Snooker Best Shots Tour Championship 2021 Recreated.

The Tour Championship is an exclusive event for only the top eight players in the world, but somebody still wasn't that impressed. I actually thought it was the slim pickings this week. They were good shots, but not something out of the ordinary. So is he right? Did this tournament, or possibly this format, create snooker that's a bit dull? You might think that's going to be impossible to work out, but I do have a well-tested idea. So to find out, I'm going to be attempting to recreate the best shots from this tournament as accurately as possible, and then try to play those shots in the fewest possible attempts. And that all starts with this shot from Ronnie O'Sullivan. The fact that Ronnie's tight against the bolt cushion here doesn't stop him potting this long red and getting the cue ball back down the table. This one doesn't require any complicated spin or huge amounts of power. It's just a very difficult pot from where it is. So I was really happy to get it first time, even if I didn't quite manage to get the cue ball back. Well, I'm pretty happy with that start, because I wouldn't expect to pot that first time every time, but now I'm starting to think maybe Stephen was right. So let's try this shot from Mark Selby next, because this was actually Stephen's favourite shot from the event, and you need to screw the cue ball all the way back into bulk, not just pot the red. This one definitely wasn't so easy, although I still managed to get the pot after just three attempts, although I didn't quite come back far enough. I'd like to have struck that just a little bit better and got the cue ball back behind the bulk line, but I have to say I'm pretty happy with that after just three attempts. Kieran Wilson now can't see a way safe, so manages to pot his way out of trouble and get the cue ball back down the table by stunning it into another red. This is one of those where I really don't want to miss it too many times, because putting the balls back here is going to be a complete and utter nightmare. To get the cue ball back down the table, I need to power it into the other red with a small amount of stun. I was really pleased to pot this first time, but unfortunately I cannoned into the black, leaving me snookered. I hit it, but it would have left a shot on, but I didn't fancy playing this again. Neil Robertson realises here if he gets anywhere near the corner pocket with the red, it's going to be helped in off the blue, but as it turns out in the end, he doesn't even need it. Even though I could easily pop the red off the blue, as Neil got it clean, I'd like to get it in exactly the same way, no matter how many attempts it takes. I'm also using a small amount of right-hand side to cannon the red off the cushion and hold for the pink. Oh, this game's too easy. So I'm starting to think that Stephen Hendry might have been right about this, but before I can be confident of that, I've got to have a go at this pressure pot that Barry Hawkins got against Judd Trump. Barry just played this as a controlled stun shot to hold for the pink. He would have been under pressure here because he'd had a lead against Judd Trump in a few tournaments before recently, and he'd let them all slip. And I managed to get this after just two attempts, but unfortunately the cue ball slipped past the reds and I needed to have another go. This was definitely an impressive shot, especially under this much pressure, and I was pleased to get it after just four attempts. Before we look at some snooker escapes, we're going to find Alex from Chorley in the UK, which is there. The next two shots are snooker escapes, and on the face of it, they both look equally difficult. Both of these shots are from the final. Here, Neil Robertson manages to spin the cue ball around the table before landing on the red on the top cushion. He does leave a red on into the left corner, but because it's dead straight, Ronnie chooses not to play it. You need to hit this one with a small amount of left-hand side to get the angle right, and get the cue ball right down onto the top cushion, but I found out pretty quickly this is a difficult one to judge perfectly. If Neil had failed to get out of the snooker like any of these shots, he would definitely have lost the first frame. The only way he could keep it safe was to hit the red on the top cushion and leave the cue ball exactly there. As snookers go, for some reason, I found this one very difficult to get both the pace and the line exactly right, and kept getting the cue ball into a position where it would leave on another red. I don't know why, really, but for some reason, I just found it difficult to find the line on this one. I definitely think I could have got this sooner, but getting this completely safe is probably one of the toughest shots from this tournament, in my opinion. Also in the final, this shot from Ronnie O'Sullivan. This one looks harder, because he has to bridge over the brown, and he manages to land perfectly on the red, again keeping it completely safe. This time I'm using a small amount of right-hand side, but I also felt a lot more confident on this shot, for some reason. I managed to get the cue ball very close straight away, but had I actually hit it... Yep, it's touching. So despite the fact that they both look very similar, and I had to bridge over the brown there, that felt a lot easier to line up and play than Neil's shot. Before the next shot from Mark Selby, we're going to find Justin, who's from Toowoomba in Australia. Which is there. We've seen players escaping from snookers well, but Mark Selby here manages to leave Neil Robertson in a lot of trouble. So much so that when he tries to escape from the snooker off two cushions, he doesn't actually manage to hit it. And he would have wanted to, because it meant that Mark had got one of the snookers he needed back. This shot requires a lot of backspin and right-hand side played at a slow pace. The backspin causes the cue ball to drag down the table, slowing it down. And then the right-hand side makes it speed up around the two cushions, pinging it in behind the pink. This of course isn't exactly easy, and I had trouble slowing the cue ball down the right amount. I kept getting shots that were going too fast or too slow, depending on how much drag I was getting on the cue ball. But eventually I managed to get the cue ball close enough. Not quite tight up behind the pink, but still a snooker. This was definitely a tough shot. I would have liked to have got that a bit sooner. I just found controlling the drag over that distance a bit challenging. Neil Robertson's back again, and he's playing to snooker his opponent as well. This time it's Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final. He manages to get the cue ball tight in behind the yellow here, leaving a tough shot. I'm not sure if Neil played this with a small amount of sidespin, but basically I'm just playing it centre ball. I was impressed with my first attempt. It was close, but wasn't quite there. Then my second attempt went in exactly the same place. The natural angle if you hit this thin definitely took you somewhere near the yellow, although it was incredibly difficult to get the cue ball exactly in the right place, and I kept hitting the thing. Even though I didn't need any spin on this one, it felt a lot smaller target than the pink on the previous shot, although I was getting frustratingly close a lot more often. It didn't take me long before I managed to get the snooker, however, and I was fairly happy to get it this quickly, although only just. Yeah, that one definitely wasn't easy, although Stephen would probably argue it was just a safety shot. Barry Hawkins still hadn't got his match against Judd Trump 1, and needed this brown to secure it, which was an impressive pot under the circumstances. All I need to do here is literally just stun it in and stun the cue ball towards the cushion. I felt this was definitely one I should have got straight away, but wasn't too disappointed. This was a great pot under pressure, especially when you consider how Barry Hawkins have been struggling to get over the line against Judd Trump recently, although the fact that I had to put this in probably means that there weren't the greatest shots to choose from. So was Stephen right, and were the shots on this tournament just a little bit dull? And if they were, why exactly was this? With all the matches being very important and there only being a few of them, maybe that didn't leave room for the flamboyant shots we usually see. 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