Granite wrote:Ronnie has more titles because his game is better suited against the field (not that Selby's isn't bad ofc) but his style of play will allow him to win more vs the field whereas Selby has to give more extra, even against lower ranked players.
But against Selby, his game doesn't fly as much apart from the odd best of 11 match. Hence peak for peak, one match to decide it all, Selby's going to come out the winner.
Ronnie has never won a ranking event final in 4 attempts against Selby and was extremely lucky to win the SF in 2020. Ronnie had given up, he had no answers to Selby so just started to hit and hope. I took it as a compliment compared to disrespect actually, that Selby's so much better than Ronnie on a 1 v 1 that Ronnie's only hope to win against him is to rely on luck.
Only Selby can do that to Ronnie.
I’m not sure I understand your first point. Loads of players play with the same style of play as Ronnie - Selby is more of an outlier - with a fraction of the success.
Selby’s also capable of playing the same way against lower-ranked players and used to way more than he does now (although this has changed a little in the last season or two.)
When has Selby beaten Ronnie playing at his peak? One of Selby’s strengths is his ability to disrupt Ronnie from his peak.
Is the Welsh Open more important than The Masters?
Dismissing the World SF as lucky is kind of harsh. Very few players if any could have done what Ronnie did in those last three frames, that’s not luck.
I agree Selby should see the hit and hopes as a compliment rather than disrespect. And I think we all know he wouldn’t have been talking about disrespect had he won the match - which he would have expected to once he saw that happening.