. pink and black. If he plays off the

blue very thin, leave the blue where it is and try and get the

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white in behind the pink somewhere. cushion.

He's 12 in front, so the blue lot of pressure on safety shots

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pink is. I agree with you, I Herbertbherher

Herbertbherher Herbertbherhered the pink up the table and get

Herbertbherher Herbertbherher Herbertbherher's trying to screw

into the cushion, so when he hits the pink, the white will stop dead.

If he gets fullish contact on the pink we will have the same snooker

What a shame the match had to end in that way. Mark Herbertbherher

Herbertbherher Herbertbherher but an unbelievable fluke on Ding

Junhui gets him to win by six Well, Mark Davis will have

nightmares about that, but D -- Ding goes through. Second round on

Tuesday. This afternoon at 2 o'clock, we're looking forward to a