Mark Selby leads Jimmy Robertson 8-1: Betfred.com World Snooker Championship 2011
Mark Selby ended the opening session of his match against Jimmy Robertson with an impressive 8-1 lead in the first round of the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship 2011, which is being held at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, England.
Though the current world number three, Selby, couldn’t play his best snooker, he won seven frames in a row after losing the first one. The overall score-line between both players was 35-70, 90-50, 70-21, 66-20, 71-63, 68-29, 77-19, 102-36 and 82-53 (82).
The Crucible Debutant, Jimmy Robertson, took the opening frame after a bout of safety play to take a 1-0 lead before he lost the following seven in a row.
In the second frame Selby could only manage a break of 39 but he was able to get back on the table, as Robertson failed to capitalise on his chances, and the scores were levelled at 1-1. Selby also took the following three frames before the interval without doing anything outstanding to lead 3-1. The only dominant break from the 27-year-old Englishman, was of 46 which he compiled in the third frame.
At the start of the fifth frame it looked as if the world number 63, Robertson, would finally reduce the deficit to 3-2, after he racked up his highest break of 48. However, Mark Selby turned things around in the frame, and pocketed it with his flawless safety skills.
It was an old fashioned game from that point onward but Selby somehow managed to win each of the next 4 frames with small breaks. However, the last frame of the opening session was again a dramatic one, as Robertson knocked in his highest break of 49. Selby responded with a mind-boggling match-highest break of 72 to finish the first session with an impressive 8-1 lead.
Mark Selby and Jimmy Robertson will start off with the second session today at 1300 (BST). It remains to be seen if the 24-year-old Robertson can pull off one of the greatest comebacks ever made at the Crucible Theatre to secure a place in the last-16.
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