UK Open 2025 Telford, UK, May 6-11

Yapp had everything working together in sync.
His game rhythm was smooth.
His stroke rhythm was smooth
His delivery was smooth.
His utilization of the three strokes and his timing was overall flawless.
Combine those ingredients and you have a great performance.
Somebody tell Emily to seek a new hairdresser.
 
Yapp had everything working together in sync.
His game rhythm was smooth.
His stroke rhythm was smooth
His delivery was smooth.
His utilization of the three strokes and his timing was overall flawless.
Combine those ingredients and you have a great performance.
Yes, well said. Of course, when one of the game's most elite plays a match against a Cinderella, this kind of result is always possible. I was expecting 13-7, but Yapp's performance was quintessential.
 
Yes, well said. Of course, when one of the game's most elite plays a match against a Cinderella, this kind of result is always possible. I was expecting 13-7, but Yapp's performance was quintessential.
Turns out the lag was the most important shot of the match. Again.

Hard to fault Souto. Played great all week. But Yapp didn’t give him a chance to breath. He played eons better than he did against Styer, who had it for the taking.

Still, Jonas made a poor shot to get from the eight to the nine when he had a sliver’s chance of a comeback. Exactly the kind of mistake a careful player like, say, Yapp would not make.
 
OK, but does Souto have two syllables or three?
Yes.

Lol! It trends towards 2 syllables, if that makes sense. If you sound out all the vowels quickly enough, it would sound awfully close to 2 syllables even if you trying to do 3 syllables.

Similar to Ruiz trending to 1 syllable (Rweeth)
 
I think it also has to do with streaming.
Before streaming, and hardly on TV, if an event was near by. People would go.
I traveled to the 2003 world pool championships in Wales and there was a big crowd.
2010 European championships also had big crowd.
Have not been around pool since but I did notice it as well

cardiff WC's were buzzing. manila too. i think streaming is a factor, in many sports. my home team (football) had bigger live attendence 20 years ago when they played in the third division than now when they're in first division. it's all streamed, in good quality with commentary. whereas the arena is a little bit off from the city, bleachers aren't great, yada yada.

i think it's difficult to fight it, especially for a new sports tour like the WNT. predator tour does concurrent amateur league events and sometimes expos with their pro events, it brings some spill over fans to the matches. dart is the biggest mystery for me. lots of fans. standing. i would think many go mainly to drink beer, but still
 
Yapp had everything working together in sync.
His game rhythm was smooth.
His stroke rhythm was smooth
His delivery was smooth.
His utilization of the three strokes and his timing was overall flawless.
Combine those ingredients and you have a great performance.
Somebody tell Emily to seek a new hairdresser.

his only regret is that the one on the receiving end wasn't ko ping chung. 🤣 would have been payback
 
his only regret is that the one on the receiving end wasn't ko ping chung. 🤣 would have been payback
Yes, that's true. That US Open 9ball semi is a very fresh memory. When the great ones find their "A" games, very lopsided scores have a way of happening. Of course, Ko Ping Chung and the many other no shows were never serious threats for the 2025 UK Open title. All the props to Yapp.
 
I just assumed Secretariat would be number 1, but he came in second. My sense of things is that no horse will win a triple crown race by 31 lengths in the next 100 years, and even a win by 20 lengths is unlikely in the next 100 years. Secretariat was, literally, a freak of nature, having a heart that weighed 22 pounds while an average thoroughbred has a heart weighing 8.5 pounds. For this reason, the capacity of Secretariat's cardiovascular system was probably without precedent.
 
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