Snooker Best Shots Welsh Open 2026 Recreated

The very moment Neil Robertson played this shot I started receiving requests asking if it would even be possible for me to recreate it along with a lot of the other best shots from the Welsh Open which for whatever reason just appear to be incredibly tough this week but that's not going to stop me from finding the best shot of the Welsh Open and as usual we're going to be doing that by recreating everything as accurately as possible before playing these shots in the fewest possible So let's begin with Wu Yizhe who doesn't have a lot of options here and seemingly just decides to smash in match ball as hard as possible. Not even the camera could keep up with him on this shot no one had a clue where it was going. Looking at the position of the black here it's possible Wu was trying to screw back off the black down the table and safe but he just got into it slightly too well. Fortunately for me with this shot all I've got to do really is get the angle right and I've got it on my third attempt. I've even hit this one too well to even count on the black though but other than that it's pretty good. Definitely wasn't expecting to get that one so quickly so let's move on now to something a little bit more positionally challenging as the red for Yang Young here couldn't be any more simple as he's just got to pod it over the pocket but he manages to screw the cue ball nearly 12 foot back down the table for the black and it's going to be fascinating to see if I can get anywhere near this or produce enough cue power. Yang wouldn't do enough in this frame to go on and win it and go 3-1 down however he would win the next three frames to take the match against Mark Selby by four frames to three. I think this is going to be an interesting test for the Neil Robertson shot coming up later. As you can see with this attempt if you strike the cushion that's next to the pocket it's actually relatively straightforward to get the cue ball back far enough but I'm looking to play this shot without hitting any adjacent cushions and that's making things difficult because I'm having to play it with a lot of power and backspin and it means that quite often I'm not getting the line right or I'm getting it wrong like that and actually hitting the cushion when I'm not trying to. This is pretty good I've got into it really well but only just about got back as far as the cushion there so I'm going to have another go and see if I can do any more but that felt like about as well as I can cue this shot. My table isn't quite as fast as the ones you'll see on TV so I really have to give it some to get anywhere near on a shot like this and I think this is about as good as I can do nowhere near it but I'll have to stick with that. The next shot is recommended to us by Craig who wanted me to have a go at this really awkward John Higgins shot where he's stuck over the top of the brown and he can't see the two reds closest to the corner pocket. Despite this he manages to play the cue ball into the first red and get it to cannon off it and hit the second red and knock it in the pocket. This is a really well thought out shot and probably isn't as easy as John makes it look. After just a few attempts it seems like the brown is what's making this difficult if I could just play it straight I'd fancy getting this every single time. I didn't really quite hit it hard enough when I got it but it wasn't quite as hard as I first thought. Another impressive shot from Yang Young now and this time it's a plant but there's a huge distance between the two reds. You could argue that he's just trying to knock the first red away from the pocket and any contact on it would be good but he manages to get the pot on the second red and the cue ball goes right back down the table safe. This more or less wins him this frame and he'd go on to take the next as well to win the match. I'm just aiming to pot the first red and hoping for the best as both reds are directly in line with the pocket and it's worked. Unfortunately I played it with a small amount of right hand side so it hasn't quite come back far enough. A really tough thing cut now for Stuart Bingham that's a lot more awkward than it looks. The cue ball's trapped in the corner pocket and the shot itself is a lot thinner than it first appears. Despite this Stuart manages to knock it in and it more or less secures him his first frame in this match. A match that he'd go on to win against the world champion by four frames to two. My first attempt looked right until the cue ball struck the red and then I could see I'd hit it a little bit thick so I just hit my second attempt thinner and I've got it. I haven't quite got the cannon on the blue back to the yellow but that's possibly because I didn't quite hit the shot hard enough. Next on to the Neil Robertson shot I know everybody's been waiting for or at least I know three of you have been waiting for because you've messaged me and specifically requested it. This is where in the closing stages in this match against Jack Jones Neil manages to pot the brown that's close to the corner pocket but definitely not over it and screw the cue ball back down the table and gets just about in position on the blue. This requires a huge amount of cue power to even get close to this. Once he gets here he even pots the blue and pink for the match but I'm just going to be happy if I can get the brown right and that definitely isn't going to be easy. As you can see from my attempt that's not bad if I just screw the cue ball back straight I can very nearly get it far enough back down the table. The problem is I need to get it across the table like this and make it hit the second cushion which also requires the right angle to start off with but a lot of power at the same time because it's power that'll move it across the table and it's the backspin that'll pull it back towards the blue so I've got to get it with maximum cue power here and get both of those things together at the same time. As I was explaining earlier as well because the cushion is close to the pocket I can play this shot with a small trace of sidespin and increase the amount it comes back quite easily which is definitely helping however I can't play it well enough to get past the middle pocket so while I'm trying to get this right if you see any shot in an upcoming tournament that you want me to have a go at recreating then just leave me a comment on any video that explains specifically which tournament it's in, who's playing who, what the frame score is and the match score and any details I need to know about specifically which shot it is. The more detail you include the more likely I am to play your shot because it's going to be easier for me to find and this can make a big difference to the quality of the videos because I probably wouldn't have even found one of the best shots from last week's tournament had it not been suggested to me by one of the viewers. But let's stop worrying about that for a second because we've already got to the point in this video where I've given up on technique and I'm just throwing myself at the shot to try and hit it as hard as I can with the maximum amount of backspin and hoping it goes right. That's a good line I just haven't got the pace in the shot. The problem is it's quite easy to hit it hard and get it across the table or to make it spin back it's just getting both of those right at the same time so let's see if I can get close. Yeah that would have been quite good I'm just too far down the cushion. This is better though I've got a nice amount of zip on it and it's probably a little bit better than one I got earlier. Unfortunately I think that's a limit to what I can do on my table which is so close to being in position on the blue it's a little bit frustrating. Four frames on in the semi-final Wu Yize decides to go for it and takes on this awkward long red knocking it in and getting in perfect position on the black. From here he'd make a 59 break but it turned out not to be enough and he'd end up losing the frame and eventually the match to Barry Hawkins. I've misjudged my first attempt and hit it a little bit thick which is a common way to miss shots like this as it's more likely to go safe if you do that. I've got it right after three attempts which is probably pretty good. You might be surprised it hasn't happened already but we're now moving on to this week's Danger Shot. As Jack Lasowski is clearing up to try and win the match against Zhao Gedong but has been forced to leave himself in less than desirable position on the brown. Despite this Jack manages to pot the brown and play the cue ball perfectly off two cushions for perfect position on the blue which he's able to get and the pink for the match. I was going into this shot expecting it to be awkward because I could already see the middle pocket and the pink getting in the way of some of my attempts and I thought the pace would be difficult to judge and I was right about all of that. What I just didn't expect is how difficult the pot was going to be. The brown is actually a lot closer to the cushion than it looks from this angle and even when I'm getting the pot frustratingly I'm just getting into the white a little bit too much and it's causing me to go in off or I'm not getting into it enough at all I'm going the wrong side of the pink. I've just caught the middle jaw there otherwise the pace would have been pretty good and I've done it again that looked right for speed as well. Hang on this looks better no I've hit the pink. It's just difficult to thread the needle with this one at the correct speed when the brown is unexpectedly difficult. I think I've got the pace right if I can just get the pot and the cue ball in the right position. I've done it here but I was wrong about the pace I'm a little bit short. I could take that but I think I could definitely get a lot closer so I'm going to give it a few more goes. This looks better now I've got it all lined up right although I'm still a fraction short but I'm just frightened to try it again. On to a cross double on this green now for Neil Robertson that almost certainly loses him this frame because getting it only puts him 21 points in front and he ends up in undesirable position on the brown. It creates such a problem that it leaves room for a Barry Hawkins clearance. I've got it straight away so I'll definitely take that even if it is a little bit short of pace although I think if Neil ended up in this position he was more likely to win the frame. Up against that we've got a double from Yang Yong that's so outrageous it forces his opponent just to walk clean out of the arena as he takes a three frames to one lead. He'd eventually narrowly lose this match however by five frames to four to Wu Yize. Not much to this one I just need to find the correct angle and so far I haven't really got that right although this does look a lot better and I've got it so which of these doubles was the cheekiest? Neil Robertson's shot only gets two because it went so wrong for him whereas Yang Yong gets four because it's such an outrageous shot and he's this week's winner. Before we play the next Barry Hawkins shot we've just got to find Xander who's from North Berwick Scotland which is there. On to a pot off the bolt cushion now that shows just why Barry Hawkins was a player to beat this week he just kept getting the big shots like this one and would eventually go on to win this match against Neil Robertson by five frames to three. My first attempt felt really good so I was a bit disappointed not only that the shot didn't go in but also that I was so far away from the pocket. I've got it on my third here though which is pretty good but I've under hit it once again this might be where I'm going wrong on these shots I'm just not completing them or something like that. It's another cue power shot and it's Neil Robertson again who's potting this straight black into the corner pocket and screwing the cue ball up the table past the blue onto the red that's in bulk. The yellow's in the way for quite a bit of this so if I'm going to get this right I'm going to have to get the white a long way down the table and to do that I'm going to have to cue it more or less perfectly on my table with exactly the right amount of left hand side to make the angle to get as close as I can to the blue. If I can get all of that right I might have a chance of getting on the red but even then it still could be impossible. I realized just after a couple of attempts that if I stay down on the shot and cue it about as well as I can I can only just about get a couple of feet past the blue which isn't going to be enough. I need to do a lot better than this so I decided to start throwing myself at the shot a little bit to try and just get an extra couple of feet which is what I need. It's definitely working when I pop the ball. I've got as close as I can to the blue there and hit it about as well as I can but I'm still short. I need an extra couple of feet from there which is going to be really tough. Once again I get close just not enough pace on the shot and it's starting to get really difficult now because I'm already giving it as much as I can and the more I throw myself at the shot the less likely I am to pot it and get the angle right. I've given it a little bit too much left hand side there. This I've given it a lot more but I've gone the wrong side of the blue however I'm going to have to stick with this because I simply couldn't play it properly. Last week you voted for the winning shot of the players championship to be shot K from Zanganda. This excellent snooker in behind the green which required a trace of left hand side to make the angle perfectly so congratulations to him and this week you've a chance to vote again for the best shots from this video and the Welsh Open. You can do so for free using the link in the description and I'll announce the winner in next week's video but if you can't wait till then have a look at these two videos from previous tournaments if you've missed them and remember don't just watch play and make the commitment to becoming a better player by subscribing to the channel and visit the website. See you later.