Ronnie O’Sullivan takes on Stuart Bingham at present as he begins his bid ro attain the semi-finals of the World Snooker Championship, however it’s one other nice Crucible champion dominating the headlines at present. In an evening that may linger lengthy within the reminiscence, John Higgins beat Mark Allen 13-12 on Monday after a 71 clearance within the closing body settled a exceptional contest. The Scot was 62-0 down within the decider earlier than a missed purple gave him a possibility, and he rolled again the years to set-up a last-eight match with Kyren Wilson. Bingham himself contested an epic, successful the final two frames to beat Jack Lisowski 13-11 in a sport that lasted greater than eight hours.
Earlier within the day, the ‘Rocket’ had been in tremendous kind to beat Ryan Day 13-7. He stays on monitor to win a record-breaking eighth world title in Sheffield, which might take him one away from Stephen Hendry.
Followers should wait till this afternoon to look at O’Sullivan or Higgins in motion although. First up, David Gilbert seems to be to proceed his resurgence in opposition to Stephen Maguire, whereas Judd Trump performs the one remaining Welshman, Jak Jones.
Just like the last-16 matches, the video games can be best-of-25 body affairs. And followers on the well-known theatre could be braced for an additional nail-biting couple of days.
We could possibly be in for an additional spectacular day on the Crucible if Monday’s motion is something to go by. So strap in and comply with all of the motion courtesy of our reside weblog beneath…
