Selby turned it on to late, Xintong will be disappointed he was 2-1 ahead against Yuelong and if he had taken that last frame it would be him through instead of Trump now
Massive frame coming up, Kyren Wilson will be concerned atm.
Incredible stuff from Ken Doherty, who would have thought at the start of this tournament that he would be in a position to be1 frame away from the final
Interesting that Kyren Wilson spoke in his interview about his brother helping him on tour over the past year or so(obviously not recently)
So thats Trump and Wilson that have seen a marked improvement in their game with their brothers help, other players will be quickly trying to get their brothers involved 🤣🤣
Is it a rule or just a change in the etiquette of the game? I don't mind a concession if for example there's one red left and one player has been playing for snookers and then his opponent pots the red. But I don't like the idea of a concession when someone is in the middle of a break.
Its an official rule change, commentators have mentioned it a few times now, one player at the table gets to snookers required and the other player just concedes.
I saw it a few times with King yesterday it wasnt even a case were he tried to play on for snookers on anything then just gave up.
That was one of the times, that time Wilsom had only potted 1 ball then King conceded but in an earlier frame Wilson had about a 30 break and King conceded.
When does it stop, can u concede if your opponent has 99 and u dont want them to get a century just to piss them off?
I remember it happening once many years ago and everyone commented on it being bad form. However, as you say, you could ruin someone's tournament by conceding at a inopportune moment. Would the referee stop you on 140 with just the black to go and your opponent, with the current highest break of the tournament at 146, concedes?
With the Champion of Champions starting tomorrow and now with Dave Gilbert filling the last slot I thought I would quickly put the weeks schedule in, obviously I wrote out the groups when the draw was done but not who was playing who
Monday
Neil Robertson v Jimmy White John Higgins v Ding Junhui
Tuesday
Judd Trump v Stuart Bingham Shaun Murphy v Dave Gilbert
Wednesday
Mark Selby v Luca Brecel Kyren Wilson v Stephen Maguire
Thursday
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Michael Holt Mark Allen v Scott Donaldson
Remember this format you have the 2 group matches in the afternoon best of 7s, then the winners come back in the evening for a place in the Semi Finals
Not sure if I have already said this but its live on ITV4 all week.
But for anyone interested who is unable to watch, as its a one table setup all the way through I will done a frame by frame update as well as the final score of each match
Comments
Result and Current Table
Li Hang 2-2 Tian Pengfei
Joe Perry 7 Points
Mark Davis 3 Points
Tian Pengfei 2 Points
Li Hang 2 Points
Judd Trump
Mark Selby
Zhou Yuelong
Zhao Xintong
Group 2(Table 2 on Matchroom.Live)
Kyren Wilson
John Higgins
Joe Perry
Ken Doherty
Same format except tomorrow evening the 2 group winners meet in a final played over 5 frames, for the title
G1 looks a tad bit more interesting and exciting for me.
Hard to call these short races
Results and Current Table
Judd Trump 3-1 Zhao Xintong
Zhou Yuelong 3-1 Mark Selby
Zhou Yuelong 3 Points
Judd Trump 3 Points
Mark Selby 0 Points
Zhao Xintong 0 Points
Results and Current Table
John Higgins 3-0 Joe Perry
Kyren Wilson 3-1 Ken Doherty
John Higgins 3 Points
Kyren Wilson 3 Points
Ken Doherty 0 Points
Joe Perry 0 Points
Result and Current Table
Zhao Xintong 3-0 Mark Selby
Zhou Yuelong 3 Points
Judd Trump 3 Points
Zhao Xintong 3 Points
Mark Selby 0 Points
Play resumes on table 1 at 5.30 but its all over for Selby he now cant qualify
Result and Current Table
Kyren Wilson 3-0 Joe Perry
Kyren Wilson 6 Points
John Higgins 3 Points
Ken Doherty 0 Points
Joe Perry 0 Points
Result and Current Table
Judd Trump 3-0 Zhou Yuelong
Judd Trump 6 Points
Zhao Xintong 3 Points
Zhou Yuelong 3 Points
Mark Selby 0 Points
1 match left each
Xintong v Yuelong
Trump v Selby
Result and Current Table
Ken Doherty 3-0 John Higgins
Kyren Wilson 6 Points
Ken Doherty 3 Points
John Higgins 3 Points
Joe Perry 0 Points
1 match left each
Doherty v Perry
Wilson v Higgins
Result and Current Table
Zhou Yuelong 2-2 Zhao Xintong
Judd Trump 6 Points
Zhao Xintong 4 Points
Zhou Yuelong 4 Points
Mark Selby 0 Points
So thats it, 1 match to go Selby v Trump but it doesnt matter Selby is bottom and Trump is top
JOHN HIGGINS
John Higgins got the 159th 147 and his 11th becoming joint with Stephen Hendry as the 2nd most 147s in snooker history.
No crowd but a massive cheer from Trump, Selby, Eckardt and the camera man when he potted the black 🤣
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Result and Current Table
John Higgins 3-1 Kyren Wilson
Kyren Wilson 6 Points
John Higgins 6 Points
Ken Doherty 3 Points
Joe Perry 0 Points
So its down to the final match between Perry and Doherty.
If Doherty wins 3-0 he wins the group any other result and Wilson wins the group
Result and Final Table
Mark Selby 3-0 Judd Trump
Judd Trump 6 Points
Zhao Xintong 4 Points
Zhou Yuelong 4 Points
Mark Selby 3 Points
Selby turned it on to late, Xintong will be disappointed he was 2-1 ahead against Yuelong and if he had taken that last frame it would be him through instead of Trump now
Can he do it
Massive frame coming up, Kyren Wilson will be concerned atm.
Incredible stuff from Ken Doherty, who would have thought at the start of this tournament that he would be in a position to be1 frame away from the final
Trump v Wilson will be the final
Result and Final Table(Last table I have to do lol)
Joe Perry 2-2 Ken Doherty
Kyren Wilson 6 Points
John Higgins 6 Points
Ken Doherty 4 Points
Joe Perry 1 Points
Judd Trump v Kyren Wilson
With both of these already at next weeks Champion of Champions, Dave Gilbert has booked the final spot
Championship League
Final
Kyren Wilson 3-1 Judd Trump
Unfortunately for Trump this is a ranking event so he loses his run off winning ranking event Finals
So thats Trump and Wilson that have seen a marked improvement in their game with their brothers help, other players will be quickly trying to get their brothers involved 🤣🤣
Monday
Neil Robertson v Jimmy White
John Higgins v Ding Junhui
Tuesday
Judd Trump v Stuart Bingham
Shaun Murphy v Dave Gilbert
Wednesday
Mark Selby v Luca Brecel
Kyren Wilson v Stephen Maguire
Thursday
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Michael Holt
Mark Allen v Scott Donaldson
Remember this format you have the 2 group matches in the afternoon best of 7s, then the winners come back in the evening for a place in the Semi Finals
But for anyone interested who is unable to watch, as its a one table setup all the way through I will done a frame by frame update as well as the final score of each match
Group A
Semi Final
Update
Jimmy White in first, missed a black of the spot Roberteon came in with a Century and goes 1-0 ahead
Group A
Semi Final
Update
Another chance for Jimmy White, another missed black(this one alot harder) another century from Robertson and just like that its 2-0
Group A
Semi Final
Update
3-0 Robertson, should have been 3 straight centuries but he didnt run through far enough for a black on 81 and missed it with the rest
Group A
Semi Final
Result
Neil Robertson 4-0 Jimmy White