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Good morning from Sheffield on the first day without morning play. It is raining heavily.
Well, another interesting day at Sheffield on Wednesday. Dott and Perry provided an absorbing contest, with three tons between them in four frames, and much scrappy drama intermixed. Meanwhile Liang Wenbo was a handful for Ken Doherty. Liang also provided one of the most sustained bouts of laughter I have ever witnessed at the Crucible. MC Rob Walker introduced the referees and, being used to the qualifiers where refs and players come on more or less together with no separate announcement, Liang followed Brendan Moore and Pete Williamson into the arena, before realising that he hadn't been expected quite yet! He waved and ran back offstage before his official announcement a minute or two later.
Ken Doherty lost a frame dramatically in the championship's first re-spotted black – by going in-off it, more or less ending his chance of a comeback. Hamilton will have it all to do today, but at least he averted the whitewash!
In between, the afternoon session gave us one of the most anticipated fixtures, and Ronnie O'Sullivan certainly didn't have it his own way with the tiny teenager Liu Chuang.
The Statman is back home today – only briefly for a snooker league match – but I'll be back in Sheffield tomorrow, so you haven't had your last postcard just yet!
Wish you (and I) were here!
Well, another interesting day at Sheffield on Wednesday. Dott and Perry provided an absorbing contest, with three tons between them in four frames, and much scrappy drama intermixed. Meanwhile Liang Wenbo was a handful for Ken Doherty. Liang also provided one of the most sustained bouts of laughter I have ever witnessed at the Crucible. MC Rob Walker introduced the referees and, being used to the qualifiers where refs and players come on more or less together with no separate announcement, Liang followed Brendan Moore and Pete Williamson into the arena, before realising that he hadn't been expected quite yet! He waved and ran back offstage before his official announcement a minute or two later.
Ken Doherty lost a frame dramatically in the championship's first re-spotted black – by going in-off it, more or less ending his chance of a comeback. Hamilton will have it all to do today, but at least he averted the whitewash!
In between, the afternoon session gave us one of the most anticipated fixtures, and Ronnie O'Sullivan certainly didn't have it his own way with the tiny teenager Liu Chuang.
The Statman is back home today – only briefly for a snooker league match – but I'll be back in Sheffield tomorrow, so you haven't had your last postcard just yet!
Wish you (and I) were here!
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