Welsh Open 2010 - Round 1 Dicussion

[montoya10]

John is 4-0 up
Need Judge to win one frame though!

No, finish him off John

[matoski]

4-0 to John there. It depends what you consider atractive. I find serious approuch to every match, great breakbuilding, great safety shots, tough clearences by Higgins much more atractive than watching some "I'm awfull with the cue ball, but thanx to God i pot everything" type of players such as Robertson, Wenbo, Allen etc.

[very.tee]

By the way, very, my favourite tennis player is David Nalbandian, who reached 6 GS semi-finals and 1 GS final up-to-date, but he is currently out of world's Top 100, due to a hip injury forcing him out of half of the last season..

ah, I know who he is I've seen him win too! That's really strange you haven't seen him win lately...

Judd let's Mark off by missing the pink... Come On the Hoover!!!:snooker:

[montoya10]

4-0 to John there. It depends what you consider atractive. I find serious approuch to every match, great breakbuilding, great safety shots, tough clearences by Higgins much more atractive than watching some "I'm awfull with the cue ball, but thanx to God i pot everything" type of players such as Robertson, Wenbo, Allen etc.

I love the risk of my favourite player losing out to an unknown player, which is just not happening to John for the last couple of seasons..

This is the reason I watched O'Sullivan v Bingham, but never had a look at Higgins v Judge, because the match had been decided before even it got started.

[montoya10]

ah, I know who he is I've seen him win too! That's really strange you haven't seen him win lately...

It is also strange that I haven't watched a televised maximum also, you know

[missneworleans]

Fight in Selby-Trump thats a bit strange round-up to the first round!

[cue1]

Mark nearly made another counter-attack in that frame but it wasn't to be...

Come ON Mark!!! :snooker::snooker:

[Mr P]

Come on Mark! 3-2 up. You can do it. This is probably the hardest First Round tie any top 16 player could have hoped for.

[montoya10]

Mark nearly made another counter-attack in that frame but it wasn't to be...

Come ON Mark!!! :snooker::snooker:

@ montoya10: Nalbandian was a very good player when he was in the top 8... My favourite ever was Pat Rafter & now Andy Murray

He really likes the cat and mouse race after he mathematically loses the frame..

[ore]

Perhaps it helped Ding to lead the one-year rankings coming into this tournament, a lead that is almost sure to slip away after this week..

Speaking of Neil's progress throughout the tournaments, you're right. But I don't think it is a speciality for him, it sounds more like a general tendency for today's top players to me.

Could well be a general tendency, at least from R1 to R2 it seems it is so also for not the very top of the top players.
But then some are quite constant (Higgins sometimes seems to be; maybe Maguire in a few last tournaments, yes maybe he upped his game later on but just a bit);
And some get too tired/drained (or something else? maybe years are getting in too) towards the very very end - same Higgins reaching so many semis; Ronnie lost 2 finals this season (including PL).

[missneworleans]

Great game Mark 4-2 ahead...I hope they share the next too
Well done Judge got a frame on the board...I hope John will win the next

[Mr P]

C'om Mark, just 1 more to go now!

[ore]

What is so far the highest break in the tournament?

[Mr P]

What is so far the highest break in the tournament?

129 by Jamie Cope this afternoon.

[miscuehamburg]

Nice ton from Mark. This is a difficult match for me 'cause I'm actually supporting both players....