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Two snooker icons, Ronnie O'Sullivan and Steve Davis. Two men | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
who have ruled the game but M very different eras. It is not terribly | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
often that the two of the meet face-to-face in the final stages of | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
a major championship such as this. So when it does happen, like this | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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afternoon, it is an occasion to The market is flying! I think this | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
is the first tournament I have qualified for in this year in the | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
ranking events. It is getting harder and harder to qualify. I | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
have got to courage played two matches to get through to the final | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
stages and knocking on the doors of playing three if I don't call my | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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finger out. -- pull my finger out. You don't -- if you don't enjoy | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
playing against Ronnie O'Sullivan, you should give up. I just enjoy | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
playing, whether it is Steve or... It doesn't make it that much | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
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It is nice to be back in York. It is an excellent venue. I think all | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
the players were happy and enjoyed the atmosphere around you. I | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
believe ticket sales are going through the roof. It doesn't matter | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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who I play, really. It was The Nugget, Davis, who got off to a | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
flying start. But then the Rocket claimed it. It is one a piece as we | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
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join them. Steve at the table It might be one you have to risk | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
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That is what he has done, played it right over the hole. I don't | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
understand that. Steve obviously thought he could market to the top | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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cushion. -- not kick it to the top He can just about dig into this. A | :03:29. | :03:37. | |
little bit too much. He can play it's low around the back of the | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
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He did not want the kiss on the pink. That makes it a little bit | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
awkward now. The most important thing now is to get good position | :03:56. | :04:06. | |
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on the awkward, and that is the This is where being left-handed can | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
help. But where is the brown going? He may have snookered himself here. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
Steve is having a look. He may not be able to get through to the | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
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yellow. Good luck? Bad luck? This yellow is tough if he is taking the | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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Absolutely wonderful. The flick on the brown gave him the opportunity | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
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to play that shot but, boy, what He had no reason to play it at that | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
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pace but he gave one of the best That is part and parcel of snooker. | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
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Winning on a fluke. That yellow was something else! That is the frame | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
over now and Ronnie prose is cue on the table. A frame that could have | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
gone either way. -- Ronnie puts his cue. | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
HAZEL IRVINE: So far, it has been a very grossing -- end grossing and | :05:52. | :06:02. | |
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tactical encounter. Both are The blue has always been there when | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
it is on its spot and he will have been very disappointed to catch | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
that there. Whoever invented this game, how did they know where to | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
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He has not got his cueing arm going yet but to play at that pace, | :06:39. | :06:49. | |
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knowing if you miss it, you are The way he has played that, the | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
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black will obviously pot into the The fact he was low on that black | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
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means he had to risk spotting. He Unless the black pots in the right | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
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hand corner, which it does not look The pink should pot. It clearly | :07:59. | :08:09. | |
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He has certainly got his game face on, matters for sure. -- that is | :08:28. | :08:38. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :08:38. | :09:21. | |
All these little cannons he plays to hold the cue ball, that is the | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
art of break-building. You always need to play the cannons to slow | :09:26. | :09:36. | |
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He is close to taking a 3-1 This is the highest break of the | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
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This should be enough, you would Ronnie floated a nice opening red | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
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in and the rest has looked like a The highest break in the tournament | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
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so far is a 140, by Matthew Stevens. He is awesome around the balls, Ore. | :11:50. | :12:00. | |
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That is his 569th competitive Ronnie almost looks back to his | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
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This is the 11th century already in the tournament this year. A good | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
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shot needed now! Hey! You want one, He has just played exhibition | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
snooker there. He struggled early on but in the end, Ronnie shows his | :13:04. | :13:13. | |
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class with a great break. HAZEL IRVINE: He won the next with | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
a break of 97 and then went 5-1 up. He needs just one more frame to go | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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He has played the pot cushion first and he will be on the blue. That | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
last shot will definitely be Steve's last, you would have | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
We saw Stephen Hendry go out yesterday. He was the five-time | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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Ronnie O'Sullivan could be the man to better both of them. This was | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
the first tournament Ronnie ever won, wasn't it? I think he was 17 | :14:19. | :14:29. | |
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Fair play to Ronnie. He has competed at every stage in the game | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :14:47. | :15:40. | |
Steve has matched him in most parts A wonderful positional shot from | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
Ronnie. He has cued really well in this match. I know we can talk | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
about the demise of Steve Davis and whether he will be back, but this | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
is certainly laying down a marker for everybody else in the | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
tournament. Ronnie came here, looked focused. Long may it | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
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continue. He will take some Not bothered about the black! | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
Shakes hand of Steve. Steve says, very well played. Ronnie O'Sullivan | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
in superb form and has treated this Barbican Centre crowd to some | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
wonderful snooker and goes out of the arena and leaves the stage for | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
Steve Davis and will get a great reception when he leaves. Steve | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
Davis, possibly for the last time ever in a UK Championship. But | :16:53. | :17:02. | |
Ronnie O'Sullivan wins 6-1. Earlier on, I was enjoying it. I had a few | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
problems. I fluked a red across in the first frame but Ronnie returned | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
the compliment with the brown. But then played such a great yellow | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
from the jaws of the green pocket. And then he took off and I lost | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
touch. Any mistakes I made were magnified. It wasn't easy. I had to | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
fight for my opportunities when I got a monks the balls. -- when I | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
got among axed. But your opponent can then get in and do damage as | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
well. You have to be concentrating all the time. I said to Ronnie, you | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
are cueing so well. I have never seen him cue better than that. It | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
really is striking. This format, best of 11, suits him. Steve, no | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
plans to retire, obviously. He will be back with us minus cue tomorrow. | :18:04. | :18:12. | |
And now, Ronnie will play either Dominic Dale or Judd Trump tomorrow. | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
Welshman Ryan Day could not live with Mark Selby and surrendered 6-0. | :18:17. | :18:26. | |
His top break was only four. However, Mark Selby knocked in a | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
century and three other breaks. needed to put him under pressure. | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
The first frame could have gone either way but then after that, I | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
seemed to play really well and put him under pressure from the second | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
frame onwards. Mark Selby will now meet Marco Fu, who has come back | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
from behind. He now has a run of four frames in a row. It was enough | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
to knock out Stuart Bingham. Marco is through. I was playing OK. It | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
could have been 3-1 up to me so I was not terrible. I need to be able | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
to keep myself composed and be patient through the whole match. I | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
was able to produce some pretty good snooker towards the end of so | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
it was quite satisfying. And a scrappy match at times, but Ali | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
Carter came through. The only way it there after was the way of the | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
Essex pro, who cleaned up at 6-4. Disappointed to miss some easy | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
balls and give Rob some easy chances. Frustrating but it is also | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
the first big event for quite a few months. You don't want to be going | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
home after the first round, so just delighted to get through. And this | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
evening, the bookish and diminutive Martin Gould enters the arena to a | :19:57. | :20:05. | |
motor head track and performs his new top 16 status to see off the | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
Sheffield man, was a surprise newcomer to this event a few years | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
ago. Martin Gould, a 6-2 winner today. This is the time of year we | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
traditionally start looking for a star in the East, and one of those | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
is rising. He is a 19-year-old left-hander from China and he was | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
the stand out graduate from his school. Already on his first season, | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
he has beaten the likes of John Higgins, Mark Williams and Judd | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
Trump. He had to win three of qualifying matches to be here in | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
York, and this evening, his sets were on Downing t former world and | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
UK champion Shaun Murphy. -- down in the former world and UK champion. | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
We are now into the eighth frame and it is Murphy to play, eight | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
points behind. John Parrott and John Virgo in charge in the | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
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A good opportunity here for Shaun. He doesn't yet have to move that | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
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Just a bit short of pace, asking for the cue ball to be cleaned. So | :21:57. | :22:07. | |
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It did sound a little bit funny. Maybe Shaun was just a little bit | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :22:23. | :23:04. | |
But then he did and screw it enough. Still a couple of loose reds he can | :23:04. | :23:14. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :23:14. | :23:57. | |
He has just come a little straight on this. I don't know how much | :23:57. | :24:07. | |
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Just enough to play a cannon, but Can he get through to that red? He | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
needed to catch it more fully. I think if he could, he would have | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
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played it by now. Looks like end of He will be disappointed with the | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
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end of that. Just one of those things. He was in the balls but did | :25:28. | :25:38. | |
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A good target behind the yellow and brown here. Which is where he has | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
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Don't know whether he has left a It was just a matter of getting the | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
angle right, which he has done. He made sure he missed the reds on the | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
way back, which was a priority. But another chance to get behind the | :26:28. | :26:38. | |
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Not for the first time in playing a safety, he has caught the blue. | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
That could be costly if he can knock the red straight into the | :27:14. | :27:23. | |
left corner. If he knocks the red in, he is bound to be on the pink | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
or even the black. Possibly a big chance in this frame and even the | :27:28. | :27:38. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :27:38. | :29:14. | |
Well done. He has given himself a Those three roads to the left of | :29:14. | :29:24. | |
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the pink are a little bit tricky. - He is not on the pink, so if he | :29:36. | :29:46. | |
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pots that the black, where is the next red coming from? He could pot | :29:47. | :29:57. | |
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the black and screw over to the What a great shot that was. | :30:36. | :30:44. | |
could not fault that, could do? And he is nicely on the green. Still | :30:44. | :30:54. | |
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got a problem with those three reds. Because the pink is in the position | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
it is in, I do not think he will be able to play a cannon. He will have | :31:02. | :31:12. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :31:12. | :32:23. | |
to play for that red on the left That was brilliant, and I know we | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
have been giving him some stick for his safety play. That was very good | :32:28. | :32:38. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :32:38. | :33:36. | |
The only slight problem is the red that is closest to be cushion. -- | :33:36. | :33:46. | |
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But was a very positive shot. An opportunity to flick the other red | :33:59. | :34:09. | |
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out. This is a brilliant He has given his opponent lots of | :35:46. | :35:52. | |
opportunities, Opportunities that other players will take. He is | :35:52. | :35:58. | |
going to have to sharpen up his game, Shaun, if he is going to go | :35:58. | :36:08. | |
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all the way in this tournament. He But for a couple of snookers, he | :36:16. | :36:23. | |
will be one frame a way. That was enough to pot the world No. 5 in | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
sight of the finishing line. So, could he finished the job in frame | :36:28. | :36:38. | |
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You could not ask for better. There What a chance of this is for frame | :36:58. | :37:08. | |
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and match. - Mark this is. -- This All the of this side of be pink or | :37:42. | :37:52. | |
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If he can get rid of the red closest to the top cushion, which | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
might stop the black, it will then be available to both corners. He | :38:19. | :38:29. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :38:29. | :39:38. | |
could not have a better chance than Well, he has just not gone far | :39:38. | :39:44. | |
enough. I don't think he will be going for the black off of this red. | :39:44. | :39:54. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :39:54. | :42:16. | |
He must be disappointed. �15,000 is Well, that is not to plan. He | :42:16. | :42:26. | |
slipped through all the reds. 58 ahead, but he is still looking | :42:26. | :42:36. | |
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for two colours to be safe in this Shaun must be bemused by some of | :42:56. | :43:04. | |
his play this afternoon. Some of it has been top class and the rest, | :43:04. | :43:14. | |
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well, he should be standing in the Not ideal on the pink, but I am | :43:30. | :43:37. | |
sure he realises this is his last chance in this match. One more | :43:37. | :43:47. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :43:47. | :44:34. | |
mistake and he is out of the UK He is not out of this. He might be | :44:34. | :44:40. | |
50 behind, but you could not ask for the balls to be in a better | :44:40. | :44:50. | |
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He could not afford to miss that. It will be an experience he will | :44:59. | :45:05. | |
hopefully learned a lot from. He has obviously got ability and he | :45:05. | :45:15. | |
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has had chances. That will probably It will be a learning curve for the | :45:35. | :45:45. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :45:45. | :46:42. | |
young man. You learn more in defeat His safety play will have to go up | :46:42. | :46:52. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :46:52. | :48:05. | |
a notch or two if he is going to Shaun Murphy has won, but he will | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
have to do better if he wants to win this UK Championship for the | :48:09. | :48:14. | |
second time. But he wins tonight and that is the main thing. I could | :48:14. | :48:21. | |
see from his game he was capable. He showed us he will be big time in | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
a few years. I have prepared well for this tournament and whatever | :48:25. | :48:31. | |
happens, I have bought 100 % in. Over last couple of months I had | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
been working hard on and off the table. I am in good form, hitting | :48:36. | :48:45. | |
the ball well. We are rattling through these matches. Here is a | :48:45. | :48:55. | |
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