2015 Betfred Snooker World Championship Official thread

no matches finished yesterday although but the quarter final will be finished today and in all honesty if you have a ticket for either session today, you might be asking for your money back hard to see many frames being played.

No Morning session so the matches are:
13:00-Shaun Murphy 12-4 Joe Perry-Can only see 2 frames maximum here
13:00-Judd Trump 10-6 Marco Fu-Depends how Judd comes out but would be very surprised if it is more than 4 frames
19:00-Neil Robertson 11-5 Ali Carter-Can only see 3 frames maximum
19:00-Ronnie O'Sullivan 12-4 Matthew Stevens-Can only see 1 frame here

honestly think both sessions will be over very quickly tomorrow
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Neil Robertson still has the high break with a 143, and the current standing for most centuries is as follows:

Neil Robertson-6
Ronnie O'Sullivan-4
Mark Selby-4-OUT
Mark Allen-3-OUT
Stuart Bingham-3
Barry Hawkins-3
Shaun Murphy-3
Ding Junhui-2
Anthony McGill-2
Matthew Stevens-2
Matt Selt-2-OUT
Judd Trump-2
Ricky Walden-2-OUT
Ali Carter-1
Marco Fu-1
Joe Perry-1
Zhang Anda-1-OUT
Mark Davis-1-OUT
John Higgins-1-OUT
Jimmy Robertson-1-OUT

cabbles said:

Been catching this intermittently over the last week. Don't like Robertson, get him out. Like Trump, like Carter, want O'Sullivan to win. Who's your money on Paulie?

Trump wont win, proved yesterday why, potted 4 reds and blacks had an easy red which would have meant he had to go up for blue so instead took an almost impossible red to stay on the black, he missed and lost the frame, unfortunately until he learns a B game he won't win, with the matches as long as they are you cant just pot your way to the title like he wants to .

Think the winner will be the winner of the Murphy V Robertson semi

this evenings session started just after 7 and surprise surprise its already over,
so today's results were

Shaun Murphy 13-5 Joe Perry- 2 frames only as I predicted
Judd Trump 13-8 Marco Fu- 1 more frames than I thought Fu managed to hold on until the mid session interval but lost the 1st frame afterwards
Ronnie O'Sullivan 13-5 Matthew Stevens- again 1 more frame than I predicted
Neil Robertson 13-5 Ali Carter-1 frame less than I predicted as Robertson came out and won the 2 frames he needed straight away

so there was 11 frames of snooker today

The quarter final lineup is as follows:
Anthony McGill V Shaun Murphy
Barry Hawkins V Neil Robertson
Ding Junhui V Judd Trump
Stuart Bingham V Ronnie O'Sullivan

and here is tomorrows lineup:
10:00-Anthony McGill V Shaun Murphy-1st session
10:00-Ding Junhui V Judd Trump-1st session
14:30-Barry Hawkins V Neil Robertson-1st session
14:30-Stuart Bingham V Ronnie O'Sullivan-1st session
19:00-Anthony McGill V Shaun Murphy-2nd session
19:00-Ding Junhui V Judd Trump-2nd session
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Neil Robertson still has the high break but now its 145 after beating his own previous high break, and the current standing for most centuries is as follows:

Neil Robertson-7
Ronnie O'Sullivan-4
Mark Selby-4-OUT
Mark Allen-3-OUT
Stuart Bingham-3
Barry Hawkins-3
Shaun Murphy-3
Judd Trump-3
Ding Junhui-2
Anthony McGill-2
Matt Selt-2-OUT
Matthew Stevens-2-OUT
Ricky Walden-2-OUT
Zhang Anda-1-OUT
Ali Carter-1-OUT
Mark Davis-1-OUT
Marco Fu-1-OUT
John Higgins-1-OUT
Joe Perry-1-OUT
Jimmy Robertson-1-OUT

Sillybilly said:

What happens when there are only two or three frames played and people have bought tickets? Is it like cricket where you get. Sliding scale refund depending on how much play there is or do they wheel out Davis and Hendry to give an exhibition? Or is it just tough titty?

they had an exhibition tonight, 2 former world champions apparently

MrOneLung said:

How are the century breaks going compared to record number in the tournament?

not sure about the record I thought it was around 80
but wrongapedia says its in the 70s

so far its 47 this year

LawrieAbrahams said:

I'm sure it was 82 or 83.

that's exactly what I thought

Today's session have finished

Shaun Murphy 9-7 Anthony McGill
Barry Hawkins 5-3 Neil Robertson
Judd Trump 12-4 Ding Junhui
Stuart Bingham 5-3 Ronnie O'Sullivan

Tomorrows matches:
10:00-Barry Hawkins 5-3 Neil Robertson-2nd session
10:00-Judd Trump 12-4 Ding Junhui-3rd session
14:30-Shaun Murphy 9-7 Anthony McGill-3rd session
14:30-Stuart Bingham 5-3 Ronnie O'Sullivan-2nd session
19:00-Stuart Bingham 5-3 Ronnie O'Sullivan-3rd session
19:00-Barry Hawkins 5-3 Neil Robertson-3rd session
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Neil Robertson still has the high break with a 145, and the current standing for most centuries is as follows:

Neil Robertson-8
Judd Trump-7
Shaun Murphy-6
Ronnie O'Sullivan-6
Mark Selby-4-OUT
Stuart Bingham-3
Barry Hawkins-3
Anthony McGill-3
Mark Allen-3-OUT
Ding Junhui-2
Matthew Stevens-2-OUT
Matt Selt-2-OUT
Ricky Walden-2-OUT
Ali Carter-1-OUT
Marco Fu-1-OUT
Joe Perry-1-OUT
Zhang Anda-1-OUT
Mark Davis-1-OUT
John Higgins-1-OUT
Jimmy Robertson-1-OUT

11 centuries made today

LawrieAbrahams said:

Strange behaviour from O'Sullivan yesterday using a piece of chalk to gauge where the pink would spot. Every player knows you can't do that.

That's O'Sullivan for ya, and knob who always wants to be centre of attention

What makes it worse was Ken Doherty afterwards, he said you can't blame O'Sullivan he might not have known the rules, Blame the ref and blame Bingham who should have known the rules and alerted the ref.

So according to him Bingham should no the rules but O'Sullivan shouldn't.


Once again it proves how up Ronnie O'Sullivan's arse the BBC and their snooker pundits are.