Strange Tournament

[thinsy]

You've got a tournament with the top 16 players in the world and people are saying there are shock results!!! Really??? come on.........

Ding beat Williams: Williams is currently ranked 3rd to Ding is 4th. Not exactly a shock result is it?

Carter is 7th and ebdon is 12th.. If anyone knows how to break a player down it's Ebdon.

I think it's good that you haven't got the same handful of players winning all the time... The PTC's didn't have a double winner, surely that proves that the standard between all pro's is close.

[bonoman1970]

Last nights match was one of the lowest quality I have ever seen, both players would have struggled to win a local league match. The standard has been pretty poor throughout the week and last years world final was the poorest final Ive ever watched , though people just keep going on at how the standard is the highest its ever been , these are the top 16 best players in the world ,though they are struggling to pot a mid range straight red.....Im confused.com!

[thinsy]

im enjoying this tournament

you crack me up

I wonder if he enjoyed the cricket?

[wildJONESEYE]

Last nights match was one of the lowest quality I have ever seen, both players would have struggled to win a local league match.

i agree last nights match was pretty low but by the end it got exciting though.

and also how long are players going to blame the table after 3 or 4 frames any good pro would realise how the run of the table is and adapt to conditions so that excuse im sorry is a cop out and don't wash with me.

[bonoman1970]

I think the players are too pampered ,just playing with the sterilised same conditions all the time ,even when they practise, so they do struggle to adapt their game though in my opinion being able to adapt has got to be the makeup of any great player. And I cant beleive that the table last night was really that much different from normal , just slightly more sluggish, every Joe up and down the country will regularly battle and awful tables ,a million miles away from the one at wembley .
Also ,how bad must Murphy be feeling today after losing 6-3 to Cope- who has serious deficiencies in his cue action and struggling to even hit the white straight ?
.............well gutted !

[cebs]

I think there have been some good matches already and a few crackers are set to follow but last night standard was well below par.

I think that was the worst I have ever seen Murphy cue towards the end, missing shots that before xmas he would have got with his eyes shut.

How Cope won with 1 break over 50 if i remember right is unbelievable, they were about a dozen chances each in the final few frames no-one seemed to be able to clean up.

The table may have been playing so but like JV said you have to deal with it but Cope was playing total rubbish i felt but somehow he is 10-1 and king 20-1 to win the whole thing, king will walk all over him unless he is a different standard today.

I reckon Ding Vs Robertson final now, a rematch this time to Ding to break the thunder no lose in final record.

[PatBlock]

It's amazing, you get a tournament with players banging in century after century, and this forum is full of people complaining about the tables being too easy, and the pockets like buckets, and how the standard's not what it used to be.

Then you get one like this, really entertaining IMO with lower ranked players prevailing through good solid match play, but apparently for some, the standard's not up to much, because there haven't been enough centuries, and nearly all the top seeds are out??
I suppose the old adage "You can't please all of the people, all of the time" fits nicely.

As for Murphy v Cope, EVERY tournament has a few matches that don't spark, so what?, they're human beings for Gods sake. On the whole, I think this has been a fascinating Masters so far, and we're going to end up with a new winner. Bring it on!

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[LittleMissAlexa]

the ammount of centuries normally denotes the quality of the break building hense the players arent break building well

the table didnt lay well at all last night ive seen faster tables with beer stains on them

one strange fact is jamie cope has to play twice in two days at this stage why couldnt marco fu's match of been tonight its a touch unfair that

[LittleMissAlexa]

professional tables arent like buckets the pros normally make them look like buckets

the good players make snooker look easy it isnt easy

if any pockets are like buckets the ones at your local club are


pro pockets are ridiculously tight

[wildJONESEYE]

It's amazing, you get a tournament with players banging in century after century, and this forum is full of people complaining about the tables being too easy, and the pockets like buckets, and how the standard's not what it used to be.

Then you get one like this, really entertaining IMO with lower ranked players prevailing through good solid match play, but apparently for some, the standard's not up to much, because there haven't been enough centuries, and nearly all the top seeds are out??
I suppose the old adage "You can't please all of the people, all of the time" fits nicely.

As for Murphy v Cope, EVERY tournament has a few matches that don't spark, so what?, they're human beings for Gods sake. On the whole, I think this has been a fascinating Masters so far, and we're going to end up with a new winner. Bring it on!

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TOTALLY AGREE

[Rivers]

I would only say that it has been a strange tournament, some unexpected result.
But there have been some quite interesting matches so far so I`m not complaining.

Last nights match definately was with quite a lot of mistakes, but was we saw sometimes it just happens

As someone previously mentioned, I would now expect Ding vs Robertson in Final, but its still a wild guess as we saw over these 4 days how the players you would expect to win just loose the match

[dcrackers147]

professional tables arent like buckets the pros normally make them look like buckets

the good players make snooker look easy it isnt easy

if any pockets are like buckets the ones at your local club are


pro pockets are ridiculously tight

Great post so many wallys on here have no idea. Being a regular century break club player and haven played on quite a few pro tables the difference is beyond belief. A shot along the rail on a club table at the right pace is a certainty, however on a pro table you avoid them at all costs. i have seen players buzz throughout pro-ams making frame winning breaks all over the place, watching them you often think to yourself how is this guy not pro, they then play the final on a pro table and struggle to make 30. You cant drop balls in the middle pockets at all angles on a pro table and there is almost a 90 degree and on the near jaw, in otherwords there isint one. I must say the Star tables are more forgiving than the Riley Arrastercrats but still alot tighter than anything average joe has played on.

[bonoman1970]

[QUOTE=PatBlock;547760]It's amazing, you get a tournament with players banging in century after century, and this forum is full of people complaining about the tables being too easy, and the pockets like buckets, and how the standard's not what it used to be.

Then you get one like this, really entertaining IMO with lower ranked players prevailing through good solid match play, but apparently for some, the standard's not up to much, because there haven't been enough centuries, and nearly all the top seeds are out??
I suppose the old adage "You can't please all of the people, all of the time" fits nicely.

As for Murphy v Cope, EVERY tournament has a few matches that don't spark, so what?, they're human beings for Gods sake. On the whole, I think this has been a fascinating Masters so far, and we're going to end up with a new winner. Bring it on! :




Ebdon played very very average in winning his match, Marco FU likewise...
Higgins ,O/S, Carter ,Maguire, Selby, really struggled
Cope and Murphy played terribe.....
From what ive seen ,I dont think its been exciting at all ,been a very dull ,low quality tournament so far

[superaussie]

I wonder if he enjoyed the cricket?

isnt this a snooker forum

[PatBlock]

From what ive seen ,I dont think its been exciting at all ,been a very dull ,low quality tournament so far

Not the way I see it at all, thankfully.

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