Welsh Open Day 2

February 11, 2013

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— snookerbacker @ 5:50 pm

A typical Welsh scene

Tuesday sees day two over in glitzy Newport as we move into the Last 32 round. It’s still best of 7 frames so until there is anything that interesting to write about before the matches get longer I’ll not do a big long blog.

In the meantime you can take a look at my outright preview for the tournament here which gives plenty of pointers as to who I think will progress today, you can read that by clicking here. I won’t be recommending any match bets on these as I can’t really see much value out there but I’ll give selections at the bottom of the post.

The prices on the matches from blog partners Apollobet available here and they are still betting on the outright market here.

10.30am

Neil Robertson v Ian Burns
Stephen Maguire v Anthony Hamilton

NB 1.30pm

Liang Wenbo v Matthew Stevens
Marco Fu v Mark Allen

NB 2pm

Ken Doherty v John Higgins
Gerard Greene v Sam Baird

NB 7pm

Pankaj Advani v Shaun Murphy
Barry Hawkins v Alan McManus

Predictions: Robertson 4-2, Hamilton 4-2, Wenbo 4-2, Allen 4-1, Higgins 4-3, Baird 4-2, Murphy 4-3, Hawkins 4-1.

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It would be very easy for BBC Wales to so the same as all the other BBC Tournaments and stream all the sessions on bbc.co.uk (not just doing a simulcast of BBC2 Wales).

It means that the semis and final are the only matches shown live (with the exception of 1 hour of live coverage in the evening and/or whatever frames they randomly show live in the afternoon). Hope that ITV4 aren’t going to adopt this ‘back to the 70s’ approach…

Comment by ANON — February 12, 2013 @ 1:55 pm Reply
Don’t what BBC Wales is playing! Apparently there were no cameras rolling for the morning session, but BBC Wales manage to show some stuff from Robbo v Burns and Mags v Hamilton in their half an hour of coverage before Stevens v Liang starts.

If they have the footage, why not let Eurosport, the betting sites or liveworldsnooker.tv show it? It seems like they want the Welsh Open to die.

Comment by Skullman — February 12, 2013 @ 1:23 pm Reply
It’s not technical problems, they are just not scheduled to show them. Confirms that this is becoming something of a non-event.

Comment by snookerbacker — February 12, 2013 @ 11:32 am Reply
Apparently there are no cameras for the morning session for the rest of this week. BBC Wales is probably trying to save money.

Comment by Tom — February 12, 2013 @ 11:18 am Reply
No TV production for the 10:30 matches; that’ll be the same tomorrow and Thursday as well.

Comment by Chazzz — February 12, 2013 @ 11:18 am Reply
Think they have some technical difficulties, as nothing live on Eurosport as well. MJW v Chuang there at the moment.

Comment by Nebs — February 12, 2013 @ 11:14 am Reply
It seems the first session is not streamed on betting sites. Anyone knows the reason?

Comment by prasopes — February 12, 2013 @ 9:54 am Reply
One should send a clip to Mark Allen of when Liu Chuang calls a push shot on himself in the deciding frame,
not even Joe Johnson could see it in slowmo.

Comment by kimball — February 11, 2013 @ 11:22 pm Reply