Welsh Open Snooker Ronnie O’Sullivan

Welsh Open Snooker Ronnie O’Sullivan came from 5-2 down to beat Neil Robertson 9-5 in the final of the BetVictor Welsh Open Snooker in Cardiff.

The match appeared to be going Neils way when he controlled the early stages, but a small amount of errors in the evening session cost him as O’Sullivan produced the form he has shown throughout the event. Ronnie then produced a run of seven frames in a row, in a week which has seen him produce brilliant snooker even by his own high standards.

Ronnie won his fourth Welsh Open Snooker crown, matching the record set by John Higgins last year. This was Ronnie’s 28th ranking title of his career, equaling the tallies of Higgins and Steve Davis.

The £60,000 top prize moves Chigwell’s 40-year-old O’Sullivan up one place to fourth in the world rankings and also makes him eligible to enter the World Grand Prix in Llandudno next month.

Neil Received £30,000 pounds for runner up and mentioned that at 5-3 he should have gone 6-3 in front and the match may have had a different outcome. On the form that O’Sullivan showed i imagine if that scoreline had happened he would have played even harder and still come back to win as it seems he’s getting better.

Hopefully now he will Enter the World Grand Prix and win that before the Worlds and possibly equal Steve Davis at 6 World Titles. The other Professionals have also noticeably started to raise their games as well with Ronnie back so hopefully the World Title will be a great standard this Year.

The Stuart Bingham Story is a great interview with the current Snooker World Champion.
As an amateur, he won the 1996 IBSF World Snooker Championship, but he then spent many seasons improving his form to become a top-ranked player some 15 years later. He first entered the top 32 in the world rankings for the 2006/2007 season, and first reached the top 16 during the 2011/2012 season.

At the age of 35, he won the first ranking title of his career at the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open. He claimed his second ranking title at age 38 by winning the 2014 Shanghai Masters and followed this with his first World Championship in 2015, which British media said “completed an astonishing transition from journeyman to king of the Crucible”

In the World Snooker Final the quality kept up with the first days play and was a very entertaining Final Between Stuart Bingham and Shaun Murphy. Both players scoring well and a few twists and turns under the Pressure of the Crucible.

In the fourth session Bingham won six out of eight frames – missing the final red on a maximum 147 effort along the way which left him four frames from victory at 14-11. Stuart was appearing in his first final and had fought back from 3-0 and 8-4 down to end the first day 9-8 behind.

In the last Interval the score where 15 Bingham v Murphy 14 with the turn around being a missed black when Bingham was 14-11 up. A few mistakes later and the pressure was on Stuart and Murphy looked the more comfortable.

On resumption of the Final and the last session Murphy wan in on 14 and missed the blue into the Middle and left a red near the black spot. What would normally be a easy red for Bingham he missed it and let Murphy back in once again and that which Shaun took full advantage of the mistakes from Stuart but then missed when leading 52-0 but left a red over the corner.

Stuart swerved to try and move it and left it in the pocket and it was now 15-15! A few tense frames then went to bingham and he finished it of with a 88 break in the last missing the second last red.

Stuart Bingham becomes the oldest player to win the World Snooker title winning 18-15 since Ray Reardon who was 45 in 1978.

THE SCORES

Shaun Murphy (Eng) 15-18 Stuart Bingham (Eng)

First session (Sunday): 103-44 (68), 69-51 (59), 74-5 (65), 0-105 (105), 15-68 (56), 90-0 (90), 7-55, 30-73 (65)

Second session (Sunday): 74-57 (Murphy 74, Bingham 57), 106-1 (106), 121-14 (121), 97-41 (51), 1-76 (76), 7-129 (123), 0-113 (89), 76-0 (76), 22-67 (53)

Third Session: 4-87 (87), 40-68 (51), 0-112 (112), 23-95 (50), 80-4 (59), 0-87 (87), 84-0 (84), 7-86 (57)

Final Session: 73-6, 6-102 (102), 75-55 (75), 68-29 (64), 76-0, 56-80, 3-68 (55)and a 88 break in the final frame.

More clips to come once they are up:

ABOUT BINGHAM:
Stuart Bingham (born 21 May 1976, in Basildon, Essex) is an English professional snooker player. As an amateur, he won the 1996 IBSF World Snooker Championship and then took 16 years to win a professional ranking event.
At the young age of 35, he won the first ranking title of his career at the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open and claimed his second ranking title at age 38 by winning the 2014 Shanghai Masters.

Now coming up to his 39th Birthday he has claimed The World Snooker Title and helps all of us younger players close to forty believe once again that age is not the barrier.

ABOUT MURPHY
Shaun Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player, who won the 2005 World Championship. Nicknamed “The Magician”, Murphy is noted for his straight cue action and his long potting.
Born in Harlow and raised in Irthlingborough, Murphy turned professional in 1998. His victory at the World Championship was considered a major surprise as he was only the third qualifier to lift the title. His other ranking tournament victories came in the 2007 Malta Cup, the 2008 UK Championship, the Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Finals and the 2014 World Open, while he reached a second World Championship final in 2009. He has also won seven non-ranking tournaments, including the 2015 Masters, which completed his career Triple Crown.

Murphy has won over £2 million in prize money and has compiled more than 300 century breaks in his professional career.

What a great start to the World Snooker Final 2015 with break’s of 50 or more in all 17 frames played so far!

Murphy started the match with a 3-0 lead only for Stuart to come back and knock in a Century break to win a frame and the Session ended up 4-4 and the end of the first session. In the second session Murphy took all 4 frames to go into the interval 8-4 and then increased that to 9-4 ahead in the first frame of the session.

Bingham then made some great breaks under pressure and it could have been centuries in four of them and knocked in 76,123,89,76 and a 53 after Murphy missed after being in with a good chance.

What a great fightback from Stuart Bingham from a point of 9-4 down and looking like it was almost impossible to win the second session 4-1 and now be back into the final again.

Shaun Murphy (Eng) 9-8 Stuart Bingham (Eng)

First session: 103-44 (68), 69-51 (59), 74-5 (65), 0-105 (105), 15-68 (56), 90-0 (90), 7-55, 30-73 (65)

Second session: 74-57 (Murphy 74, Bingham 57), 106-1 (106), 121-14 (121), 97-41 (51), 1-76 (76), 7-129 (123), 0-113 (89), 76-0 (76), 22-67 (53)

 

• Mark Selby begins the defence of his title on the opening morning, at 10am on Saturday April 18th, with the match concluding from 7pm on the same day.
• Neil Robertson enters the fray at 2.30pm on Sunday 19th, and plays to a finish at the same time the following day.
• Chinese ace Ding Junhui starts his bid to win the title for the first time on Monday 20th at 2.30pm, with his concluding session the following day from 10am.
• Five-time champion Ronnie O’Sullivan will enter the famous arena at 2.30pm on Tuesday 21st and play to a finish the following morning from 10am.
• Judd Trump’s opening session is at 7pm on Wednesday 22nd, and he concludes on Thursday 23rd from 1pm.

Dafabet News 2015 Ronnie O’Sullivan has now set a new record for career centuries with his 776th a 101 in the first frame of a 6-1 defeat of Marcu Fu and believes 1000 is now reachable.

The crowd at Alexandra Palace rose to their feet to acclaim the snooker genius and the clapping went for almost 2 minutes.

The local favourite from Chigwell needed just 104 minutes to end the challenge of Hong Kong’s Fu and set up a meeting with Neil Robertson or Ali Carter on Saturday at 1pm O’Sullivan is chasing a sixth Masters crown, which would equal another Hendry record and the third event title in a row.

Quotes Ronnie:

“It’s a nice record to have,” said O’Sullivan. “I’m glad it was out of the way early today so I could focus on playing and winning the tournament. It has taken me 21 years to do it so it was nice to have a couple of minutes of clapping, but I didn’t want it to over-shadow what we were there to do, which was to play a match. To get to 1,000 centuries is definitely achievable and worth going for.

“I was pleased with my attitude today, I played every ball as if it counted, from start to finish. Even at 5-1 I wasn’t thinking it was over because Marco can win three or four frames in a row. Nicking the close frames can be more important than making big breaks, so it was massive to win the fourth and be 3-1 up at the interval.”

Dafabet Masters 2015 Neil Robertson gets over the line 6- 4  in what was a match of many errors from both players.

Neil will hope that his form gets better as he had one Century Break (117) to lead 5-4  with a 90% potting rate from neil and 87% from Robert  in the 9^th frame of the match.

The rest play for Neil was under 50% and normally he has a great strength in this area.

Robert Milkins did well in a few frames that he should have lost and capitalised on Robertson errors. All in all its great for Australia and Neil that’s he’s through to the next match and may his form get better in his next match.

In the last frame Neil had a 76 and that was enough even though Robert attempted to do something.

The long potting success for neil was just 53% so he will need to get back to his best to have a chance in the Masters this year.

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