Welsh Open - Rd 1

Monday 15th February 2021

Morning

Featured Match -

Report By Graeme Drayton of the 15 Red Podcast team 

Joe Perry v Chang Bingyu - 4 - 3 

Highest Break 90 - Bingyu (Frame 5)

Joe raced into 3 - 0 lead and looked comfortable, he should have had a century in frame 2 but missed a blue on 61 and in frame 3 but ran into trouble on 56. Chang was missing relatively easy reds, and was making a lot of mistakes with safety play and was looking at a whitewash, but in frames 4 & 5 the tide started to turn, Chang had cut out a lot of errors was the much better player and Joe was now making the errors, Chang made his highest break of the match with 90. Frame 6 was a scrappy affair, with Chang leading 26 – 0, all the reds were bunched up on the back cushion. Chang forced Perry into another mistake and started to pick out and pot some reds. With a 57-point lead, Joe potted a red but missed the black into the middle and conceded the frame with 3 reds left on the table. The match had looked to be over within 1 hour, but Chang had worked hard to bring the match to a 7th and deciding frame, after a bit of a safety battle, Joe potted the first red a long pot into the green pocket made a break of 19 and broke down after running out of position on the next red, Chang fouled but did not cost him any more damage then 4 points. Chang missed a red, the red smashed into the pack and opened a chance up for Joe, Perry went onto to make a break of 61 to win 4 - 3.


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