Following his winning exploits this season during the Players Tour Championship and the 6-Red World Championship, Mark Selby headed to Shanghai as the pre-tournament favourite of many, including myself, and as he rolled into the semi-finals today with a comprehensive victory over Mark King, he remains on course for what would be just the second ranking event title of his career to date.
There are three other men still in with a shout of stopping him however…
While the professional season has now been completed, the race for tour places for 2010/11 rages on and this week has seen another eight names confirmed via the PIOS route. Click below to see who has already been confirmed for next season and where the remaining names will come from…
Well after a five day absence I was back at the Crucible Theatre today for the conclusion of the tournament’s semi-finals and what a day it was for all sorts of reasons, unfortunately not all of which were good…
Mark Selby may have been made the tournament favourite by the bookmakers when he defeated Ronnie O’Sullivan a couple of nights ago but 2006 champion Graeme Dott has shown the value of his experience again today to extend his lead to 10-6. Can Mark launch another comeback?
There is a long way still to go but Neil Robertson will be pleased with his day’s work as he opened up a 6-2 lead over Ali Carter after the afternoon session. Mark Selby meanwhile trails 5-3 against Graeme Dott, though it could have been worse…
Wow what a final session we have seen tonight as Mark Selby and Ali Carter have booked their places in the semi-finals of this year’s tournament with victories over Ronnie O’Sullivan and Shaun Murphy respectively…
Since his 2006 Crucible triumph Graeme Dott has endured a torrid time both on and off the table as he battled with depression and lost his top 16 place as a result, but happily the man from Scotland has now completed his revival with a very impressive 13-12 victory over Mark Allen this afternoon…
At 12-2 down it looked as though Steve Davis would come down to earth with a bump and suffer his first defeat at the Crucible with a session to spare since a 13-3 loss to Ken Doherty back in 1997. While he did manage to take the last two frames to extend the match to a third session however, the remaining three quarter-finals are all finely balanced headed into Wednesday…