Tales from the Crucible #1: Enter Mark Selby

 

 

 

The 2017 World Championship.

The curtain goes up.

The dividing wall comes down.

And so it begins...

 

The Fiesta from Leicester

(on the back of a win in Beijing)

rolls out of the green baize garage:

an efficient snooker machine.

A kind of of S Davis

for the grime generation.

 

Confident,

composed,

clinical

and slightly boring.

 

An exquisite cross double

opens his account.

John Virgo purrs

in the commentary box.

 

And so it goes...

easy flowing interactions

with the phenolic resin spheres,

so simple and matter of fact.

Until he runs out of position.

 

Bad luck and heavy contact.

 

B.R. 15/04/2017