Dott double?

[Cyril]

this has been the best tournament i've seen for quite some time.
obviously dott is playing very well, davis and mcmanus are playing very well. ebdon made 4 centuries and several more 70+ breaks and now leading bingham 6-2. higgins is also on top form, leading lee 7-1 with 3 centuries. ding played connvincingly against day. but i don't like the way ronnie plays, it's so hard to compete with top players, it'll be impossible if he losses his competitive drive as he claimed. hendry, williams and maguire i don't really fancy, they're just too inconsistent to be deserved winners. so i would think dott has a good chance of getting into the semi, or even the final, but can't see him winning it.

Good post, except, if one of the three you mentioned did happen to win it, it would be well deserved, given the quality of the opposition left.

[gensdon]

you are sbsolutely right! haha

[Cyril]

that's a sign of the drink, Sir, to miss tpye!

[Valderie]

I think playing in the Premier League has done Graham the world of good both in confidence and sharpening up his play, he's flying round the table these days.

[missneworleans]

I haven't seen that shot. How soon video appears?

[dantuck_7]

Hello, I've been at work all day - can someone describe this magical blue or post a clip?

Thanks Dan.

[gingerale]

Dott appears to be playing fantastically. Does anyone think he could win the UK and World in the same year?

Yes.

I'd like to watch Steve Davis move on to the semi-final though.

[April madness]

Dott has played really well so far in UK championship but IMvvHO the matches with MacKenzie and Hull couldn't be named the real testers... Both of them were playing well in the first rounds, but also Holt and Robertson had obviously very bad days for them. Hope to see Graeme can play well in quarters where the opponent will be more serious.

[Mitsuko]

The real question is, can he keep his form to the WC? and break the curse??

[The Statman]

Hello, I've been at work all day - can someone describe this magical blue or post a clip?

Thanks Dan.

The blue was on its spot and the pink was a couple of inches from the baulk cushion. The cue-ball was close to the right-hand cushion, roughly where the baulk line meets the cushion.

Dott slammed the blue into the left top pocket, screwing the white back to the baulk cushion for the pink. A good positional shot from the pink to the black (on its spot) enabled him to steal the frame.

[elvaago]

I mentioned this once. I think Dott will break the curse. He's one of the few players who can carry form over to very long matches and also do it for an entire season, where other players burn out after half a season and lose the plot. Dott's skill is not natural talent, it's not potting balls, or safety play. Dott's talent is that he is steady as a rock, determined, and he never gives up. He's very similar to Ebdon in that regard, but to Dott it comes more naturally, as Ebdon is a very emotional guy, who has to bottle his emotions up in order to play properly. Dott's steadiness comes from being naturally less emotional.

So I will repeat myself: Mark my words. Dott will break the Curse!

The real question is, can he keep his form to the WC? and break the curse??

[Black_cat]

I for one hope the curse will never be broken. It has become tradition, part and parcel of the game and I like it this way. Just like commentators never actually saying "Oh, he's going for the maxi". The Scottish play curse revisited.
But then again if he does hats off to him. And still...