UK Championship 2015

ArmaniJeanss

Just a reminder that the second biggest event in the calendar starts today
TV Coverage starts on BBC and Eurosport from the second round on Saturday.
Defending champion Ronnie isn't playing but will apparently be in the Eurosport commentary box.

Its a full 128 player, multi table affair these days.

Link to draw here.
http://www.worldsnooker.com/betway-uk-championship-draw/

ArmaniJeanss

Ding JunHui the biggest casualty so far, beaten 6-2 by amateur Adam Duffy.
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Asked where he thought his match went wrong, Ding said: "It was crap. ****ing four tables and everything is going wrong.

"I don't want to say any more about this. It's just crap. It's for amateurs."

In 2013 the format changed to a flat draw with 128 players starting in the same round, meaning the early stages involved more tables and more cramped conditions, with four in the main hall and four in the sports hall.

paulie21

Peter Ebdon knocked Stuart Bingham out 6-3

Arthur Daley

Selby making hard work of it cuurently heading for 3-4. Hawkins complaining about the tables after his defeat. Wonder if the top players will put enough pressure on to get this format looked at for next year. This is the second biggest tournament after all.

Just checked up there jimmy only lost 6-5 friday night to miss the televised stages. Jimmy's appearances at the latter stages of the bigger tournaments getting very rare now.

vienne86

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Selby making hard work of it cuurently heading for 3-4. Hawkins complaining about the tables after his defeat. Wonder if the top players will put enough pressure on to get this format looked at for next year. This is the second biggest tournament after all.

Just checked up there jimmy only lost 6-5 friday night to miss the televised stages. Jimmy's appearances at the latter stages of the bigger tournaments getting very rare now.

Selby is some gritty performance. He was behind fro the whole match and ame back from 'snookers required' to win two frames and beat Jones 6-5 last night - it was gripping stuff.

Arthur Daley

Yeah selby match was a bit epic. Selby was lucky given the match stats.

Trump steamrolling liang wengbo. Three frames to nil without a sniff of a point for liang.

vienne86

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Yeah selby match was a bit epic. Selby was lucky given the match stats.

Trump steamrolling liang wengbo. Three frames to nil without a sniff of a point for liang.

It's 4-2 now, but Trump looks comfortable all right.

Spudmonkey

Gutted for that poor lad with the 147 attempt. Some break with a poor miss on the black.

Say Your Number

Wenbo makes it 4-4, Trump is a bit flakey tonight.

vienne86

Say Your Number wrote: »

Wenbo makes it 4-4, Trump is a bit flakey tonight.

Just turned it back on and lo and behold, Trump is 4-5 down and firmly planted in his seat!

vienne86

Trump is out - some shocking misses in the last frame.

Frank O. Pinion

A lot of the Top 16 already out.

Peter Ebdon v David Grace
Martin Gould v Joe Swail
Liang Wenbo v Tom Ford
Marco Fu v Shaun Murphy

Neil Robertson v Stephen Maguire
Jamie Burnett v John Higgins
Luca Brecel v Matthew Selt
Dechawat Poomjaeng v Mark Selby

danganabu

Spudmonkey wrote: »

Gutted for that poor lad with the 147 attempt. Some break with a poor miss on the black.

It was cruel, I think it could take along time for him to get over it to be honest, the pot on the last red was incredible, but you could see him starting to wilt after the blue, he got a little worked up, he stumbled twice before potting the pink and really rushed the black.

vienne86

Shaun Murphy out! Wow.

Say Your Number

Burnett making a fight of it against Higgins, back to 4-4 now, he looked finished when it was 4-1, but he decided to be more aggressive in the last few frames and it's payed off, should be a good finish to it.

Say Your Number

Higgins holds out wins 6-4, Burnett had chances to win both frames but just not good enough to finish it off, but he did make Higgins fight for it.

Arthur Daley

Could be anyone in that top half in the final. You would think the winner comes from the likely selby v robertson semi. But as we saw in the trump game anything can happen in this tournament.

paulie21

Grace v Gould
Wenbo v Fu

Robertson v Higgins
Selt v Selby


You'd have to fancy Fu to come out of top half but bottom half is a toss up with Robertson, Selby and Higgins all capable

vienne86

Sorry to see Joe Swail go out.

paulie21

vienne86 wrote: »

Sorry to see Joe Swail go out.

This run should push him up the rankings and give him a better chance of qualifying for the Worlds

vienne86

So Fu knocked out by Wenbo - didn't see that coming.

Arthur Daley

Grace almost over line but gould could nick it now.

seanhynes

Gould will be as sick as a dog,The referee saved grace calling a foul and not a miss ,great match

tanko

The organisers should tell these two lads to go home, give the crowd their money back and get Selby and Robertson to come in tomorrow for the final.
This must be the worst match ever played, diabolical stuff.

paulie21

Still going on started at 1

tanko

paulie21 wrote: »

Still going on started at 1

Pity it didn't go to a deciding frame just for the crack. I'd say it would have lasted a couple of hours at least.

Say Your Number

Robertson is ruthless this evening

Boskowski

Murray and O'Sullivan look stoned actually

bren2001

Just flicked on to catch the end of Selby Robertson. Wenbo's reaction seemed OTT. It's a huge deal for him but calm down! Come on Selby though, only 4 down.

paulie21

147 from Robertson

Say Your Number

Brilliant clearance by Robertson, 6-4 now.

Say Your Number

Robertson stole that frame, looks like Wenbo has lost his chance

KERSPLAT!

Say Your Number wrote: »

Robertson stole that frame, looks like Wenbo has lost his chance

Can't see him coming back now but there's still hope

KERSPLAT!

Bad miss that red to the corner and after such a good brown

colossus-x

Robinson seem's slightly unsettled by Wenbo. I wouldn't write Wenbo off just yet.

colossus-x

Wenbo is too emotional. He needs to get that under control.

Spudmonkey

I like Wenbo. He's a real character. He isn't clinical enough though.

bren2001

Wenbo's antics at the table are ridiculous. If that's how emotionally invested he is in this, cannot see this turning in his favor. Awful pink to miss.

colossus-x

That's what I meant by being emotional. He needs to be serious now. ( to spudmonkey)

Spudmonkey

colossus-x wrote: »

That's what I meant by being emotional. He needs to be serious now. ( to spudmonkey)

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colossus-x

That's it, it's over.

sirwhy

colossus-x wrote: »

That's what I meant by being emotional. He needs to be serious now.

I like the odd bit of humour or jokes at the table, but Wenbo seems to be more focused on getting the audience to laugh than winning the title. Hence Robertson is 9-5 up now.

KERSPLAT!

Shocking pink

Say Your Number

Robertson steals another, really should be 7-7. I like Wenbo, he's a daft hoor whose madness is very entertaining.

colossus-x

He missed the green because he's unsettled by Wenbo.

bren2001

Wenbo, wenbo, wenbo.....

Kristopherus

Match over now after that miss.

colossus-x

The occasion has obviously got to Wenbo. What a shame.

colossus-x

Congrats Robinson !

vienne86

Robinson deserved that win, but I loved watching Wenbo. He will have learned a lot from this and I would say we will be seeing a lot more of him.

callaway92

colossus-x wrote: »

Robinson seem's slightly unsettled by Wenbo. I wouldn't write Wenbo off just yet.

colossus-x wrote: »

Congrats Robinson !

vienne86 wrote: »

Robinson deserved that win, but I loved watching Wenbo. He will have learned a lot from this and I would say we will be seeing a lot more of him.