Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  I hinga a Ronnie O'Sullivan i a Graeme Dott 4-1 ki te eke ki te haurua whakamutunga o te World Grand Prix i Llandudno, engari i kiia ko tana mahinga he 'kino'. Kaore te 39-tau-tau i eke ki nga taumata e taea ana e ia, engari he nui ake i te pai ki te haere i mua i te Scot - te tangata i whiua e ia ki te wikitoria i te tuarua o ana toa o te ao e rima i te tau 2008. Kāore a Ronnie O'Sullivan i te āhua ki te patene i tōna tuara i muri i tana whiunga i a Graeme Dott. Kaore tetahi o nga tangata i pakaru i nga tohu e toru, a ka ngaro a O'Sullivan i etahi o nga pupuhi ngawari, engari kaore i taea e Dott te whiu ia ia, ina koa i te tuawha i te wa i ngaro ai ia i te karakara mai i te waahi i a ia e ngana ana ki te horoi ki te taumata 2-2. I whakawhiwhia ia e O'Sullivan ki te utu, engari kaore ia i te hiahia ki te tarai i tona tuara. 'He whakataetae pai a Graeme, he pūmau, he tukinga uaua tonu,' i kī a O'Sullivan ki a ITV4. 'I pōhēhē te tākaro a mātau e rua, i māharahara ahau mō tētahi take, ā, kāore i taea te kite i te rākau mō ngā rākau. He mea whakamiharo, i tētahi o aua ahiahi, ā, he waimarie i tākaro kino a Graeme i ahau. 'I noho au ki reira e whakaaro ana he pehea te pai o Stephen Hendry me Steve Davis a ka timata ratou ki te wiri, ka whakaaro 'koinei taku wa?'. He maha nga pōro i ngaro i ahau, he kino rawa. I whiua e Martin Gould a Peter Ebdon 4-2 ki te tohu i tētahi wāhi ki te whā whakamutunga i Llandudno. 'Kei te mauruuru ahau, āpōpō he rā anō, engari e hiahia ana koe ki te hanga i te tere o tēnei wāhanga o te whakataetae.' I te tīmatanga o te rā, i patua e Martin Gould a Peter Ebdon kia kore ai a O'Sullivan e tū ki tōna hoariri tawhito. I karangatia e ia te toa, he tangata i whakamamaetia ia i mua, 'Peter f****** Ebdon' i roto i tētahi uiuinga niupepa i tēnei wiki, engari i tukuna a Ebdon e 4-2. Ka tūtaki a O'Sullivan ki a Stuart Bingham i te whā whakamutunga i muri i tana whiunga i a Mark Davis 4-0 i roto i tētahi pāhekoheko iti.
I whiua e Ronnie O'Sullivan a Graeme Dott 4-1 kia eke ki te whiringa toa. Ka tūtaki a O'Sullivan ki a Stuart Bingham i te whā whakamutunga i Llandudno.