At 12-2 down it looked as though Steve Davis would come down to earth with a bump and suffer his first defeat at the Crucible with a session to spare since a 13-3 loss to Ken Doherty back in 1997. While he did manage to take the last two frames to extend the match to a third session however, the remaining three quarter-finals are all finely balanced headed into Wednesday…
It might be the most open World Championship for quite some time but with Ronnie O’Sullivan in the draw there is only going to be one favourite with the bookies and it is hard to argue with that assessment following his victory over Mark Williams this afternoon. Ali Carter meanwhile recovered from losing the opening five frames of the session against Joe Perry to get over the line a 13-11 winner…
What a tournament we have had so far! Even before Steve Davis managed to do the unthinkable and knock out the defending world champion and provisional world number one John Higgins on Saturday morning the tournament was hard to call but after nine days I’m no closer to being able to pick a winner…
Although many of you will have read my look ahead to this year’s Betfred.com World Championship (click my WCS 2010 banner to the right for the links), today we have a special guest preview to the tournament from The Snooker Forum user odrl.
My thanks go to odrl for taking the time to write such an extensive and interesting preview, click below to read part one…
So it is almost time for the balls to start being potted as the waiting comes to an end. Click below to view the tournament schedule for the event and when your favourite will be in action…
Following on from Monday’s preview of the top quarter of the 2010 Betfred.com World Championship draw, here is my assessment of the second quarter, which features former world champion Shaun Murphy and UK Championship winner Ding Junhui…
As regular readers will have gathered by now, I do like to keep a track of the rankings, indeed I find the battles for the various different brackets fascinating. In reality however, are the rankings really that important? More to the point are they even fair? Having spoken to fans and players alike during the past few months, here are some thoughts on the system…
