Welsh Open 2010 (25-31 Jan)

celticfc

Woo Hoo, no sooner The Masters is finished, the Welsh Open starts.

TV Coverage:

BBC 2 Wales
(BBC 2 Wales is available to view in Ireland if you have digital satellite TV, to get it on a Sky Box or a FTA box go to add channels and enter 10.803 H 22000 5/6. More info here. BBC 2 Wales is not available on Chorus/NTL.)

Monday 25th
1300-1715
1900-2000
2320-2420 Highlights

Tuesday 26th
1300-1345
1430-1715
1900-2000
2320-2420 Highlights

Wednesday 27th
1400-1715
1900-2000
2320-2420 Highlights

Thursday 28th
1300-1715
1930-2000
2320-2420 Highlights

Friday 29th
1300-1715
1900-2100
2345-2435 Highlights

Saturday 30th
1330-1700
1900-2200
2320-2420 Highlights

Sunday 31st
1330-1700
1900-2200

BBCi (Red Button)

The Semi-finals and Final (Sat & Sun) are available live via the red button.


British Eurosport

Mon 25 Jan
1300-1630 & 1900-2200 LIVE on British Eurosport 2

Tue 26 Jan
1300-1700 LIVE on British Eurosport 2
1845-2299 LIVE on British Eurosport

Wed 27 Jan
1300-1700 LIVE on British Eurosport 2
1945-2200 LIVE on British Eurosport

Thu 28 Jan
1300-1630 & 1900-2200 LIVE on British Eurosport 2

Fri 29 Jan
1400-1600 & 1900-2200 LIVE on British Eurosport

Sat 30 Jan
1330-1645 LIVE on British Eurosport 2
1845-2200 LIVE on British Eurosport

Sun 31 Jan
1330-1630 LIVE on British Eurosport 2
1845-2200 LIVE on British Eurosport


Schedule of Play

Monday 25th

1pm
Q1 – Matthew Stevens v Barry Pinches
Match 2 – Neil Robertson v Liu Song
Match 7 – Peter Ebdon v Barry Hawkins

7pm
Table 1 - Match 1 – Ali Carter v Mark Davis
Table 2 - Match 5 – Marco Fu v Andrew Higginson


Tuesday 26th

1pm
Match 9 – Ronnie O’Suillivan v Stuart Bingham
Match 11 – Mark Allen v Tom Ford
Match 14 – Mark King v Marcus Campbell

NB 3pm
Match 8 – Stephen Maguire v Dominic Dale
Match 12 – Shaun Murphy v Winner Q1

NB 7pm
Match 4 – Ryan Day v Tony Drago
Match 3 – Stephen Hendry v Dave Harold


Wednesday 27th

1pm
Match 6 – Mark Williams v Fergal O'Brien
Match 10 – Ding Junhui v Jamie Cope
Match 15 – Joe Perry v Graeme Dott

NB 3pm
Match 16 – John Higgins v Michael Judge
Match 13 – Mark Selby v Judd Trump

NB 7pm
Match 17 – Winner Match 1 v Winner Match 2
Match 18 – Winner Match 3 v Winner Match 4


Thursday 28th

1pm
Match 20 – Winner Match 7 v Winner Match 8
Match 21 – Winner Match 9 v Winner Match 10
Match 22 – Winner Match 11 v Winner Match 12

7pm
Match 19 – Winner Match 5 v Winner Match 6
Match 23 – Winner Match 13 v Winner Match 14
Match 24 – Winner Match 15 v Winner Match 16


Friday 29th

1pm
QF1 - Winner of Match 17 v Winner of Match 18
QF2 - Winner of Match 19 v Winner of Match 20

7pm
QF3 - Winner of Match 21 v Winner of Match 22
QF4 - Winner of Match 23 v Winner of Match 24


Saturday 30th

1.30pm
SF1 - Winner of QF1 v Winner of QF2

7pm
SF2 - Winner of QF3 v Winner of QF4


Sunday 31st

1.30pm & 7pm
Final - Winner of SF1 v Winner of SF2

Myrddin

Gentleman...thank you! I was having withdrawls after the masters:D Does the red button work when you tune the channel manually with sky?

celticfc

EnterNow wrote: »

Gentleman...thank you! I was having withdrawls after the masters:D Does the red button work when you tune the channel manually with sky?

You're most welcome

No, the red button won't work when in other channels, however the BBC are only providing red-button live coverage for the semi's and final and it's available on any of the BBC regions, so it will work with 141/142 BBC1 NI/BBC2 NI.

I guess we've been spoiled with full blanket live interactive coverage on the big 4 BBC events that we've become so used to it. Even though BBC 2 Wales afternoon live coverage is great, the 1 hour in the evening is poor, but I suppose that's the way it always used to be before BBCi.

celticfc

Day 1 Results

1300 GMT:

Matthew Stevens (Wal) 5-4 Barry Pinches (Eng) (Qualifying Round)

Neil Robertson (Aus) 5-2 Liu Song (Chn)

Peter Ebdon (Eng) 0-5 Barry Hawkins (Eng)

1900 GMT:

Allister Carter (Eng) 5-1 Mark Davis (Eng)

Marco Fu (HK) 2-5 Andrew Higginson (Eng)

The HorsesMouth

Just watching the O'Sullivan v Bingham game. Ronne 4-1 up but I'm finding it increasingly uncomfortable to watch him play.
I know the O'Sullivan debate has been done to death but if Bingham wasn't useless, Ronnie would be out the door already,hes played some truly awful shots.
He just looks like he couldnt give a **** what happens. Such a pity.

Myrddin

The HorsesMouth wrote: »

Just watching the O'Sullivan v Bingham game. Ronne 4-1 up but I'm finding it increasingly uncomfortable to watch him play.
I know the O'Sullivan debate has been done to death but if Bingham wasn't useless, Ronnie would be out the door already,hes played some truly awful shots.
He just looks like he couldnt give a **** what happens. Such a pity.

He actually said in his post match interview, that if he had lost he "couldnt care less, at least I woulda got to go home". Nice Ronnie...nice.

Why arn't Vigro & co commenting on the BBC coverage?

celticfc

The HorsesMouth wrote: »

Just watching the O'Sullivan v Bingham game. Ronne 4-1 up but I'm finding it increasingly uncomfortable to watch him play.
I know the O'Sullivan debate has been done to death but if Bingham wasn't useless, Ronnie would be out the door already,hes played some truly awful shots.
He just looks like he couldnt give a **** what happens. Such a pity.

Bingham is a fantastic player and just couldn't string a frame winning break today, he will kick himself he couldn't get a result today.

Ronnie's acting like an idiot at the moment, his post-match interview with Oliver and Terry was pathethic. He was more interested in getting his bow-tie off than anything else. I hope Ding or Cope knock him out on Thursday.

EnterNow wrote: »

Why arn't Vigro & co commenting on the BBC coverage?

They never usually work on BBC Wales coverage. Oliver Hindes has been the presenter for some time now and Terry Griffiths, Dom Dale (when he's not playing), Darren Morgan and John Evans (who also does the trophy presentations) provide the commentary and analysis.

Up until last year or the year before Clive Everton was also present for the week. This has ceased following his BBC demotion :mad: last year.

TBF, I think I can happily wait until April to listen to Thorne slagging every player and shot off & Virgo ramble on with "WHERE'S THE CUEBALL GOING, WHERE'S THE CUEBALL GOING." :P

alang184

At least some good Irish interest with O'Brien and Judge.

celticfc

alang184 wrote: »

At least some good Irish interest with O'Brien and Judge.

Yeah, big day for the Irish tomorrow but they have rotten draws. There could have easily been more Irish in newport though as Ken Doherty, Gerard Greene and Joe Swail were all beaten in their last qualifying match. Davy Morris lost in the round previous.

Myrddin

celticfc wrote: »

TBF, I think I can happily wait until April to listen to Thorne slagging every player and shot off & Virgo ramble on with "WHERE'S THE CUEBALL GOING, WHERE'S THE CUEBALL GOING." :P

Sacrilege!!! Virgo, JP, Taylor, WT and even Ken now....love the proper BBC commentary

Am I alone on that one?

alang184

EnterNow wrote: »

Sacrilege!!! Virgo, JP, Taylor, WT and even Ken now....love the proper BBC commentary

Am I alone on that one?

Willie Thorne is alright, but goes a bit overboard too often. He was commentating on a Judd Trump match possibly in WSC 2009. Trump had a bad match, up against HIggins, and lost 6-4 (grand prix 2008 I think). Despite having beaten O'Sullivan, Trump still was at the full-end of Willie Thorne's criticism; stuff like "Oh, this is just terrible. Judd Trump is going to have to take a hard look at himself with what he's doing". I was thinking - I mean, he just beat O'Sullivan, took John Higgins to 6-4 in a ranking semi-final - Give him a break!

SD7792

EnterNow wrote: »

Sacrilege!!! Virgo, JP, Taylor, WT and even Ken now....love the proper BBC commentary

Am I alone on that one?

They certainly kick the crap out of the eurosport commentators :P

zack01

unbelievable session of snooker from o'sullivan, he beats Allen 5-2 should have made two max's and he still was grumpy in the interview! What a player, what an oddball, you gotta love him!!