'Close, close in' - Alan McManus predicts double on comms, Joe Perry duly obliges in clash with Judd Trump
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Updated 06/03/2022 at 14:25 GMT
Alan McManus is snooker's master tactician, spotting things few others can see. He proved the point in the opening frame of the Welsh Open final as he told the Eurosport viewers what Joe Perry was about to do before the Englishman had come to the table against Judd Trump. The crystal ball did its job.
'Wow, what a start' - Perry wins opening frame against Trump with long-range double
Alan McManus is known as Angles for his knowledge of every inch of a snooker table.
He proved the point by peering into his crystal ball and predicting Joe Perry’s shot to pinch the opening frame of the Welsh Open final with Judd Trump.
Perry and Trump were slugging out a safety battle on the final black, and the former tapped the table in acknowledgement of his opponent welding the black against the top cushion.
But as Perry was praising Trump’s shot, McManus had already spotted the shot to play.
“With it almost touching he will be playing the double in the bottom right,” McManus said in the Eurosport commentary box. “He just glanced at it.”
Perry did indeed take it on, and executed it to perfection - as Philip Studd described.
“Close, close in,” Studd said. “Wow what a start.
“What a titanic battle in our very first frame of the Welsh Open final and it is Joe Perry with the final word. He steals it.”
It was a steal, but one McManus predicted would happen.
It’s all about the Angles.
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