Guild Hall
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Southampton
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Thursday 24 September 2009
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Hendry records first PLS win / Higgins held to draw
STEPHEN Hendry recorded his first victory of the 2009 PartyCasino.com Premier League Snooker.
Hendry recorded the biggest win of this season's competition so far when he triumphed 5-1 over Australian Neil Robertson in Southampton.
Breaks of 60, 98, 51 and 127 helped seven-time World Champion Hendry to a convincing victory.
Hendry's run of 127 in the final frame was also the highest break of this years's event and meant he collected £6,000 from his night's work.
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"At the beginning and at the end of the match I played very well," said Hendry. "There were a couple of bad shots that I played in the middle frames but apart from that I was very happy with the way I played.
"When you have a 2-0 lead you have to be confident that you will get a point. I lost last week and if I had lost two in a row then it would've been tough to get back from that."
In the other match at Southampton, John Higgins moved to the top of the table.
Current World Champion Higgins started his campaign last week with a victory over Shaun Murphy and was hoping to be successful again - this time against Marco Fu.
However, he was denied the victory as Fu claimed two of the last three frames after Higgins had moved into a 2-1 lead.
"It was a strange sort of match," said Fu. "We both didn't play well and both struggled and only played well in spells. But you wouldn't expect me to draw with a player like John.
"He's the World Champion and full of confidence at the moment so I'm very happy with a point."
Higgins added: "Sometime you get matches like that and a point is a point. It's very hard to win a match in this format with only six frames."
FINAL SCORES
2009 PartyCasino.com Premier League Snooker
Guild Hall, Southampton
Neil Robertson 1-5 Stephen Hendry (best of 6)
Robertson's scores first
32-69 (Hendry 60), 1-99 (Hendry 98 ), 78-4 (Robertson 32), 19-52, 10-58 (Hendry 51), 1-133 (Hendry 127)
John Higgins 3-3 Marco Fu (best of 6)
Higgins' scores first
69-8 (Higgins 69), 24-65 (Fu 44), 60-52 (Higgins 32), 39-71 (Higgins 38, Fu 41), 90-16 (Higgins 90), 46-66 (Higgins 46, Fu 40)
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2009 PartyPoker.com Premier League Snooker
(all events run from 7.30pm to 11pm apart from the one in Llandudno on November 19. This begins at 6pm and finishes at 11pm)
Week 1 - September 3 - Penrith Leisure Centre, Penrith, Cumbria
Tickets £15 (adults), £12.50 (concessions). Box office - 01768 863450
Neil Robertson v Judd Trump, Ronnie O'Sullivan v Marco Fu
Week 2 - September 17 - Malvern Theatre, Great Malvern, Worcs
Tickets £19.50 (adults), £18.50 (concessions). Box office 01684 892277
Shaun Murphy v John Higgins, Stephen Hendry v Judd Trump
Week 3 - September 24 - Southampton Guildhall, Hampshire
Tickets £15 (adults), £12.50 (concessions). Box office - 02380 632601
Neil Robertson v Stephen Hendry, John Higgins v Marco Fu
Week 4 - October 1 - Charter Hall, Colchester, Essex
Tickets £15 (adults), £12.50 (concessions). Box office - 01206 282020
Judd Trump v Marco Fu, Ronnie O'Sullivan v Neil Robertson
Week 5 - October 15 - Aberdeen Exhibition Centre
Tickets £15 (adults), £12.50 (concessions). Box office - 0844 477 9000
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Shaun Murphy, John Higgins v Stephen Hendry
Week 6 - October 22 - Grimsby Auditorium, Lincolnshire
Tickets £15 (adults), £12.50 (concessions). Box office - 0844 847 2426
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Stephen Hendry, Shaun Murphy v Marco Fu
Week 7 - October 29 - Preston Guild Hall, Lancashire
Tickets £15 (adults) £12.50 (concessions). Box office - 01772 258858
John Higgins v Neil Robertson, Shaun Murphy v Stephen Hendry
Week 8 - November 5 - Riverside Leisure Centre, Exeter, Devon
Tickets £15 (adults), £12.50 (concessions). Box office - 01392 221771
Marco Fu v Neil Robertson, Ronnie O'Sullivan v Judd Trump
Week 9 - Nov 12 - Hutton Moor LC, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset
Tickets £15 (adults), £12.50 (concessions). Box office - 01934 425900
John Higgins v Judd Trump, Shaun Murphy v Neil Robertson
Week 10 - November 19 - Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Wales
Tickets £15 (adults), £12.50 (concessions). Box office - 01492 872000
S Murphy v J Trump, M Fu v S Hendry, R O'Sullivan v J Higgins
Semi-finals Nov 28 Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton on Sea, Norfolk
Tickets £18. Box office - 0845 437 9894
1st v 4th and 2nd v 3rd (order of matches may be changed)
Final - Nov 29 - Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton on Sea, Norfolk
Tickets £22. Box office - 0845 437 9894
Winner of semi-final 1 v winner of semi-final 2.
