Murphy should really get through to Semi's, next couple of days are the tough ones to call. Watched alot of Ding vs Hamilton yesterday was very poor, Hawkins vs Day the opposite starting with 3 tons and good standard. Well done Hamilton.
Ronnie has a tough draw, Robertson and then winner of Higgins / Mcgill
Selby's is tougher, Lliang Wembo and then winner of Trump/Brecel.
Recorded the rest of the week but might just skip if i know results or looks dull.
Murphy should win i agree but his last couple of months have been not his greatest a few shock defeats losing to players like Slessor in indian open Wells in first round of world open Yuan Sijun in Shanghai Masters qualifier Ursenbacher in english open
Then was very dissapointig in losing 6-2 to carter last week.
His game isnt were he wants it at the moment and think King actually has a chance
Personally i think White will.be the player who gets through today
I think it could be anyone really , but i'd say personally Murphy is on the best form of any of them. Even with losing some he shouldn't, Fu if he is on form will be tough to beat, likewise Michael White.
I think Murphy has a very good chance today, others similar its short format best of 7 for first match so more chance there of Murphy getting beaten.
As seems to be the way now a number of qualifiers held over to main event
Shanghai Masters Qualification Semi Finals: Billy Joe Castle 5-2 Zhang Jiankang Soheil Vahedi 5-2 Ma Chunmao Chen Feilong 5-3 Li Zhen
Shanghai Masters Qualification Final: John Higgins 5-2 Alexander Ursenbacher Liang Wenbo 5-2 Rod Lawler Rory McLeod 5-4 Bill Joe Castle Soheil Vahedi 5-4 Sam Baird Stuart Carrington 5-3 Chen Feilong Mark Selby 5-2 Ian Burns
Shanghai Masters Round 1 Yu Delu 5-4 Ryan Day Jimmy Robertson 5-4 Tom Ford Jack Lisowski 5-1 Chris Totten Kurt Maflin 5-4 Lee Walker Mark Allen 5-1 Yan Bingtao Ben Woollaston 5-3 Michael Georgiou Dave Gilbert 5-0 Mark Joyce Fergal O'Brien 5-4 Mitchell Mann Mark Williams 5-1 Wang Yuchen Zhou Yuelong 5-4 Sanderson Lam Jamie Jones 5-2 Mark King Graeme Dott 5-3 Xiao Guodong Robert Milkins 5-4 Lyu Haotian Michael White 5-4 Mark Davies
Due to early matches i keep watching then forgetting to update this(not that anyone reads it anyway)
Not to many shocks so far so will just go over the last 16
Mark Allen v Jack Lisowski Graeme Dott v Luca Brecel Martin Gould v Marco Fu Barry Hawkins v Ronnie O'Sullivan John Higgins v Liang Wenbo Stephen Maguire v Judd Trump Mark Williams v Mark Selby Mei Xiwen v Kurt Mafflin
Ronnie has high break with 144 so far
Higgins close to 147 today but had an in off on the brown.
As I have stated before Jack Lisowski starting to get to later stages of tournaments, wont be long till he wins won(maybe even this season)
Kurt Maflin 5-2 Mei Xiwen Jack Lisowski 5-4 Mark Allen Luca Brecel 5-4 Graeme Dott Judd Trump 5-0 Stephen Maguire John Higgins 5-2 Liang Wenbo Martin Gould 5-2 Marco Fu Ronnie O'Sullivan 5-0 Barry Hawkins Mark Williams 5-3 Mark Selby
Selby out, while O'Sullivan and Trump bag whitewashes.
Here's a genuine question or two for all you snooker (and betting) experts.
As far as I can tell since the World Champs have been held at the Crucible (40 years this year I believe) it has been won as follows:
Hendry 7 Davis 6 O'Sullivan 5 Higgins J 4 Selby 3 Williams M 2
In addition14 players have won it once.
The correlation between the number of times won and the value of the balls is apparent and if 2018 throws up a first time winner, say Judd Trump they will match exactly and total 42.
So my questions are; is it possible to place a bet now on a first time winner in 2018 which encompasses the pattern above, what do people think the odds would be and most importantly, am I correct?
Here's a genuine question or two for all you snooker (and betting) experts.
As far as I can tell since the World Champs have been held at the Crucible (40 years this year I believe) it has been won as follows:
Hendry 7 Davis 6 O'Sullivan 5 Higgins J 4 Selby 3 Williams M 2
In addition14 players have won it once.
The correlation between the number of times won and the value of the balls is apparent and if 2018 throws up a first time winner, say Judd Trump they will match exactly and total 42.
So my questions are; is it possible to place a bet now on a first time winner in 2018 which encompasses the pattern above, what do people think the odds would be and most importantly, am I correct?
Firstly if the bet u want is any first time winner then most places would do it bit u would probably need to go into a shop or enquire online.
On bet365 Trump is 3rd favourite ding is 4th both never won before so price you are probably looking at 7/1 maybe 8/1.
Will it happen is a tougher question. Former chanpions O'Sullivan(although i think format is to long for him) Higgins and Williams all looking good atm.
You can never discount Murphy, Robertson or Bingham on the big stage. And selby will be looking to retain for a 3rd year and his 4th in 5 years.
Trump is playing fantastic atm on his day Ding can be unstoppable.
So I wouldnt rule it out wouldnt be surprised to see a Trump Selby final
Here's a genuine question or two for all you snooker (and betting) experts.
As far as I can tell since the World Champs have been held at the Crucible (40 years this year I believe) it has been won as follows:
Hendry 7 Davis 6 O'Sullivan 5 Higgins J 4 Selby 3 Williams M 2
In addition14 players have won it once.
The correlation between the number of times won and the value of the balls is apparent and if 2018 throws up a first time winner, say Judd Trump they will match exactly and total 42.
That's incredible. I love stuff like this and now I can't wait for the tournament and I'll be praying for a first time champ.
Day 1 of the Northern Ireland open didnt actually finish until an hour ago after a few tough matches.
Day 1 Results Noppon Saengkham 4-1 Hamza Akbar Jamie Barrett 4-1 Ian Preece Li Hang 4-3 Cao Yupeng Robin Hull 4-3 Eden Sharav Yu Delu 4-1 Craig Steadman Tian Pengfei 4-2 Vahedi Soheil Ricky Walden 4-0 Miah Hammad Neil Robertson 4-1 Jamie Jones Ashley Hugill 4-2 Josh Boileau Alex Borg 4-3 Peter Ebdon Adam Duffy 4-2 Rory McLeod Thepchaiya 4-2 Allan Taylor Jimmy White 4-3 Dominic Dale Niu Zhuang 4-3 Ian Burns Hossein Vafaei Ayouri 4-2 Anthony Hamilton Chen Zifan 4-1 Shaun Murphy Robert Milkins 4-3 Alfie Burden Billy Joe Castle 4-2 Declan Brennan Sam Craigie 4-1 Kyren Wilson Liam Highfield 4-3 Mark Davis Oliver Lines 4-3 Xu Si Ken Doherty 4-2 Peter Lines Mark Allen 4-2 Sanderson Lam Lyu Haotian 4-3 Joe Swail Kurt Mafflin 4-1 Andrew Higginson Ross Muir 4-3 Thor Chuan Leong Elliot Slessor 4-0 Kurt Dunham Joe Perry 4-3 Gerard Greene Mark King 4-1 Matthew Bolton Mei Xiwen 4-0 Jordan Brown
So Shaun Murphy obviously biggest shock.of the day but also a surprise to see Peter Ebdon Rory McLeod Dominic Dale Anthony Hamilton Kyren Wilson Mark Davis all lose so early.
33 matches tomorrow but that could go down to 31 with 2 big names possibly pulling out.
Judd Trump- Issues with an airline having his cue still from last weeks tournament in Shanghai, He said yesterday unless he gets it back he will pull out(snooket players hate using someone else cue, most play with same cue all there career)
Mark Williams- Not sure what is wrong but he has tweeted a few times this past week about going up to hospital with his wife, she went back in yesterday and he said he will make a decision in the morning if he is playing or not.
No confirmation either way from Trump or Williams but there have been 2 further withdrawals Martin O'Donnell and Luca Brecel So Michael Holt and Fang Xiongman have got byes into the 2nd round
Below is a list of todays matches the player whose name is first is the player I expect to win.
Zhang Anda v Akani Songsermsawad Sam Baird v Zhanh Yong Ali Carter v Chen Zhe Scott Donaldson v Wang Yuchen David Grace v Michaeel Georgiou Xiao Guodong v Christopher Keogan Jack Lisowski v Sean O'Sullivan Aditya Mehta v Li Yuan Matt Selt v Rhys Clark Mike Dunn v Jamie Rhys Clark Rod Lawler v Paul Davison Tom Ford v Fergal O'Brien Mitchell Mann v Duane Jones Lee Walker v Jak Jones Judd Trump v Stuart Carrington Yan Bingtao v Robbie Williams Graeme Dott v Zhou Yuelong John Higgins v Nigel Bond Liang Wenbo v Jackson Page Michael White v Jimmy Robertson Matthew Stevens v Leo Fernandez Stephen Maguire v Basem Eltahhan Alan McManus v Yuan Sijun Barry Hawkins v Zhao Xintong Mark Williams v James Wattana Mark Joyce v Ben Woollaston Ronnie O'Sullivan v Lukas Kleckers Chris Wakelin v Chris Totten Dave Gilbert v Daniel Wells Alexander Ursenbacher v Gary Wilson Ryan Day v John Astley
Comments
Slessor in indian open
Wells in first round of world open
Yuan Sijun in Shanghai Masters qualifier
Ursenbacher in english open
Then was very dissapointig in losing 6-2 to carter last week.
His game isnt were he wants it at the moment and think King actually has a chance
Personally i think White will.be the player who gets through today
I think Murphy has a very good chance today, others similar its short format best of 7 for first match so more chance there of Murphy getting beaten.
A very topsy turvy first match of the day goes the way of White
4th match of the tournement and all 4 have been won by the lower ranked player
Can King keep it up or can Murphy finally end the bad run for higher ranked players
As predicted last night tonights group final is
White v Murphy
Murphy into saturdays semi final against tge winner of tomorrow's group
Luca Brecel 4-0 Judd Trump
Poor performance from Trump there
Mark Selby v Luca Brecel in group final
Shaun Murphy v Luca Brecel in saturdays semi final
Ronnie O'Sulivan beat Neil Robertson
John Higgins beat Anthony McGill
Ronnie O'Sullivan beat John Higgins and faced Anthony Hamilton in fridays Semi
Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-2 Anthony Hamilton(Hamilton was 2-0 ahead)
So Ronnie is in tomorrows final against the winner of Murphy or Brecel
Just like the other semi this had a good comeback Murphy was 3-1 and 4-2 behind
Todays final
Shaun Murphy v Ronnie O'Sullivan
Shaun Murphy 10-8 Ronnie O'Sullivan
Good comeback from Ronnie from 9-5 down but a couple of frames early in the evening session Ronnie lost his head a bit and those probably cost him
1 tournament finished last night
The next has just begun
The Shanghai Masters is now underway
Shanghai Masters Qualification Semi Finals:
Billy Joe Castle 5-2 Zhang Jiankang
Soheil Vahedi 5-2 Ma Chunmao
Chen Feilong 5-3 Li Zhen
Shanghai Masters Qualification Final:
John Higgins 5-2 Alexander Ursenbacher
Liang Wenbo 5-2 Rod Lawler
Rory McLeod 5-4 Bill Joe Castle
Soheil Vahedi 5-4 Sam Baird
Stuart Carrington 5-3 Chen Feilong
Mark Selby 5-2 Ian Burns
Shanghai Masters Round 1
Yu Delu 5-4 Ryan Day
Jimmy Robertson 5-4 Tom Ford
Jack Lisowski 5-1 Chris Totten
Kurt Maflin 5-4 Lee Walker
Mark Allen 5-1 Yan Bingtao
Ben Woollaston 5-3 Michael Georgiou
Dave Gilbert 5-0 Mark Joyce
Fergal O'Brien 5-4 Mitchell Mann
Mark Williams 5-1 Wang Yuchen
Zhou Yuelong 5-4 Sanderson Lam
Jamie Jones 5-2 Mark King
Graeme Dott 5-3 Xiao Guodong
Robert Milkins 5-4 Lyu Haotian
Michael White 5-4 Mark Davies
Not to many shocks so far so will just go over the last 16
Mark Allen v Jack Lisowski
Graeme Dott v Luca Brecel
Martin Gould v Marco Fu
Barry Hawkins v Ronnie O'Sullivan
John Higgins v Liang Wenbo
Stephen Maguire v Judd Trump
Mark Williams v Mark Selby
Mei Xiwen v Kurt Mafflin
Ronnie has high break with 144 so far
Higgins close to 147 today but had an in off on the brown.
As I have stated before Jack Lisowski starting to get to later stages of tournaments, wont be long till he wins won(maybe even this season)
Jack Lisowski 5-4 Mark Allen
Luca Brecel 5-4 Graeme Dott
Judd Trump 5-0 Stephen Maguire
John Higgins 5-2 Liang Wenbo
Martin Gould 5-2 Marco Fu
Ronnie O'Sullivan 5-0 Barry Hawkins
Mark Williams 5-3 Mark Selby
Selby out, while O'Sullivan and Trump bag whitewashes.
Judd Trump has not dropped a frame this week he is playing Brecel who has only dropped 4 all of them against Dott
Martin Gould has only dropped 2 frames
Luca Brecel v Judd Trump
John Higgins v Martin Gould
Kurt Mafflin v Jack Lisowski
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Williams
Trump is the first man in the Semi Final and has won all 4 matches 5-0
As far as I can tell since the World Champs have been held at the Crucible (40 years this year I believe) it has been won as follows:
Hendry 7
Davis 6
O'Sullivan 5
Higgins J 4
Selby 3
Williams M 2
In addition14 players have won it once.
The correlation between the number of times won and the value of the balls is apparent and if 2018 throws up a first time winner, say Judd Trump they will match exactly and total 42.
So my questions are; is it possible to place a bet now on a first time winner in 2018 which encompasses the pattern above, what do people think the odds would be and most importantly, am I correct?
On bet365 Trump is 3rd favourite ding is 4th both never won before so price you are probably looking at 7/1 maybe 8/1.
Will it happen is a tougher question. Former chanpions O'Sullivan(although i think format is to long for him) Higgins and Williams all looking good atm.
You can never discount Murphy, Robertson or Bingham on the big stage.
And selby will be looking to retain for a 3rd year and his 4th in 5 years.
Trump is playing fantastic atm on his day Ding can be unstoppable.
So I wouldnt rule it out wouldnt be surprised to see a Trump Selby final
Judd Trump 5-0 Luca Brecel
Jack Lisowski 5-3 Kurt Mafflin
Ronnie O'Sullivan 5-1 Mark Williams
John Higgins 5-1 Martin Gould
Semi final lineup
Judd Trump v Jack Lisowski
Ronnie O'Sullivan v John Higgins
O'Sullivan v Higgins 11.30 am tomorrow
I love stuff like this and now I can't wait for the tournament and I'll be praying for a first time champ.
Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-3 Judd Trump
Northern Ireland open starts tomorrow if Ronnie wins he will be halfway to a million pound
Day 1 Results
Noppon Saengkham 4-1 Hamza Akbar
Jamie Barrett 4-1 Ian Preece
Li Hang 4-3 Cao Yupeng
Robin Hull 4-3 Eden Sharav
Yu Delu 4-1 Craig Steadman
Tian Pengfei 4-2 Vahedi Soheil
Ricky Walden 4-0 Miah Hammad
Neil Robertson 4-1 Jamie Jones
Ashley Hugill 4-2 Josh Boileau
Alex Borg 4-3 Peter Ebdon
Adam Duffy 4-2 Rory McLeod
Thepchaiya 4-2 Allan Taylor
Jimmy White 4-3 Dominic Dale
Niu Zhuang 4-3 Ian Burns
Hossein Vafaei Ayouri 4-2 Anthony Hamilton
Chen Zifan 4-1 Shaun Murphy
Robert Milkins 4-3 Alfie Burden
Billy Joe Castle 4-2 Declan Brennan
Sam Craigie 4-1 Kyren Wilson
Liam Highfield 4-3 Mark Davis
Oliver Lines 4-3 Xu Si
Ken Doherty 4-2 Peter Lines
Mark Allen 4-2 Sanderson Lam
Lyu Haotian 4-3 Joe Swail
Kurt Mafflin 4-1 Andrew Higginson
Ross Muir 4-3 Thor Chuan Leong
Elliot Slessor 4-0 Kurt Dunham
Joe Perry 4-3 Gerard Greene
Mark King 4-1 Matthew Bolton
Mei Xiwen 4-0 Jordan Brown
So Shaun Murphy obviously biggest shock.of the day but also a surprise to see
Peter Ebdon
Rory McLeod
Dominic Dale
Anthony Hamilton
Kyren Wilson
Mark Davis all lose so early.
33 matches tomorrow but that could go down to 31 with 2 big names possibly pulling out.
Judd Trump- Issues with an airline having his cue still from last weeks tournament in Shanghai, He said yesterday unless he gets it back he will pull out(snooket players hate using someone else cue, most play with same cue all there career)
Mark Williams- Not sure what is wrong but he has tweeted a few times this past week about going up to hospital with his wife, she went back in yesterday and he said he will make a decision in the morning if he is playing or not.
Martin O'Donnell and Luca Brecel
So Michael Holt and Fang Xiongman have got byes into the 2nd round
Zhang Anda v Akani Songsermsawad
Sam Baird v Zhanh Yong
Ali Carter v Chen Zhe
Scott Donaldson v Wang Yuchen
David Grace v Michaeel Georgiou
Xiao Guodong v Christopher Keogan
Jack Lisowski v Sean O'Sullivan
Aditya Mehta v Li Yuan
Matt Selt v Rhys Clark
Mike Dunn v Jamie Rhys Clark
Rod Lawler v Paul Davison
Tom Ford v Fergal O'Brien
Mitchell Mann v Duane Jones
Lee Walker v Jak Jones
Judd Trump v Stuart Carrington
Yan Bingtao v Robbie Williams
Graeme Dott v Zhou Yuelong
John Higgins v Nigel Bond
Liang Wenbo v Jackson Page
Michael White v Jimmy Robertson
Matthew Stevens v Leo Fernandez
Stephen Maguire v Basem Eltahhan
Alan McManus v Yuan Sijun
Barry Hawkins v Zhao Xintong
Mark Williams v James Wattana
Mark Joyce v Ben Woollaston
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Lukas Kleckers
Chris Wakelin v Chris Totten
Dave Gilbert v Daniel Wells
Alexander Ursenbacher v Gary Wilson
Ryan Day v John Astley
Fair play. Keep it up mate