Grand Prix tournament discussion thread

[berolina]

BOOOOOOOOO!! hehehehe

Arrgh.

[berolina]

Yay, come on, Joe!

[hegeland]

So what has happened today? (I've missed everything)

Just saw Eurosport had coverage of two tables in high quality - and of course today I missed to program WM recorder! Argh!

[zombieman]

So what has happened today? (I've missed everything)

Nah...

Liu Song was well out of sorts tonight, nerves perhaps, but he performed on the level what his ranking suggests. Marco didn't even play well and still won comfortably.

Greene and Perry played a somewhat more exciting match, riddled with errors from both sides. The frames went pretty slowly with the occasional 30, 40 odd break. The only highlight for me were some cracking long ones by Greene.

[doorag]

Eurosport doesn't appear to be covering the first semi final..! :/

[Alex0paul]

Nah...

Liu Song was well out of sorts tonight, nerves perhaps, but he performed on the level what his ranking suggests. Marco didn't even play well and still won comfortably.

Greene and Perry played a somewhat more exciting match, riddled with errors from both sides. The frames went pretty slowly with the occasional 30, 40 odd break. The only highlight for me were some cracking long ones by Greene.

Liu Song had a fever tonight thats why he was sweating so much. The commentators said there was a bout of food poisoning going round as Swail had it and Maguire had it last night.

[Ellena]

Pity Liu wasnt feeling well , the way he played last night is way far from what he played in previous rounds, i expected a bit more from that match . Cant say i enjoyed it , therefore i watch it in bits ...Well done to Fu good chance for him to get in the final now.
So we have a top16 semi and a top 32 semi , who would have thought Greene would get that far ?! I think it is the best performance in his career , being in a semifinal of a ranking .

Anyone knows what time the matches start ?!

[Wim]

Not for me, I don't enjoy big breaks, I find them rather boring, so I don't like watching him. I also have problems with his behaviour, which in total makes him one of the players I want to lose in a tournament. But that's just my personal opinion, he surely is a good snooker player

You can say a lot about Osullivan but if you find his breaks boring then this says more about you than about ROS.

[hegeland]

13.00 BST
Ronnie O’Sullivan v Shaun Murphy. Referee: Michaela Tabb

18.20 (!?) BST (I think 18.00)
Gerard Greene v Marco Fu: Referee: Eirian Williams

[Wim]

Thanks Hege - and if the matches are boring we will have our favourite referee to look at

[Ellena]

13.00 BST
Ronnie O’Sullivan v Shaun Murphy. Referee: Michaela Tabb

18.20 (!?) BST (I think 18.00)
Gerard Greene v Marco Fu: Referee: Eirian Williams

Thanks Hege!

So O'Sullivan/Murphy match wont be live on ES ..bah! Again i am depending on live streaming, hopefully it will work well ...

[hegeland]

I think Eurosport will show the match live on internet, or perhaps that was what you meant?

http://www.eurosport.se/mclivevideo.shtml

[Ellena]

i meant Es International wont show snooker till 8pm my time , therefore no live transmission of the first semi on TV here.
So yep i will have to watch it online on Es.se or .ru , tho yday ES.se worked better than the Russian one.

[Black_cat]

The online Swedish Eurosport "shows" snooker from 14 to 18 and cycling from 15.30 to...something.
How can that be?
Are they that daft to not show the first semi at all?
And who was the genius planning the Murphy/O'Sullivan semi in the afternoon anyway?

[hegeland]

And the commentator is so much better!

Will be interesting to see how Greene can cope with the situation of beeing in a semi-final - he can get a bet stressed sometimes and start making bad decisions. It didn't seem to affect him yesterday though as he pulled off some really cracking shots towards the end of the match (which was the only part I watched).