Richard Mann previews the first round of the Dafabet Masters, where Judd Trump and Kyren Wilson are set to do battle.
Given the needle between Judd Trump Trump and Kyren Wilson, their first-round clash on Wednesday afternoon promises to be the highlight of the first round and I'm finding it hard to split the pair.
Quotes of 8/11 look a little short about Trump and on that basis, it is easy to make a case for Wilson at odds-against.
However, I could easily see a scenario where Trump starts strongly before Wilson, who has canny knack of producing stunning comebacks, rallies and takes the game deep.
Were that to be the case, I would probably favour Wilson's superior match play and getting involved in-running might be the way to go.
Nevertheless, at this stage, I want to back over 9.5 frames at 6/5.
As I've said, despite their contrasting styles, I don't think there's much between these two wonderful young players and there is obvious potential for this match to get very tense and go very close.
6-4 either way would be a winner and that will do for me, with a tense final-frame decider very much on the cards.
