Masters - 1st Round Discussion

[montoya10]

That was what they call a turning point.

[montoya10]

That was what they call a turning point.

A couple of inches meant 4-4 instead of 6-1.

[Odrl]

A good comeback from Ding, with a bit of luck and quite a bit of help from O'Sullivan as well. We've seen O'Sullivan lose a lot of matches from these positions recently, but I get the feeling he still has something left. Even though he lost the last three frames, he played a couple of really good single shots, he just failed to take advantage of them.

[montoya10]

Interestingly, it's not his potting that has been letting him down in this match. It's his cue ball control. I'm surprised by this fact.

[montoya10]

Dare I say, through that Twitter banter, Ronnie and MJW ended up exchanging spirits!!

Ronnie not missing anything from distance, in other words..

[attilahun]

A nice century to finish things up...well done Ronnie...

[montoya10]

Well, very good match to begin with, I think.

Ronnie looked quite good at times with his long game and safety. He made some errors to let Ding back in this one, but still, deserved to win at the end.
Looking forward to MJW's game now.

[Mr P]

A good game.

Disappointed to see Ding go out first but Ronnie is difficult to beat no matter how he plays.

[coomsey76]

Indeed nice start to the tournament.....

Well happy to see Ronnie great through and to see him finish the match off with a century!!

MJW up next then!!

[FerruleFox]

What a fascinating interview with Ronnie there! His candid honesty about balancing career and family was just remarkable.

It'll be interesting to see if he does follow through with playing in the qualifiers instead of travelling for ranking points if he does fall out of the top 16.

[Vex 147]

Just glad that Ronnie won. It could have gone either way towards the end. All the way now Ron!!!

[sealer]

Ronnie needs to get used to fast match clotch instead of the one he has at home, ding was clearly afraid of him

[Camio]

Ronnie needs to get used to fast match clotch instead of the one he has at home, ding was clearly afraid of him

He's been playing on these for years now :P

[Mr P]

Hoping for a Maguire win tonight, get a big boy out of the way.

[nugget1234]

good match this afternoon, should be another good one tonight, im wondering what's going on with michaela tabb, on her website she has put the masters down on her schedule, but she isn't doing it, bit odd?