Welsh Open match discussion

[Alex0paul]

Picture is fine with the BBC stream I am watching!!

I am watching it on the stream though. Now they are showing us Sky digital homepage!

[The Boss]

Superb century there from O'Sullivan. Effortless precision and striking of the cue ball. With King out of the tournament, i'm backing Ronnie to make it Ranking tournament number 20

[The Boss]

Vintage Rocket. A break of 71 makes it 3-1 at the mid session interval

[matoski]

Based on his performance I don´t see why Higginson is a deserved top 32. Actually he needs a good run in this tournament even to get close. As sympatic he may be, he hasn´t yet shown any signs that he isn´t a one hit wonder.

Based on his performance this year I don´t expect O´Sullivan to get in trouble, but it would be funny to see Trump getting a good run.

Oh yes he shows pretty good signs. Look at the result at the midsesion interval. He also knocked in a century against Hamilton in the previous round, a match which he comfortably won 5:2.

[matoski]

Superb century there from O'Sullivan. Effortless precision and striking of the cue ball. With King out of the tournament, i'm backing Ronnie to make it Ranking tournament number 20

Don't underestimate Steve Davis.

[The Boss]

O'Sullivan buried that long red like he meant it. Lethal

[Stella147]

4-2 to Ken with a 133 break there (I think!)

[Stella147]

3-3 Lee v Higginson

C'mon Stephen

[ferret]

Ronnie is on to play Davis then.

[Alex0paul]

Come on Andrew!

A win would setup a repeat of last years last 16 match with Michael Judge

[Black_cat]

^$%#$%#$%#$% about the missed maximum, grrrrr!
Other than that, compelling match. Young Trump is courageous and has a great long game, shame about the positional side of it.
It wasn't a walk in the park for Ronnie, far from it. Phew, first round is always the hardest!
Aaaand century No. 512.

It's friggin' difficult to watch snooker without them fags, take my word for it!

[Alex0paul]

^$%#$%#$%#$% about the missed maximum, grrrrr!

48 isn't really a missed chance for a maximum (although techincally it is but you get my drift)

[cueman]

Thought Trump looked pretty poor in the first half of the match. The interval seemed to settle him but he still needs to improve on all aspects of his game. I think he needs to slow down a bit, work on his cue action and cueball control and he might start to get results. Reminds me a bit of Selby when he first started out, he was quick and attacking before realising that this kind of game doesn't get results, unless you are O'Sullivan/Hendry class of breakbuilding.

[Black_cat]

48 isn't really a missed chance for a maximum (although techincally it is but you get my drift)

Our commentators, jokingly or not, start mentioning maxis after the 4th red-black, especially if staying on the black is the more difficult option. I do get your drift but Ronnie's intentions were so clear on that one...
Let me rephrase that, then: %$$#%#$%# about not winning the frame in one visit.

[Stella147]

5-3 to my boy Ken - yay