Ronnie O'Sullivan v Matthew Stevens - Semi Final

[montoya10]

Carter will have beaten Trump, Jones, Maguire and (very likely) O'Sullivan on his way to the title if he can win it all. And that makes him a worthy champion.
That said, he's without a doubt O'Sullivan's easiest opponent in this tournament. Ebdon, Williams, Robertson, Stevens en route to the final is a very difficult path.
Maybe one of the toughest since Hendry's legendary string of opponents in 1999 ( Hunter, Wattana, Stevens, O'Sullivan, Williams ).

[Masterdoctorgenius]

true, but would anyone put any money on carter actually for the title? He just doesnt strike me as a world champion for some reason. . .

if carter is crowned world champions i will ask myself

how he earned it? definetly he beat the opponents to win it, but he hardly showed any form before the WC and suddenly he will become WC

his record against ronnie (most probably) wont be a issue for him though he never won against him, but maguire didnt punish him enough

more than five frames could have been stolen by maguire but he bottled it. he twice got the snookers he needed but couldnt pinch the frame.

had he done it surely this would have hurt ali all the match. u have to win those kind of frames to have a mental advantage. remeber the two matches against neil ali had in 2009 and 2010. neil stole so many frames on the black that ali went mental and would have liked to smash the table into pieces. maguire totally understimated him
but all credit to ali for reaching the final

ronnie wont underestimate him. he is a class above all in this champoinship. every time when it seems the opponent gets back into the match he respones immeditly. and he will punish ali more than anyone did. carter will be well rested unlike 2008 but ronnie knows what he has to do. We might see a masterclass from the master. cant see this getting close. if it get close i can see only one winner. and it is not ali.

i quite liked ali but after his comments on trump he lost all symphaty.

[checkSide]

Put your house on O'Sullivan for the title.

[breakman16]

Masterdoctorgenius was right in the end, as soon as Stevens gave himself a decent chance and the pressure came on, he played two bad shots to go 15-9 behind. He was winning the session 4-1 at one point and I'm sure he was looking for 13-11. He leveled the session, but that's not much help now, he'd left himself too much to do. O'Sullivan is just that bit stronger.



That's true, but on the other hand, three out of three is not much of a pattern. Especially as two of those finals were against players who had not even won a single ranking event at the time. He did the harder work in some of the earlier rounds of those tournaments.

And if you look at all of his four-session matches, including semi-finals, it's something like six out of eleven.

true, but would anyone put any money on carter actually for the title? He just doesnt strike me as a world champion for some reason. . .

[Odrl]

Masterdoctorgenius was right in the end, as soon as Stevens gave himself a decent chance and the pressure came on, he played two bad shots to go 15-9 behind. He was winning the session 4-1 at one point and I'm sure he was looking for 13-11. He leveled the session, but that's not much help now, he'd left himself too much to do. O'Sullivan is just that bit stronger.

yeah was saying today ronnie has never lost a world final!

That's true, but on the other hand, three out of three is not much of a pattern. Especially as two of those finals were against players who had not even won a single ranking event at the time. He did the harder work in some of the earlier rounds of those tournaments.

And if you look at all of his four-session matches, including semi-finals, it's something like six out of eleven.

[breakman16]

the final will be interesting if it is Roniie vs Ali as a) Allister has never beaten Ronnie b) Ronnie has never lost a best of 35 match in professional competition

yeah was saying today ronnie has never lost a world final!

[breakman16]

I did after the first few frames, but he played some decent stuff afterwards to get out of jail and surprise me.

what do you mean? do you not rate ronnie at all? I know not everyone likes him but to question his ability is pure wrong, to even have the ability to be the best of all time like he does is incredible, he's a legend of world sport, if his head was more balanced he could have most of hendry's records for himself!

[Table_of_Reds]

Bloody nice bloke is Matthew Stevens.

Ahh he's a pussycat compared to Len Ganley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hx4tK0ylLc



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Brendan Moore would do that with your head.

[PatBlock]

I'm sure that's true, but one step out of line I reckon and BAM! Right in the car door. They'll know not to be too funny.

Ahh he's a pussycat compared to Len Ganley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hx4tK0ylLc



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[LittleMissAlexa]

the thing is everything has its first time
hopefully not then

but 2 firsts?

[Masterdoctorgenius]

the final will be interesting if it is Roniie vs Ali as a) Allister has never beaten Ronnie b) Ronnie has never lost a best of 35 match in professional competition

the thing is everything has its first time
hopefully not then

[LittleMissAlexa]

the final will be interesting if it is Roniie vs Ali as a) Allister has never beaten Ronnie b) Ronnie has never lost a best of 35 match in professional competition

[PatBlock]

What a chance to throw away. 13-11 was well within reach.

Would have made a much more tantalizing final session as well.

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[snookerfran]

He didn't play a bad session. You can't expect one to play out of this world stuff in every session, so, I thought both played some fantastic match snooker.

Yep, some really good quality snooker there. Shame for Stevens, but it was never going to be easy.

[peterpackage]

That was a stunning session of snooker , just so engrossing

i want Ronnie to win but i'm glad Matthew has given a good account of himself

Still pissed Trump isn't gonna be Ronnie's opponent in the final, that would have been a corker