Quickest Frame of the 2022/23 Snooker Season So Far? Maguire smashes pack 💥

Gets underway. If he wins it, he will at least end the day in second place. Well, oh, one's gone in. He's had a bit of luck at last. One definitely went in there. I say a bit of luck, I suppose. Could have finished a little better for a colour, but you can't really complain. He just smashed into them. Just a bit hampered on the blue, but he'll be taking it on. Ah, nicely done. Here we go again. Could be like a frame of nine ball this. Six. The wing ball, as they call it, going in. He could run out. Seven. A breaking run. Twelve. Yes, of course, the European Open, Phil, very shortly in Berlin. And actually, your birthday tributes continue to pour in because Marcel Eckart from Berlin sent a message earlier to wish you well. Thanks, Marcel. Yeah, it's in a place called Fulda, actually, near Frankfurt. The Hotel Esperanto. That's great. 21. Now, Williams encouraging Maguire here to do well. Maguire said, I don't think I've ever won a frame directly off the break. And Williams saying, I don't think I've ever lost one. 26. A prime occasion to lose a frame off the break would have been, well, a number of years ago now when Europe against the Australian Quinton Han. He went through a phase of breaking off like Maguire did there in big tournaments, in knockout situations. Well, I remember one year he played Williams at the Cruz Balu and Mark beat him 13-2. He won the last 13 frames. So the strategy that year didn't exactly work for Quinton. 42. 43. We saw this in Mark Allen though, didn't we, last Thursday, you know, these guys just really, really good. 50. 51. Yes, Allen was amazing, wasn't he? Just running around the table, winning frames in six, seven, five minutes even. And then in the European Masters qualifiers, he was 3-1 up to Farrukh Hashim, lost 5-3. That was a real shock to everyone. Yes, and he put a sort of rather cryptic tweet out afterwards. Sometimes you just have to laugh, so that could mean anything, couldn't it? Anyway, it's Liu Ning who's had the last laugh in this group, but Steve Maguire has ended on a high, crashed into the reds off the break off, not one in. 67. And he's won the frame off it. So he's going to finish second, Mark Williams third, Aaron Hill, of course, fourth in this group. But Liu Ning, crucially, coming back on Friday. 72. 73. Average shot time for Maguire in this match, 13 seconds. And he's had enough, because he's not gone for a pot. And Mark's going to carry on. That's classic Williams. Maguire was going around to shake hands, and that's the only reason Mark Williams has carried on, to annoy him. And there is the handshake. So it is Steve Maguire who finishes second. I think a lot of us thought this could be the group decider.