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World Championship Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

Postby Wildey

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Saturday 19th of April~Monday 5th of May at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

Session 1 Sunday 4th of May @ 2pm
Session 2 Sunday 4th of May @ 7pm
Session 3 Monday 5th of May @ 2pm
Session 4 Monday 5th of May @ 7pm

Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

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Overall O'Sullivan Leads 13-7
Main Tournaments O'Sullivan leads 6-5
World Championship Selby leads 1-0

So the Final is a repeat of the Masters Final the Last time they played each other with Ronnie O'Sullivan won 10-4.

Who will be World Champion 2014?

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Re: World Championship Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

Postby NNear

Once again, Ronnie will face someone who will go on to become a multi World Champion Finalist in the final.


Higgins, Dott, Carter, and Selby. The only one who is not is Barry Hawkins.

Ronnie will need to bring his A game.

Ronnie has always had to beat high calibre long format players, 2 of which became World Champions. Hats off to Ronnie for having to put strong WC contenders to the sword. He'll have to be clinical as per usual to get the job done yet again.

As for Selby, he needs to give it every last ounce of strength and focus that he has remaining to have a chance at the match. For Ronnie, it will be a stressful match because you need to sustain a consistent level of play, focus and intensity to not get swamped by 'The Torturer'.
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Re: World Championship Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

Postby Andre147

Holden Chinaski wrote:
vodkadiet wrote:At least if O'Sullivan wins he has had to play a real player, and not Carter or Hawkins.

You mean Barry Hawkins who beat Selby in the 2013 world championship? Is that the one you're talking about?


Exactly, to discredit Ronnies Crucible achievments some seem to think a player didnt have to win 4 matches until reaching the Final rofl <doh>

Re: World Championship Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

Postby Andre147

Skullman wrote:Calling McManus a proper match is a bit of a stretch. And Hull isn't a bunny, he's simply not good enough.


Agree Skull, at least someone who sees things who they truly are. <ok>

Re: World Championship Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

Postby NNear

Ronnie O'Sullivan has/will have played in finals:

Higgins: 4x WC
Dott: 1xWC 2xRU
Carter: 2xRU
Selby: 2xFinalist
Hawkins: 1xFinalist

Hardly worth disparaging, is it. Not to mention that in the battle of the 'legends' Ronnie won the match. That's the only loss Higgins has in a WC final.
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Re: World Championship Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

Postby Alex0paul

NNear wrote:Ronnie O'Sullivan has/will have played in finals:

Higgins: 4x WC
Dott: 1xWC 2xRU
Carter: 2xRU
Selby: 2xFinalist
Hawkins: 1xFinalist

Hardly worth disparaging, is it. Not to mention that in the battle of the 'legends' Ronnie won the match. That's the only loss Higgins has in a WC final.


Dott wasn't a World Champion when he played him
Carter was in his first ranking final when he played him
Higgins was only a 1 time WC when he played him
Hawkins is a bog standard run of the mill top 20 player

Re: World Championship Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

Postby NNear

Alex0paul wrote:
NNear wrote:Ronnie O'Sullivan has/will have played in finals:

Higgins: 4x WC
Dott: 1xWC 2xRU
Carter: 2xRU
Selby: 2xFinalist
Hawkins: 1xFinalist

Hardly worth disparaging, is it. Not to mention that in the battle of the 'legends' Ronnie won the match. That's the only loss Higgins has in a WC final.


Dott wasn't a World Champion when he played him
Carter was in his first ranking final when he played him
Higgins was only a 1 time WC when he played him
Hawkins is a bog standard run of the mill top 20 player


A predictable but pointless argument. The point is that they went on to prove their calibre and show they are respectable and high level, high calibre World Championship opposition.

Higgins faced a greener version of Selby, a green Trump, a 1x WC Ken and a 1x WC Murphy at the times of the matches. Ronnie played a 1xWC Higgins at the time of the match and Higgins is much better than Ken or Murphy ever were or have been at the time before or since. Ronnie won the match. You can play the context game with any champion. The argument fails.
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Re: World Championship Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

Postby Holden Chinaski

Alex0paul wrote:
NNear wrote:Ronnie O'Sullivan has/will have played in finals:

Higgins: 4x WC
Dott: 1xWC 2xRU
Carter: 2xRU
Selby: 2xFinalist
Hawkins: 1xFinalist

Hardly worth disparaging, is it. Not to mention that in the battle of the 'legends' Ronnie won the match. That's the only loss Higgins has in a WC final.


Dott wasn't a World Champion when he played him
Carter was in his first ranking final when he played him
Higgins was only a 1 time WC when he played him
Hawkins is a bog standard run of the mill top 20 player

Ronnie has also won 4 UK and 5 Masters titles you know. To win those he beat the likes of Hendry, Higgins, Ding and Selby.

People seem to forget this.

Re: World Championship Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

Postby Snooker Overdrive

The first World Championship I've watched since becoming a snooker fan was the 2007 edition.

I rooted for Mark in that final and he pulled off an amazing comeback to get level 14-14 until Higgins pulled away to win the title. I never would have thought it would take 7 years for Selby to get to his next World Final but he's made it again after all these years. It's not getting any easier though, first Higgins now Ronnie.

Re: World Championship Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

Postby Skullman

Snooker Overdrive wrote:The first World Championship I've watched since becoming a snooker fan was the 2007 edition.

I rooted for Mark in that final and he pulled off an amazing comeback to get level 14-14 until Higgins pulled away to win the title. I never would have thought it would take 7 years for Selby to get to his next World Final but he's made it again after all these years. It's not getting any easier though, first Higgins now Ronnie.


Higgins won 18-13?

Re: World Championship Final: Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Selby

Postby NNear

I knew this weak counter was coming, so to reinforce my point, let's look at Hendry.

White: Nx Runner up depending on final
Nigel Bond ...................................................
Peter Ebdon: 1x WC 2xRU, at time Hendry beat him, also wasn't ever a finalist before.
Mark Williams: 2x WC 1xRU, also first final when Hendry beat him.


   

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