yes Selby is a grinder and tactician one of the best but he was off this year, Murphy and Higgins are equally as good with the tactics and are laser focused, especially Murphy...
hopefully Wu does not fall to their traps the way Zhaou did just now to Murphy because Zhaou really did just get schooled and it was dissapointing not seeing him at is best
I recall well John Higgins out crafting younger hotshots Trump and Selby in previous finals via master class tactics
zhao was outgunned, not outmoved, in that match.. zhao missed quite a lot and obviously felt the pressure, but murphy also played at his very best (100% long pot in the last session). i think in any other tourney zhao wins that match 7 out of 10 times
wu yize is very impressive in maintaining his attacking style. allen can bog down players but yize is insane with those long shots, very difficult to defend against
FYI, I just posted a new video that presents a master class on everything you need to know to understand how to judge if a split hit, where the cue ball hits two balls at nearly the same time, is a foul or not. Check it out:
I use the Outsville template for breaking racks of 9B. And as you all know I have been breaking those racks on my new Diamond Professional. The issue is that I usually end up with about four balls all close together as shown in the diagram. In this case it's the 4B, 5B, 6B, and 9B. The 6B blocks the 5B into the upper corner and the 9B blocks the 5B into the bottom corner. Thus position from the 4B to the 5B is very difficult. All these balls so close together has been making runouts very difficult for me.
My question is simply - is this normal for a template?
