Dafabet Masters Final : Barry Hawkins v Ronnie O'Sullivan

Sunday 17th of January @ 1pm & 7pm

Barry Hawkins v Ronnie O'Sullivan

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Good luck Ronnie!

Not a great record for Barry but we have to consider that Hawkins before 2013 was a very different player quality wise.

Easy win for O'Sullivan.

Nobody could have predicted these two would meet this year at the Final of The Masters.

Hopefully Ronnie wins it, but for anyone who thinks this is like a walk in the park for Ronnie, well think again

Barry is playing as well as he was during the WC 2013, and only an inspired Ronnie could stop him there. Here Ronnie will definately need to play very well to beat him. I don't think Barry will fold like a pack of cards.

Should be an excelent high quality Final I hope.

This is Ronnie's 11th Masters final. Far ahead of everyone else in that regard.

Andre147 wrote:Nobody could have predicted these two would meet this year at the Final of The Masters.

Hopefully Ronnie wins it, but for anyone who thinks this is like a walk in the park for Ronnie, well think again

Barry is playing as well as he was during the WC 2013, and only an inspired Ronnie could stop him there. Here Ronnie will definately need to play very well to beat him. I don't think Barry will fold like a pack of cards.

Should be an excelent high quality Final I hope.

Agree, this is a tough match for Ronnie, but no doubt some will deride Hawkins as some sort of bum that will give Ronnie an easy ride.

Ronnie has now managed 11 Masters finals, while John Higgins has managed 11 first round losses.

Hopefully Hawkins plays well and doesn't let Ronnie get away with his poor patches.

I really feel that Ronnie needs to produce something close to his A-game to beat Hawkins tomorrow.

10-5 O'Sullivan.

Snooker Overdrive wrote:This is Ronnie's 11th Masters final. Far ahead of everyone else in that regard.

That's amazing.

Snooker Overdrive wrote:This is Ronnie's 11th Masters final. Far ahead of everyone else in that regard.

I'd prefer Hendry's 6/9 than Ronnie's possible 5 or 6/11.

Of course, seeing good of a player I am, turning up to the Masters would be an overachievement for me...

Hawkins has a good chance of winning this. Ronnie is not performing his very best (yet). Hawkins is a great breakbuilder when in form so he can win this. But Ronnie's the GOAT so even if he's playing his B game he has to be favorite.

I think it will be a close match. But, I predict Ronnie to win 10-8.

Holden Chinaski wrote:Hawkins has a good chance of winning this. Ronnie is not performing his very best (yet). Hawkins is a great breakbuilder when in form so he can win this. But Ronnie's the GOAT so even if he's playing his B game he has to be favorite.

I think it will be a close match. But, I predict Ronnie to win 10-8.

Could come down to who holds themselves together the best. It would not surprise me one bit if Hawkins completely folded due to the occasion.

Cloud Strife wrote:

Holden Chinaski wrote:Hawkins has a good chance of winning this. Ronnie is not performing his very best (yet). Hawkins is a great breakbuilder when in form so he can win this. But Ronnie's the GOAT so even if he's playing his B game he has to be favorite.

I think it will be a close match. But, I predict Ronnie to win 10-8.

Could come down to who holds themselves together the best. It would not surprise me one bit if Hawkins completely folded due to the occasion.

Hawkins held himself together very well in the final of the worlds. Ronnie doesn't look very confident so he can feel the pressure as well.. We'll see. Hard to predict Ronnie.

Cloud Strife wrote:

Holden Chinaski wrote:Hawkins has a good chance of winning this. Ronnie is not performing his very best (yet). Hawkins is a great breakbuilder when in form so he can win this. But Ronnie's the GOAT so even if he's playing his B game he has to be favorite.

I think it will be a close match. But, I predict Ronnie to win 10-8.

Could come down to who holds themselves together the best. It would not surprise me one bit if Hawkins completely folded due to the occasion.

He doesn't look like the guy for that. Surely, if the finishing line comes close, he could miss one or two but he's not a Matthew Stevens or Martin Gould.

Cloud Strife wrote:

Holden Chinaski wrote:Hawkins has a good chance of winning this. Ronnie is not performing his very best (yet). Hawkins is a great breakbuilder when in form so he can win this. But Ronnie's the GOAT so even if he's playing his B game he has to be favorite.

I think it will be a close match. But, I predict Ronnie to win 10-8.

Could come down to who holds themselves together the best. It would not surprise me one bit if Hawkins completely folded due to the occasion.

Yes I thought about that CS, but honestly I think Barry will acquaint himself very well here.

Maybe at the closing stages of the match he'll start feeling nervous and Ronnie's experience in closing out Big matches could prove significant.

Anyway, regardless of what happens in the final, I hope that this Masters has been a kick start for all the top players and we won't have a bunch of them getting beat by journeymen when we return to the rankers.

It's been a better standard overall and I'd like it kept that way.

TheRocket wrote:He doesn't look like the guy for that. Surely, if the finishing line comes close, he could miss one or two but he's not a Matthew Stevens or Martin Gould.

He's done a few bottle jobs that would make them proud...

Skullman wrote:

TheRocket wrote:He doesn't look like the guy for that. Surely, if the finishing line comes close, he could miss one or two but he's not a Matthew Stevens or Martin Gould.

He's done a few bottle jobs that would make them proud...

Surely not today though. Atm he's just looking in that kind of form like he was in the 2013 WC so hard to see him choking tomorrow.

As an aside, is it just me who thought that Hawkins played better in 2014 and 2015 Worlds than he did the year he got to the final?

Skullman wrote:As an aside, is it just me who thought that Hawkins played better in 2014 and 2015 Worlds than he did the year he got to the final?

In patches yes but overall? He probably played his best Snooker against Robbo last year but against Murphy he was not even existing. In 2014 he almost went out to Dominic Dale ,played two brillant frames at the end though but in the semis again he wasn't existing.

The way I remember it, he played well in patches in 2013, got let off big time by Walden and then only really performed in the final.

The last few major times Barry and Ronnie have met, 2013 WC final and the 2014 WC semi final, Barry had been through monstrous matches against Ricky Walden and Dominic Dale respectively beforehand. The 2014 one especially, Barry just seemed knackered after Dominic Dale came back and took him to a decider before Barry eventually won; he went on and got wrecked by Ronnie. That won't happen this time. They also met in the 2014 Welsh open, but it took a magical Ronnie with two amazing counter clearances to beat Barry there.

Barry has been nice and consistent this week, getting better and better as the tournament progresses. I don't fancy him to plummet tomorrow, he'll be there or there abouts.

Over the past 12 years, Ronnie has appeared in an amazing 8!! Finals at The Masters, winning 4 of them

Just shows you how dominant he has been at this tournament since 2004.

Skullman wrote:The way I remember it, he played well in patches in 2013, got let off big time by Walden and then only really performed in the final.

He did play fantastic in that final. I couldn't believe how good he was.

Skullman wrote:

Snooker Overdrive wrote:This is Ronnie's 11th Masters final. Far ahead of everyone else in that regard.

I'd prefer Hendry's 6/9 than Ronnie's possible 5 or 6/11.

Of course, seeing good of a player I am, turning up to the Masters would be an overachievement for me...

If you prefer 6/9 to 6/11 then you must prefer Ronnie's 5/5 over Hendry's record in the UK's.

Holden Chinaski wrote:

Skullman wrote:The way I remember it, he played well in patches in 2013, got let off big time by Walden and then only really performed in the final.

He did play fantastic in that final. I couldn't believe how good he was.

I think that the best Snooker he ever produced was against Robertson last year with the World final 2013 being a very close second.

The man can play Snooker. No doubt about that.

TheRocket wrote:

Holden Chinaski wrote:

Skullman wrote:The way I remember it, he played well in patches in 2013, got let off big time by Walden and then only really performed in the final.

He did play fantastic in that final. I couldn't believe how good he was.

I think that the best Snooker he ever produced was against Robertson last year with the World final 2013 being a very close second.

The man can play Snooker. No doubt about that.

Yes against Robbo he managed to counter absolutely everything Robbo threw at him. The best performance from him no shadow of a doubt.