Alexandra Palace, London – 10-18 January, 2016.
Grove’s Neil and Judd are competing in the most prestigious invitational tournament in the calender, The Masters. Neil has won it in 2012 and was runner-up twice since, Judd reached the Semi Finals in 2012 but lost in the last 16 in 2014 and 2015,
Judd beat Stephen Maguire by 6-4 in the last 16 whilst Neil beat an ailing Marco Fu by 6-0.
They had to play each other in the QF and it’s Judd who came on top, a winner by 6-5, but lost to Barry Hawkins in the SF

Judd and Neil battled it out for a semi final berth in a match that will be remembered as one of the best ever. They had six centuries between them – 4 for for Judd, 2 for Neil – a new record in a best of 11 match. They also beat the tournament highest break twice, first when Neil made a 139, next when Judd responded with 140.

You can watch this fantastic match (again) here:

Thanks to SnookerRoom.

You can watch the matches and BBC footages (again) on SnookerRoom youtube channel

And you can listen to the players postmatch interviews on my soundcloud channel

As usual cuetracker.net provides all the scores and details about the matches.