World Snooker Championship


Some excellent matches yesterday, Tom Ford 5-1 down against Noppon Saengkham, won 6-5. Jamie Clarke, 5-1 down against Kyren Wilson, won 6-5. Luca Brecel is on this afternoon.
 
McGill trying to get another go at a difficult escape before the ref could warn him of the 3 miss and forfeit rule. For someone with so much previous about being a stickler for the rules that shows him to be a disingenuous wee crapbag* and no doubt. And pishes a red into the jaws. Ron into the colours with a lead, should be 4-2.
 

summerisle said:
Neil Robinson dumped out by the excellent Zhou, 6-2..
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Robertson seems to have imploded. One wonders if he got fed up getting up for and winning the standard tournaments throughout the season only to underachieve at the world championship without fail.

Then again, all the top players seem to go through these endless droughts at one point or another. Trump and Selby over the last season or two, Higgins for a few years. Williams for a decade and a half...
 
Drico said:
Robertson seems to have imploded. One wonders if he got fed up getting up for and winning the standard tournaments throughout the season only to underachieve at the world championship without fail.

Then again, all the top players seem to go through these endless droughts at one point or another. Trump and Selby over the last season or two, Higgins for a few years. Williams for a decade and a half...
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Yeah, he didn't play well at all after 2-2. Perhaps it was a mistake to take an extended break.
 
summerisle said:
Yeah, he didn't play well at all after 2-2. Perhaps it was a mistake to take an extended break.
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I think he is haunted by the single world title and feels he was worth more.

I mean, 23 ranking titles is great - but only one is a world title, and I think he fancies himself as a player of the level of some of his more illustrious contemporary world champions. Trump, to some extent, is similar, but he is at an age where he is really the only top level player in the 35-year-old bracket. The Class of '92 are in their dotage, Selby and Robertson are around the 40/41 mark, but Trump has a few years on them (34). He probably feels he can win another world title and, age-wise, he's primed. Robertson sees Selby - a better all-round player - on four world titles. He won't be catching him. I wonder if it's psychological. He also gets a lot of praise from other players about his cue action, etc. After a while, that might start to feel like platitudes.

Still, he's had an incredible career - and probably still has majors in him.
 

That Selby-Hawkins final frame was top class old-school snooker drama. Both players had glorious chances to win, and Selby almost percentaged himself to defeat. Ignoring the chances he did have to seal it, I couldn’t understand why he didn’t take on the red along the cushion after Barry had snookered himself behind the pink and missed the escape. It wouldn’t have been an easy pot, but it was surely match ball.

Selby would argue he was right because he did get two more chances to win from there, which he blew, but Hawkins will have massive regrets at snookering himself twice while crossing the finishing line. That pot on the blue from Selby was magical. He really needs to trust his attacking game a little more. He was forced into that shot, but he was finding ways to talk himself out of attacking shots - which were the correct options - at times in that last frame.

Great entertainment.
 

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