Framed

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And while the Scot initially played on for three snookers it proved enough for Si to become only the second player from mainland China after Ding Junhui to reach the semi-finals in Sheffield and the first debutant to reach that stage since 1995.

Frankie James is a young man with a lot on his shoulders. His mother disappeared when he was sixteen; his father's in jail for armed robbery; and he owes rent on his Soho snooker club to one of London's toughest gangsters. Things, you'd think, can only get better. Actually, they're about to get a whole lot worse. It was a great feeling to play like that. I know that if the balls go well for me I can easily win seven frames in a row even against Ronnie, so I am not surprised," Brecel said. There’s almost nothing in this world that won’t, at some point, let us down – work, sport, friends, family, government, God. But every year, we can rely on the world snooker championship to bring light, joy and drama.Probably the most talented snooker player I have ever seen. I would love to go and see him win it just for snooker because that is how the game should be played. It was a theme that was applicable until Wednesday's concluding session and even then the opening frame underscored the point.

Though he’s not the tearaway genius of 2004, when he lost just 26 frames in cruising to the title playing better than anyone ever has before, he’s no less a genius for that. His instinctive, intellectual grasp of the best route around a table is elevated by a fresh and calm desperation to equal Stephen Hendry’s record of seven world titles, his 12-5 overnight lead well-earned and almost definitely conclusive. But Brecel reeled off seven frames on the trot in a remarkable finale with breaks of 112, 64, 72, 61, 78 and 63. I find this very difficult to analyse, Hossein Vafaei is not cut from the same lump of wood as me. I don't understand how can you smash up the balls in a World Championship. He played unbelievable. He is such a good player and I love watching him. He is such a dynamic player and he is full a talent," O'Sullivan told BBC Sport.What I will say about this story is that it felt very ‘male’. I don’t even know what I mean by that except to say that the whole story was very male-oriented which I suppose is to be expected when we only really follow the story from Frankie’s point of view. Frankie was a likeable character and I enjoyed following him across London as he attempted to work out what happened and how his brother turned up on his doorstep covered in blood. The first in a gripping crime fiction series by snooker legend Ronnie O' Sullivan, Framed is a fast-paced, tightly plotted thriller. And so there was red-hot anticipation for the first session of three of their second-round clash in Sheffield. O’Sullivan made a statement break of 78 to go 1-0 up before Vafaei’s break drew gasps from the Crucible crowd. ‘It was obviously pre-meditated’

When Roger Federer hits a tennis ball, the resultant sound is different to any other player. It is deeper and more obviously correct. It is the sound of perfect timing, and it is the sign of the bona fide sporting genius. In one scene, O'Sullivan recalls his father Ronnie O'Sullivan Snr sitting him down for a "serious conversation" aged "nine or ten", to tell him that he was going to be the best snooker player in the world. From that point on though he produced an exhilarating array of shots to record his first victory over O'Sullivan since 2017. Here are some takeaways from the film. Blair's film gives unprecedented access to one of sport's most captivating personalities. 'I would have been a loser if not for my dad'

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Hendry (seven titles), O'Sullivan (five titles), Higgins (four titles), Selby (four titles) and Williams (three titles) are the only five who have won multiple world titles and managed a Crucible maximum. This was one of the best gangland crime books I have read in a very long time. And I read a LOT of books. Ignoring the crime and solving thereof, it had a lot more going on around it which made it a very well balanced overall read for me. Yes, as I have already mentioned, Frankie does punch above his weight on quite a few occasions but then he also screws up a near equal amount of times so, again balanced. Yes also, there were a few cliched moments to be had but, again, mostly in context and totally forgivable. When O'Sullivan was just 16 years old, his dad, who made his fortune running sex shops in Soho, was jailed for life for murder.

I don't understand how you can then play great in the next frame. What type of brain can do that? To prove your point, whatever, but not in the World Championship. There are several moments Brecel will happily forget, particularly in the first session when he let a 2-1 lead slip to a 6-2 deficit - with a barrage of stunning pots punctuated by careless and wild misses on reds in both the fifth and sixth frames. Here's every 147 in Crucible history, and you'll notice only three of them came in defeat, including the most recent by Higgins against Kurt Maflin in 2020. Cliff Thorburn - 1983 World ChampionshipRonnie O'Sullivan: The Edge of Everything is available exclusively in cinemas across UK & Ireland on November 21 and launches on Prime Video on November 23.