The Masters Jan 11 - 18, 2015

[bingo]

Ah Fu, you shda been 2 all!

[gladiator557]

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[Masterdoctorgenius]

Ronnie is really poor today. Fu should win this match.

yeah, fu is playing like a genius and should win comfortably.

[Dani]

Ronnie is really poor today. Fu should win this match.

[bingo]

Hopefully he can clean up the 4th frame and come out 2-2 at the interval.

[Odrl]

The commentators had already started with the "poor Marco Fu" routine, so I'm happy he made it 1-1 and shut them up for at least a couple of minutes. :smile:

[bingo]

Congrats to Ros.

Lets hope Marco can make a game out of this.

[cyberheater]

Well done Ronnie.

Without doubt the greatest snooker player to ever pick up a cue.

[cueman]

can I change my mind!!! Terrific start and to break Hendry's record and get that monkey off his back will relax Ronnie. Robertson you could see was affected by chasing the century record last season but Ronnie just treated it like any other frame. Marco could be frozen out like Walden last year going by this start.

[bingo]

Ah if Marco could have potted that red, would have been a cracker start.

[daffie]

I'm all behind Marco to trump ROS today. Should be a great match in any case. Bring it on!

[bingo]

Am hoping Fu will win tonight. Placed a wee bet on him to get more than 0.5 centuries.

[cueman]

If we are going on form from the previous round then Fu and Carter should be favourites but as we know form from Robbo and O'Sullivan can go from average to superb in a short space of time.

I think Fu has such a good record against Ronnie and should be full of confidence I actually expect Fu to come through this match. Unless Ronnie is in the form he showed in the CoC event I can't see him winning today.

Carter I think is the dark horse for this event, playing with a new lease of life, he looked superb against Hawkins and Robertson has never really done well in the Masters. I think both matches will finish 6-4.

[P.Smith]

Well I for one really hope Ding gets his act together in the triple crown events, it would be a huge shame if a player with such tremendous ability were to never become world champion, would also be great to have the 1st Chinese world champion.

As for today, I think there is a good chance of an upset in at least one match. Fu is usually a tough player for Ronnie and Carter seems to be rather inspired at the moment. I think Ronnie will come through 6-3 but I will go out on a limb and say Carter beats Robbo 6-4.

[cueman]

My view for what its worth is that Ding is paying the price for over practicing and playing from an extremely young age. I think he is showing signs of burnout and I also feel technically he has developed the yips as I notice recently in matches he struggles with certain shots and accelerating through the cue ball.

It could explain why recently he has been, or at least his agent, in touch with various cue makers looking for a new cue. I think he is looking for something or rather looking for an excuse as to why his form has dropped off by such a massive level since the early exit at the crucible.