2016 World Championship discussion

[Billy]

He had deserved a longer titledefense.

I'm with Stephen Hendry on this - players don't deserve anything, they have to earn it. Being WC doesn't (and shouldn't) entitle you to anything. Bingham had his chances, but didn't take them and paid the price in the end. Seems perfectly fair to me.

I suppose I'm slightly biased, to be fair, as Bingham's style of play doesn't do a lot for me, so his absence will be of no real loss.

[vilkrang]

A midnight finish on day 1, lovely start. :smile: It was never going to be easy for Bingham against Carter, but he did have his chances. Unfortunately he played rather poorly for most of the match. Carter wasn't at his best either, but at least he is still in the tournament and has a chance to raise his game for the next round. Maguire is in trouble in that part of the draw, so things are opening up a little. :smile:

Performance of the day has to be Fu's thrashing of Ebdon. He made a series of high breaks in the morning to take a big lead, then just kept clearing from behind in the evening to win very comfortably. All Ebdon could do is applaud at the end. We've seen this kind of performance from Fu before, but his problem has always been stringing a few good matches together. Hopefully he can play this well in the next round as well. :smile:

I remember someone on here tipping Fu as an outsider and I agreed, if I was going to have a Bingham/Johnson outsider type bet it would be for Fu.

[neuronic]

I would never want to change that nor the venue. It's what gives it that special feeling and the goosebumps once you know it's time for the Crucible again.

You got me wrong there mate... I just love long distance matches, those sprints seem pretty dull to me most of the times...

[Odrl]

A midnight finish on day 1, lovely start. :smile: It was never going to be easy for Bingham against Carter, but he did have his chances. Unfortunately he played rather poorly for most of the match. Carter wasn't at his best either, but at least he is still in the tournament and has a chance to raise his game for the next round. Maguire is in trouble in that part of the draw, so things are opening up a little. :smile:

Performance of the day has to be Fu's thrashing of Ebdon. He made a series of high breaks in the morning to take a big lead, then just kept clearing from behind in the evening to win very comfortably. All Ebdon could do is applaud at the end. We've seen this kind of performance from Fu before, but his problem has always been stringing a few good matches together. Hopefully he can play this well in the next round as well. :smile:

[shmeeko69]

Tense stuff. Loved it.

Too bad at all the other maintour events matches are more like sprints nowadays...

I would never want to change that nor the venue. It's what gives it that special feeling and the goosebumps once you know it's time for the Crucible again.

A shame there had to be a loser this evening as Bingham is a likeable fella, but I'm pleased for Carter and especially all the sh*t he's been through in his life off the table.

[neuronic]

Tense stuff. Loved it.

Too bad at all the other maintour events matches are more like sprints nowadays...

[PaddyLowson]

Congratulations to Carter, what a thrilling decider. A shame for Bingham that he had such a tough draw for his first matc. He had deserved a longer titledefense. First suprise of the tournament even if it´s only a minor one. Ali Carter is a class player.

Every credit to Bingham for how he recovered from both 5-1 and 8-5 deficits. Indeed from 9-8 you'd have expected him to go on and win.

Against most of the qualifiers you'd have expected Stuart to reach the second round - even with a dangerous qualifying section but pulling Carter or Ding would have been extremely tough in any year, let alone as the man to open up proceedings.

He'll be back I'm sure - he's not a World Champion by luck

[PatBlock]

Talk about ebb and flow. What a great first match.

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[culraven]

Carter looked totally gone, when Bingham equalled the match. Good comeback.

He doesn't have the best poker face!

[Rane]

Carter looked totally gone, when Bingham equalled the match. Good comeback.

[culraven]

Couldn't have asked for more on day 1, loving the Eurosport coverage.

[Rane]

Congratulations to Carter, what a thrilling decider. A shame for Bingham that he had such a tough draw for his first matc. He had deserved a longer titledefense. First suprise of the tournament even if it´s only a minor one. Ali Carter is a class player.

[vilkrang]

Great match but I thought Carter was about to crap himself on live television with the number of chances he missed after already having Bingham needing two snookers. Reminded me of 90s Jimmy White in all those finals.

[cally]

Great first round match that..

[daffie]

Wonderful match...enjoyed every second of it...more of the same please for the next 16 days :snooker: