'Close, close in' - Alan McManus predicts double on comms, Joe Perry duly obliges in clash with Judd Trump

Alan McManus is known as Angles for his knowledge of every inch of a snooker table. He proved the point by peering into his crystal ball and predicting Joe Perry’s shot to pinch the opening frame of the Welsh Open final with Judd Trump. Ad/> Perry and Trump were slugging out a safety battle on the final black, and the former tapped the table in acknowledgement of his opponent welding the black against the top cushion.

/> Welsh Open‘This is what he can do’ — Lisowski makes brilliant century16 HOURS AGO But as Perry was praising Trump’s shot, McManus had already spotted the shot to play. “With it almost touching he will be playing the double in the bottom right,” McManus said in the Eurosport commentary box. “He just glanced at it.” Perry did indeed take it on, and executed it to perfection — as Philip Studd described.

“Close, close in,” Studd said. “Wow what a start. “What a titanic battle in our very first frame of the Welsh Open final and it is Joe Perry with the final word.

He steals it.” I'd rather the tip flew into the crowd — Trump won't take backward step I'm not too down — Lisowski hopeful for rest of season It was a steal, but one McManus predicted would happen. It’s all about the Angles. --- Watch the Welsh Open final and other top snooker live on Eurosport and discovery+.