Only just seen this as I have been busy, I wont say much as we wont agree and you will say I am just anti Ronnie despite the fact I said yesterday if any player did the same I would be saying the exact same.
All I will say is how many times during a safety exchange have you seen players stand at the bulk end rather than go back to their seat, I could show a million videos were every player on tour has done it at some stage(including Ronnie)
Only just seen this as I have been busy, I wont say much as we wont agree and you will say I am just anti Ronnie despite the fact I said yesterday if any player did the same I would be saying the exact same.
All I will say is how many times during a safety exchange have you seen players stand at the bulk end rather than go back to their seat, I could show a million videos were every player on tour has done it at some stage(including Ronnie)
I'm a bit mixed on this. Allen probably should have sat down but he knew O'Sullivan had to play safe, therefore only one shot, in which case I can see why he stayed standing. In the McGill match the ref told Clarke that he should always sit down, so if that is the rule then Allen should know that. I thought Ronnie made too much of it and went on too long.
Sounds like I've missed a cracking match tonight. Just switched on to see Selby level up at 5-5 & both commentators saying it's 1 of the highest quality matches they've ever seen
Sounds like I've missed a cracking match tonight. Just switched on to see Selby level up at 5-5 & both commentators saying it's 1 of the highest quality matches they've ever seen
It has been very high quality especially the last 7 frames 6 centuries in the last 7 frames
Neil Robertson wins the final frame decider and books his place in sundays final, he can relax tomorrow now and wait to see if it will be a repeat of last years final
A very unexpected scoreline, Trump wasn't at his best and made a few errors potting and safety, but take nothing away from Allen he played well and sets up a repeat of the 2015 Champion of Champions final against Neil Robertson which Robertson won 10-5
Mark Allen took a 3-1 lead into the mid session interval, 1 century each in the opening 4 frames, then after the interval Robertson won frame 5 to close the gap to 1, then in frame 6 Allen responded with his 2nd century of the match and its currently
Andy Hicks 4-3 Paul Davison David Grace 4-1 Dave Gilbert Rod Lawler 4-1 Simon Lichtenberg Gao Yang 4-2 Mitchell Mann Lu Ning 4-1 Martin O'Donnell Noppon Saengkham W/O Tian Pengfei Rory McLeod 4-2 Gary Wilson Yan Bingtao 4-1 Peter Lines Alexander Ursenbacher 4-2 Lei Peifan Mark Williams 4-2 Jamie Jones Judd Trump 4-1 Gerard Greene Xu Si 4-2 Chen Zifan Michael Holt 4-1 Soheil Vahedi Scott Donaldson 4-1 Sean Maddocks Xiao Guodong 4-1 Duane Jones Anthony McGill W/O Riley Parsons Sam Craigie 4-0 Amine Amiri Kyren Wilson 4-0 David Lilley Martin Gould 4-0 Jamie Clarke Luca Brecel 4-0 Kacper Filipiak Ken Doherty 4-1 Chris Wakelin Rob Milkins 4-0 Fan Zhengyi Zhou Yuelong 4-0 Jimmy White
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All I will say is how many times during a safety exchange have you seen players stand at the bulk end rather than go back to their seat, I could show a million videos were every player on tour has done it at some stage(including Ronnie)
Semi Final
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Mark Selby took frame 1 to lead Neil Robertson 1-0
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Neil Robertson takes frame 2 and we are all square, have a feeling this could go all the way
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2-2 at the mid session interval
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3-2 to Mark Selby
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Back all square again at 3-3 as I said earlier this really has decider written all over it
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4-3 Selby and he goes ahead again
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Neil Robertson 4-4 Mark Selby a 141 from Robertson makes it 4-4 and we are level once again
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5-4 to Robertson, first time Robertson has been infront
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I called it after frame 2 and he we are 5-5 and heading into a decider.
On a side note 6 of the 10 frames have been centuries
Semi Final
Result
Neil Robertson 6-5 Mark Selby
Neil Robertson wins the final frame decider and books his place in sundays final, he can relax tomorrow now and wait to see if it will be a repeat of last years final
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Forgot to update this
Mark Allen took frame 1 with a 102 break he then went on to take frame 2 as well
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Allen has taken frame 3 as well and leads Trump 3-0
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Allen leads 4-0 at the mid session interval, lot of work for Trump to do when they return
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Mark Allen continues and takes the first frame after the interval to lead 5-0, Trump now needs 6 frames in a row
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5-1 is this the start of the Trump fightback Judd that is not Donald no way back for him 🤣🤣
Semi Final
Result
Mark Allen 6-1 Judd Trump
A very unexpected scoreline, Trump wasn't at his best and made a few errors potting and safety, but take nothing away from Allen he played well and sets up a repeat of the 2015 Champion of Champions final against Neil Robertson which Robertson won 10-5
Final
Update
Mark Allen took a 3-1 lead into the mid session interval, 1 century each in the opening 4 frames, then after the interval Robertson won frame 5 to close the gap to 1, then in frame 6 Allen responded with his 2nd century of the match and its currently
Allen 4-2 Robertson
Final
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Mark Allen leads 5-4 after the first session
His first sucess since the 2018 Scottish Open.
He only got into The Champion of Champions due to his place in the rankings because a few players one more than one event last season
It was the 160th 147 and Shaun Murphys 6th his last one coming September 2016
Not sure yet if I am gonna do a full update from Round 1 or partial at round 1 and start a full update from Round 2.
Depends how I feel tomorrow and if I can type 32 results out lol 🤣🤣
Round 1
Results
Andy Hicks 4-3 Paul Davison
David Grace 4-1 Dave Gilbert
Rod Lawler 4-1 Simon Lichtenberg
Gao Yang 4-2 Mitchell Mann
Lu Ning 4-1 Martin O'Donnell
Noppon Saengkham W/O Tian Pengfei
Rory McLeod 4-2 Gary Wilson
Yan Bingtao 4-1 Peter Lines
Alexander Ursenbacher 4-2 Lei Peifan
Mark Williams 4-2 Jamie Jones
Judd Trump 4-1 Gerard Greene
Xu Si 4-2 Chen Zifan
Michael Holt 4-1 Soheil Vahedi
Scott Donaldson 4-1 Sean Maddocks
Xiao Guodong 4-1 Duane Jones
Anthony McGill W/O Riley Parsons
Sam Craigie 4-0 Amine Amiri
Kyren Wilson 4-0 David Lilley
Martin Gould 4-0 Jamie Clarke
Luca Brecel 4-0 Kacper Filipiak
Ken Doherty 4-1 Chris Wakelin
Rob Milkins 4-0 Fan Zhengyi
Zhou Yuelong 4-0 Jimmy White