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pro9dg

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It has been a day of mixed emotions for me because of three of my friends.

Two players whom I backed at the World 8 Ball Championship this year, Chang Jung Lin and Roberto Gomez, reached the final of the Beijing Open. The Taiwanese beat the Filipino 11-10 and I am so pleased for them both. They are two World class players and nice people I am happy to have played a part in their success.

But my happiness was tempered by news that another close friend, TV snooker commentator Ted Lowe passed away today at the ripe old age of 90.

Congratulations, congratulations and RIP.
 
pro9dg said:
It has been a day of mixed emotions for me because of three of my friends.

Two players whom I backed at the World 8 Ball Championship this year, Chang Jung Lin and Roberto Gomez, reached the final of the Beijing Open. The Taiwanese beat the Filipino 11-10 and I am so pleased for them both. They are two World class players and nice people I am happy to have played a part in their success.

But my happiness was tempered by news that another close friend, TV snooker commentator Ted Lowe passed away today at the ripe old age of 90.

Congratulations, congratulations and RIP.
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Doug,

I heard the sad news about Ted earlier this morning. I started a thread HERE. Ted will always be the voice of snooker. RIP.
 
Blackjack said:
Doug,

I heard the sad news about Ted earlier this morning. I started a thread HERE. Ted will always be the voice of snooker. RIP.
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Nice one David

I used to organise hospitality weekends at all the major snooker finals and Ted Lowe was a regular guest as an After Dinner Speaker.

But one of the gems that he told me privately was about his first wife..

During one of Ted's frequent trips away, she formed a liaison with the next door neighbour and eventually moved in and set up house with him.

A few weeks later Ted was wakened in the middle of the night by a noise in the garden.

When he looked out the bedroom window he found his errant spouse digging up the rose bushes and tranferring them next door.
 
RIP Ted, one of the very best commentator's the game ever had. Today's commentator's don't know the value of silence anymore. They have no class, something this man had in abundance.
 
Whispering Ted they used to call him as he sat in the front row seats with the microphone, commentating on matches.
R.I.P Ted Lowe
 
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