Grand Prix 2009 - 1st round discussions!

[montoya10]

Ronnie wins 5-3 and through

Good day for me, my both favourite players got the wins..

[darrus]

Like German journalists like to say - Hauptsache gewonnen.
If he intends to play like that against Higgins tomorrow, then I'm glad I'm gonna miss that match

[doorag]

edit: nevermind

[Mal]

I hope that the Ronnie - John match is better than the last time they played, which was disappointing in terms of standard, but especially so from John Higgins perspective.
A few interesting clashes, such as Williams Hendry, Allen - Cope. Robertson - Doherty (again after Shanghai)

[Odrl]

I see, you just can't wait to see a mouth-watering Burnett vs Higgins clash

Nah, looking forward too O'Sullivan-Higgins as much as anyone, but I did find myself cheering on Burnett towards the end.

O'Sullivan not great today. I'd say Higgins is favourite, judging by what we've seen this week. But tomorrow is another day.

[very.tee]

hello everyone

I see they've done the draw! What are the chance of a Higgins-O'Sullivan eh? The match I'm most looking forward to is Cope vs Allen it should be really close (if Mark doesn't play like he did in the first round that is) but overall I'd like to see Mark go through

Not too keen on Peter Ebdon - Mark davis though I'd like to see Mark win that one for the purley selfish reason of my snookermanager team

[spike]

I hope that the Ronnie - John match is better than the last time they played, which was disappointing in terms of standard, but especially so from John Higgins perspective.
A few interesting clashes, such as Williams Hendry, Allen - Cope. Robertson - Doherty (again after Shanghai)

Yes, some good matches in prospect to look forward to without any doubt.

[Mal]

hello everyone

I see they've done the draw! What are the chance of a Higgins-O'Sullivan eh?

15 - 1 (unless it was fixed - only kidding!)

Should be a strong QF line up as the unseeded players who got throught have been drawn against the seeds, but of course there will probably be one or two more shocks in store.

[ore]

Ronnie is playing with distain.
By that I don't mean just lack of respect for Jamie.
I mean when he isn't pressured into playing his best he won't.
It's why he misses distainfully easy shots yet makes the incredible ones.
Then he starts feeling distain for himself... and then who knows!
It is most unlikely you would ever see O'Sullivan playing Higgins like this.


=o\

Noel

yeh, that was a little too obvious...(though my dictionary has it as disdain, not distain). i even caught myself cheering for burnett a little

so then still... can he really play much better when he meets higgins?
and how did higgins looked like this time?
i did not see his match with joyce (could be that joyce was simply not ready, in such cases top guys dont need to do anything special to win easily).

[Looki]

Matches about to begin again.

[Odrl]

and how did higgins looked like this time?
i did not see his match with joyce (could be that joyce was simply not ready, in such cases top guys dont need to do anything special to win easily).

He was pretty good. Not brilliant, but better than in Shanghai. Probably the best of all players so far, apart from maybe Williams.

[noel]

(though my dictionary has it as disdain, not distain.

Quite right.
Thanks ore... correction made!


=o)

Noel

[noel]

Matches about to begin again.

Reasonable image quality.
English commentary.
[ if Virgo says, "Now where's the cueball going" I will look for Chinese channel ]
I'm happy with http://www.justin.tv/sportstime



=o)

Noel

[spike]

Who's watching the Walden/ king match?

I think this match could go close.

[darrus]

I'm watching both. You maybe right, spike, this can be a very close match.