World Championship 2021 – ‘You’re joking?’ – Stuart Bingham after match paused with one frame left
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Updated 20/04/2021 at 20:52 GMT
Bingham came through 10-9 in his first-round clash with Ding Junhui – but only after having to wait two hours between the penultimate and final frames. The decision was branded a “sickener” on Eurosport commentary, even if it was ultimately the correct call from the match official. You can watch every match of the World Championship live and ad-free on the Eurosport App and eurosport.co.uk.
‘You’re joking?’ – Bingham dismayed as match paused with one frame left
Stuart Bingham and Ding Junhui were forced to return for a one-frame shootout after their World Championship opener overran.
With the second session adopting a pedestrian tempo and threatening to spill onto the evening menu, a guilty-looking Jan Verhaas told the players they would have to return at 9-9 in the best-of-19 encounter.
“You’re joking?” announced Bingham, with the crowd appearing to kick up a slight fuss too.
However, with the arena needing to be set up for the evening session, referee Verhaas had no choice but to halt proceedings.
“It is a sickener for the audience as well isn’t it, they’ve sat there all afternoon,” said David Hendon on Eurosport commentary.
“But they’ve overrun, those are the rules, it’s happened many times before, it’s happened again here.”
Bingham walked away shaking his head, but returned two hours later to complete a thrilling 10-9 win over Ding and reach the second round.
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