Mark Selby’s exit is the biggest surprise of the season

You get it from O’Donnell, he can play so well at times that he can be dangerous to even the best.

He has played in the quarter-finals of the UK Championship, the International Championship and the China Championship, so he is by no means a weak player, as his ranking suggests. By the way, he qualified for the main round again this year, but he was also ranked 32nd before. He’s already overcome it Ding Junhuit and Luca Brecelt, so he has a big scalp. the Selby However, success against and after six defeats managed for the first time to defeat the four-time world champion.

Thus the great Selby line was cut off. The question is how much of a role did match planning play in this? Selby W Williams, who played a very grueling final at the British Open on Sunday, was helped by the fact that he did not have to go straight to the table at the English Open on Monday. Instead, they both started the tournament on Tuesday. This is all well and good, of course, but Selby had to play two games that day: in the afternoon Zihao Xing He won 4-1, but was unable to continue tonight O’Donnell-Find. So the question is to what extent Tuesday’s start was a real help for him. Especially if we add that Williams only played one game on Tuesday, and his second game was scheduled for Wednesday.

Incidentally, O’Donnell helped Selby himself so that the latter would not have to explain himself. He said in an interview after his victory that Selby looked really tired at the end of the first match. In a completely understandable way.

Selby’s early departure is perhaps the biggest surprise this season. for now. Of course, this is a somewhat personal question. He arises as a competitor Hammad Miah Success last week Judd Trump against. After all, Mia is also about 100th, and Trump is a champion on a similar level to Selby. But Miah managed to defeat the 2019 world champion before. Trump, on the other hand, although he played in the final of the European Masters, has shown very little in the past six months apart from that one good result. Therefore, his defeat in the 64th British Open cannot be considered a surprise.