Final frames | Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Ding Junhui | 2021 Players Championship L16

Ronnie O'Sullivan is playing quite well and had been doing so even before the defeat in the Welsh Open final two days earlier. Ding Junhui is playing well too, but he doesn't look as focused as usual. This is probably because he hasn´t seen his family for seven months due to the sanitary restrictions.

A small incident with the rest happens at the end of the tenth frame (12:07 and 13:21).

Erratum: Head to head was O'Sullivan 17-5 Ding (not 18-5)

The statistics shown in the video correspond to the date of the match.

Cesar Muroya created a unique editing technique to extract the essence of the game without losing the drama involved. Contextual information is also an innovation appreciated by viewers.

This format is not intended to substitute the full version but make snooker more accessible to new fans. The fluency and atmosphere of the game stay in a shorter-length video, allowing even experienced fans to enjoy snooker at any time.

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[najinsky]

That last break was much more than a frame of snooker, it was a uniquely gifted player in turmoil as his love of playing snooker was wresting for control over his matchplay demons. He knows the matchplay way to play, but sometimes he'd rather lose than not play to his ability.

The balls had decided not to cooperate and the reasonable match-player knows it's time to play the percentage game, to tuck up safe and wait for another chance.

But Ronnie knows that next chance doesn't always come, especially in the deciding frame. He chooses to put it on all the line, accepts that he might blow it but plays for the win anyway. He chooses to trust his snooker. That's why I love watching Ronnie, he stays brave and nothing is predictable. Sometimes you just see flashes of the genius, and sometimes you see it in spades. There really is no player like him.

And I'm loving how you you are doing these videos Cesar. Thanks.

[kevinbeach]

I’m not very good at pool but love watching and learning from the hosts how they think. Thank you.

[jdmillar]

The editing on this, like all of your videos, is excellent. Maintaining the continuity of the match while clipping so much time is great. I really enjoy that the audio is never jarring, often I find clipped videos make the commentary sound really odd and distract me.

As a casual fan, the information you add at the bottom is great, too. Lots of stats I would never know, and really cool to credit the refs by name, they deserve the recognition.

[cahg]

Ronnie has the ability to dig deep and win even when he is not playing to his full potential.When he does decide to walk away from the tour, professional snooker will be a lot poorer for it.He has pulled countless fans to the game with his almost super human feats of snooker play, we fans and the association owe him more then I could ever put into words.

[lucas]

Ding's career can be summed to this:

- Starts playing great snooker, makes one, two, three mistakes, loses control of the table and of the match, the opponent doesn't miss a ball when it matters, loses the match. Next tournament: repeat.

Sad but true for a truly phenomenal talent, but not there yet when it comes to World Championship material. I hope one day he becomes, but it will be very difficult imo.

[EannaButler]

What an enthralling match.
Great that they shut the "canned audience" up for this one. Made snooker like a late-60's American comedy show, during lockdown.
The two commentators - Neal Foulds and Phil Yeats - did a great job commentating on this. Great that you let their flow thru in your edits too Cesar!

[say_hello_to_my_little_friend]

When you give context to your videos, you win my heart.

[MobileGamingMomentsGG]

Mr. Bean and Angry Bird, love to watch them play.

[EnricoFantini]

Loving the competitiveness and mutual respect between these two.

[emiliogauna]

Son dos jugadores extraordinarios es un placer ver estos partidos

[alizain]

Ronnie losing 5 finals last season hurts a lot as a fan of him

[sdrtcacgnrjrc]

0:02 Interesting quote at the beginning. I remember within the last couple of years, players getting reprimanded (I don't know if fined) for commenting negatively about a referee. I can't remember what the ref had done, but he _was_ unprofessional. The players were told to send their complaints in writing to the snooker management gods (sorry, can't think what they're called) and not to talk in public about the incident. Does this happen in other sports?
Barry Hearn was good for the game, but he was a dictator. The sport could do with relaxing this obsessive control on players, maybe we'd have more character/s, like in the eighties.

[louiskong]

very very good job... congratulations💐👍🏻👍🏻

[mukeshpranhakar]

Pls also show data of the match not only Year of the Match. Otherwise good Presentation. 👍

[edwardhugus]

Can you put a red ball followed by another red, or must you play red ball, another color? Also, I'm curious, if you can generally only score 147 in a game, why keep playing so far past 67 if there aren't enough points to catch up? THANKS in advance if you provide some insight, I have never seen Snooker played until last evening I saw it here on YT.

[YashYadav-wcuz]

it is shots like 16:24 in the deciding frame that made osullivan 🐐

[corallaroc]

When you say (3:30) that Ronnie had 30 whitewashes and this equals to about 1 in 3 wins... within what timespan do you mean that? Ronnie had more than 90 wins in his career ;-)

[pelegrino_]

Ronnie is so good that I even have to blaim the cloth for that overscrewed yellow on the 10th frame. He didnt seem to hit it any hard and it went back flying over the green ball line.

[zariqmin]

Ronnie great natural player
Very dangerous player
Ronnie is a super player
My favorite player

[wischef]

The only thing missing from these being perfect edits is I can still hear Phil Yates.