2018 World Championship

[JimMalone]

This sadly seems to be one of this bad sessions Higgins has occasionally had this season. Hopefully he can limit his deficit today.

[mcsilks]

Lifetime ban from the Crucible if your cell phone rings during play.

No excuse for it whatsoever.

[gavpowell]

Ebdon continuing his nonsense about players being exhausted by time they reach the end of qualifying - no evidence for it at all, and if anything it makes the players sharper from round 1 in my opinion.

[JimMalone]

Trump does a Higgins on Higgins and steals frame 3 with a clearance.

[peterpackage]

Man the BBC is going in hard on how bad Trump's cue action is

[Stony152]

Before the quarter-final matches started Allen was a slight favorite over Wilson and Ding was a fairly big favorite (1/2) over Hawkins. Now, in progress, both are close to pick 'em. My money would be on Wilson, with the Ding match really too close to call and probably headed for 13-12 or 13-11.

Higgins is a 3/5 odds on favorite and Trump is 6/5. That suggests about a 60% chance of Higgins winning. I have a feeling that, with the pressure off, Trump will surprise some people. Williams is about as big a favourite over Carter as Ding was over Hawkins before that much started. As strange as it may seem, I think that match is more about how Carter plays. If he can maintain the level that he had late in the match against O'Sullivan, I'm not sure if Williams can stay with him.

[Stony152]

Ding
Trump
Williams
Allen
Wilson
Higgins
Hawkins
Carter

[Dark]

The closer to the top of the list the better,

Higgins
Ding
Williams
Trump
Hawkins
Allen
Carter
Wilson

[Dark]

somewhere in the world the sun is over the yard-arm, so open up the tinny!
:biggrin:

I don't own a boat.

[thai_son22]

I would love to see Ding win it.
Second choices would be one of the old masters Higgins or Williams.
I would also be fine with Wilson and Hawkins.
Allen would be okay.
The only two I wouldn't like to see lifting the trophy would be Trump and Carter.

would also like to see ding, followed by williams. not so much higgins. definitely dont want carter to win it

[JimMalone]

I would love to see Ding win it.
Second choices would be one of the old masters Higgins or Williams.
I would also be fine with Wilson and Hawkins.
Allen would be okay.
The only two I wouldn't like to see lifting the trophy would be Trump and Carter.

[Guitarnolife]

Would like to see Ding or Williams to win this, maybe Hawkins. Big no to Allen and Higgins. Carter would be a disaster. Wilson just doesn't turn me up. And Trump is just a bad loser who'd like to be Ronnie but is nowhere near his level.

Dont get me wrong no offense to anybody, just rooting for my favourites.

[DeanH]

I am in Australia so it night time and Autumn.

I have put my predictions in the predictions thread.

somewhere in the world the sun is over the yard-arm, so open up the tinny!
:biggrin:

[DeanH]

I'm really warming to Kyren, I like his style, both on and off the table. But I'd be happy for any of these to lift the trophy.
Hawkins v Ding is getting very nervy indeed. Did you see Ding's impression of Joe Perry when Barry potted the red from a miscue?

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or as I call them "Perry's calisthenics"

[JimMalone]

Ding can actually be okay with being only 3-5 behind after the first session. He didn't play very well.