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2019 Shanghai Masters, 9th-15th September - Eurosport

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  • #52
    Joe_ Public
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    Think he's just accepted its not going to happen at sheffield anymore and he can concentrate on being a beast rest of season, loves those bo7s, just get in and out quick as he can. If he needed just 1 to equal hendrys record, i think he might go all out for that, but fact it's two just maybe feels a mountain too high to climb.

    Murphy off the boil this frame, a gift for o'sullivan.


  • #53
    Slippin Jimmy
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    It's all up to Murphy now!


  • #54
    Joe_ Public
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    Murph making this interesting to be fair to him. Decider would be nice.


  • #55
    Frank O. Pinion
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    Great win by Ronnie. He seems to love this event (probably due to very good Shanghai sponsors), and really wants to win it, to start his season. When was the last time someone won the same major event three years in a row? Impressive stuff.

    On Ronnie's form and any decline, it seems the past few seasons when Ronnie wins an event, or multiple events like last season, he's perfect, "as good as ever". But, the moment he has a bad performance or loses in the early rounds (like he tends to do at the Crucible recently), he's "not the same anymore", "not intimidating anymore", etc. I've always loved watching Ronnie play, great performances, bad performances, to...bizarre performances. I'll also be fascinated to watch any downfall of his career, quick or slow, and when that does happen, how quickly (or not) he decides to give it all up.

    I really don't think he'll stick around in bad form, looking for an "Invitational Tour Card" in his late 50s, like the current Seniors champ.


  • #56
    zuutroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    Yea his recent results are
    -lost final to Trump in NI
    -won the UK
    -lost final to Trump in the Masters
    -lost early to Fu
    -won the Players Champ
    -won the tour Champ
    -that mess of a match in Sheffield
    -won in Shanghai

    Would be tough to find as good a run as that in his history I'd have thought.


  • #57
    The Nal
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    15 finals and 11 wins in 2 years. Playing part time.


  • #58
    Joe_ Public
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    zuutroy wrote: »
    Yea his recent results are
    -lost final to Trump in NI
    -won the UK
    -lost final to Trump in the Masters
    -lost early to Fu
    -won the Players Champ
    -won the tour Champ
    -that mess of a match in Sheffield
    -won in Shanghai

    Would be tough to find as good a run as that in his history I'd have thought.

    I'd say you'd just have to check back on Hendry. Maybe the season he won 9 titles, including 5 out of the 8 ranking tournaments (four in a row) in 1990/91 in which, perhaps remarkably, he "only" got to the world qf. You could probably look at Davis too, there was one season around early 80s when he reached 8 finals and won them all. But we're talking indisputably about the 3 greatest players of all time, remarkable careers all three of them.


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