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Still only 1 match played this afternoon.
Crazy really, i get the players need to be tested but to have results only due back the day of a game is pushing it anyway and can cause issues like this.
Home nations events are already pushing loads of matches in a short space of time and now after day 1 they are 12 matches behind schedule0 -
Woo hoo finally got the results for a couple of the 1pm matches and they can start🤦♂️🤦♂️
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I am with Paulie here, its nice to see these sorts of matches. Its not always about 1 visits, making centuries and there was a good mix with alot of tight frames and a decider. I actually missed alot of the second session but got back in for the final frame, which turned out to go back and forth and some easy misses, not just the final pink. Easy yellow, looked like a right battle and i am happy Robbo won.paulie8290 said:
Dull?Stig said:What a dull dull final that turned out to be. Slow and ponderous. Unnecessarily defensive with lots of sideways movement and sending the ball back down the wrong end. Poor quality balls to give possession away. Generally shot shy with some poor finishing leading to a low goal to shot ratio. The crowd were really subdued too. It's like snooker just got Charltonised.
Really, neither player took a 2 frame lead at any point, it was back and fourth, back and fourth, 4 centuries including Neil Robertson breaking a record and few frames that had brilliant safety battles and an incredibly tense final frame decider settled on the pink.
If thats your idea of dull then wow.
I get the rest of your post was a humoured attempt a piss take off Charlton but I still wouldnt call that final dull, I was thoroughly engrossed
Robbo was quite deliberate at the end slowing it down more than necessary, but it worked. One point he took 3 minutes to touch a red, trump just got up and hit the ball right away and made a mistake, its not his natural game but he did what was needed and it clearly meant so much to them both.
Overall great stuff.1 -
Because of the delays on Monday and so many games on Tuesday i decided against doing updates for the early rounds for the scottish open.
Was gonn start today but things caught up with me and as tomorrow is Thursday the day with 2 matches i will start updates then but will briefly go over a few things including how the draw is currently looking1 -
There were first round exits for a couple of top 16 players
Stephen Maguire
Yan Bingtao
Dave Gilbert
Maguire and Gilbert will be missing out on the World Grand Prix as a result
There were also 1st round defeats for
Joe Perry
Graeme Dott
Gary Wilson
The defeat for Wilson means he wont be at the Grand Prix either, Perry should be ok and Dott was 22nd so should be ok but it depends how other players behind him get on.
Moving onto round 2
There was a massive match for the race to the Grand Prix, between Mark Allen and Joe O'Connor, O'Connor was 31st befre the event started while Allen was 35th, Allen won that match 4-2
Lisowski pulled out with food poisoning but he should be safe for the Grand Prix anyway.
Brecel lost and misses out next week whilst there was a shock defeat for Higgins against Noppon Saengkham but again like Lisowski Higgins is safe for next week.
And finally another top 16 player unlikely to be involved in the Grand Prix is Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, his defeat has again left him waiting on other results but this time its very unlikely it will be a successful wait1 -
Scottish Open
Round 3
Quarter 1
Mark Selby v Mark Joyce
Akani Songsermsawad v Lyu Haotian
Ricky Walden v Zak Surety
Zhou Yuelong v Mark Allen
Quarter 2
Kyren Wilson v Michael Holt
Liam Highfield v Barry Hawkins
Sam Craigie v Jamie Jones
Zhao Jianbo v Eden Sharav
Quarter 3
Judd Trump v Liang Wenbo
Mark Williams v Jackson Page
Rob Milkins v Stuart Bingham
Li Hang v Noppon Saengkham
Quarter 4
Shaun Murphy v Jamie O'Neil
Ding Junhui v Martin O'Donnell
Robbie Williams v Lu Ning
Tian Pengfei v Ronnie O'Sullivan1 -
Actually looking forward to Williams v Page.
Page is sort of Williams protégé and its the first time they have met in a pro tournament1 -
yep protege/ apprentice, that should be interesting, Jackson Page has had a bit of a poor season compared to last he was winning a few matches. Hopefully he steps up against the tutorpaulie8290 said:Actually looking forward to Williams v Page.
Page is sort of Williams protégé and its the first time they have met in a pro tournament
There has been 2 x 147 this week, i haven't seen either Yuelong and HIggins
Selby has to be due an event surely?good to see the other big names in it and today well see if ROS is up for it, Murphy will be dangerous in that quarter. Allen, there was something going around that he might be borrowing someones cue as he isn't happy at the moment, i didn't read the full story but he has been using different ones most events as he wasn't happy with his one.
Ideal Quarters:
Selby
Wilson
Trump
ROS
I say ideal, as anything can happen today im not predicting anything possibly Trump v Selby/Wilson final?
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No just the Zhou Yuelong one I mentionedjohnnybev1987 said:
yep protege/ apprentice, that should be interesting, Jackson Page has had a bit of a poor season compared to last he was winning a few matches. Hopefully he steps up against the tutorpaulie8290 said:Actually looking forward to Williams v Page.
Page is sort of Williams protégé and its the first time they have met in a pro tournament
There has been 2 x 147 this week, i haven't seen either Yuelong and HIggins
Selby has to be due an event surely?good to see the other big names in it and today well see if ROS is up for it, Murphy will be dangerous in that quarter. Allen, there was something going around that he might be borrowing someones cue as he isn't happy at the moment, i didn't read the full story but he has been using different ones most events as he wasn't happy with his one.
Ideal Quarters:
Selby
Wilson
Trump
ROS
I say ideal, as anything can happen today im not predicting anything possibly Trump v Selby/Wilson final?1 -
Oh really, sorry bud i missed that also not why i have got confused there has been alot lately it seemspaulie8290 said:
No just the Zhou Yuelong one I mentionedjohnnybev1987 said:
yep protege/ apprentice, that should be interesting, Jackson Page has had a bit of a poor season compared to last he was winning a few matches. Hopefully he steps up against the tutorpaulie8290 said:Actually looking forward to Williams v Page.
Page is sort of Williams protégé and its the first time they have met in a pro tournament
There has been 2 x 147 this week, i haven't seen either Yuelong and HIggins
Selby has to be due an event surely?good to see the other big names in it and today well see if ROS is up for it, Murphy will be dangerous in that quarter. Allen, there was something going around that he might be borrowing someones cue as he isn't happy at the moment, i didn't read the full story but he has been using different ones most events as he wasn't happy with his one.
Ideal Quarters:
Selby
Wilson
Trump
ROS
I say ideal, as anything can happen today im not predicting anything possibly Trump v Selby/Wilson final?
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Scottish Open
Round 3
Results
Lyu Haotian 4-3 Akani Songsermsawad
Jamie Jones 4-3 Sam Craigie
Barry Hawkins 4-3 Liam Highfield
Eden Sharav 4-1 Zhao Jianbo
Stuart Bingham 4-3 Rob Milkins
Ricky Walden 4-0 Zak Surety
Kyren Wilson 4-2 Michael Holt
Mark Allen 4-3 Zhou Yuelong
Ding Junhui 4-0 Martin O'Donnell
Li Hang 4-1 Noppon Saengkham
Mark Selby 4-2 Mark Joyce
Judd Trump 4-2 Liang Wenbo
Robbie Williams 4-3 Lu Ning
Mark Williams 4-1 Jackson Page
Jamie O'Neil 4-2 Shaun Murphy
Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-3 Tian Pengfei1 -
Jamie O'Neil is quickly becoming one of my most hated players and he has only been on the tour a few months.
Another incident today, he tried to roll up to the black and it looked like he missed ref called a miss and he had a go at her and said no I hit it, she said well it looked to me like you missed it and he got the right hump and said you need to get closer to the table then.
He then had the hump for the rest of the match a couple of frames later he won the match and adter the game as they were packing up there cues he turned to Murphy and said I definitely hit that black.
You won the frame and then went and won the match mate just let it go, if the ref said you didnt hit it then her decision is final, i have since seen video footage that shows he did hit the black but its impossoble to see with the naked eye, and the video had to be zoomed in to actually see it.
Shouldnt be standing their arguing with the ref.
Video 1
Video 2
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Scottish Open
Round 4
Mark Selby v Lyu Haotian
Ricky Walden v Mark Allen
Kyren Wilson v Barry Hawkins
Jamie Jones v Eden Sharav
Judd Trump v Mark Williams
Stuart Bingham v Li Hang
Jamie O'Neil v Ding Junhui
Robbie Williams v Ronnie O'Sullivan1 -
Not seen this before, great video of a young Trump and White
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Scottish Open
Round 4
Results
Li Hang 4-3 Stuart Bingham
Jamie Jones 4-3 Eden Sharav
Ricky Walden 4-3 Mark Allen
Kyren Wilson 4-3 Barry Hawkins
Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-1 Robbie Williams
Ding Junhui 4-3 Jamie O'Neill
Judd Trump 4-1 Mark Williams
Mark Selby 4-1 Lyu Haotian1 -
Scottish Open
Quarter Final
Mark Selby v Ricky Walden
Kyren Wilson v Jamie Jones
Judd Trump v Li Hang
Ding Junhui v Ronnie O'Sullivan1 -
We also now know they top 32 players on the 1 year list, all remaining players in the tournament are already currently inside the top 32 so that cant change, the only thing that can change is seedings and who they will play.
But the 32 players who will be involved at the Grand Prix are
1-Judd Trump
2-Neil Robertson
3-Mark Selby
4-Kyren Wilson
5-Zhou Yuelong
6-John Higgins
7-Ronnie O'Sullivan
8-Lu Ning
9-Martin Gould
10-Ding Junhui
11-Barry Hawkins
12-David Grace
13-Joe Perry
14-Shaun Murphy
15-Stuart Bingham
16-Jamie Jones
17-Jack Lisowski
18-Anthony McGill
19-Yan Bingtao
20-Ricky Walden
21-Jak Jones
22-Zhao Xintong
23-Mark Allen
24-Robbie Williams
25-Xiao Guodong
26-Hossein Vafaei
27-Ali Carter
28-Kurt Maflin
29-Li Hang
30-Liang Wenbo
31-Rob Milkins
32-Michael Holt
As I say positions can still change except the players in bold, they cant move and are guaranteed to be in that position
Some interesting names who you wouldnt normally expect to see in their as well
Jak Jones
Hossein Vafaei
Making their Grand Prix debuts
David Grace only making his 2nd appearance1 -
He hit it, but still he should accept the refs decision is final. I saw his dramatics and he just kept throwing his toys out the pram, there was alot on twitter but there is videos that prove it hit, although a small issue really as i agree he was being a dick.paulie8290 said:Jamie O'Neil is quickly becoming one of my most hated players and he has only been on the tour a few months.
Another incident today, he tried to roll up to the black and it looked like he missed ref called a miss and he had a go at her and said no I hit it, she said well it looked to me like you missed it and he got the right hump and said you need to get closer to the table then.
He then had the hump for the rest of the match a couple of frames later he won the match and adter the game as they were packing up there cues he turned to Murphy and said I definitely hit that black.
You won the frame and then went and won the match mate just let it go, if the ref said you didnt hit it then her decision is final, i have since seen video footage that shows he did hit the black but its impossoble to see with the naked eye, and the video had to be zoomed in to actually see it.
Shouldnt be standing their arguing with the ref.
Video 1
Video 2
Watched Ronnie last night, his scoreline flattered it was awful. He kept moaning about his tip early saying it was doing completely different things, missed alot, they both did. Robbie Williams got dragged into it and there were a couple close frames which he should have knicked. I think the highest break from RW was in about the 30s, i forget exactly. Most frames there would be 3-4 chances and he would break down, same with Ronnie really there was alot of bad misses and a horrible game to watch.
Ronnie loses today...
Edit- I think Ding is a great price 2/1 with bobs lot today, or Evens with a +1.5, i know its dangerous to back against Ronnie as you never know which one will turn up but based on his tip problems and how he struggled i'd be very surprised if he comes out flying. Its not formality but looks a good bet to me. PS. Dont bet if you cant afford to lose it
I have Trump/ Ding/ Selby + Wilson today, smallball plus footy later, yesterday 5/6 in the morning session, had Yuelong to beat Allen which was a decider so not far off. today ill probably get all wrong
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Scottish Open
Quarter Final
Results
Mark Selby 5-4 Ricky Walden
Li Hang 5-4 Judd Trump
Jamie Jones 5-1 Kyren Wilson
Ronnie O'Sullivan 5-4 Ding Junhui0 -
Scottish Open
Semi Final
Mark Selby v Jamie Jones
Li Hang v Ronnie O'Sullivan0 -
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I shouldn't really say this as a Selby fan and obviously would love to see him pick up the trophy
But how good would a Jones v Hang final be, it wont happen but would make such a change.
Also Jamie Jones looks a completely different player to the one who dropped off the tour after his ban, he has obviously been practicing whilst he was banned1 -
Scottish Open
Semi Final
Results
Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-4 Li Hang
Mark Selby 6-1 Jamie Jones0 -
Scottish Open
Final
End of 1st Session
Mark Selby 6-2 Ronnie O'Sullivan0 -
Only saw the last two frames but Ronnie was very ragged.0
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good job you didnt see frame 1 and 4MrOneLung said:Only saw the last two frames but Ronnie was very ragged.
Frame 1 Ronnie played on 70 odd points behind with just pink and black left on.
Frame 4, he tried to play on 50 points behind with just the black left(Selby had just potted the pink and missed the black so everyone assumed that was it then Ronnie tried to come back to the table and the ref told him he couldnt 😂😂)1 -
Interviews could be interesting after the match 😂😂0
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MARK SELBY IS SCOTTISH OPEN CHAMPION1
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Scottish Open
Final
Mark Selby 9-3 Ronnie O'Sullivan1 -
His last 11 Ranking finals in a row Selby has now won matching Stephen Hendrys record
2020 Scottish Open
2020 European Masters
2019 Scottish Open
2019 English Open
2018 China Championship
2018 China Open
2017 International Championship
2017 World Championship
2017 China Open
2016 UK Championship
2016 International Championship
His last defeat came against Ding Junhui in the 2016 Shangai Masters1 -
World Grand Prix
Round 1
Quarter 1
Judd Trump (1) v Michael Holt (32)
Stuart Bingham (17) v Li Hang (16)
Martin Gould (9) v Mark Allen (24)
Robbie Williams (25) v Lu Ning (8)
Quarter 2
Ali Carter (28) v Ronnie O’Sullivan (5)
Ricky Walden (21) v Barry Hawkins (12)
David Grace (13) v Yan Bingtao (20)
Kyren Wilson (4) v Kurt Maflin (29)
Quarter 3
Mark Selby (3) v Liang Wenbo (30)
Joe Perry (14) v Anthony McGill (19)
Jak Jones (22) v Ding Junhui (11)
Zhou Yuelong (6) v Hossein Vafaei (27)
Quarter 4
John Higgins (7) v Xiao Guodong (26)
Zhao Xintong (23) v Jamie Jones (10)
Jack Lisowski (18) v Shaun Murphy (15)
Robert Milkins (31) v Neil Robertson (2)
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