This match is going to be brilliant the defending champion versus I believe a future world champion.
Ronnie defeated Stuart Bingham 13-4 in the quarters & Judd beat Shaun Murphy 13-12.
Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-4 Judd Trump 1st session score (best of 33 frames first to 17)
Frame 1: A cracking first red from Judd missed blue he will be nervous, 14 from Ronnie misses red whilst stretching, Judd trying a thin sneak missed it twice then went safe on the 3rd attempt, Ronnie at his best now at the table a 65 frame winner 1-0 Ronnie
Frame 2: Some great long pots from both players, Judd at the table 16pts ahead, Ronnie has clawed his way back into the frame, respotted black time, Judd pots it 1-1.
Frame 3: Ronnie races to 40, and a 34 to seal the frame barring snookers, a 28 from Judd went for a snooker not successful 2-1 Ronnie.
Frame 4: 75 from Ronnie wins the 4th frame he leads 3-1 at the mid session interval.
Frame 5: Ronnie in imperious form at the moment 89 good break 7mins 4-1 Rocket.
Frame 6: 22 to start from Judd, a frame winning 50 4-2 Ronnie.
Frame 7: Judd leads by 30, Ronnie on 43 playing majestic snooker, gets to 56 and plays safe, Judd then pots his way to the frame 4-3 now.
Frame 8: 40 from Ronnie, Judd responds with a 72 4-4 going to tomorrow morning 3 in a row for Judd. see u 10am tomorrow have a good afternoon.
Ronnie
O'Sullivan and Judd Trump are locked at 4-4 after the first session of their
World Championship semi-final.
O'Sullivan, who said after his quarter-final win over Stuart Bingham that he had only returned to the sport for the money, got off to a flying start.
'The Rocket' from Essex took four of the first five frames, with Bristol's Trump only winning a tense second courtesy of a re-spotted black.
But Trump won the last three frames to leave the best-of-33 tie finely poised.
The match resumes at 10:00 BST on Saturday.
Having returned to snooker in Sheffield after almost a year off, defending champion O'Sullivan has comfortably despatched Marcus Campbell, Ali Carter and Bingham on his way to the semis.
But O'Sullivan's latest comments have left BBC snooker pundit Steve Davis questioning the 37-year-old's attitude to the game.
"That session shows how much Judd Trump has improved in his character. He dug in and that is as good as I have seen him compete."
"We know full well that Ronnie O'Sullivan's interviews
are a bit like the British weather: they're changeable," said six-time world
champion Davis.
"But there's a dilemma for the snooker fan. They love what comes off the end of his cue; they sometimes hate what comes out of his mouth because it is sometimes disrespectful to snooker.
"The question to ask for every snooker fan is: 'Is it better for Judd Trump to win this match rather than Ronnie O'Sullivan, even though Ronnie is such a breath of fresh air when he plays great?' It's a tough question to ask."
It was the four-time winner O'Sullivan who built up an early lead, with breaks of 65, 75 and 89, but 23-year-old Trump - who has beaten Dominic Dale, Marco Fu and Shaun Murphy to advance to the last-four - hit back with 50 and a composed 72 in the last to leave the match all-square.
Ronnie O'Sullivan 9-7 Judd Trump (best of 33 frames first to 17) 5-3 session score
Session 2: Good morning all square at the moment time for the next 8 frames.
Frame 9: Nice red for Judd which Ronnie left stuck out tucked behind the green is the Rocket, Ronnie expertly got out of it, Ronnie on 39 at the moment, a frame winner of 90 the Rocket starting to lift off 5-4.
Frame 10: Judd onto 35 then a kick, Ronnie only made 6, Judd is back in, another 35 from Judd, Ronnie concedes 5-5.
Frame 11: A 26 from Judd & a 27 from Ronnie in this one so far, 4 reds on the table, safety battle going on, seems to me even at the moment, Ronnie edges ahead with a beauty covering the reds with several colours Judd hits it. Ronnie looks favourite for this frame now, he does win it 6-5 Rocket.
Frame 12: Ronnie made 17, Judd leads by 23 pts, reds around the black spot, Ronnie looking to get back into this frame, breaks down on 16, Judd goes on to win it 6-6 at mid session interval.
Frame 13: 30 a good starting point for Judd, careless miss on the pink, 43 for Ronnie not on the green though which is frame ball, Ronnie goes on to take the frame 7-6.
Frame 14: Frame winning 93 from Ronnie 8-6 Ronnie
Frame 15: 60 from Ronnie in control of the frame, takes it 9-6.
Frame 16: A 40 break from Judd imperative that he wins the frame, 44 from Ronnie back in the frame colours left, safety battle Ronnie wins just I reckon, yellow sunk, green missed, Judd wins it 9-7 Ronnie see u tonight 1900!
Ronnie
O'Sullivan had the better of the second session of his World Championship
semi-final against Judd Trump, opening up a 9-7 lead.
Beginning at 4-4, defending champion O'Sullivan and world number three Trump shared the first four frames.
But, capitalising on Trump's errors, O'Sullivan was able to take three in succession after the interval.
However, O'Sullivan himself twice missed the green in the last to keep Trump in the best-of-33 contest.
That Trump will resume at 19:00 BST on Friday only two behind the four-time winner represents something of a decent achievement, considering the loose nature of some of his play during the morning.
Even in the final stanza of the session, the left-hander from Bristol missed a simple red when amongst the balls, giving O'Sullivan the chance to open up a four-frame gap.
But, with O'Sullivan double-kissing the yellow, a compelling safety exchange over that ball and then the green followed.
Twice 'The Rocket' let Trump off the hook on the green, with the 2011 finalist taking the second opportunity to cut the deficit to two.
That O'Sullivan was not able to convert the opportunity presented to him was not in keeping with what had gone before, particularly in the 16th frame, when another simple red missed by Trump provided the potter from Essex the second of three in succession that came with breaks of 40, 93 and 60.
The triple success came after a fluctuating opening four frames, a quartet that saw Trump pegging back O'Sullivan on two occasions.
While scoring not as free-flowing as Thursday's first session, O'Sullivan was still able to open the day with a run of 90, but he was also culpable when later missing a red along the top cushion to allow Trump to level at 6-6.
Still, mistakes from the cue of Trump were the more forthcoming in the second half of the session, errors that looked set to cause a telling gap.
But Trump battled and can still deny O'Sullivan the chance to defend the crown he won before taking a year out of the game.
Ronnie O'Sullivan 14-10 Judd Trump (best of 33 frames first to 17) 5-3 session score
3rd Session: Good evening atmosphere is electric
Frame 17: Ronnie is in already 28 to begin, and a frame winning 51 10-7 to Ronnie.
Frame 18: 22 from the Rocket in this one, chance for Judd 31 he got, Judd on colours now, missed blue, Ronnie pots blue, pink & black 11-7.
Frame 19: Clearance 117 from Judd fabulous 11-8.
Frame 20: Judd fouled the yellow, Ronnie goes onto win the frame express stuff just under an hour for the 4 frames up to the interval, 12-8.
Frame 21: 32 break from Judd missed green was close, 34 for Ronnie, Judd 2pts ahead tactics now, 8pts is the gap now, colours left, blue-black left now, Ronnie pots the blue 13-8.
Frame 22: Judd 28 in front colours left, Ronnie needed a snooker he has that, needs a 2nd though, free ball now for Judd Ronnie conceded 13-9.
Frame 23: Tight start to this one scrappy, starting to open up a little Judd ahead on points, cracking pot plant pink goes in too, reds in a cluster on the right hand side of the table,
52-11 in favour of Judd at the moment, frame won by Judd 13-10.
Frame 24: Ronnie is in the balls in the last frame of the session 45 and counting, 67 clinches the frame goes on to make 89 14-10 going into final session at 1430 Saturday
Defending
champion Ronnie O'Sullivan has opened up a 14-10 lead to take control of his
World Championship semi-final against Judd Trump.
The pair started the day tied at 4-4 but O'Sullivan edged both of Friday's sessions 5-3 to move clear.
O'Sullivan won four of the first five frames of Friday's evening session, although Trump knocked in the first century of the match in frame 19.
The best-of-33 frame match is played to the end from 14:30 BST on Saturday.
Match stats after third session
| Trump | O'Sullivan | |
|---|---|---|
| 969 | Total points | 1414 |
| 300 | Balls potted | 400 |
| 84% | Pot success | 91% |
| 58% | Long pot success | 66% |
| 85% | Safety success | 77% |
| 117 | Highest break | 93 |
O'Sullivan needs just three frames to become the first
man to reach successive finals since two-time champion Mark Williams in 1999 and
2000.
Despite not playing his best snooker, Trump escaped from the second session with just a two-frame deficit, having won the 16th and final frame courtesy of a miss on the green from O'Sullivan.
Four-time champion O'Sullivan rattled through the first frame of the evening session with a 51 break and he won the next to open a four-frame advantage as Trump failed to capitalise on a rare opening.
The Bristol man responded by stroking in a superb 117 to reduce the deficit to three but O'Sullivan knocked in a 62 break, and took a tense 21st frame to extend his lead to 13-8.
Some outrageous potting from Trump helped him win the following frame with a break of 60, and he took the next but the all-important final frame of the session was won by O'Sullivan with a 89 to restore his four-frame lead.
Ricky Walden leads Barry Hawkins 9-7 after the second session of the other semi-final.
Ronnie O'Sullivan 17-11 Judd Trump (best of 33 frames first to 17) 3-1 session score
Session 4: The final session of the semi final
Frame 25: 80-50 Ronnie took the first frame to extend his lead to 15-10
Frame 26: 87-25 16-10 to the Rocket
Frame 27: A 77 made it 16-11 nice break from Judd
Frame 28: 64-13 Ronnie took the last to win 17-11.
Defending
champion Ronnie O'Sullivan reached his fifth World Championship final with a
comfortable 17-11 victory over Judd Trump at the Crucible.
O'Sullivan led 14-10 after the first two sessions, although Trump played his part in some gripping exchanges.
But Trump's mistakes caught up with him on Saturday, with O'Sullivan winning three of the four frames played.
O'Sullivan will play either Ricky Walden or Barry Hawkins in the final, which starts at 14:00 BST on Sunday.
"Judd has got huge talent and a huge future in the game, but until he learns to control the cue ball like O'Sullivan, he'll never be an O'Sullivan. But he's still young and has got the talent.
"People don't appreciate sometimes how Ronnie is playing because he makes it look so easy. But the impressive thing is the fact that he's on easy shots all the time, and there's nobody out there who can compete with that type of snooker."
"I'm quite surprised really to be sitting here talking
about another world final," said O'Sullivan.
"I don't think either of us played anywhere near our best, there was a lot of tension out there. It was the newcomer, the future of the game, against someone who's been around a long time, who wears his heart on his sleeve.
"I might say some things that frustrate people sometimes but my fans always get behind me because they know I try my hardest every time I go out there."
Trump said: "I'm not going to make excuses, Ronnie played the better snooker. He's so much better than most of the other players.
"Match practice doesn't come into it; he's so good in the balls that he's never far away, so he's never got any pressure on himself. He's never out of position.
"If you watch him play the crowd hardly ever seem to clap because he's always perfect, whereas me and the other players are always having to pull out good pots.
"I don't think there was a lot in it. I've made the most centuries this season and if I was scoring like I have been it would have been a different outcome.
"I thought my safety was better than his and I created a lot more chances but he mopped up over and over again and hardly missed a ball.
O'Sullivan, 37, has never lost a Crucible final and will be a red-hot favourite to make it five world titles whether it is Walden or Hawkins who wins the other semi, which finishes on Saturday evening.
O'Sullivan has not been behind at any stage in the tournament so far, carving through the field despite the fact that he has barely played any competitive snooker since winning the tournament last year.
World number three Trump, runner-up in 2011, was expected to be the man to push him close and the 23-year-old was brimming with confidence before the match started.
And given the break-building pedigree of both players and the pre-match intrigue - O'Sullivan said he was likely to retire after the tournament, win or lose - the match was expected to produce plenty of fireworks.
Remarkably, there was only one century break in 28 frames, but the lack of heavy scoring did not make the encounter any less dramatic, with every session brimming with high-quality snooker and tension.
The pair were locked at 4-4 after the first session on Thursday before O'Sullivan won both sessions 5-3 on Friday.
Friday's evening session had pretty much everything, including a century break from Trump, some fine safety exchanges and an "improper" gesture from O'Sullivan, which drew a verbal warning from referee Michaela Tabb.
And it was also the session which demonstrated best the difference between master and pretender, with Trump making mistakes at crucial moments and O'Sullivan stepping up time and again to punish him.
Perhaps the best example of this was in frame 20, when Trump, with the balls at his mercy, fouled the yellow with the rest and O'Sullivan cleared up to make it 12-8.
The first frame of Saturday's final session followed this pattern, with Trump missing a cut-back red on 50 and O'Sullivan clearing up for 15-10.
Trump was in the balls again in the next frame but snookered himself on his intended colour and again O'Sullivan made him pay to stand one frame from the final.
The Bristol player showed his mettle to take the next frame with a break of 77 but O'Sullivan took the next to wrap up the victory and give himself the chance to defend the world crown for the first time in his career.
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