World Snooker Championships 2008

anybody watching this.it started already.matthew stevens is already out.defending champion john higgins bet him.ronnie o'sullivan is the favourite again.mark selby could challenge again this year.i put money on stephen maguire

Ronnie is always the favourite, it's a bloody joke.

How much has he won in the last 3-4 years?! Not a lot!

C'mon Higgins!

It's a shame Fu and Ding weren't playing different people, because they're two of my favourite.

Yup come on Hendry and Higgins

i like hendrie because everybody hates him

Completely agree about Ronnie always being favourite!! His form is far too erratic. Betting on Maguire would provide far better value, as would Selby and Murphy, in my opinion.

Ding is NAILED ON to win the tournament one day.

I'm cheering for Ronnie but he beats himself most of the time. Presses the self destruct button. But at his best he would beat anyone else at their best, I'm sure. I remember to see him play Higgins in the final of the Masters a few years back - he destroyed him 10-3. He was absolutely gold that day. Unplayable.

Hope he shows similar form in the coming fortnight

get in steven maguire winning 8-1 against anthony hamilton.continues tomorrow

Yeah, but then Higgins played him the UK championships and and absolutely battered him - breaking several records in the process. Higgins was gold that day. He then beat him in the masters as well, in what was for me the best game of snooker i've ever seen. The final frame was magical!

I agree that Ding is nailed on to win it someday.

We seem to have similar views on snooker as well.

But i sense unlike me, you don't dislike Murphy. Is that correct?

Higgins will win!
he was amazin when i watched the start of his match last night. what was the score at the end?

i've been watching this when i get the chance. been a few great matches so far.

i was a bit unhappy about sebly going out in the first round, as he's from leicester, and he also practised at the same snooker club that i go to

thought i put up the first round results:


First Round
R O'Sullivan (Eng) 10-5 C Liu (Chn)
L Wenbo (Chn) 10-5 K Doherty (Ire)
S Murphy (Eng) 10-3 D Harold (Eng)
J Perry (Eng) 10-7 G Dott (Sco)
D Junhui (Chn) 10-9 M Fu (Hkg)
M Williams (Wal) 10-3 M Davis (Eng)
M King (Eng) 10-8 M Selby (Eng)
S Bingham (Eng) 10-8 S Davis (Eng)
S Hendry (Sco) 10-9 M Allen (NI)
R Day (Wal) 10-6 M Judge (Irl)
P Ebdon (Eng) 10-9 J Cope
A Carter (Eng) 10-9 B Hawkins (Eng)
Joe Swail (NI) 10-4 S Lee (Eng)
J Higgins (Sco) 10-5 M Stevens (Wal)
N Robertson (Aus) 10-4 N Bond (Eng)
S Maguire (Sco) 10-3 A Hamilton (Eng)

its 8-8 with ryan day.john higgins blew his fuse in this match.he punched the table many times and after losing a frame.he picked the cueball and flung it down the table and the fans jeered oooooooh!
not going good for him...also hendry is beating ding junhui 11-4

OMG. the one night i missed it

Gutted that Ding is probably going out. How did he miss that black?!?!

Higgins had better win.

i missed higgins throw the cue ball. but i saw him hit the table though

now that king ken is out

come on ronnie

This is turning into a nightmare. My 4 favourites are out. Ding, Higgins, Davis and Fu. My other favourite is White - who didn't qualify.

Then there's the ones i quite like - Selby and Doherty - both out!

I've got no one to cheer for now. Sucks.

stephen maguire

wtf is that suppose to mean?

Ronnie made a 147 to win his 4th frame in a row and knock out Mark Williams.

Robertson tried to make a come-back from 11-2 down, but after he won 5 frames in a row, Maguire finished it 13-7

And the young chinese lad Liang Wenbo is playing well against Joe Swail. After the first session it was 6-2 to Wenbo, does anyone know what the score is now?

wenbo won.swail made a great comeback but lost.but couldnt get over the line.wenbo won 13-12,he plays ronnie now.its going to be a good quarter final with the people left.i think the only person that i can beat ronnie is stephen maguire.be a good final

yeh maguire is the only one left i think can beat ronnie but ifancy the rocket to win

Well, most of the big guns are out, but still, anyone can beat anyone in this game, such is the standard nowadays.

Add to that Ronnie's erraticism, and anything can happen.

You never know, Wembo could surprise everyone and win it.