UK Championship 25/11 - 7/12

[daffie]

My hat off to Judd...he applied himself well, kept his focus and went on to pinch the frame...well done.

[P.Smith]

Seems like Judd will agree with you 100%...but he really needs to try and focus through these harder (longer, slower, boring, whatever) matches. He's not doing too badly atm but still every now and then I see him staring at the other table or stretching his arms trying to make the point...

I can understand why he would look over to the other table, watching Rod play so slowly probably frustrates him a bit.

[daffie]

I can understand why he would look over to the other table, watching Rod play so slowly probably frustrates him a bit.

...which is precisely the point I'm making

Edit : but still, like I said, he has done well and seems to go on and finish the match off now.

[Odrl]

Fu was a lucky man there, he played so poorly towards the end of that frame that he actually gave Murphy the chance to win it. Fu still alive then, but Murphy looks by far the more solid player at the moment.

[robertmac]

Trump did well to finish it off.
Murphy vs Fu looks like a close one.

[cyberheater]

Can only watch livescores at the moment.

Well done Judd. Come on Murphy.

It's going to a decider.

[robertmac]

Fu forces a decider after Murphy left a sitter
on a poor safety. I hope Murphy wins but
not too disappointed if Fu does.

[andy carson]

BBC on drugs yet again, leaving it at crucial point in deciding frame for a bloody repeat of eggheads......

[neuronic]

Fu through.

[Dr_Doctor]

What a nervy decider. Finally, we got somebody who completed a comeback.

Well done Fu.

[cyberheater]

Well done Fu.

Feel sorry for Murphy

[ADR147]

BBC on drugs yet again, leaving it at crucial point in deciding frame for a bloody repeat of eggheads......

somebody would lose their job if i were in charge of the BBC - stupidity personified.

[brusque]

What a champion Fu is .... people can say whatever they want but Fu was 7 times a better player than Smurf on safety and that's why he beat him with his C game

[Giggity1984]

BBC on drugs yet again, leaving it at crucial point in deciding frame for a bloody repeat of eggheads......

Even worse Hazel basically narrated "Tough **** folks" as they went off. Lol.

[Odrl]

6-5 on the final black, just the way I like it. :smile:

Murphy looked like the better player throughout the match, and indeed could have won the match earlier, when some bad luck and the poor conditions stopped him on a couple of occasions. But in the end he has to admit it was all in his hands there, but he played a shocking shot to snooker himself behind the blue.

Once again he came to a major tournament on the back of some success in the smaller tournaments, but he failed to deliver. This was the fourth major ranking event out of five this season where he has failed to reach at least the quarter-finals now. If you count the Champion of Champions as well, he now has 11 wins out of 11 against the lower-ranked players, and 0 out of 6 against fellow top16 players. :wink:

As for Fu, obviously he can improve in the next round, like he did from the 1st to the 2nd round last week, and he will need to, because Maguire was quite strong the other day. :smile: