Welsh Open 2014 - Discussion

[Mr Snooker]

Final result of the Morning's Play Veteran and Former World N0 3 Thailand's James Wattana beats Tom Ford 4-2, another good win for James after beating Matthew Stevens 5-0 last week in The China Open Qualifiers.

[Odrl]

Unlucky for Sam he should have beaten Maguire 4-1, but Once again missed the blue this time to a corner pocket for the match.

I wouldn't say "unlucky", it was a pretty pathetic bottle job, to be honest. Maguire was really struggling today, the commentators were convinced he had some sort of physical problem, but hopefully he can improve in the rest of the week, because this section of the draw is quite weak now that Mark Davis is out as well. :wink:

[Mr Snooker]

Stephen Maguire The Defending champion beats Sam Baird 4-3 from 3-1 down, to progress to the last 16, I recall Sam Baird missing a match winning blue to the middle pocket against Mark Selby in the 2012 event when 3-2 up and went on to loose the match 4-3

Unlucky for Sam he should have beaten Maguire 4-1, but Once again missed the blue this time to a corner pocket for the match.

[SouthPaw]

Sam looks mentally weak maybe needs more experience on tv tables, should have put an out of sorts maguire out on numerous occasions today...

[Mr Snooker]

Joel Walker beats Mark Davis 4-3 a bit of a shock Result I would say, Well done Joel

[Erwan_BZH]

Maguire looks not very comfortable. He seems to be injured in some way....Definitely not cueing as usual...

[Mr Snooker]

First Result Of the day Dominic Dale 4 Dechawat Poomjaneg 1 - The Spaceman first player through to the last 32 and a Welshman as well

[rich45]

Aaaaargh Willie saying that was a kick! Baird was cueing down over the black, the cue ball was bouncing when it hit the red, hence the bad contact. Not always a kick!

[Mr Snooker]

Why does Willie Thorne always Criticize the players shot he is awful at Commentating in my Opion

[streamer45]

Good start from Baird!

[Byrom]

Well SO far this year I picked Ding a few times and Robertson once and Mark Allen and Trump Selby EW in various events and my outside bet as always Jack - won nothing but i still believe in him - Lisowski

I am up about 180 odd pounds at the bookmakers -

I am now switching for a laugh to keep it interesting and as I actually fancy Marco Fu to do well in something this year - maybe here - I have noticed an improvement in his cue action - never seen him feather before - he still looks quite solid but his positional play is better he seems to have more cue power and he is now scoring more heavy - couple that with an amazing temperament - best in the game really and you have a very dangerous player.

We shall see - money down.

[tugatipster]

Matthew Stevens v Ian Burns - Matthew Stevens @ 1.53 that's a very good odd.
Mark Williams v Tian Pengfei - Mark Williams @ 1.50 another very good odd.

[cebs]

Enjoy the nice week of snooker coming shortly.

Looking out for some familiar faces from the Masters popping up in the crowd again.

[DeanH]

oh yes
hopping in the car any minute now
anyone else there over the week, make yourself known
cheers all
:snooker:

[streamer45]

... Could be a good week of snooker. :wink:

Indeed, looking forward to this