00:00Getting good support from the crowd, as you'd expect here.
00:03They'd love to see a closer match.
00:05We had a decider last year, but we've had some very one-sided German Masters Finals, actually, down the years.
00:11And at the moment, in terms of the scoreline, this is looking like another one.
00:16As I say, a lot of the frames have been close.
00:19But the two black ball steals from Trump were massive at the start of the night.
00:30Yeah, as you said, it's not quite telling the full story, is it?
00:34The 8-3 scoreline, there's a little more to it.
00:37You know, including the way the evening session started.
00:41I mean, Murphy, 60 in front, looked terrific.
00:44Came out absolutely focused, and somehow that frame escaped him.
00:49And he was going into the jaws of the pocket and angling him.
00:53Didn't help.
00:57Having got a lucky fluke at the start of the frame, you know,
00:59it's some of the smaller points during the frame which can make all the difference over a match.
02:08Press it on.
02:09He's had chances in every frame.
02:22Six.
02:39Seven.
02:40Brilliant.
02:40Now that's a terrific shot.
02:44I mean, the shot is there, but to execute it that well is another story.
03:02It's a long way back, but of course, just to get the frame, which is the last one before
03:08the mid-session, you might be able to come out and do it all again, go through that process
03:12after that, but now he's got to make sure that the same thing doesn't happen here, and he's
03:18in first and breaks down.
03:29He's played a couple of good little shots, that being another one.
03:32Nice cannon again.
03:3522.
03:5123.
03:52Not such a nice cannon this time.
03:54He is on the pink to middle, but I'm not certain it was quite how he meant it.
05:10There's queuing off the side cushion, but really, you wouldn't expect him to miss one of those in about 25
05:15or 30.
05:48Green pocket.
05:49I'm sure we'll come and have a look at it because, you know, you'd fancy him to knock this in,
05:52really.
05:53But if he plays the black, it's a swerve.
05:57Quite a big one.
06:10Yeah, not so bad in the end, was it, after all that, really?
06:13Eight.
06:14I suppose he had that left-hand side.
06:16I was going to whip the cue ball away from the black.
06:26Looking a little bit ominous.
06:29Yeah, he's got room as well to play some of these big shots now, Trump.
06:33He's got such a great lead.
06:57Again, more evidence of how quick the table is.
06:59I thought he was going to get stuck behind the four reds there, not beyond one.
07:03But the cue ball just kept going.
07:0417.
07:0717.
07:0917.
07:27Twenty-four.
07:48Twenty-five.
07:53Yes, I felt that Judd leapt up there when he potted the red, thinking that he was going
07:58to be unable to pot the black.
08:07But he can.
08:21Thirty-two.
08:34Thirty-three.
08:45Judd Trump won his first ranking title 15 years ago, the 2011 China Open.
08:51He's looking tonight to win his 31st.
08:57But really, it's since November 2018 when he's stepped it up.
09:02He'd won eight to that point.
09:07That's why it was a surprise, I guess.
09:10You know, he hasn't won one yet this season.
09:12Just expect a lot of him because he's been so prodigious in terms of winning.
09:16And if he does get this one tonight, I think he might see that for the rest of the season.
09:35Forty-six.
09:47Forty-seven.
09:48Forty-seven.
09:52Now, these three reds, they're all very much quite close together, aren't they?
09:58So, question of whether he can play on one here.
10:01He's got to play off two cushions and nudge them.
10:04What a shot.
10:06What a shot.
10:07What a shot.
10:07What a shot.
10:07Delightfully played.
10:08Didn't overhead it.
10:10Felt that if he got the right contact, he'd be on the red perfectly.
10:14And he is.
10:21The two top reds didn't really move.
10:23And I wonder if they are still easily potted.
10:30Oh, and he's got, if he played on the pink, then it would go below the spot and then the
10:37two reds wouldn't go.
10:42But he might have to play on the pink just to move the red.
10:44It's slightly awkward, this.
10:57Probably not quite solved.
11:01Fifty-nine.
11:24Point is, if he pots the red thin, he's heading down to the bulk end and then, of course,
11:28he won't be able to take a high enough colour so that he won't require the other red, which
11:34is more awkward.
11:36And as you can see, even from that wide shot, it's a very thin angle on the red he's going
11:40to be playing in this wonderful auditorium.
12:02He'd rarely see him take this long on a shot of this guy.
12:04He could cut the red in, but he's very thin.
12:08He's retreating to the bulk end.
12:22Yeah, not playing the pot in the end.
12:24He just wants to avoid anything happening to him that has been happening to Sean.
12:31And you have to say that, again, you don't think with Judd, oh, what a wonderful safety
12:37player.
12:37It's not the first thing you think of, but he's getting Sean Murphy in enough problems
12:41here.
12:59It's not the first day.
13:08It's not the first day.
13:09It's not the first day.
13:34Well, a bit premature with the shots that come on, Sean,
13:37because Trump hasn't left the red,
13:38but at least from Murphy's perspective, he didn't put it either.
17:43It's not that easy to work out what to play here.
18:15So we're going to have to give him that one.
18:17What a shot.
18:31Well, that's not too shabby either and suddenly, out of nowhere, a chance for Murphy to at least pull the
18:39pre-interval frame back.
18:41Here's the plant again.
18:44I mean, the reds are miles apart, aren't they?
18:46It's incredible.
18:49Well, he's got this far now, he's played the brilliant shot now, he has to, has to go on and
18:55win the frame from here now.
18:56There's no way back from this position.
18:59There's no way back from this position, he's got to do it.
19:18He's on it in the middle.
19:19He's on it in the middle. It's not so bad where the green is. It's not quite how he meant
19:22it, I don't think.
19:38Oh, you heard the disappointing groan of the crowd.
19:42I'd love to have seen him win the frame there and make this a bit closer.
20:07Well, of all the shots he's played, he's been a bit unlucky a few times, but really, he'd be very
20:11disappointed to have missed that.
20:12He wasn't doing anything with the cube, all the green was sitting there waiting for him.
20:53It's probably not funny.
20:54It's all good.
21:12Just a few little rubs definitely go in the way of Trump has to be said and that goes with
21:17the territory of someone who's in front
21:20I had quite a long way. That was a
21:22You saw Sean Murphy just stop in his tracks. He saw people disappear behind the brown ball
21:29Well, I see all snooker gods cliche isn't it? You know you miss the yellow so you're gonna get punished
21:34Little nudges here and there good hit though this very good hit
21:50I
21:51Be a lot of Judd Trump fans here
21:52But equally there's a lot of people want to see a close finish and it depends on this frame Murphy
21:57has to win this frame surely
21:59Even then he's in trouble
22:01But 9-3 you can't see it
22:07Well, it's something here, but you know he's gonna have to hit this with a degree of
22:12Pace to get from yellow to green. There's no way around it. Of course that makes the pot more difficult
22:23Beautiful
22:26Beautiful shot and as Dave said really that the second attempt has to do this the crowd are loving it
22:54Well, he can't complain this time about
22:58Luck because he could have easily left that covered by the blue the misjudgment
23:07It's the more
23:12Yeah, it's just checking the maths because he lost each of the first two frames of the night on the
23:17black to good Judd Trump steals
23:25It's not a good shot goodness right down the center
23:28It's one of those where you could play into either corner pocket. It's the
23:32same shot that is a
23:35Horrible place to finish actually and all of a sudden
23:40The frame is back in the balance
23:43This is where steve davis was on the the first maximum
23:47Against john spencer all those years ago just thinking exactly the same thing
23:51The back was uh on the spot, but the pink was
23:54Cueball and the pink were exactly where they are now
23:58Obviously he botted it murphy
24:01Has made things difficult for himself here. He needs both balls to scramble a frame
24:09And that is not in in fact the whites in and the pinks
24:14Available over the pocket. It's all trump needs
24:17Wow, doesn't it just sum up the way this session it's a huge disappointment for sean murphy
24:23I mean the enough is just the icing on the cake really isn't it tops it all how on earth
24:28has this frame gone the same way as the others
24:30So chances in every frame isn't he could certainly won three of them
24:35But he's lost all four and surely he's lost the final as well
24:39It was 5-3 to judge trump when they came out
24:43You can see the real disappointment written on the face of sean murphy as they head to the interval he
24:48so desperately wanted to win this tournament
24:52But it's just
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