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Agreed. I think the longer format will only help the more experienced players who have gone deep many times before. With that said, there could always be another Luca Brecel this year who just flies through it.

Good shout on Allen winning!

I grew up playing on Riley tables and have an affinity for them that makes me wish they were so much better than the ones from Xing Pai. I still play on a Riley Aristocrat when I am in the UK but now exclusively play on a STAR table here in the US. Both play excellently when set up correctly...

Ronnie O'Sullivan getting whitewashed 0-6 by Mark Selby yesterday in the Players Championship was quite the shocker! Not super surprising that Selby beats Ronnie (even though Selby has been playing poorly and Ronnie has been flying) but 6-0!

The levels that Ronnie can go through to manage games and find a way to win is just different class.

I have fond memories of Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry in their pomp but this was probably the best example of snooker mastery I have ever seen. Ronnie is ridiculous. Someone should tell him this game is hard!

More to do with the thin contact but it is most often used when the cue ball is also struck softly to produce that thin cut. Meaning, it would be unusual to hear “he feathered that in” if the player slammed in a very thin cut with the cue ball bouncing all around the cushions after contact.

“Feathers” in snooker are indeed the warm up strokes prior to the final stroke that strikes the ball and also often called “waggles”. You can also hear the word “feather” in reference to a soft cut shot as in “he just feathered that into the middle pocket” meaning he played a soft brushing cut shot.