OPPO International Championship Last 16 !!!

Watching Trumpet vs Wenbo Selecta... scintillating clash. 1 all. Liang in and on a break of 30

Split didn't go well, breaks down. Then flukes a monster plant red but doesn't land on a colour. Plays safe.


Judd rolls in a storming red, no colour though. safety battle.

The 5 people in the crowd are riveted to their seats. (literally, only way to get them to stay.)

Cloud Strife wrote:

TheRocket wrote:Selby has always struggled to beat post-prime Williams who obviously is nowhere near the player he once was.

That makes me think that prime Williams would have beaten Selby a lot. At least more often than not.

Williams regularly beat Ronnie, Higgins and Hendry during his peak so he would have had no problems whatsoever with Selby.

The key thing is and unlike Ronnie Williams has never got affected by slow play,grinding or too much safety play by his opponent. Thats why the likes of Selby and Higgins have never got under his skin. He even outclassed prime Higgins in two consecutive World Championship semi finals.

Thats why I believe that prime Williams would have never lost a three or four session match to Selby. Let alone losing and choking a World final the way Ronnie did in 2014. Which is still one of the biggest chokes in recent Snooker history. He was physically shaking on shots. That was truly Jimmy White and Matthew Stevens like.

Trumpy in now, but canon on final two reds didnt work out.

41 - 38 to Trump. safety battle

Blistering tight red to the middle by Liang. Tickled it in.

Plays a crash double on the final red. Ace!!!!!!

Liang takes it. Great break of 34 to win. 2 - 1

TheRocket wrote:

Cloud Strife wrote:

TheRocket wrote:Selby has always struggled to beat post-prime Williams who obviously is nowhere near the player he once was.

That makes me think that prime Williams would have beaten Selby a lot. At least more often than not.

Williams regularly beat Ronnie, Higgins and Hendry during his peak so he would have had no problems whatsoever with Selby.

The key thing is and unlike Ronnie Williams has never got affected by slow play,grinding or too much safety play by his opponent. Thats why the likes of Selby and Higgins have never got under his skin. He even outclassed prime Higgins in two consecutive World Championship semi finals.

Thats why I believe that prime Williams would have never lost a three or four session match to Selby. Let alone losing and choking a World final the way Ronnie did in 2014. Which is still one of the biggest chokes in recent Snooker history. He was physically shaking on shots. That was truly Jimmy White and Matthew Stevens like.

IMO John Higgins choked in this year's final more.

Trumpy on a maxi.

Wonder if Kyren has laid a bet on insuring his

Breaks down on 80.

2 all. MSI

Liang can go ahead of Robertson in the Race to the Masters with a win today

Great start for O'Donnell

Milkins on a comeback

Trump motoring along now.

What a century from MJW.

excellent century from MJW.

Bad misses by Liang.

On my Chinese stream (the Eurosport streams don't seem to work) there are mini betting activities using virtual currency. In frame seven of this match, I betted that there was no century to be made. The odds were 5/1 that there would be a century. I couldn't help but seethe when Judd made that 109.

If MJW could play like this the whole tournament. Consistency has been his main problem and the shocking chokes.

4-3 MJW

haha what a shot from MJW to end the break.

damn. this easy missed brown from MJW could be costly though.

WTF MJW

buck. I think MJW has missed the boat here.

MJW nearly snatched that

Ah, hello again Mr. B. Manship

NID of Selbys win.

That miss cost MJW dearly. You cant afford such things vs the players like Higgins and Selby.

MJW has had tip problems this week

Man Ship?

Great break from the Jester

That brown off its spot will cost MJW this match.