Stuart Bingham downs Peters Ebdon, 10-8 – 2011 Betfred.com World Snooker Championship
Stuart Bingham has beaten Peter Ebdon by a frame score of 10-8 in the last-32 of the 2011 Betfred.com World Snooker Championship, which is being held at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, England.
Former 2002 world champion and two-time runner up, Peter Ebdon, who was looking at Stephen Hendry’s record of winning at the Crucible, has fallen down in the first round. However, the world’s number seventeen,
Stuart Bingham, on the same note has produced an accomplishing performance to see off the favourite. The overall score-line between both players was 95-14, 44-82, 13-105, 74-24, 44-64, 33-85, 101-24, 79-0, 88-1, 38-62, 43-63, 11-70, 64-52, 4-97, 88-0, 68-1,
58-18 and 72-29.
Ebdon, who ended the opening session trailing his opponent 5-4, dominated the first frame of the second session to level the scores, where as Bingham responded in the second to restore his one frame lead
at 6-5. Following twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth were also scrappy affairs. A bout of safety play was seen among the players, but in every frame it was the Psycho, Ebdon, who came on the top to lead 6-8.
It looked as if the forty-year-old, Ebdon, is going to secure a place in the last-16 but it all turned into an opposite story, as the thirty-four-year-old, Bingham, bounced back into the game, with all
of his zeal, energy and strength, and won all of the four frames in a row to seal his victory.
"He took me out of the game for a while tonight, he was in control at 7-5," said Bingham. "When he slows it down, he takes you out of your comfort zone, and you start fighting against yourself.
Meanwhile he also added that "This is a good way to end a good season. I think I need to beat Ding to get into the top 16, and to reach the quarters here for the first time, so it's all to play for. I
won't be intimidated by him...just bring it on!"
Bingham, who was playing slow otherwise, fired up a mind-boggling match-highest break of 88 in the fifteenth frame followed by another superb 67 in the sixteenth. Though Ebdon got enough chances in the
following seventeenth and eighteenth, he failed to capitalise on them.
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