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World Championship Snooker 2011 Betting Odds
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Number two seed Ronnie O’Sullivan goes into the tournament as favourite at a best price of 4/1 despite enduring an up and down start to the 2009/2010 season. The Rocket brushed aside Liang Wenbo, who he will meet in the first round of the World Snooker Championship, Graeme Dott, Marco Fu, Ding Junhui and world number one John Higgins on the way to the Shanghai Masters but has failed to win any of the six tournaments he has entered since. But the three time champion is favourite for a reason with his often fiery and always controversial temperament the only factor likely to stand in his way of his fourth world title.
His biggest threat to the crown is world number one and current World Championship holder John Higgins who is priced at 9/2 to retain the trophy. But his season hasn’t got off to the best of starts with just two runners-up places to show from his first five tournaments. However, he has shown his class in reaching two finals and two semi-finals this year and so don’t write him off in this year’s world championship having already seen off Barry Hawkins in the first round and having been handed a relatively straight forward passage to the final with fourth seed Shaun Murphy likely to be his biggest obstacle in the semi-final.
Rather surprisingly, seventh seed Mark Selby is third favourite to claim his first world championship title but with just one ranking tournament win to his name and a lack of experience in comparison to some of his competitors it’s difficult to see him going all the way. Selby has failed to live up to the hype that surrounded him following his appearance in the final of this tournament three years ago with just a Welsh Open title picked up two years ago to show for his efforts. A Masters final win over O’Sullivan earlier this year saw his odds shorten to 6/1 but Selby is far from the finished article and it will be a few years before the Jester from Leicester really threatens to pick up a World Championship title.
Experience could be the only thing standing in the way of thirteenth seed Ding Junhui as well with the 23-year old fourth favourite at a price of 9/1. But Ding has been handed a difficult draw with Shaun Murphy awaiting him in the second round and Ali Carter, Joe Perry and John Higgins all standing in the way of him and the final on May 2nd. But there is nothing to say he can’t overcome all those obstacles as he goes into the tournament in great form after his 2009/2010 season got off to a flying start. A quarter-final place at the Shanghai Masters was followed by a runners-up place at the Grand Prix before Ding picked up his first title of the year with a 10-8 win over John Higgins in the final of the UK Championship. Disappointment at the Masters and Welsh Open were eradicated quickly as Ding hit nine centuries on his way to the China Open final before he came unstuck against Mark Williams. Odds of 9/1 may be tempting but with such a treacherous route to the final, Ding will surely come unstuck at some point.
2009 Grand Prix winner Neil Robertson is priced at 11/1 to lift his first World Championship which could be well worth considering. A meeting with John Higgins in the quarter-finals looks to be the Australian’s biggest hindrance but before and beyond that he looks to have been handed a fairly straight forward draw. Robertson goes into the tournament off the back of a second round exit at the China Open but in doing so he did manage to pick up his first professional 147 against Peter Ebdon. The talent is their and the odds are good and so it’s just a question of whether Robertson can hold his nerve and have that little bit of luck needed to go all the way.
Beyond these five the bookmakers aren’t giving anyone else much of a chance with seven time World Champion Stephen Hendry priced at 40/1 whilst 2006 winner Graeme Dott and 2002 winner Peter Ebdon are largely unfancied at 150/1 and 66/1 respectively. One man who does seem to have been written off is third seed Stephen Maguire who looks to have been handed a decent draw with Ronnie O’Sullivan in the semis the biggest impediment between himself and a place in the final. A semi-final place and two quarter-final exits in his last three World Championships will have made Maguire all the more determined to go that step further and reach the final where anything can happen, and so a price of 20/1 on the Glaswegian lifting his first World Championship title is worth considering.
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