Saturday 15th of April~Monday 1st of May at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

Its the 1st day of the Quarter Finals and up first will be Ronnie O'Sullivan playing Ding Junhui and Ronnie's arch rival John Higgins playing up and coming player Kyren Wilson in his second Crucible quarter final these two matches will play their second session starting at 7pm

The afternoon sees defending Champion Mark Selby up against Marco Fu a late night conqueror of Neil Robertson on Monday and Qualifier Stephen Maguire playing former runner up Barry Hawkins.

DRAW

ORDER OF PLAY

Tuesday 25th of April

10am

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Ding Junhui O'Sullivan leads 10-3
Kyren Wilson v John Higgins Wilson leads 1-0

2.30pm

Mark Selby v Marco Fu Selby leads 12-5
Barry Hawkins v Stephen Maguire Maguire leads 12-11

7pm

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Ding Junhui O'Sullivan leads 10-3
Kyren Wilson v John Higgins Wilson leads 1-0

** Denotes Final Session of a Match

can't wait.

GL DING, Fu, Higgins

Will miss the first session tomorrow, but after that I'll be able to see pretty much all the rest.

GL Ding and Higgins.

Prove the doubters wrong Kyren

COME ON

GJ wrote:Prove the doubters wrong Kyren

COME ON

Yes hope he can settle quickly and not make the mistakes of last year's Quarter-Final.

Awesome quarters line-up. Don't want Higgins or Selby to win particularly, but I'd be happy if any of the others won. Maybe not so much Kyren, but still better him than the other 2.

GJ wrote:Prove the doubters wrong Kyren

COME ON

Hope he does, but sadly I can only see a Higgins win.

Good luck to Ronnie, Wilson and Marco Fu. Not fussed about the other match. If pushed, I'd go for Maguire provided Higgins doesn't win. If Higgins wins his match then I'd want Hawkins to win as I don't think Maguire has it in him to beat Higgins over 4 sessions.

Higgins is clear fav no doubt but I hope Kyrem can give it his all and see what happens.

The first four or five frames tomorrow will already show how much belief Ding has and how much of a threat he will be for Ronnie. If he scores like he did against Liang whenever he gets his chances then I'd expect it to be very tight until the very end and Ronnie would be in serious trouble.

If the fear factor of Ronnie however is still there then there'll be only one winner obviously.

Off to see Hawkins vs Maguire tomorrow unless snow affects the trains

My three favourite players in Hawkins, Fu & Selby playing at the same time, quality!

I'd like to see Ding open up a 6-2 lead tomorrow morning

nice_shoes_ken wrote:Off to see Hawkins vs Maguire tomorrow unless snow affects the trains

My three favourite players in Hawkins, Fu & Selby playing at the same time, quality!

You lucky devil!! Enjoy it NSK :)

Higgins should have too much for this generations Dave Harold

Alex0paul wrote:Higgins should have too much for this generations Dave Harold

Dave Harold lol.

Alex0paul wrote:I'd like to see Ding open up a 6-2 lead tomorrow morning

Other way please :P

Ding 13 - 11 Ronnie
Wilson 13 - Higgins 10
Selby 13 - 11 Fu
Maguire 13 - 10 Hawkins.


Thats my predictions but as we know anything can and probably will happen.

Chalk McHugh wrote:Ding 13 - 11 Ronnie
Wilson 13 - Higgins 10
Selby 13 - 11 Fu
Maguire 13 - 10 Hawkins.


Thats my predictions but as we know anything can and probably will happen.

Ding 8 - 13 Ronnie
Wilson 13 - 12 Higgins
Selby 13 - 12 Fu
Maguire 13 - 9 Hawkins

TheRocket wrote:The first four or five frames tomorrow will already show how much belief Ding has and how much of a threat he will be for Ronnie. If he scores like he did against Liang whenever he gets his chances then I'd expect it to be very tight until the very end and Ronnie would be in serious trouble.

If the fear factor of Ronnie however is still there then there'll be only one winner obviously.

Cant see Ding winning this one if he's more than 5-3 down in the first session, and even then at worst he should really be 4-4.

4 cracking matches looking forward to them all , aside from kyren

I hope Fu , Ronnie and Hawk get through.

Can't wait for tommorow. Gonna be a cracking day of snooker.

O'Sullivan and Higgins are strong favourites. Fu's chances are underestimated, and Maguire could cause a minor surprise.

Whatever happens , I'm relatively sure that it's going to be Selby, O'Sullivan or Higgins. One of them should be the world champion by next week.

Man look at the ages - 2 in their 40s, and Kyren's the only one under 30!

Cloud Strife wrote:Good luck to Ronnie, Wilson and Marco Fu. Not fussed about the other match. If pushed, I'd go for Maguire provided Higgins doesn't win. If Higgins wins his match then I'd want Hawkins to win as I don't think Maguire has it in him to beat Higgins over 4 sessions.

Can't belive mags leads the head to head 11-7 in proper matches against Higgins

Wilson leads Higgins 1 zip hopefully it will be 2 zip by wed afternoon

Can someone set up a poll I am really interested to see how many people give Wilson a chance of winning against Higgins

Ronnie79 wrote:Can someone set up a poll I am really interested to see how many people give Wilson a chance of winning against Higgins

Of course he has a decent chance of winning. In fact anyone has a decent chance in any match from now on. It is all about what happens on the day. Luck will play a big part as it always does.

Neil acknowledged he cant play this sort of game anymore, the overthinking game.

I agree with him, if he wants to be a Major title contender again.