Masters First Round Discussion

[Forman]

Indeed, it can only get better after the interval...

lets hope so...

on another note, is anyone watching on german eurosport? those pro-active acne cream ads with american celebritys overdubed in german are halarious

[PaulTheSoave]

Hearing from the applause its not that bad, expect still around 600 people to be in on a monday morning which is equivalent to The UK final and 6 times more than it was at the Bahrain final

And poor audience as to be expected on a Monday morning.

[Forman]

trump on a 147 attempt

[miscuehamburg]

Trump misses the 13th red after 12xred+black. Maybe we see a real fight now?!

[Forman]

sooo many simple blacks off the spot being missed tonight, allen has been especially bad.

[miscuehamburg]

Nevertheless, he pots the big points like that blue in the 7th frame. Now it will be real difficult for Trump...

[Forman]

century for the trumpster makes it 5-4 to allen

[Rane]

Am I the only one sitting back with the impression that the best player lost ?

Any way, Allen took his chances and made the crucial balls when needed.

[Forman]

trump was ahead on every statistic... balls potted, pot success etc
pity the scorline didnt reflect it, seemed like trump missed at the really important times and allen took his chances when he needed to.

[MaartenM]

Trump was better yes, especially defensively (apart from that last snooker attempt..)
But as you said, Allen just had to prove the "more mature player" cliché and finished the job.

[Monique]

Am I the only one sitting back with the impression that the best player lost ?

Any way, Allen took his chances and made the crucial balls when needed.

Well all statistics were in favour of Judd Trump: potting success, long potting success, etc. But mainly due to his two centuries. He missed quite a few crucial ones. Position was often poor and shot selection iffy especially before MSI. And after MSI he had a lot on his hands ...

[jedicho]

Just to say it was my first time at a live snooker tournament yesterday with my girlfriend and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Dott - Maguire was a good match to lead to the afternoon main event which was exciting. Atmosphere was great and was lucky that my first live experience were 2 such close matches!

I was the young guy with glasses wearing the ape-snooker evolution t-shirt in case anyone spotted me

[Goldspark]

Is this Ding-Murphy match ever going to start?

[JiangYu]

Great Silence for David Vine. I was wondering why the players weren't called out in ordinary fashion.

[The Statman]

No score updates? The next match must surely be well underway by now?