The Masters 2016 10-17 January

[daffie]

Btw looking at Trump's face during the interview on the bbc at the moment, does his face look kinda strange to anyone else? It is rather flushed, perspiration on his forehead (noticed this a few days ago as well after his match) and has brownish splotches over and under his left eye, like he was hit in the head a couple of times Doesn't look all that healthy to me, maybe missing some sleep, but many something else...

[PatBlock]

Just read Selby's post match comments. Talking about his tie knot getting in the way of his shots...come on now, just say that Ronnie outplayed you this time ffs. Ronnie also saying that he was not feeling technically great...just admit that you played great man...

Dear me. c'mon Mark, man-up!

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[Neil Taperell]

Done well there Robertson to get back to Desmond at the interval .

[strike101]

this is a really honest interview from Judd. Saying how when hes playing guys he feels he should beat he gets a bit embarrassed and stupid thoughts go through his mind when those matches get close. Definitely not the kind of mentality you should have as a pro but kudos for the honesty!

[mikeyd100]

Quality stuff.
Paul Hunter would have loved to be battling amongst these lot.

[strike101]

Quality stuff.
Paul Hunter would have loved to be battling amongst these lot.

he's badly missed

[mikeyd100]

he's badly missed

Yeah man, still remembered.

[DeanH]

nice century by trump there, shame about the miss of the brown to the middle bag - he should do BW/Lux 'D' practise exercise

[jrc750]

nice century by trump there, shame about the miss of the brown to the middle bag - he should do BW/Lux 'D' practise exercise

Ha ha ha ...

[mikeyd100]

nice century by trump there, shame about the miss of the brown to the middle bag - he should do BW/Lux 'D' practise exercise

Haha, good one

[DeanH]

Hi all - first post here so glad to be onboard. Question - is this the most left handers ever in the masters? every other player seems to be a leftie in this tourny.

welcome to TSF
lefties at Masters? not sure but probably been about the same number in the top 16, with the likes of Robbo, Williams, Allen, Trump, and Ronnie (sometimes :wink
wait for a stato to come on

Hawk is L handed as well. That's a significant difference from the population ratio of 12%, though twice as many men are lefties compared to women, so 5/16 isn't far off for men. True ambidextrous is as rare as genius Deano. Hence why Ronnie is both.

in the last 10 Masters the number of left-handed players has been the following:
Masters 2016 - r10 l6 (37.5%)
Masters 2015 - r12 l4 (25%)
Masters 2014 - r12 l4 (25%)
Masters 2013 - r11 l5 (31.25%)
Masters 2012 - r12 l4 (25%)
Masters 2011 - r12 l4 (25%)
Masters 2010 - r11 l5 (31.25%)
Masters 2009 - r12 l4 (25%)
Masters 2008 - r15 l3 (2x wildcard) (16.6%)
Masters 2007 - r15 l4 (3x wildcard) (22.2%)
Masters 2006 - r15 l3 (2x wildcard) (16.6%)
(ROS as a Right)

so Andy-w, your feeling was correct

surveys shows the percentage of MALE population that are left varies from 11%-15% (depending on where you look), so the proportion in the Masters is very much above average

the current pro listing of 128 is r107 l21 (16.4%) so not much more than percentage for population

anyway, boring! :wink:
back to the match :biggrin:

[DeanH]

lovely 140

[jrc750]

Wow !!!!!!!

[streamer45]

You could say the standard has improved a tad

[PatBlock]

I Stand by my comment! when it comes to the art of break building and the way ronnie/higgins constantly develop balls around the black and attack the pack, I feel Neil and Trump are lagging behind!

I was just poking a little fun at the timing of your post, but thinking about it, they've both made 3 centuries in this tournament, same as Ron, Robbo's made a century of centuries in one season and is something like 440 atm, that's more than half way to Ronnie's total and Ron's got a 6 year start on him. Judd's 370ish and Ron's got 12-13 years head start on him. Higgins has the same lead, time-wise and is at 600ish. So not really a completely different level is it? Mind you, it would be interesting to see the overall 50+ and 70+ stats for them.

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