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Hello and welcome. Are featured match is the second session of the | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
second round match between Mark King and Ding Junhui. Mark King has | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
dominated proceedings. There is still a long way to go. Pledge join | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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our commentary team, Willie Thorne WILLIE: Ding Junhui is always a | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
very attacking player. If he takes this on, he has got to make sure he | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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The first chance has been missed. don't know if it is better or not | :01:56. | :02:06. | |
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that the cue ball went in. Anyway, He decided that it was well worth | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
having a go at this to hold for the black. The disappointment is it has | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
not gone in, but I think it has gone far enough away from the | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
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pocket to not make easy to get on He obviously thinks it is too thin. | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
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He has controlled that well. It was That was a good pot, but he would | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
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have wanted that to stay short of It will be interesting to see how | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
Ding Junhui handles the session, given that he knows he can just | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
attack and play silly shots. He has to be very patient. He needs to win | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
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the session 5-3 I think to have any He has a chance here. He is just | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
having a look to see if it is worth holding for the black. It makes the | :06:32. | :06:42. | |
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shot harder if he is playing it There was the issue I was talking | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
about. If you play that at normal speed, I don't think you would have | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
missed it. It is awkward at that sort of distance. Anyway, he has | :07:11. | :07:20. | |
got away with it. He has got to sit tight today and hope for the best. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Everyone is saying that in Sheffield the bottom half of the | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
draw but these two players are Orange has really opened up. Just | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
two seeded players lieutenants, Ricky Walden being one, and Ding | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
Junhui is one of the fancies for the title is the other one. Mark | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
King is interested in Ding Junhui and where he is right, not | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
interested in that at the moment, but he just wants to keep them off | :07:51. | :08:01. | |
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the table. He has Mary -- he has That is probably one of the reasons | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
that his safety success is not as high as Mark King's. He has missed | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
that by about a foot, as you can see. He has been beaten on the | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
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That was an unexpected mess. -- The way it ended last night, I | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
think he was happy to go out and forget about snooker for a while. | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
That is the beauty of these long matches. He scored all right, back- | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
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He is not perfect at all on the We are already in the first frame | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
and there are already signs of Ding Junhui looking a little bit forlorn. | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
I don't know over the years have he has ever been at the Crucible 6-2 | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
behind and won a match. And sure somebody will tell us. He is one of | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
those players that likes to have it had his own way at least. At the | :11:04. | :11:14. | |
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minute he is not getting it at all He has no option but to take on | :12:26. | :12:36. | |
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It that is not too bad at all. But brown looks like that -- the brown | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
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looks like will go up to the pink If he can hold for the black, this | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
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Is he on the black? Yes, he's. He is looking to see if it will go | :13:51. | :14:01. | |
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For his confident, people want to win at least the first two out of | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
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three frames for his confidence He has left the perfect angle on | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
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the back this time to push that red He has to be a little bit careful | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
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here with the brown going back on Sorry, I mean the pink spot, of | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
course. This is clearly a chance to win this opening frame. He is 46 | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
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points ahead and counting. When you consider that he has had to easier | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
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This is just the kind of start that Ding Junhui needed. He could not | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
afford to lose this first frame. It might set at Trent for a similar to | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
date -- a similar day like yesterday. This is the one that he | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
wants to win the frame. It appears at the minute but unless he makes a | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
frame-winning break, he will make a one visit break here. So, he is | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
winning all the open games and losing all the scrappy ones, and he | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
does need to scrap to get back into this game. You can't always have it | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
your own way. Which applies to him never been world champion. You | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
would like to think you would at some point with his talent end up | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
winning here, but there will be bad days at the opera stage yesterday | :17:57. | :18:05. | |
which need to be overcome. I did not be needed a lot wrong and this | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
is just the tonic key required. He will do well to make another | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
century from here. The right and red as possible, but not easy. | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
key to playing at the Crucible, all the top players can overcome a bad | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
session. So far in his career, he has not overcome a bad session. It | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
will be interesting to see her this turns out having lost the opening | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
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59 for Ding Junhui, more than enough for him to win the frame. He | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
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gets a frame bacchanal trail 6-3. - I don't know if he is playing not | :22:06. | :22:15. | |
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just to get some practice, or an We will know after the shot that he | :22:26. | :22:36. | |
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is just having a bit of practice or That tells me that his aspirations | :22:40. | :22:50. | |
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of winning this frame. It would be I am really surprised he played it | :23:15. | :23:25. | |
slowly, but says he did not get in behind the black titan the cushion. | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
I am really surprised he did not try to put distance between those | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
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This is the first one of the three stickers so far that has been | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
missable. It could be very easy to get around the back of this. He | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
still needs another three after this one of course if he misses it. | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
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Well, that'll be that. It has taken a while. About 25 minutes exactly | :25:58. | :26:08. | |
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in this frame. It will go to Ding Mark King concedes. Ding Junhui | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
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wins the first frame of the session, So, Ding Junhui did what he wanted | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
to do was win the first frame of the session to close the gap to | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
just three frames. The best he could hope for is winning this | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
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session 3-1 so he goes into the He was a little unlucky to stick it | :27:33. | :27:43. | |
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He certainly deserves to be on one there. The cue ball stayed in the | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
middle of the table, which is always the clue. When the cue ball | :29:26. | :29:36. | |
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stays in a monks them, but the reds in their police but well. -- Netani | :29:38. | :29:48. | |
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Good recovery. Ding rarely goes in and out of baulk. This clearly is | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
an excellent chance to score heavily again. When he gets in, he | :30:09. | :30:19. | |
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He is virtually in front in every statistic we have available. The | :30:30. | :30:40. | |
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only one he is not is the frame That was a good shot. He knew he | :31:06. | :31:15. | |
had the red on the right as back-up. The only thing he is not in front | :31:15. | :31:21. | |
on in statistics is table time. It seems like he was at the table all | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
the way through the session yesterday. Ding looking to add to | :31:24. | :31:34. | |
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This will be very pleasing for millions of Ding supporters, the | :32:44. | :32:52. | |
way he has started the afternoon second session. He said he would be | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
happy at 5-3, just to get back into the game. He will be looking for | :32:56. | :33:05. | |
something better now. 5-3 was just the minimum requirements for the | :33:05. | :33:15. | |
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session. I suppose you cannot set your sights too high. Graeme Dott | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
lost the first session 6-2, won the second session, 6-2, but still went | :33:24. | :33:33. | |
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Doesn't quite have the angle on the pink. There is enough to pay a | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
cannon into the reds. If he plays the red to the extreme right, he is | :33:59. | :34:09. | |
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not bound to be on any other red He is playing for the loose red to | :34:17. | :34:27. | |
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try to get a better angle on black This is now a perfect angle. He has | :35:04. | :35:12. | |
two ways of playing this. If he hits the outside one of the two, he | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
can only one in the left hand corner. Different players would | :35:17. | :35:27. | |
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play this different ways. He has not made up his mind. Be guaranteed | :35:31. | :35:36. | |
one is the outside right. The better shot to win the frame would | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
be to hit the middle one, but it could go wrong. He decided on the | :35:42. | :35:50. | |
outside one. At least he knows he will be on the red. That should be | :35:50. | :36:00. | |
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a frame-winner. He is 62 in front. He is one of the best. Not had much | :36:15. | :36:25. | |
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Ding is just class when he his break-building. Mark King needs to | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
win at least one of the next two frames, otherwise he will be | :37:07. | :37:16. | |
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What a fabular shot! Absolutely beautiful shot. That is as good a | :38:17. | :38:23. | |
positional shot as we will see in the tournament. What a shame! He | :38:23. | :38:33. | |
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has done what he has had to do, What a shot that is. A very narrow | :39:32. | :39:40. | |
angle. Tremendously difficult shot in the middle from there, but part | :39:40. | :39:46. | |
of this was where the yellow was placed. He has got a half chance | :39:46. | :39:56. | |
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here. His first of the match, or the session, rather. He has gone | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
through a gap we did not think was there. That second little kiss | :40:03. | :40:09. | |
might have left a gap for the top red into the pocket. So there is | :40:09. | :40:19. | |
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It was an anxious moment to see where the cue ball have finished. | :41:13. | :41:20. | |
It is not a good sign when he starts to miss those. At first | :41:20. | :41:25. | |
glance he has only met the straight red into the middle pocket. | :41:25. | :41:35. | |
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Probably have to run up for the The red on the pink spot is just | :42:12. | :42:22. | |
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far enough off its spot to make Cannot see what red he is going to | :42:33. | :42:43. | |
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He couldn't have played it better if he had had 10 tries. The cue. | :42:56. | :43:06. | |
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He needs to get low on the brown Did not play it with much pace. But | :43:44. | :43:51. | |
he has played it well. So the brown is the only thing that will stop | :43:51. | :44:01. | |
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Just overcooked his position on the pink. Had to play the little flick | :44:38. | :44:48. | |
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off the red again. Still not It is amazing he has not been on a | :44:52. | :44:58. | |
red properly yet. He has had to work very hard for this break. As | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
soon as he gets on a red, he will get a good angle to get on the | :45:03. | :45:13. | |
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brown. But he is struggling at the He is not worried about it right | :45:34. | :45:44. | |
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now. He has enough red sticking out. Can be difficult at the Crucible, | :45:48. | :45:58. | |
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that. Keeping your mind on the job He could miss this pink now he is | :46:15. | :46:21. | |
cueing over the black. He will have to screw it back two or three | :46:21. | :46:31. | |
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inches. He will have to stun it in. With unwanted cueing over another | :46:34. | :46:44. | |
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ball, you can get a bit of side That was a good shot also. Not easy | :47:09. | :47:17. | |
to get on those reds. With the brown and the black being in the | :47:17. | :47:27. | |
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way, can see what is available. Can He has done really well here, Ding, | :47:49. | :47:59. | |
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a with the black being out of play He will need two more reds with | :48:03. | :48:13. | |
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Straight is no good. Let's look at the angle. He has obviously got | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
some sort of angle because he is looking at getting on the bottom | :48:56. | :49:06. | |
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Excellent shot. He made breaks of 59 and 98 in the previous two | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
frames. This has been the best break as far as cue ball control is | :49:29. | :49:39. | |
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Very well done. There is a real determination about Ding Junhui, in | :49:52. | :50:02. | |
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That brown and black have been there all the way through. So it is | :50:16. | :50:23. | |
an even better breaks in that regard. About to be moved now and | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
it is a question whether he can knock in a century break, once | :50:26. | :50:34. | |
again. Could have already made one this morning, he made 98 and missed | :50:34. | :50:42. | |
a comfortable red. The fact is, the important thing is, he is getting | :50:42. | :50:52. | |
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Yes! Great stuff. I suspect it is getting more difficult to keep his | :51:03. | :51:13. | |
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Never mind, 74! A very good break for Ding Junhui. Has won all three | :51:21. | :51:31. | |
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frames this afternoon. Is only one 25 minutes and counting since he | :52:05. | :52:10. | |
last potted a ball. I don't think he did that much wrong, it's just a | :52:10. | :52:20. | |
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complete turnaround from what we I think psychologically it would be | :52:25. | :52:35. | |
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a big deal for Ding if he could get Wanted that cue ball to come | :53:51. | :54:01. | |
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Once again, all afternoon he has never got the wrong side of the | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
blue and he has probably played six or seven blues from the reds. Every | :54:22. | :54:32. | |
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There is an angle, but he will have to force it. He will do well to get | :54:42. | :54:47. | |
the white more than a few inches off the cushion. He must finish | :54:47. | :54:57. | |
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high so he can get rid of the red I mentioned how important it was to | :55:28. | :55:35. | |
finish high. But from the angle, he is not. The red at the back of the | :55:35. | :55:45. | |
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This is worrying times a game for Mark King. That was the first | :55:52. | :55:59. | |
chance he had, a good chance with that last red he missed. It was a | :55:59. | :56:02. | |
red under normal circumstances he would have potted without any | :56:02. | :56:12. | |
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The pink won't go on its own spot. He has to judge perfectly. If | :57:24. | :57:32. | |
anyone can find a way out of fur on to a colour, it is Ding. Naturally, | :57:32. | :57:40. | |
he can't avoid going into the red next to the pink. Depends if he | :57:40. | :57:50. | |
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plays to screw its or run through. Unfortunately he could not do | :58:03. | :58:08. | |
anything about the red going on top of the black. He will have to | :58:08. | :58:13. | |
finish this break with a good safety shot. Keep the pressure on. | :58:13. | :58:23. | |
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There is pressure on Mark King, 33 minutes of playing time without | :59:16. | :59:26. | |
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putting one ball. Last night it was 10 or 15 minutes for Mark King | :59:27. | :59:33. | |
without putting a ball. It is amazing how matches can turn round. | :59:33. | :59:40. | |
That is not the best of safeties. Nowhere near the top cushion | :59:40. | :59:46. | |
tonight it. You would expect Ding Junhui to put him in trouble at | :59:46. | :59:56. | |
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I am afraid that is what happens often if you go into the pack | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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heavily. For some reason one red That is why they liked to play very | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
thing of the pack when they can't on the squished tables. -- when | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
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That is also very good. Even a shot I can't tell if he has an angle on | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
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This is the important shot. The red to the left of the pink spots... he | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
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may decide to come in and out of That is the first bad positional | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
shot he has played. There is at red that goes. But he could have hit | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
that so much better. And if he had played to the left at the table | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
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there were a number of reds Excellent shot. What must be going | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
through Mark King's minds as he is sitting there. He had a couple of | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
half-chances in this frame. If you had said to him after 12 frames it | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
would be six frames all he would have put in your hand off, but it | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
must be pretty hards -- pretty hard to tell yourself the jury -- that | :03:32. | :03:42. | |
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That is another really good shot. Seed the way that cue ball just | :03:53. | :04:03. | |
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He is going to have to muster up a lot of courage eight Ding Junhui | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
wins this frame. He wants to try and get out at this session no | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
worse than level. I don't know at first glance it he is on anything. | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
Does the top read macro of the three go? I don't think so. Ensure | :04:42. | :04:51. | |
he can't believe how he is not on one there. The League is 57. He | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
would love to be able to put the pink or black safe, but he can't do | :04:56. | :05:06. | |
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The brewing beings see if it is a massive plus for Ding Junhui. -- | :05:10. | :05:20. | |
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That is the kind of safety shot that Ding Junhui was playing | :05:26. | :05:36. | |
yesterday, always finishing short, that is why Mark King won the seat | :05:36. | :05:46. | |
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That is an interesting shot. It brings the red interplay. But is | :05:55. | :06:04. | |
quite a good shot, actually. Maybe even trying to get the brown on. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Ding Junhui is such an aggressive player. He will be thinking about | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
rolling this one into the corner because the safety is not easy. It | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
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will leave the white somewhere That is superb. Superb! It looked | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
like a good shot that Mark King had played, but to just coolly rolled | :06:52. | :07:02. | |
:07:02. | :07:35. | ||
Plenty of noisier, but it won't affect Ding Junhui in this frame | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
because he has as good as one night. No need to do anything flash. | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
just wonder if he misses this read macro -- if he misses this red, if | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
he will try to carry on just to try and knock him, Ding Junhui, out of | :07:59. | :08:08. | |
his rhythm. He is doing exactly that. Barring a lot of snookers, | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
:08:18. | :08:18. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 109 seconds | :08:18. | :09:27. | |
Ding Junhui will be in front for He would have liked to be able to | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
get the cue ball near the ground. He would like to get the cue ball | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
near the green to make it unmissable snooker. -- a missable | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
snooker. He didn't even play be on the yellow. That is surprising. I | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
:10:00. | :10:00. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 109 seconds | :10:00. | :13:01. | |
thought it was unmissable to play Mark concedes the frame. Ding | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
Junhui is in front for the first time in this match. Three more | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
:13:16. | :13:30. | ||
These next three frames are massive for Mark King. If he goes in 10-6 | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
:13:40. | :14:15. | ||
behind, you can't see him going on It is amazing, isn't it, when you | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
play a bad shot... if he had not been tight on the cushion, he has | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
missed the shot by a proverbial mile, and the white end Of tight on | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
the cushion? It would be a lot easier if he hadn't have finished | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
:14:43. | :14:50. | ||
Very, very good. Very good! After five frames on the trot, that is | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
excellent. Come on, Mark, make something happened. Play from the | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
yellow into the bunch. But as the idea, but, unfortunately, he got | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
too much into it. A player of his class should have got that, it was | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
:15:21. | :15:21. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 109 seconds | :15:21. | :16:22. | |
There is going to be a little movement as the session on the | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
other side of the screen finishes. That is all you need after you have | :16:28. | :16:36. | |
lost five frames on the trot! I don't agree with his shot at all. | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
He could have got back into the baulk area, but decided to play an | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
:16:52. | :16:52. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 109 seconds | :16:52. | :17:47. | |
active safety. He could find That is exactly what I mean. Look | :17:47. | :17:55. | |
at the length he has on the safety. This is a tough pot. Brilliant! He | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
played a bad shots at the last visit to the table, but that was | :17:58. | :18:08. | |
:18:08. | :18:31. | ||
Very well done. Somehow he is going to have to muster up a break of 60 | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
or above to win the frame at one visit because the way Ding Junhui | :18:36. | :18:46. | |
:18:46. | :19:00. | ||
is playing, he may not get another He only just made it. It could have | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
:19:10. | :19:10. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 109 seconds | :19:10. | :21:08. | |
Well, he was quite a long way off at that. He was trying to get the | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
cannon on the black and his mind was elsewhere, a little bit. That | :21:14. | :21:24. | |
:21:24. | :21:24. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 109 seconds | :21:24. | :22:08. | |
never threatened the pocket. It was Has he covered it? The divide goes | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
up, and the Crucible belongs to these tonight for the rest of the | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
:22:23. | :22:23. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 109 seconds | :22:23. | :23:32. | |
That looks good. He can get into Right in there would be good. That | :23:32. | :23:42. | |
:23:42. | :23:48. | ||
The way things have gone this afternoon, he would like to have an | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
open pockets, this one in the middle is a little bit acute, but | :23:57. | :24:06. | |
:24:07. | :24:12. | ||
He stayed down on this one for a long time, but it was never in | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
:24:22. | :24:47. | ||
He is concentrating very hard. This It wasn't easy shots and its | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
reacted off the inside job. He had a look up to the commentary box and | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
said, I twitched. It is very tough sometimes to be sure QEIII in a | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
:25:08. | :25:29. | ||
straight line. Good job he played - So much has been the dominance of | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
Ding Junhui so far in the spiked frames, this is the highest break | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
he has had so far in this session. This is his best chance to win a | :25:42. | :25:51. | |
frame. Ding Junhui has dominated the session so far, but this would | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
be a pleasing result for Mark King and his fans. It would give him a | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
bit of momentum. When you news 5 on the trot, you have got to stop the | :26:01. | :26:11. | |
:26:11. | :26:30. | ||
rot somehow and this is the chance As you can see, this is the one. It | :26:31. | :26:40. | |
:26:41. | :26:44. | ||
has been a good frame, this. He has played a very hard frame, Mark King. | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
He is not going to lose this session 8-0, he is saying. More | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
relevant than that, the match is now 7-7. He likes a little chat out | :26:57. | :27:07. | |
:27:07. | :27:38. | ||
there. He likes a little chat when Well, it has all been about Mark | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
King. He has dug in very hard to win this one. He has really stopped | :27:43. | :27:51. | |
the rot. He just made the comment, no whitewash Today, boys! He has | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
won a frame in the session. He really needed that. He was take his | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
usual toilet break. The scorer in the matches 7-7 and everything is | :28:03. | :28:12. | |
:28:13. | :28:17. | ||
Since some ways, this is the biggest game of the session. That | :28:17. | :28:27. | |
:28:27. | :28:47. | ||
is says 4th break off and every Hello, bat is the first one of | :28:47. | :28:56. | |
those he has missed a day. I think he has left his red in the middle. | :28:56. | :29:06. | |
:29:06. | :29:26. | ||
-- Mr today. There was a bit of My lurking certainly weathered the | :29:26. | :29:33. | |
storm. He went 42 minutes without potting a ball. Not much of an | :29:33. | :29:41. | |
angle there. He might have some way of getting down to the red down by | :29:41. | :29:51. | |
:29:51. | :29:53. | ||
the brown Bull. As I was saying --, he is not a prolific City -- | :29:53. | :30:00. | |
century break-builder. The fact he's, he is a good score. He gets | :30:00. | :30:08. | |
his 50s and 60s, the tough bricks, as I was saying. He is on 94 career | :30:08. | :30:14. | |
centuries, which is not a very high return. He plays as tough a match | :30:14. | :30:22. | |
came as most. Looking a people like Ronnie O'Sullivan, he made 125 | :30:22. | :30:29. | |
centuries just at the Crucible! That is probably why it Mark King | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
explained in his pre-match interview that he is not one but | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
people expect to win tournaments, but he is making a living at the | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
game and he loves the game. Not everybody can be a genius, so you | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
have got to take which you have got and try and win, and that is what | :30:45. | :30:55. | |
:30:55. | :31:32. | ||
Ding, taking a rest. He will know he has been in a match, if he comes | :31:32. | :31:42. | |
:31:42. | :31:46. | ||
through this. A chance to go into them this time around. Even if he | :31:46. | :31:53. | |
hits the pink, it you should look. He is blessed with a lot of cue | :31:53. | :32:03. | |
:32:03. | :32:03. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 109 seconds | :32:03. | :33:37. | |
Just looking at the way the match has gone, there has been runs of | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
one player winning frames in succession. We had back-to-back | :33:42. | :33:49. | |
centuries last night from Ding Junhui. Then he lost three in a row. | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
15 in a row. Now it could be marking winning a couple of frames | :33:53. | :33:59. | |
here. The significant thing is, if he could win the frame, at worst he | :33:59. | :34:07. | |
could be level going into tomorrow's final. Whatever happens, | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
he will be really in the match. Big target off the brown to go into | :34:11. | :34:21. | |
:34:21. | :34:32. | ||
I think that shot looks on. Beautifully played. He deserves to | :34:32. | :34:42. | |
:34:42. | :34:45. | ||
If you get the direction right, there is no need to hit that shot | :34:45. | :34:55. | |
:34:55. | :35:00. | ||
That was a twitch. He did not play through that at all. Two feat | :35:00. | :35:07. | |
harder is where he wanted to be. With watching Ding all afternoon | :35:07. | :35:12. | |
and always getting the right hand side of the blue, Mark King, twice | :35:12. | :35:18. | |
in this frame has got the wrong side. That was very poor, it was | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
tension. He could have afforded to be well past the blue, he has the | :35:23. | :35:28. | |
yellow there. He plays the shot very well, he played one last night | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
when he powered its around the back of the baulk players and came | :35:33. | :35:43. | |
:35:43. | :35:48. | ||
around. -- colours. It does not look like any reds will pot in the | :35:48. | :35:58. | |
:35:58. | :36:05. | ||
Well done. Trying to pot the yellow safe and trying to get a good white | :36:05. | :36:15. | |
:36:15. | :36:49. | ||
as well. That is as good as What a safety shot that is. It was | :36:49. | :36:59. | |
:36:59. | :37:10. | ||
This was always going behind the ground -- brown for me? I think he | :37:10. | :37:15. | |
is disappointed it finished there. Maybe he feels it wasn't a great | :37:15. | :37:21. | |
shot from Ding. But I agree with you, Ding has played some great | :37:21. | :37:30. | |
safety shots today. This is a Mark King APPLAUSE Reaction. He is | :37:31. | :37:40. | |
:37:41. | :37:43. | ||
suggesting the white drifted. can he see from sitting down there. | :37:43. | :37:52. | |
No advantage even if it is a free ball of play. He doesn't mind | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
giving another eight points away at least, trying to catch this thing. | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
He cannot hit it thick and have the white staying in the middle of the | :37:59. | :38:09. | |
:38:09. | :38:09. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 109 seconds | :38:09. | :38:50. | |
Anything thicker is no good. That was thick. He will either play the | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
kiss to the red to the left of the black. If he misses that, he is on | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
the blue. He is just looking to see what angle he needs. He can play | :39:01. | :39:11. | |
:39:11. | :39:25. | ||
Decided to play for the blue and that was a rookie kiss. -- lucky | :39:25. | :39:35. | |
:39:35. | :39:44. | ||
kiss. He is unlucky to finish where If he could get in on the cushion | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
behind the green some work, so he is snookered on the red by the | :39:48. | :39:58. | |
:39:58. | :40:20. | ||
brown, it wouldn't be a bad place Not too bad, actually. Mark King, | :40:20. | :40:26. | |
if he can play the safety shot a little bit deeper down into baulk, | :40:26. | :40:30. | |
than the one Ding played, he can get the play in all kinds of | :40:30. | :40:40. | |
:40:40. | :41:11. | ||
If he can somehow get the cue ball But, in finishing short... It is | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
:41:21. | :41:37. | ||
This might be the most significant frame of the afternoon, if he can | :41:37. | :41:46. | |
win it. Marking played so well to get 41 in front. Played a bad shot, | :41:46. | :41:52. | |
did not get onto the blue properly. All of a sudden, I don't think he | :41:52. | :42:02. | |
:42:02. | :42:10. | ||
Ding will know himself, if he can make a frame-winning contribution. | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
Mark King had an excellent chance on the break of 41 when he failed | :42:15. | :42:24. | |
:42:25. | :42:25. | ||
to get the top side of the blue. If Ding wins this, he cannot be behind | :42:25. | :42:35. | |
:42:35. | :42:40. | ||
No need to play a cannon on the one to the left of the pink because | :42:40. | :42:50. | |
:42:50. | :42:59. | ||
He is now favourite to win this frame. I suppose the yellow is the | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
only stumbling block. But he will be over 20 points in front at least, | :43:04. | :43:12. | |
depending on what colours he takes. If he takes five reds, 5 blacks, he | :43:12. | :43:22. | |
:43:22. | :43:42. | ||
Taking the pink, he might have opened up the two red's above where | :43:42. | :43:52. | |
:43:52. | :44:04. | ||
Not quite hard enough, but he should be all right. He had be | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
sneaky look if he just rolled on and off the cushion if he can get | :44:08. | :44:18. | |
:44:18. | :44:19. | ||
to the red at the top of the three reds. This has been an excellent | :44:19. | :44:29. | |
:44:29. | :44:34. | ||
That helps a lot. Lovely cue ball control today. Beautiful touch, a | :44:34. | :44:44. | |
:44:44. | :44:49. | ||
real class. Has been in amongst He has shown us why he could win | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
this title. Everyone knows the bottom half of the draw has opened | :44:52. | :45:02. | |
:45:02. | :45:07. | ||
up. Seeded players, Barry Hawkins is awaiting. You have Ricky Walden, | :45:07. | :45:16. | |
Robert Milkins, Michael White. Wide Open. So the attention certainly | :45:16. | :45:23. | |
comes on Ding as likely winner of that half. The only thing about | :45:23. | :45:29. | |
Ding is he does let his head drop. When he has everything going, he | :45:29. | :45:35. | |
just looks unbeatable sometimes. The beauty of these long match is | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
his you can have a session like that, sleep on it, then come out | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
stronger, and he has done. If he can win this frame, that will be | :45:43. | :45:51. | |
quite telling, I would say. fact he has took a couple of pink's | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
come I mention if he took five reds and five blacks, he would only need | :45:55. | :46:02. | |
the yellow. This is played to perfection. Perfect angle on the | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
yellow, doesn't have to do hardly anything with the cue ball, just | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
stun across to the green. This would be for me, his best break of | :46:12. | :46:16. | |
the match so far. All the others have been played four in front, | :46:16. | :46:26. | |
:46:26. | :46:27. | ||
this has been played from 40 points behind. Yes, well done. The last | :46:27. | :46:37. | |
:46:37. | :46:39. | ||
possible thing that could go wrong, that shot. Super break. Super break. | :46:39. | :46:47. | |
I often say in commentary, the first 50 or 60. Break is quite hard. | :46:47. | :46:53. | |
The next 60 points are difficult. It is the chance to win the frame, | :46:53. | :47:03. | |
:47:03. | :47:41. | ||
so a few nerves are involved. He This is the biggest frame of the | :47:41. | :47:46. | |
match, as far as Mark King is concerned. If the match had | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
continued last night from 6-2 in front, I am sure he would have won | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
virtually every frame because he had Ding in his pocket. The | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
interval came at the right time, they have had some sleep and Ding | :48:00. | :48:10. | |
:48:10. | :48:16. | ||
has come out playing some super Just a massive frame, this one. And | :48:16. | :48:21. | |
that is a mistake. It is dead straight, so I suppose it could be | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
difficult to get on the black. I don't blame him for taking it on, | :48:25. | :48:32. | |
he has got to make something happen. But the last frame when he led by | :48:32. | :48:37. | |
41 points and got the wrong side of the blue, that is when it all | :48:37. | :48:46. | |
changed again. You could see Ding getting a high break from where the | :48:46. | :48:53. | |
balls are now. Unless the black gets tied up. That is what he was | :48:53. | :48:59. | |
just having a look at. Well the black go on its own spot? It will | :48:59. | :49:09. | |
:49:09. | :49:16. | ||
be right next to the red, which is The black is now back on there, | :49:16. | :49:26. | |
:49:26. | :49:34. | ||
well the red pot? I don't think it Just listening that it could be | :49:34. | :49:40. | |
another Joe Johnson year. He never won a match at the Crucible, before | :49:40. | :49:50. | |
:49:50. | :49:56. | ||
The angle he has on this red means... The blue and mistake. He | :49:56. | :50:04. | |
will be low on the black. He can nudge the red away from the black | :50:04. | :50:14. | |
:50:14. | :50:17. | ||
spot. He needs to finish low. He is asking for the white to be cleaned. | :50:17. | :50:27. | |
:50:27. | :50:43. | ||
Just looking exactly where he needs He concentrated so hard on | :50:43. | :50:49. | |
finishing low on the black, he nearly missed it! A bit harder, it | :50:49. | :50:53. | |
wouldn't have gone in? The reason he played it that way, he wanted | :50:53. | :51:00. | |
the cue ball down on the table. He did hit it naturally thicker, that | :51:00. | :51:10. | |
:51:10. | :51:18. | ||
shot. I don't think it is easy to That is well played. Make sure the | :51:18. | :51:26. | |
red came right away from there. Just class. Cleverly worked out. He | :51:26. | :51:33. | |
did not want to take the risk of just flicking its in case he made | :51:33. | :51:43. | |
:51:43. | :51:50. | ||
For me, he is one of the top two or three in the world at break- | :51:50. | :51:58. | |
building. He could become the fastest ever to 300 centuries. That | :51:58. | :52:01. | |
is including beating Ronnie O'Sullivan and people like that. He | :52:01. | :52:08. | |
is only a couple a way. 296 before this match. He should have had won | :52:08. | :52:18. | |
:52:18. | :52:22. | ||
this morning, 98 and missed a In Defence of people like Stephen | :52:22. | :52:26. | |
Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan, there was and as many matches to play. | :52:26. | :52:32. | |
They are playing 70, 80 matches in a season now. They used to only | :52:32. | :52:40. | |
play half of that. Those two boys don't need much defending do they? | :52:40. | :52:50. | |
:52:50. | :52:52. | ||
The snooker they have played over It is not a great pack to go into | :52:52. | :52:59. | |
from the black. I wonder if he will push a few reds out into play here. | :52:59. | :53:09. | |
:53:09. | :53:14. | ||
Is he on the pink in the middle as He can't generate a lot of pace | :53:14. | :53:24. | |
:53:24. | :53:32. | ||
It is not easy to get the reds open from the black. He deserves to be | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
on one from that shot. That is a good shot. He generate so much | :53:38. | :53:45. | |
movement. He goes into the pack twice, such is the backspin he had | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
on that. He is a one-shot away from making this a frame-winning break. | :53:50. | :53:55. | |
He is not perfect on these red to get on to a colour. This is | :53:55. | :54:05. | |
:54:05. | :54:10. | ||
probably Mark King last chance in This would be an unbelievable | :54:10. | :54:20. | |
:54:20. | :54:38. | ||
performance. It is not like marking He had showed a lot of qualities at | :54:38. | :54:48. | |
:54:48. | :54:49. | ||
the PTC finals. He was 3-0 down against Neil Robertson. He punched | :54:49. | :54:55. | |
the air, which is a motion you don't normally see from Ding. Apart | :54:55. | :55:01. | |
from that, he marches on when he is normally in front. But he is | :55:01. | :55:07. | |
showing what he can do. Psychologically, he would go into | :55:07. | :55:17. | |
:55:17. | :55:20. | ||
tomorrow as the massive favourite. And that match in Galway, missed | :55:20. | :55:30. | |
:55:30. | :55:37. | ||
three balls in seven frames. This has been the performance of | :55:37. | :55:44. | |
the Crucible so far, when you consider he was looking out at 6-2. | :55:44. | :55:54. | |
:55:54. | :55:58. | ||
And these reds are in this position He get so much spin on the ball, | :55:58. | :56:04. | |
and you have to have a great cue action to be able to do that. He | :56:04. | :56:13. | |
has never once, all afternoon, got the wrong side of the blue. One | :56:13. | :56:21. | |
more red and he goes into tomorrow's session leading 9-7. A | :56:21. | :56:31. | |
:56:31. | :56:37. | ||
brilliant performance. Brilliant They will also say that if he does | :56:37. | :56:42. | |
win this match, he's almost got the awkward match out of the way. The | :56:42. | :56:49. | |
match way you fall behind and under seeded players never recover from | :56:49. | :56:59. | |
:56:59. | :57:04. | ||
that position. If Ding wins, he I think he relaxed a little bit | :57:04. | :57:08. | |
after having done his afternoon's work. Another wonderful positional | :57:08. | :57:18. | |
:57:18. | :57:27. | ||
You could not believe to see two difference sessions of snooker we | :57:27. | :57:35. | |
have done. Mark King dominated the first session. Complete turnaround. | :57:35. | :57:42. | |
Ding has dominated the session. Did not miss a lot, so cannot be too | :57:42. | :57:51. | |
hard on himself. He would have beaten most players, 7-1, the way | :57:51. | :58:01. | |
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Excellent shot! Making the third What an effort. He played to go | :58:26. | :58:32. | |
left Tyneside of the brown and tried to kiss the red out. -- left- | :58:32. | :58:37. | |
hand side of the brown. One of the best sessions of snooker you will | :58:37. | :58:43. | |
ever see. Mark King wanted to hit him on the head with his cue. Ding | :58:43. | :58:47. |