Masters First Round Discussion

[wildhoney28]

Although not in the best of forms, Dott is playing a very positive and attacking snooker. Great to watch.

It is positive and attacking but both are making so many simple mistakes.
I hope after the interval game will be more fluent and then even greatest to watch.

[marshall]

Dott now 4-2 in front! C'mon Graeme, would be a great result for him to beat Maguire.

[very.tee]

Wow Dott 4-2 in front!
Maguire seems to be losing it...
This is interesting.

[hegeland]

Long pot success for Maguire is 29% (!!)

[marshall]

Dott now 5-2 in front!

[Mal]

i want o'sullivan to crush perry after he was humiliated last month. of all people to be beaten by... perry

Don't know much about snooker then! Ronnie is the best, but in their 3 matches this season, Perry should have won them all as he had the chances and his form in the last year deservedly puts him 7th in the world provisionally ahead of the likes of Higgins, Selby, Hendry. I do fancy Ronnie to come out with good form in this tournament.

As usual Dott needs a few chances per frame, but Maguire has been missing lots today and his safety ain't good. A chance to pull a frame back now.

[spike]

5-5 Maguire, Dott

[attilahun]

Maguire has the chance to win 6-5...great comeback

[João]

World class break in the decider by Maguire, but thing is Dott shouldn't really have wasted the chance of clinching the match being 5-2 in front. He probably won't be in the Masters in the next years if he is to come back to Wembley at all.

[spike]

Yes good break by Maguire to win the deciding frame, but he will have to improve on today to have a chance of winning the tournament!

[PaulTheSoave]

Nice tense match watched by a 1850 capacity audience. Its time WSA wake up and move a ranking tournament from Siberia (Telford and Bahrain) to the South of England. It just brings more to the game if there is a good crowd instead of dozens of empty seats.

[JiangYu]

O'Sullivan's playing really well out there!

[spike]

Yes but he's made a couple of unforced errors in this third frame!

[Alex0paul]

Deja Vu for Dott at the Masters. Lost from 5-2 up last year to Lee. At least there were no ranking points at stake.

I think the 1850 crowd had something to do with the fact O'Sullivan was playing as tickets included both matches.

[Ekphantos]

I think the 1850 crowd had something to do with the fact O'Sullivan was playing as tickets included both matches.

Interesting! I guess one has to wait until tomorrow to really compare then!