European Masters 2022 LIVE - Judd Trump in action against Kurt Maflin, Ronnie O'Sullivan through

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That's a great win for Kurt, who was excellent, despite almost tossing it at 2-1 down. Judd, meanwhile, is still without a ranking title this season.

Kurt flukes the yellow! It bumps off the top cushion and goes in the side! And then he sinks the green!

Judd lays a snooker and Kurt escapes. This is nicely tense, though the balance seems irreversibly tilted now.

The yellow is on the bottom cushion and between it and the white is the brown; Judd, snookered, misses twice, hitting the black the second time for good measure - why did he go at it so hard?! He now needs a snooker!

Or not! Judd runs out of position, then Kurt absolutely splatters a mid-distance red to right corner! What a shot! The match is in his hands! And he's missed the yellow, looking to splatter that too - that was the shot of a tense man.

I'm sure I've heard it said that the nervous bit of this is when you get close to winning the match, and Kurt is in the vicnity ... and right as I type that, he misses a black off its spot trying to cannon the pack! ISuddenly, a decider looks inevitable!

Have a look! Kurt cues beautifully to clout one clean into right corner, right against the leather. This is his first chance to put this away, but at the moment he looks confident.

Yeah, with the match in the balance, Judd is in his element, sinking a mid-distance red ... and as I type that, an excellent recovery pot, long to left corner. I'm not sure there's ever been anyone better at those, but he loses position again and plays safe. He's focused, here.

Mitchell Mann 0-4 Anthony McGill

Kyren Wilson 3-3 Fang Zhengyi

Yan Bingtao 3-1 Joe Perry

This has been a belter of a break, and it yields Judd's second ton of the night, a 124. It's been a belter of a match too, and there's more to come!

Becuase he's so brilliant, we don't always remenber what a competitor Judd is - he wants to win everything, all of the time. So it's no surprise to seem him buzzing about the table, reducing his arrears.

We've already seen Kurt lose focus once tonight, and his proximity to the next round will be extremely apparent to him. I don't know if that's the reason for a rash safety which catches the red far too thick, handing Judd the table, but that's what's happens.

Mitchell Mann 0-4 Anthony McGill

Kyren Wilson 3-3 Fang Zhengyi

Yan Bingtao 3-1 Joe Perry

A beautifuly measured 92, and Judd needs to win three straight!

It's so nice to see Kurt playing so well. Judd has some serious work to do.

Right, Kurt has done the donkey work here, removing balls protecting the black and starting to accumulate. At 1-2 he looked finished; now he's close to 4-2!

Oooh! Jurt misses a pot and gets lucky, then Judd plays a safety and gets unlucky, catching a middle knuckle en route back to baulk and leaving one. There are points here.

Judd rams home a red, then has to fight hard to find a safety - which he does, landing the white behind the green. Shot. But Kurt escapes and we're soon back playing safety, Judd foul-missing once.

As Fan Zhengyi is on a 147 ... and he's just missed the brown! Aaaarggghhhh!

Mitchell Mann 0-3 Anthony McGill

Kyren Wilson 2-2 Fang Zhengyi

Yan Bingtao 2-1 Joe Perry

Ir looked for all the world like 3-1 and now it's 2-3. This game!

I wonder what's more annoying, losing a frame because of an error, or because of a kick. I'd imagine the former, but Judd doesn't look too chuffed sat in his chair.

Kurt is easing balls into pockets, and this match is taking on a different complexion. Lovely stuff.

Eeeesh! A brutal kick misses the black for Judd - but he doesn't leave anything. Doesn't matter, Kurt then clips home a lovely starter to right corner and is having a very odd one tonight. And he's in front!

Almost immediately, Kurt's huffing again, jawsing a long one and offering Judd an opportunity. There's not loads on, though, so he'll have to make a big decision soon.

Mitchell Mann 0-2 Anthony McGill

Kyren Wilson 2-2 Fang Zhengyi

Yan Bingtao 2-0 Joe Perry

This game! Not long ago it looked all over, because Kurt looked gone - and yet here we are!

Kurt's played himself back into the match here - with a bit of help from Judd, but nevertheless.

Trying to get back to baulk, Judd foul-misses, clipping pink when trying to catch a red thin, and there's a long chat while he's put back. Kurt then uses the second go to get himself away, bopping home maybe his best long red of the match so far. It'd be an absolute touch if he can get into the interval level, given 15 minutes ago it looked like he was almost resigned to defeat.

Oh! Judd overcuts a red to left corner with the rest, so Kurt returns with the frame in the balance. But given the spread of the balls, he'll need to be precise, and another aggressive miss hands Judd the table back. But he misses to right corner!

I knew as I typed that that i was making myself a hostage to fortune, and shonuff Judd soon runs out of position. Not for long. Stuck down the business end, he picks out a doble to middle, and within a few shots he's conjured a proper chance.

Kurt has two hopeful hacks and misses both, but in following the second, Judd can only manage a red-brown. Kurt's a bit impatient here, finding another red then forcing a pink that jumps out the jaws; he's playing some wild shots, I guess figuring he's got to hit stuff to win this. But it's not working, and next time he gets a go it'll be 3-1 or close to.

Mitchell Mann 0-1 Anthony McGill

Kyren Wilson 1-1 Fang Zhengyi

Yan Bingtao 1-0 Joe Perry

A careless positional shot necessitates a gorgeous pink, cut to middle, a run of 100 advising Kurt exactly what time it is.

Judd is settling in here.

No way Kurt couldn't have found a safety better than the shot he eventually took on; I suppose he thought he might pot it, so there was major upside. But ultimately, he was staking the frame on one go, and now look.

Another safety battle to open, then Kurt takes nearly two minutes to decide he's no viable safety on, so rattles at a long pot from centre for right corner ... missing by a way. And worse, a cannon leaves the white down the business end - this is points.

Mitchell Mann 0-0 Anthony McGill

Kyren Wilson 0-1 Fang Zhengyi

Yan Bingtao 1-0 Joe Perry

Good stuff so far, and this looks like being an excellent match.

Or not. He picks from below, which allows him to pick in the centre, and he's home.

Kurt cuts a red to middle and it's desperate to go in, it does everything but go in, but go in it does not. And so close was it that it remains over the hole, so Judd's away again - but he'll need a successful split to put the frame away.

Kurt leaves one and Judd gobbles it up, making the black available to both corners and picking off stray reds. At some point he'll have to go into the pack but nort yet ... though as I type that, he screws back into a hole within it, forced to find a terrific cut to keep the run going. He then does crack the pack, off the blue, but nothing doing so back to baulk it is.

We begin frame two with some safety, time in which I wonder quite where Judd's form has gone. His trajectory is not dissimilar to Michael van Gerwen's in darts, playing some of the greatest stuff ever seen, winning more tournaments than anyone but struggling, relatively speaking, in the longest format than should, in theory, favour the better player.

Mitchell Mann 0-0 Anthony McGill

Kyren Wilson 0-0 Fang Zhengyi

Yan Bingtao 0-0 Joe Perry

Kurt falls down on 97 but he won't mind; he's in front and looking good.

Yup, Kurt's taking these nicely - dont't forget, he got the last eight the worlds the year before last, so can properly play. He knows it too - he doesn't mince about the table, he struts.

Judd misses a cut to left corner, then Kurt smacks a long one to the same pocket and comes down for the green, before making his way up the business end. There are some fiddly pots to begin with, but if he can get them away, there are points here for him.

Martin Gould 4-5 Fraser Patrick

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Tom Ford 5-0 John Higgins

Martin Gould 3-3 Fraser Patrick

Ashley Hugill 5-1 Ali Carter

And he finishes it with a ton, before stopping to encourage Wu and debrief. He meets Ashley Hugill next.

This is Vintage Ronnie, picking off reds and colours to see himself home. Wu will be a player, I think - though he'll need to sort his cue-ball control - and woill go to bed feeling radge with the chances he missed, but proud with how close he made the frames, if not the score.

In again, Wu loses the white so can't address the pink; he redeems himself with a good long blue, but this behaviour isn't sustainable and shonuff, right as my SkyGo quits, he misses and Ronnie is back at the table. This looks a lot like curtains.

Yup, Ronnie eliminates what's left to steal his second straight frame on the black, and Wu will be feeling very poorly. He should be bang in this match, but instead it's nearly over.

Oh Wu! He misses a black off its spot trying to take the white in and out of baulk, when he really didn't need to - it was frame-ball. If he'd made sure to make the pot, or planned to wind up near the bottom cushion, he'd be in business. But what's going to happen now is that Ronnie will clear up and go three up with four to play.

Tom Ford 5-0 John Higgins

Martin Gould 3-2 Fraser Patrick

Ashley Hugill 4-1 Ali Carter

No matter. Wu gets in again, and already 30 points in front, should clinch the frame at this visit.

Wu runs out of position on 31, then on his next visit unloads the suitacase at a red, a double kiss follows ... and he's been lucky. A tight snick to the green pocket is all Ronnie has on, he misses, and Wu again sinks a red only to lose the white.

Wu misses a long red by a distance but gets lucky, leaving nowt, and when Ronnie's forced to knock the same ball away from the pocket, he doesn't get enough on the white, marooned in the middle of the table and with a red to right corner on. Also, Mark Selby, what a mensch.

Tom Ford 4-0 John Higgins

Martin Gould 3-1 Fraser Patrick

Ashley Hugill 3-1 Ali Carter

That's gonnae sting. Ronnie strokes the black into left-middle, and it'll be a long, lonely interval for Wu.

Oh, Wu! He rattles home a difficutl yellow and Ronnie applauds - imagine that, 18 years old! - then overcuts the green! The black is on the side, but Ronnie has the perfect angle to disturb it, and plays the shot beautifully.

Wu clips in the final red but, on nowt, faces a tricky safety with no balls available for him to push safe. He needs to the greeb, while Rnonie needs everything.

The first, he just gets behind and slots, but the second ends up on the side, and though he knowcks it off, it'll need a fine cut to send it down ... or not. Ronnie plays safe now back in the frame, and the difference between 3-1 and 2-2 at the mid-sesh is chasmic - enough to tell us whether we'll see a match or not, I'd say.

Oh Wu! With 75 left and the lead 60, he undercuts a pink into the far middle knuckle, and if he can seize the frame, he'll be a long way towards seizing the match. There are two reds on black cush, but of the sort you can see being developed without too much hassle.

Quietly, Tom Ford is becoming a factor; there aren't many who've won four straight against the Wizard of Wishaw. Anyhow, Ronnie misses another long pot - he's 0/6 today! - but gets away with it. Not for long. Wu clunks home a middle-distance red, but with pink and black tied up he's got plenty work to do. Except have a look! He rams in another red, cannons a second, and the black goes to both pockets! This is a phat chance.

Tom Ford 4-0 John Higgins

Martin Gould 2-1 Fraser Patrick

Ashley Hugill 2-1 Ali Carter

Has Wu missed his chance? There were signs in the back end of that frame that Ronnie is growing into this.

Thirty ahead with 35 left, Rnonie plays safe because he can't get at the final red. But Wu, who'll already be rueing missed chances, double kisses; it doesn't look like he's left it but he has, the thinnest snick sending it into the yellow pocket, and that's 2-1.

Wu misses a red wildly, and Ronnie is quickly about the table potting balls. There's a red on the side cushion that he'll need, but he'll have a handy lead by the time he comes to it.

But when he runs out of position, a poor safety allows Ronnie to glide in a terrific opener ... but again, he misses the black! It's not a gimme like the ones he missed yesterday were, a delicate little cut-back from near the cushion, but it ought to have gone down. Lot of buts here, so here's another: Wu gets in, but instead of playing on the pink, tries to work a tiny gap for a black along the rail, and the kiss doesn't allow it. He's letting chances slip through his fingers here.

Ronnie lookes bemused after missing a long pot by a distance, and Wu has to cash in - the biggest win of his life does not look an impossibility.

Tom Ford 2-0 John Higgins

Martin Gould 1-1 Fraser Patrick

Ashley Hugill 1-1 Ali Carter

Wu will be smelling a chance here, because Ronnie hasn't settled.

Wu misses with two hacks to left corner, but then with the red in the middle of the baulk cushion and the brown not far in front of it, he has Ronnie stuck behind the black, almost dead opposite. Ronnie gets really close, twice, but the second foul-miss leaves Wu a simple chance, and this will be 1-1.

But dropping in a starter on the stretch, he brings back the white to the only place on the table he can't get at a colour! This game! So here comes Wu, who adroitly removes balls until he has to drop on the final red, marooned on the top cushion, and gives it too little, almost snookering himself. He can only play safe, and the chase is on!

But now comes another mistake, a black overcut to right corner! He did that a lot yesterday too, though his lucky here to leave nothing. This is now another scrappy frame, but whoever gets innext will expect to clear up, given the whereabouts of the balls ... and Wu misses a tester to right middle that leaves it for Ronnie!

Left a red to send long to the green pocket, Ronnie eyes it up pensively, wondering what migh tbe available if he misses; he does, and Wu sends it down, then on nowt, snuggles in behind the brown. Ronnie, though, escapes easily enough, and left a thin red sees it away. He's warming up.

Ronnie leaves a starter and Wu gobbles it, then makes his way back up the business end via the green ...only to go in-off, again, slotting another red! He has a laugh about it, but what an absolute nause. All the more so when he finds himself struggling to make a thin contact, ceding two fouls in the process, but when he hits he leaves nowt.

Tom Ford 1-0 John Higgins

Martin Gould 1-0 Fraser Patrick

Ashley Hugill 0-1 Ali Carter

A scrappy first frame, but with more than enough about it to suggest we're in a for a decent tussle.

On my days, Ronnie misses a simple pink, the like of which he also missed yesterday. Looking again, he maybe got a kick, but even so, that should probably've gone down. But then poor old Wu goes in-off trying to come up the table off the blue and, after some protest from Ronnie, cedes a free ball. That might be the frame, though the final red is a tester, parallel with black cush ... and Ronnie bangs it home like it's nowt.

Hello! Ronnie goes hard at a long red, over left corner, catches the wrong side of it, and watches as it leaps offf the table and onto the carpet. On which point, why do snooker players wear shoes? Thye're indoors, who wears shoes indoors? Anyhow, Wu picks out a fine cut from middle to left corner ... only to jaws a yellow! That is a significant oversight, leaving Ronnie a simple starter and who knows what else.

Wu looks as confident as you'd expect an 18-year-old with prodigious talent to look, working his way onto the black. But in the process of sinking it, he misses a cannon on the pack and loses the white, so that's end of break.

Ronnie tries to send a red down the side rail to left corner, but it doesn't want ta kna, and Wu takes the opportunity to paste home a long one to the same pocket, cannoning the black in the process. But the bounce is unkind and he's not on it as planned, so will have to work out a safety. It's not a great one, offering Ronnie another chance, almost the full length of the table, and again he misses, overcutting and leaving Wu in. Thsi time, he won't be getting away with a one-point punishment.

Form is a funny thing. Ronnie was brilliant in devastating Nigel Bond in his first appearance here, but far less impressive in squeaking by Zhang Anda yesterday. Wu, meanwhile, is just 18 years old; I've not seen him before, but I'm excited to.

Luca Brecel 4-5 Sunny Akani

Jordan Brown 5-0 Xiao Guodong

Ryan Day 5-4 Ashley Carty

Zhou Yuelong 4-5 Graeme Dott

And welcome to another beautiful day of European Masters snooker. This afternoon, we'll be focusing on Ronnie O'Sullivan v Wu Yize and this evening, on Judd Trump v Kurt Maflin - but with updates from all the other matches too.

Ronnie O'Sullivan has joined world champion Mark Selby by admitting the mental health problems snooker poses leads to a debilitating state of depression.

The record 38-time ranking event winner revealed he has been battling mental health issues during the European Masters in Milton Keynes a day after Selby confirmed he was consulting a doctor to help him overcome the turmoil of "more bad days than good."

While O'Sullivan battled past Zhang Anda 5-4 and lighting problems to reach the last 32 on Tuesday at the Marshall Arena, Selby suffered a shock 5-3 defeat to Welsh Open holder Jordan Brown.

O'Sullivan has always discussed openly his problems with depression, but admits the challenges do not get any easier in his 30th year at the summit of the sport.

“I find it hard to talk about my games, I have snooker depression for two or three hours after my matches," O'Sullivan told reporters.

"Talking about it puts me in a bad place. I call it snooker depression because it is depression due to snooker. I don’t just wake up and say ‘I’m depressed’ - you aren’t when you are doing something you enjoy.

“You might afterwards, but you can get it doing this job if it bothers you and you are not enjoying it. And that happens to me, snooker plays on the mind. If you love your job, any job, then you won’t suffer with it – unless you are totally detached from your feelings."

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