Royal London Watches Grand Prix First Round Discussion

[Rane]

5 - 0 and the third century and 2 halfcenturies. Impressive.

[Marc]

selby wins easy 5-0 playing good solid snooker

other match, ebdon leads 3-1 at the interval.

[Marc]

Wow..Cope is 3-0 up. magsy not in the match yet..hope he "wakes up" before its to late. hes my lucky dip..hmm not so lucky it seems .

nope not lucky at all ella

cope won 5-1...Maguire had his best chance leading by 35 points, he missed the frame-ball last red along the top cushion. Cope,cleared the balls to force a re-spotted black. Then next frame after a couple of safety shots, mags took on a difficult cut to the green pocket and left it in the jaws of the pocker which allowed jamie Cope to go to the mis sessino interval at 4-0 up.
After the teabreak Cope opened frame five with a run of 22 but a loose positional shot left him with a tricky red. He didn't make it and Maguire got on the board with a break of 66 to win the frame. Mags in the next frame had chances but his miserable afternoon was completed when he missed a difficult green to a middle pocket and Cope cleared to the pink to win the match!

[Rane]

A funny fluke from Bedford. A shame for Ebdon after a great snooker.

[Alex0paul]

Does anyone else think Bedford's mannerisms around the table are like Joe Swail's?

[Matt_2745]

Anyone know the name of the ref in the Ebdon match yet?

[Matt_2745]

Ebdon wins 5-1.

This is the ref in question btw.

[poolqjunkie]

So, Ding has won. Good for him.
His opponent is from the local area, isn't him?
He made a 148 or something like that with a free ball a while back, right?

[Monique]

I watched the replay on BBC 2 lastnight of the match and the referees name was mentioned half way through the first frame but I forgot, damb.

I do remember they said that the referee was a local man, probably apart of the local referee's association in Scotland!!

While we are on the subject don't you all think Michael Holt is looking alot more relaxed around the table, whatever it is that he is doing I hope he keeps it up, his safety play is a hell of alot better too.

the snooker ref on tsf that someone requests the name of is Leo Scullion

thanks to an scottish ex member of the site. do you recognise him?

[Mitsuko]

Ding is on his way to win

[Ellena]

Ding is on his way to win

To win what ?

Seriously now..id be very happy if he won it..but unlikely.

[Kathrin]

maybe a rather stupid question from someone who doesn´t play (hence doesn´t know the mental strength you need): Last week, Ding got beaten 6-0 by Ronnie, yesterday he won 5-0. is it a PL thing (maybe he doesn´t take it "serious") or an opponent thing ("scared" of Ronnie but not of Burnett)?

[hegeland]

So, today's macthes have started:

Allister Carter (Eng) 14 (0-0) 0 Dave Harold (Eng)
Ronnie O'Sullivan (Eng) 24 (0-0) 1 Liang Wenbo (Chn)

1900 BST:
Shaun Murphy (Eng) v Adrian Gunnell (Eng)
Mark King (Eng) v John Parrott (Eng)

[Mitsuko]

Wenbo will beat O'Sullivan today, I'm 100% sure.

[Kimaster1976]

The signs are not good for Ronnie. He seems to be way out with some of his shots, and looks completely disinterested already.