World Snooker Championship

[blue to the bone]

I can't remember now !

I can

 

[summerisle]

I can

 

[Rita_Poon]

some run of the balls this.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Very nervy

 

[Rita_Poon]

heavy!

 

[blue to the bone]

Another seed falls!
3 from 3 in matches completed

 

[summerisle]

I'm drained just watching that, just imagine what they're going through.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Another seed falls!
3 from 3 in matches completed

Williams is the only seed through?

 

[Kurt.]

And wakelin played for the red as he assumed the black would go back on the pink spot !

That wasn’t poor refereeing… it was an error by the player

 

[summerisle]

That wasn’t poor refereeing… it was an error by the player

Thought I was right !

 

[Kurt.]

Thought I was right !

The black was on its spot when Robertson potted it, he used the white to hold the spot so the black had to go on the pink spot…. When wakelin potted the black off the pink spot the black spot was obviously free as the white had moved… therefore the black went back on its own spot

 

[blue to the bone]

Williams is the only seed through?

Ya.
Hawkins , Wilson, Robertson gone .
Forgot Williams was through

 

[toffee82]

These Chinese lads are looking good this year.

A great bunch of lads.

 

[Drico]

Tough place the Crucible, but yet another Robertson no-show at the world championship means he'll forever remain in the company of Shaun Murphy in the second tier of greats. To be fair to Shaun, he at least has played three world finals. But the idea that Robertson is somehow in the class of Higgins, Williams, or Selby is a nonsense. On the highest stage, unlike them, he is usually found wanting.

Hawkins going out is not that big a shock - despite his excellent Crucible consistency. I think Vafaei is a very difficult opponent to draw in round 1 and I imagine he'll give Williams a scare in round 2 - but still come up short. Higgins-Williams in the last 8 is very much on.

 

[summerisle]

Possible 147 on for O'Connor v Higgins.