Welsh Open 2021 LIVE – Ronnie O’Sullivan v Jordan Brown in the Celtic Manor final

O’Sullivan belatedly asks referee Ben Williams what the biggest break of the tournament is. It’s Zhao Xintong’s 143; By the time Ronnie asked, there wasn’t enough left to beat him, but he does a 135 to finally place his best form in this match.

Ronnie prefers to win the frame and soon plays for pink. Bah! Although understandable given the state of the game. However, you will soon be home and hose down on this frame, and it might just be the filip you needed.

If you are a fan of excitement, then go for it; now there are six reds with blacks and the package has developed very well. O’Sullivan hit a 147 against Ding Junhui in the final here seven years ago, including perhaps the best shot ever when he shoved a red into his green pocket. left handed to go back for the black. Will you go for the maxi here?

Brown misses a plant in the lower right at the start of the fifth, leaving the red one in O’Sullivan’s pocket. It’s an opportunity, and Ronnie really could use a one-hit frame here to stop Brown’s momentum. They are three red and black so far.

A break of 107 extends Brown’s lead. He surprised Mark Selby on Friday and beat up Stephen Maguire yesterday; today, he far exceeds the greatest player of all time.

The red picture ball is delicately dropped in the right center, and he is in the pink. If Brown dreamed last night of how this finale would start, it probably would have been something like that.

It’s half a century for Brown, whose composure has been impressive all week and continues to be here. A 4-1 lead looks pinned here, and the momentum in this game will be related to O’Sullivan.

We’re back, and a good safety from Brown forces a mistake from O’Sullivan, who misjudges a deadlift safety and leaves Jordan with a red on the bottom right. He’s far away again, surviving a heart-to-mouth moment where the black barely falls after wobbling on the lower left jaws. They are 30 and counting until now.

Big deal for Brown, who clears to the pink for a 78 and leads at halftime. It’s been a nightmare mini-session for Ronnie, but a dreamy start for Jordan.

Brown is back with a red to left midfield, and he has a great chance to get into the interval ahead. A blue in the middle left puts him 77 up front with 75 remaining, and a midrange red thereafter ensures O’Sullivan will not return to the table.

A very precise break from Brown goes to 32. The Reds are scattered but not too far from each other, so he needs a delicate positional game to keep him going. After one more quarter note, he takes off, landing touching the ball on a red one and not his intended option in the lower right. Brown plays safe and will be upset that he didn’t convert that opportunity.

Brown scores with a long red to start the fourth, and of his next snooker O’Sullivan gives up 19 points before leaving brown and red along the bottom band. In it goes, and he is in the black.

A total of 74 from O’Sullivan ranks the third frame.

Good luck, lucky boy! At 59 Ronnie wildly misses a red, but snaps it out of the jaws, comes out of another red, exits the right lane and heads to the center left. He goes on to secure the frame, but OMG, he’s had a touch there.

One quick turn of the tap and O’Sullivan has reached this finale. It rattles in half a century in just a short time, and there is also a burden left for him.

What a game it has been for Brown so far; He seemed nervous from the start, but he really punished a bad start for O’Sullivan. He’s not immediately improving for Ronnie either, as he falls into a long red in the third, but fails to land in a throwback color. However, it could now, while exploding in a long red, release the pink and land in an easy blue.

A 58 break from Brown leaves Ronnie needing two snookers with a red one on the table. O’Sullivan finally concedes when Brown catches him in a pool hall.

Brown is making hay here and the Reds are very well prepared to win the frame on this visit. His break comes to 46 with a black on the bottom left and he’s closing in on a 2-0 lead here.

A quarter in-off of Ronnie’s day gives Brown a long, easy red, but he can’t force the position on black. He rushes in again, however, but misses a red to leave Ronnie right on the balls and a chance to settle into the match. However, he misses a pink to left middle at 25, and Brown is back.

Jordan laughs in the yellow and places a billiard in the green. O’Sullivan concedes and Brown hits the front.

This one is a bit messy. Brown makes 15 but loses position, before re-entering after poor security from Ronnie. An excellent shot in the yellow one places it very well in the final, red frame, and pierces it in the lower left. However, he misses pink thereafter, and with a required snooker, O’Sullivan will keep playing.

A monstrous kick to a red to left middle leaves O’Sullivan in a difficult blue-to-green pocket with the rest, and he missed. However, Brown cannot take advantage and misses a relatively simple red in the lower right. He seems a bit nervous so far, but returns to the table when O’Sullivan comes back in and out. After an exchange of safety shots, Ronnie sends White for the third time and has given Brown an easy starter.

It’s an opportunity for Brown when O’Sullivan is in and out, but he can’t turn a red on the bottom left and left O’Sullivan in. A 14 winger break when he splits the reds but ends up snooked on his next shot planned by the respotted pink. However, he’s back after Brown kisses a red twice when trying to play safe.

O’Sullivan misses his first effort with a long red, allowing Brown to put a red in the green pocket with the rest. He does 16, but he doesn’t go high enough on a positional shot on black and has to play safe.

Our announcer Phil Seymour introduces the players. Jordan enters Two Tribes, Ronnie enters Drops of Jupiter. A few photos with the trohpy later and it’s Jordan Brown to break up. So best of 17 for the Welsh Open title, let’s do it.

Angles and the Wind here, on how Brown could pull it off today.

Against the greatest of all time is the world number 81, Jordan Brown. He’s had enough of 2021 so far. A few weeks ago he reached the quarter-finals of the German Masters, his best career in a qualifying event, and at Celtic Manor this week he dispatched Mark Selby in a dramatic quarter-finals that went to the final black. He backed that up by crushing Stephen Maguire 6-1 to reach the final, making him a fit player.

Ronnie O’Sullivan comes to this final brilliantly. At Celtic Manor this week he won 21 of the 23 frames he has contested, having located the kind of form that helped him back to the world title last August. If he can win here today, he will claim his fifth Welsh Open title, equaling John Higgins’ record at this event.

Billiards was not invented in Wales, but the nation has left an indelible mark on the game. They have given us two of the best of all time: Ray Reardon and Mark Williams; a world champion in his Crucible debut in Terry Griffiths; Triple Crown winners Matthew Stevens and the late Doug Mountjoy and qualifying event winners Dominic Dale, Ryan Day and Michael White.

But Wales don’t just grace the game with great players. Every year, just as the last blast of winter dies down, they host the Welsh Open. This is the thirtieth edition of an event that has become one of the top-of-the-line tournaments outside of the Triple Crown. If you don’t believe me, check out this list of former winners: Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, Ronnie O’Sullivan, John Higgins, Mark Williams, Ken Doherty, Paul Hunter, Mark Selby, Neil Robertson, Shaun Murphy, Ding Junhui.

It matters. The other Home Nations Series titles in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland may offer the same money, but they do not offer the same prestige. Win this and you really have won something. Ronnie O’Sullivan and Jordan Brown will be on the table shortly to qualify for the 2021 title.

Despite the comprehensive nature of his semifinal victory, O’Sullivan had mixed feelings about his performance against Mark Williams. However, he feels that if he is playing well “he may do some damage”. He added that he will not be distracted by his status as a great favorite for the confrontation between the couple.

Brown is ranked 81st and O’Sullivan is the current world champion. Anything but a simple victory would come as a surprise to observers, but he was reluctant to look beyond his own game, but added that he feels that when he’s playing well, he can “do some damage.”

Speaking after the game with Eurosport’s Andy Goldstein and Jimmy White, O’Sullivan, 45, had mixed feelings about his current form.

“I didn’t feel like I was giving signals like I was in Milton Keynes, and in the first games of last week, but the new grip allows me to put in some really good shots, which is allowing my game to control the table, rather than just playing mediocre things, “he explained.

Despite his extensive victory, O’Sullivan noted that he did not feel capable of scoring for more than a century.

“I just played balls. If I could have gotten six, seven tons, I would have done it, ”he said.

“But there were times when I didn’t see it well and I missed a couple. Every now and then I could use my advantage.

Brown sweeps Maguire to reach the first final of the ranking

Saturday saw an excellent victory for Jordan Brown after beating Stephen Maguire in the Welsh Open semi-final in the afternoon game.

O’Sullivan overtakes Williams to reach final

Ronnie O’Sullivan was in excellent shape when he scored a 6-1 win over Mark Williams in the Welsh Open semi-final.

Saturday, February 20 – 1:00 p.m. UK time

The 2021 Welsh Open is live on Eurosport.

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