Bahrain Champ - semi-final discussion!

[Matt_2745]

3-1 Stevens, I think that could be pretty pivotal to be honest.

[Ekphantos]

too nerve wrecking to watch

[JiangYu]

Stevens has just missed a simple yellow which was frame ball

It was a huge kick.

[Rane]

And then he missed the pink after those excellent green and brown balls. That could be crucial. If he could have stolen that frame from Stevens, he would have had a psycological advance going to the break.

[submarine]

Agree with Matt that this was a pivotal frame. If Hendry had gone in 2-2 playing so badly I'm sure he would win this match. Hard to se him coming back from 3-1 missing such easy shots and having so many chances to close out the frame. I hope I am wrong.

[Matt_2745]

Can only hope that he's got some good practice in during the interval, he did take his cue out so he'll have had a go I guess. You could just tell from early in the second frame that he wasn't quite on it I think.

[Matt_2745]

Fair play to Stevens though, he has looked very good.

Haha I like the trophy

[submarine]

At least the trophy is better than the piece of glass at the masters!

[Matt_2745]

Yeah I've never liked the Masters one. Love this though

[Matt_2745]

Stephen 64-0 up but he's just played an absolute shocker...but Stevens misses the red he left and it looks like he's got away with it. 3-2 and he's hanging in there somehow.

The crowd is terrible again by the way, even with Rodney Walker making up the numbers there are still about 30 people there.

[submarine]

They don't love snooker as much in the middle east as we keep hearing!

[Matt_2745]

This could be a pretty big chance here, if Hendry can win the frame at one visit it will surely give him a big confidence boost, as well as levelling a match that he has barely been in.

[Matt_2745]

So of course it goes wrong the very next shot, think I'll keep my mouth shut

He's missed a tricky pink to the left-centre but at first glance doesn't appear to have left anything on. Lucky, but a big chance missed.

[Matt_2745]

Hendry goes in-off in the green pocket, Stevens in...but after a nice long red he's missed a blue into the corner. This is pretty scrappy right now.

[Rane]

I couldn´t really find out, what his intentions was when he hit that red ball on 64, was he trying to get the cueball behind it, or did he get a kick. It seemed very strange to me. It was obvious that he was after the 147.