Pink Ball's top matches: last 32, match three

Here's match three, 72 hours to vote.

John Higgins 10-9 Ronnie O'Sullivan, Masters 2006 (9)

VERSUS

Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-9 Judd Trump, Tour Championship 2019 (24)

This is likely to be a tight one just because the 2019 match is fresher in people's minds. Higgins-O'Sullivan is the superior match, and probably the greatest two-session match ever played. It's ending was also even more exciting than O'Sullivan-Trump's, it's just it was longer ago.

Pink Ball wrote:This is likely to be a tight one just because the 2019 match is fresher in people's minds. Higgins-O'Sullivan is the superior match, and probably the greatest two-session match ever played. It's ending was also even more exciting than O'Sullivan-Trump's, it's just it was longer ago.

I agree that Higgins-O'Sullivan was the superior match overall but the Trump-O'Sullivan decider was more dramatic. It had a lot more twists and turns including a fluke and waistcoat foul and was also decided on the final black just like the O'Sullivan-Higgins match.

TheRocket wrote:

Pink Ball wrote:This is likely to be a tight one just because the 2019 match is fresher in people's minds. Higgins-O'Sullivan is the superior match, and probably the greatest two-session match ever played. It's ending was also even more exciting than O'Sullivan-Trump's, it's just it was longer ago.

I agree that Higgins-O'Sullivan was the superior match overall but the Trump-O'Sullivan decider was more dramatic. It had a lot more twists and turns including a fluke and waistcoat foul and was also decided on the final black just like the O'Sullivan-Higgins match.

Higgins' clearance topped all of that. Possibly the best ever, under the circumstances, since the other Higgins broke Jimmy White's heart.

yeah Higgins clearance was incredible no doubt. O'Sullivan actually still calls the Masters final 2006 as his most painful defeat.

Ronnie vs Higgins Masters.