Zhiyuan Huanbao Yushan World Open Semi Finals !!

Monday 28th of October- Sunday 3rd of November at Yushan Sports Centre, Yushan, China

So its a repeat of the World Final as John Higgins defeated Stuart Bingham 5-2 to set up the Match With Judd Trump and in the other Semi Final Thepchaiya Un-Nooh through to his 5th ranking semi final first since 2016 and yet to reach a Final he will be up against Kyren Wilson the German Masters Champion.

Who will Progress to the final with a chance of picking up the £150,000?

DRAW

Semi Finals
Judd Trump v John Higgins Higgins leads 22-11
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Thepchaiya Un-Nooh v Kyren Wilson Wilson leads 2-1

ORDER OF PLAY

Come on Judd and Un-Nooh!

Trump v Thepps would be an epic final, pot fest like their encounter at the Worlds this year.

Andre147 wrote:Trump v Thepps would be an epic final, pot fest like their encounter at the Worlds this year.

It will be the same format too. I really hope this will be the final.

Andre147 wrote:Trump v Thepps would be an epic final, pot fest like their encounter at the Worlds this year.

That would be fast paced stuff.

And from what I've seen Judd hasn't looked unbeatable.

Andre147 wrote:Trump v Thepps would be an epic final, pot fest like their encounter at the Worlds this year.

+1

Trump vs Thep would be a great final. But I wouldnt mind Trump vs Wilson either given the needle/rivalry.

TheRocket wrote:Trump vs Thep would be a great final. But I wouldnt mind Trump vs Wilson either given the needle/rivalry.

I still don't understand their needle. Where does it come from?

TheRocket wrote:Trump vs Thep would be a great final. But I wouldnt mind Trump vs Wilson either given the needle/rivalry.

It would be nice to see Judd get revenge for that final defeat in China four years ago.

SnookerFan wrote:

TheRocket wrote:Trump vs Thep would be a great final. But I wouldnt mind Trump vs Wilson either given the needle/rivalry.

I still don't understand their needle. Where does it come from?

I have no clue. Maybe just fierce competitive instincts about who is the better player. Even though Trump certainly is well ahead now in that department.

Funnily enough though they'll play an exhibition match in early January (in Germany).

TheRocket wrote:I have no clue. Maybe just fierce competitive instincts about who is the better player. Even though Trump certainly is well ahead now in that department.

Funnily enough though they'll play an exhibition match in early January (in Germany).

I did wonder originally whether the needle was fictitious commentator talk. But Judd does appear to be a bit into it.

The impression I get is that Judd doesn't like Kyren, and Kyren doesn't have much of a clue as to why.

Thepchaiya is a recent ranking event winner, Wildey.
He also won the pro-am Haining Open last week, beating Selby in the Semis.

SnookerFan wrote:

TheRocket wrote:Trump vs Thep would be a great final. But I wouldnt mind Trump vs Wilson either given the needle/rivalry.

I still don't understand their needle. Where does it come from?

It was widely covered. Let's go over it one more time.

Kyren mentioned in an interview that he thought Judd had underachieved.

Trump responded on twitter dissing Kyren. Trump was interviewed about it and he was clearly not happy about Kyren's remarks.

Trump then went into overdrive. Winning the world's etc

chengdufan wrote:Thepchaiya is a recent ranking event winner, Wildey.
He also won the pro-am Haining Open last week, beating Selby in the Semis.

Yes, but you must confess, controversially so.

Do you really want to have a conversation with Wild about the Shoot Out's ranking event status? The only user on here that gets more animated on that issue than I do.

Dan-cat wrote:It was widely covered. Let's go over it one more time.

Kyren mentioned in an interview that he thought Judd had underachieved.

Trump responded on twitter dissing Kyren. Trump was interviewed about it and he was clearly not happy about Kyren's remarks.

Trump then went into overdrive. Winning the world's etc

He should be thanking Kyren then, shouldn't he? It's given him the intensive.

Besides, if anything Kyren was paying him a compliment. Unlike when Allen said Bingham had no bottle, which is clearly dissing him as player, saying somebody has underachieved is saying that they have more talent than their trophy collection would suggest.

The fact that Judd has suddenly won more trophies in the past year doesn't do anything other than prove Kyren correct.

So what's the big deal?

I remember Ogden said "Judd needs to practise more like me"

Judd replied "If I had a cue action like his I would practise more"

Come on Judd

Teppy - flush that pirate down the pan

Badsnookerplayer wrote:I remember Ogden said "Judd needs to practise more like me"

Judd replied "If I had a cue action like his I would practise more"

Haha yes that was it! Well remembered!

Badsnookerplayer wrote:I remember Ogden said "Judd needs to practise more like me"

Judd replied "If I had a cue action like his I would practise more"

Oh right.

Then yeah, I can see why Judd would take some offence at that.

Though, to be fair to Ogden, it is true. Trump has come on leaps and bounds since his brother started making sure he put in the hours.

What the buck is this Ogden thing?

Dan-cat wrote:

Badsnookerplayer wrote:I remember Ogden said "Judd needs to practise more like me"

Judd replied "If I had a cue action like his I would practise more"

Haha yes that was it! Well remembered!

BUURRRNNNNEEEEEDDDDDD!!

EAT CROW OGDEN!!

Badsnookerplayer wrote:

Dan-cat wrote:

Badsnookerplayer wrote:I remember Ogden said "Judd needs to practise more like me"

Judd replied "If I had a cue action like his I would practise more"

Haha yes that was it! Well remembered!

BUURRRNNNNEEEEEDDDDDD!!

EAT CROW OGDEN!!

SnookerFan wrote:

Dan-cat wrote:It was widely covered. Let's go over it one more time.

Kyren mentioned in an interview that he thought Judd had underachieved.

Trump responded on twitter dissing Kyren. Trump was interviewed about it and he was clearly not happy about Kyren's remarks.

Trump then went into overdrive. Winning the world's etc

He should be thanking Kyren then, shouldn't he? It's given him the intensive.

Besides, if anything Kyren was paying him a compliment. Unlike when Allen said Bingham had no bottle, which is clearly dissing him as player, saying somebody has underachieved is saying that they have more talent than their trophy collection would suggest.

The fact that Judd has suddenly won more trophies in the past year doesn't do anything other than prove Kyren correct.

So what's the big deal?

It’s not just that. Judd also pointed out that at that time he’d already won far more than Ogden, so how could Ogden tell him what to do (even if he was right).

Ash147 wrote:What the buck is this Ogden thing?

The short version is that I was talking about him, and autocorrect ballsed up and came out with Ogden and I didn't notice until after I posted.

To confuse matters, I'd got names mixed up due to be senile. So I was saying Walden, when I meant Wilson. So Walden autocorrected to Ogden.

Bottom line is that Wilson is now called Ogden on this forum.

SnookerFan wrote:
Bottom line is that WIlson is now called Ogden on this forum.

Mate you really struggle with that name don’t you?

Iranu wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:

Dan-cat wrote:It was widely covered. Let's go over it one more time.

Kyren mentioned in an interview that he thought Judd had underachieved.

Trump responded on twitter dissing Kyren. Trump was interviewed about it and he was clearly not happy about Kyren's remarks.

Trump then went into overdrive. Winning the world's etc

He should be thanking Kyren then, shouldn't he? It's given him the intensive.

Besides, if anything Kyren was paying him a compliment. Unlike when Allen said Bingham had no bottle, which is clearly dissing him as player, saying somebody has underachieved is saying that they have more talent than their trophy collection would suggest.

The fact that Judd has suddenly won more trophies in the past year doesn't do anything other than prove Kyren correct.

So what's the big deal?

It’s not just that. Judd also pointed out that at that time he’d already won far more than Ogden, so how could Ogden tell him what to do (even if he was right).

Point is, Judd's a idiot.

Iranu wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:
Bottom line is that WIlson is now called Ogden on this forum.

Mate you really struggle with that name don’t you?

Don't edit my posts.

Shenanigans! I edited nothing!