World Snooker Championship 2024

(25-04-2024 11:35 )Snooks Wrote:  https://youtu.be/5HsxEefeTFE?si=FzKfNofUQBUXlB9M

This is hilarious.
Allan Taylor doing impressions of snooker players with Neil Robertson and Joe Perry trying to work them out.

The ones of Shaun Murphy, Peter Ebdon and Ricky Walden had me in absolute stitches.
Wind it forward to 5 mins 32 seconds.
Soooo accurate

The mannerisms bit was probably better than the voices (even I could spot Anthony Hamilton before they did).

I reember John Virgo doing the same

Result:

John Higgins (13) bt Jamie Jones 10-6

Second Round Draw and latest scores:
All matches best of 25 frames
(Seed numbers in brackets)

Robert Milkins (16) 3-5 David Gilbert
Shaun Murphy (8) v Stephen Maguire
Kyren Wilson (12) v Joe O'Connor
Mark Allen (4) v John Higgins (13)

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Judd Trump (3) 6-2 Tom Ford (14)
Si Jiahui v Jak Jones
Jack Lisowski v Stuart Bingham
Ronnie O'Sullivan (2) v Ryan Day

Milkins made a fantastic 48 clearance in the last frame of the session to only be 5-3 behind and not 6-2 after Gilbert lost position on the red he needed to leave Milkins needing snookers. Nice to see Desislava Bozhilova the referee with a makeover looking so stunning.

Judd struggled with the table before the interval, but no such problem after the interval where he won 4 frames in a row.

Allen v Higgins has to be the tie of the round because each have something to lose. Allen is no.1 in the provisional rankings and wants to stay there. Higgins is 17th in the provisional rankings and wants to be in the top 16 for the start of the new season.

Maguire must win
Maguire must win

Maguire must lose .

Lisowski v Bingham could be an excellent match and go close.

Eight seeds going out in the first round matches the Crucible era record as I understand it .

Robert Milkins was getting really frustrated at times in that opening session and I really felt for him. He was putting himself through the ringer .

Oh and Maguire must lose .

(26-04-2024 06:48 )Joannis Wrote:  Nice to see Desislava Bozhilova the referee with a makeover looking so stunning.

I am a Tatiana Woollaston fan myself.
Both her and Desi are on show this morning

In fact lets disqualify Maguire and Murphy and have a match between Desi and Tatiana instead .

The exit of so many seeds opens the way for lesser names like Jak Jones and Joe O'Connor. Though the top half of the draw looks like putting either Mark Allen or Kyren Wilson to the final. With Judd or Ronnie from the bottom half.

Morning session scores:

Si Jiahui 2-6 Jak Jones

Robert Milkins (16) 4-12 David Gilbert

(26-04-2024 10:00 )Snooks Wrote:  I am a Tatiana Woollaston fan myself.
Both her and Desi are on show this morning

In fact lets disqualify Maguire and Murphy and have a match between Desi and Tatiana instead .

If Desi represents Maguire and Tatiana represents Tubbs, then if Desi wins Maguire progresses to the quarter finals. A bit late now anyway as the match starts in about half an hour.

Consecutive centuries by Gilbert in the last 2 frames of the session make him look in good shape to beat the winner of Maguire v Tubbs, whoever that may be.

I think someone's hired Jak Jones, the silent assassin, to take out all the Chinese players. First he took out Zhang, now 6-2 up against the only remaining Chinese player, Si.