Graeme Dott leads Mark King, 6-3, in the first session – 2011 Betfred.com World Snooker Championship
Graeme Dott has ended the first session with a lead of six-frames-to-three against Mark King in the first round of the 2011 Betfred.com World Snooker Championship, which is being staged at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, England.
The former 2006 world champion and last year’s runner-up, Dott, played magnificently to gain an impressive lead over King. The overall score-line between both players was 99-8, 39-67, 93-0, 26-69, 74-37, 68-22, 131-0, 131-0 and 0-116.
Dott dominated the first frame with a classy break of 63 to draw the first blood 1-0. He also had a good chance in the second frame, but this time he lost his nerves, breaking down on 24 and King levelled the things by 1-1. Though the Pocket Dynamo clinched the third frame with modest break of 53, he lost the fourth again after a bout of safety and the scores were tied again by 2-2 before the mid-session interval.
On resuming the game, however, the world number nine, Dott, was almost unstoppable. Though he was trailing King by 37 points in the first frame, he fired up a superb break of 69 on a gifted chance to lead the game by 3-2.
The sixth frame was a scrappy affair, as many chances were seen coming and going with the reds all over the table, but in the end it was again the Scotland’s professional, Dott, who came on the top to extend his lead by 4-2.
The Romford Battler, King, got a chance in the seventh frame, but he was again punished from his opponent, on making an unforced error, with a carving break of 73. Eighth frame was over within a blink of an eye, as the thirty-three-year-old, Dott, mopped up a mind-boggling match-highest century of 102 in it.
However King, who was looking mush frustrated, finally managed in reducing the deficit to 6-3 before the end of the opening session, as he racked up a brilliant break of 69. Let’s see if King produces something extra-ordinary today against the man in form.
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