Ding Junhui apologised to Mark Williams on multiple occasions during the match (Image: GETTY)
has revealed that Ding Junhui was very apologetic after making the most of his good fortune to knock the Welshman out of the .He ended up on the wrong side of a dramatic 6-5 defeat, losing the final two frames. Ding was fortunate to leave his opponent in some tricky positions as a result of his own mistakes, allowing himself to claim the spoils.In the penultimate frame, he cleaned up after smashing into the pack of reds before another mishap in the decisive final frame had the same result.
Williams playfully labelled Ding a ‘lucky t**t’ on social media after his defeat (Image: GETTY)
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It left Williams feeling hard done by, with the 49-year-old telling Eurosport: “I don’t normally say this but I think the only reason I lost today was the run of the ball.”He had so much run all the way through the match, really. I’ve had it myself in the past but that was as much run of the ball for a long time that someone’s had against me.”I was 5-4 up, he’s butchered a long red, smashed them everywhere and I’m on nothing. Last frame he’s butchered one again, left me in trouble and cleared up again.”Williams later told the : “I lost count of how many times he held his hand up to me to say sorry. He must have done it 10 or 11 times. Good luck to him. He made two great breaks. After the interval, none of us can play much better than that.”After the match, Williams playfully branded Ding a ‘lucky t**t’ on social media as he reflected on his own misfortune in the final two frames.
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In his own unique way of spelling, : “Well played Ding u lucky t**t. What a receition walking in, venue great, crowd great, played good, geeat comp, see yiu next year fingers crosses. #luckisooxed.”Alan McManus, the former Masters champion, said on Eurosport commentary that he felt sorry for Williams but noted that Ding was also hit with bad luck at times.”I agree with him in some respects,” said McManus. “The running that was going on out there was on Ding’s side of the fence.”But there was a frame where he played a safety shot and gets cover on the brown, Mark that is, and he won the frame off the back of it. All’s fair in love and snooker, as we say. It cuts both ways.”