Ronnie O'Sullivan's Immortal Game vs Kyren Wilson | 2018 Champion of Champions - Final (re-edited)

Well there's the red, but he's not on the colour, not well anyway. He really needs to just... he's flying at the moment. Just keep that positive thinking. Just get down and pot the blue. He's obviously thinking about possibly putting a colour safe, but I think the way you're playing, you've not missed a ball for the last two frames virtually. I could not refuse this blue, Clive. But he's going to. Well he puts the black safe. The difference is 65. In theory, the 67 is still on, but not with the black there. Oh, this is... OK, he's hampered by this red. A little tie in. Wilson, regret not taking the blue on. Eight. What a clearance this would be. You'd have to say, the way he's played the last three frames, he's not favourite. He's got an angle on the black to take this red off the cushion now. That's not nice. Sixteen. Forty-nine behind. Fifty-one on. He's not got many points to play with here. Seventeen. I'm sure he'll manage to find position on the pink in the middle. If he has, that's an incredible shot. Twenty-three. The clearance is still on. So two reds, two blacks needed to pinch this frame by one point. I don't think he's going to clear up now, because even if he pots the black, I can't see any way of getting on the last red. Raising the button of the cue, this makes this pot so difficult. So, since the black along the cushion, this is the first missable pot he's had. He's missed it. Now, he's missed a couple of blacks this week, playing with a touch of right-hand side. If he's going to use a bit of side here, he'll be putting his full attention into this. Yeah, safely in. I think because of those two misses, he didn't play it with a lot of... Sixty-one. A little bit tentative. You can understand it at this situation of this match. Closer and closer to the winning line. Staring down the potting point on this red. Sixty-one. One last chance for O'Sullivan. One. Ronnie could have done another intro two with the cue ball. To make the black unmissable, he's got to go into the bunch. It's missable now. He's on a red to right middle. That red has gone close to the right middle pocket. It's not pottable there. So, he's got a chance to get right back into this frame. Just a little stun here for the pink to the opposite middle. Nine. Like in the previous frame, Karen Wilson's got to sit there and suffer. Pray that O'Sullivan doesn't make a winning clearance here. Fifteen. Sixteen. Unlike the previous frame. Twenty-two. The clearance. He's got a lot more points to play with in this break. Get on this last red. Position on the pink to just nudge that red over the middle pocket. Twenty-nine. He's just got to be careful he doesn't just knock this red into the middle pocket here. Cushion first is not guaranteed to leave himself a pot. He shaves past the cannon. Thirty-six. I don't believe he tried to cross double that. He's actually got away with it. Surely he's not snooping on behind the pink. Ronnie O'Sullivan, thirty-six. I can't believe the shot I've just seen Ronnie play. He's had the frustration I think. Very unlike O'Sullivan to give way to frustration like that. As he's been recently at least. Used to do it in the old days when he was quite a bit younger. I mean that cue ball on red could have finished anywhere. Karen could have been left a straight red into this left middle pocket. Now he's faced with when the problem is not hitting the red. The problem is keeping it safe. Ronnie O'Sullivan clears up here. He can thank his lucky stars that he left the last red safe from this ill-considered last shot. The best cue ball. Surely yellow doesn't pass the brown into its own pocket. So I have to play for it into one of the middle pockets I think. Don't think it passes a green either. This needs to be struck well. Oh and did he strike it well? Did he strike that well? Seven. Nine. Twelve. Sixteen. What a steal this would be. Twenty-one. Well we've said one of Karen Wilson's strengths is his temperament. Well it's been tested now for this deciding frame. O'Sullivan has cleared up to level the match at nine all. Ronnie O'Sullivan trying to get his name on that trophy for the third time. Karen Wilson for his first. It's nine all. It's all on the 19th frame. Thank you. The deciding frame. Ronnie O'Sullivan to break. Still O'Sullivan rose to the challenge. He still had to pop the balls. Yeah it has to be said pink to yellow. It was just a magnificent piece of cueing under pressure. Another magnificent piece of cueing required here. That was asking a lot. So Wilson is first in. I think he's got to play this shot. Played it to perfection. Karen Wilson one. Ronnie O'Sullivan seven. It looks like he's not destined to win this match Clive. Well that was certainly a body blow. As was the last frame. Well he's missed this by a mile. I thought for a horrible second that he was going to hit the black and go in the corner pocket. Well a chance for O'Sullivan. I think the two or three things that have happened to Karen Wilson in the last ten minutes or so have knocked the stuffing out of him. One. Foul. Waste coat foul would you believe it. Ronnie O'Sullivan one. Karen Wilson five. What's going to happen next in this final? That's so careless. I mean he looked to see where his waistcoat was and then he still got down and fouled it. Karen Wilson's turn to play. Speculative double. With a double kiss on the red. He's left a pot to left middle. One. Quite a nasty shot this. From the middle pocket jaw. He did that well. That will actually make him feel a bit better that shot. Six. Seven. He's got choices here how hard he wants to hit this. Thirteen. Screwing the cue ball out I think. Land nicely on the collar. And the answer is absolutely yes. The shot that's going to lead to victory for Ronnie O'Sullivan. When Wilson was on 61 in the last frame he must have thought he was going to lose in the next couple of minutes. Nineteen. But he managed to win the frame and now he's got the advantage in the decider. Shot on the blue though. This is missable. That's safely in. Physically see how hard Ronnie O'Sullivan is trying here. Putting everything into these shots. I don't know where he's found this victory from but it looks ever more certain that he's going to find it. Twenty-five. He's been hugely helped of course by Karen missing that red on 61 in the previous frame and also a couple of massive slices of good fortune. Karen Wilson was in first in this frame. Played the correct shot into the bunch. Horrified to see a red go in the middle. The way the reds are placed you can't see a mistake. Thirty-four. Forty. Forty-one. Watching Karen Wilson in his chair and he looks devastated. After such a great effort going from a big deficit to the brink of victory. Forty-seven. You have to say his run of the ball has been horrific. Forty-eight. Got to give some credit to this man. He had to do the clearance in the last frame. Fifty-three. Incredible. What an incredible match. At 5-1 to O'Sullivan it looked like a runaway. Fifty-nine. At 8-5 he was comfortably ahead. Sixty. At 9-8 and was rescued at least in part. Sixty-seven. By an outrageously kind run of the ball when he rashly attempted the cross double on the last red. Commiserations to Wilson who so unluckily knocked the red into the middle pocket. Eighty-three. Eighty-five. Eighty-eight. It will be O'Sullivan's eleventh century of the tournament. Ninety-two. Ninety-seven. So there it is. O'Sullivan finishes in style of the century. The clearance of 110 defeats Karen Wilson by ten frames to nine in the most dramatic of matches. He was almost out of it but somehow he survived and he's gone on to become champion of champion for the third time. We enjoy as much as anything a drama and we saw that tonight and that penultimate frame you must have thought that the tournament was away. Glad you enjoyed it because I didn't. I was lucky today. He should have won that really. That double down got away with it. Ladies and gentlemen, our champion of champion, Ronnie O'Sullivan.