Is Rock Michael Smith's favourite opponent? World champion has remarkable record against the Northern Irishman

Josh Rock was left stranded at the 20th Players Championship of the year in the last sixteen after a 6-3 defeat to reigning world champion and world number one, Michael Smith.

That Smith likes to take on Rock should be obvious; after all, the reigning world champion won five of their seven duels between them. Remarkably, Smith also achieved a particularly high level each time against Rock. After all, his lowest average in those five wins was 106.07.

At Players Championship 20, he defeated Rock 6-3 and achieved 106.55 average. Less than Rock's 107.11, but thus still more than enough to win.