Day 12 Snooker: World Championship Highlights

Neil Robertson one of the highlights of the day.

Judge John had been in control for most of this match and with the

score at 11-10, Judd Trump is at the table, but there is no score.

If he holds for the brown it might be worth taking on. How is it

looking? How is that not gone in? -- how has that. At that case, how has

that not gone in? - that pace. I don't think there is anyway out

here, he's going to have to play an aggressive shot, maybe the long

plant. He can get onto the pink or black from that.

You could possibly move the red of the corner with another raid but the

problem is that red to the centre pocket. If he does not get the cue

ball to the right-hand side of the table he be leaving it on. -- he

will be. The cut down the cushion on the left-hand side, he could play

that red on the left-hand side, you could play that bread onto the other

red and still get a good white, but he is in trouble. Looking at the

shot now. He has got to get into the cue ball to Mr Cannon onto the blend

green when he plays the shot, he has to have lots of screw and side to Mr

blue and green. -- to miss that. I think is linked to have to play this

long pot to the right-hand corner. -- he is going to have to

can you miss the blue and green? You have got to take your hat off to

him. It was always going to be difficult to Mr blue and green, but

lucky for him, it went in. -- to miss the blue and green.

It doesn't matter if the red goes in, though.

The first time for the past four or five frames he has had everything in

open play. Look at the ball is now. What time this would be to make a

sizeable break. -- the balls. If this was earlier in the match you

would say he could win the frame, but at this stage, with the pressure

that is on, anything is possible. There was a noise in the crowd that

could have put him off the shot, but no problem.

He is just investing in the small collars, waiting to get up to the

big stuff, pink and black. -- colours. He will be feeling very

confident. Hold on a minute. Just about OK.

It looked difficult to make a mess of that shot, but he has, he has

hampered during. -- cueing. One good positional shot, he needs

to get up on these reds and blacks. Judd Trump has not altered the ball

for 26 minutes. That is a long time out there, when you get to the

business end of a match. Just wondering whether that pink pots. If

it doesn't, he is in trouble. There might be a chance of getting the gap

through those raids on to the black but that ink is very close to being

portable, I think it may pot. -- the pink is close to being pottable. And

now, he has a chance, a big chance. business end of a match. Just

wondering whether that pink business end of a match. Just

through those raids business end of a match. Just

pink is close to being pottable. And now, he has a chance, a big chance.

There looked like there was an opportunity then to go for the

black, but he prefers the pink, obviously. He would have liked to

have been an inch or two further down the table with the cue ball. He

is OK, it is not too thin to hold down the table with the cue ball. He

things more difficult. He is just one good pot away from

being in a perfect position. Now, he has got the chance because he is not

straightish on the black. It is good to see him walking round

the table when he is making breaks. It suits his style, he is taking

longer on the safety shots, which you can understand, but he is

keeping a nice rhythm. He just can't get pinpoint at the

moment, can he? It has been hard work for 38. I don't know what the

colour sequence has been, work for 38. I don't know what the

have been a few low ones. You can see, yellows, Greens, browns, he

hasn't got the blue. This could be good. The red at the top of the pack

is available. What a lovely shot. Perfect angle

is available. What a lovely shot. black. He deserves what he gets from

this. And hopefully, if he does go on to win the frame, it will be with

a century. This was perfectly played.

What colour angle does he have won this red? Can he pot the red and

What colour angle does he have won could bring another three reds into

play here. And now then, the century is a definite possibility, the 100th

century. A little bit careless there, he did

not quite get the desired angle, but he is OK for the black, still.

The difficult red on the site cushion is the one that is going to

be a really big problem. And to make the 100 he will need four reds and

four blacks. That red to get onto any other, could be a problem. Now

you have won the frame, Neil, you deserve the 100 century. -- 100th.

It could be a monkey on his back that could affect him for the next

few frames. It is hard to say, really. Judd Trump is looking a

little bit forlorn, he has lost three frames on the trot and he has

not done a lot wrong, he has just three frames on the trot and he has

lost the safety battles. You wonder three frames on the trot and he has

whether he will risk getting onto three frames on the trot and he has

the difficult red now. There three frames on the trot and he has

answer. He has risked it. Needs to move the yellow to make the

century. Not guaranteed to get the perfect on

this red. I would rather that he played for a baulk colour here, I

really would. Still a nice angle, he has the nice

angle. Surely, now, he is Still a nice angle, he has the nice

get it. Two pots From an unbelievable record that might never

get beaten again. He is -- Judd Trump is going to have

the honour to be the first to congratulate him if the screen goes

in. -- if this green. At this stage of the match, absolutely

un-believable. What a monkey off his back. He certainly deserves that.

Absolutely brilliant, at this stage of the game, producing that

fantastic break. Quite incredible. Congratulations to Neil Robertson

not only on the century but to have Congratulations to Neil Robertson

levelled the match at 11-11. You would think he had won the World

Championship. What a fantastic break.

Great achievement, 100 century breaks in a single season. No

handshake and no congratulations from Judd Trump. Robertson was 11-8

down, and now we have Judd Trump at the table trailing by 25 points.

Looking at the plant, here, those two below the pink. Maybe available.

The tension. He is going to have a go at this. We knew this was going

to happen if it didn't go in. The only good thing at the moment is the

to happen if it didn't go in. The fact that black is on the cushion,

so he is not guaranteed to win a fact that black is on the cushion,

frame at this fact that black is on the cushion,

to be very tough to get onto a colour. He could just roll through

and play the pink in the middle. I good pot again. This is just

amazing. Every ball is going right in the middle of

The pot success rate has gone to 90%, Judd Trump's is still at 89%

and he has hardly had a shot for three frames. He has made 315 out of

349 Pozzi he has taken on in eight hours. -- pots he has taken on.

Once again in the middle of the pocket, perfect position. The pink

on, three reds, three colours, he is one away from victory.

That young man is now going to have to do dig deeper than he has ever

before in his life. Somehow, he has got to try and make something

happen. At the minute it has just been flawless look. -- snooker. You

do not feel part of the match when you're being kept out of it and you

are in that chair. Such a big audience, watching this match and

enjoying every minute, and Judd Trump is the only one in the room

who feels so lonely. Does the middle red of those five. Into the right

corner? If it does, he does not have to play the cannon. It is really

tight. Probably goes, just. He doesn't feel that it does, that is

why he has played for the slightly more difficult red. Once again, he

is absolutely inch perfect. He played three frames to win the match

against Mark Allen when he was winning 10-7, and played three

frames on the trot where he never missed a ball. This, I think is

actually better than that. Well, Judd Trump has decided not to

continue playing snickers, so Neil Robertson takes the lead for the

first time in the match at 12-11. What a story this is turning out to

be. Judd Trump trailing by 31 points.

That looked really bad because he has caught the other red early on.

You can still understand why Judd Trump has gone for the shot, because

he is just not getting opportunities and he feels that he has to go out

there and grasp them rather than waiting for them.

I have seen a lot of performances from the

I have seen a lot of performances years, from Stephen Hendry, Ronnie

O'Sullivan, but from the position that he was in, Neil Robertson in

the last five that he was in, Neil Robertson in

the best I have ever seen. All of the frames have been scrappy stop he

has never had pink and black on the spot, he has had to grasp all the

time. At 11-8 behind he did not look as if he had it in him, but he has

just turned around. -- turned it around. The cue ball is running

loose. Just when you thought it was over.

Well, you will not believe an hour and four minutes at the business end

of the match. It has been stuck on 11 frames for all that time. It's

normally difficult to stop Judd Trump potting at all. Even for five

minutes. He has a pot on here though.

Starting to get near that point now and one bad shot could cost him it.

Very well done, sir. Very well done. He will have to take the risk. This

was an excellent pot, after an hour's play. I was going to say he

would take the risk of playing the blue into the pink. He will win this

frame to get it back to 12-12, he needs to make it happen. Right here,

right now. He has missed the pink. Still OK, luckily enough.

He looked at the black there. He can play for the black. It will be a

thin cut. He could also go up for the blue. See what he thinks of it.

Can he pot the black and cannon into the two reds and pink. He is bound

to be on the other red. If he misses the cannon, he's nowhere.

He has played the cannon. He's got the position. Well played.

This would be a momentual mental task, having been off the table all

that length of time, to produce a break to get back into the frame.

He commits all the time, doesn't he, when he gets in the balls. That is

what everybody likes about him. He tries to make things happen all the

time. He's very refreshing to watch. Not many like him in the game

really. The red on that right hand side is

horrible for a left handed player as well.

He has an angle on this next red. He might bring the red off the cushion

with the shot. He may dry and bring the red up. You don't want to play

this red down the cushion with the rest, do you?

Maybe a little too straight to do that, Neil Robertson looks on.

He's played it! Well played, Judd Trump, a fantastic shot. At that

stage of the match, brilliant. If he run it in he has to choose the

pace to perfection. He is so unlucky there to have left

such a difficult pot. It was a brilliant shot to bring the red into

play. What a shame the match will possibly end like that. Having a

look at the score board. Green of course, Neil needs that. He was so

concentrating, Terry, just drifting past the pink.

Well, he needs the brown as well. There may be a little bit of life

left in this frame yet. Well, this isn't straight-forward.

He needs a nice angle on the yellow to pot it into the corner pocket and

have a nice angle to get on the green. This is a key shot here now.

From a match that was looking pedestrian early on in the evening,

it's now turned out to be one of the most exciting matches of the

tournament. Somebody cough badly in the back.

It's just disturbing Neil. That's awful. That's awful. That's enough,

please. Thank you. I'm so glad he potted that. If he

missed it and disturbed by the crowd, it would have been a

disaster. Judd Trump can only hope this is two straights where they get

close to the brown. If he has to leave the white anywhere in baulk,

the brown will be tricky. He needs to get close to the brown. It

obviously is straight otherwise it would have been down.

Don't try to hit it too hard and force an angle out of it. It would

miss the green. There is not a certainty of power. That is what

he's doing. What a shot that was. That's unbelievable. That, honestly,

is unbelievable. Well there have been plenty of

comebacks at the Crucible over the years. This has been up there with

the very, very best. Absolutely brilliant. I feel so

sorry for Judd Trump. He hasn't hardly had a shot until that last

frame. Well, Neil Robertson, you have to

take your hat off to him. Judd Trump shakes his hand. What a tremendous

evening, a have seen something very special

this evening. 100 centuries and also a comeback that will be up there

with the very best comebacks of all-time. Neil Robertson goes into

the semi-final winning 13-11. Boy, is he pleased.

An amazing sort of set of emotions to take grasp of. That last sort of

half an hour of the match, making the century of centuries, yeah,

unbelievable reception from the crowd. I was just so happy to do it

with how close I got against Mark Allen. Through most of the match,

you know, it wasn't going my way. It looked like I could get beat and be

stuck on 99. It's probably why it led to such celebrations and relief,

you know. Boy, the crowd really enjoyed it. It was like I made

three, 147s in a row at the Crucible. It was that electric.

Fantastic fightback by Neil Robertson. We have a list of the top

century makers this season. The world number one so far ahead of the

rest. 50 clear of the man he beat this evening, Judd Trump. 38 clear

of Junhui. Time to bring you up-to-date with the quarter-final

matches involving two of the up-to-date with the quarter-final

looks like a man determined to hang on to his world crown. Shaun Murphy

out. Ronnie O'Sullivan will meet Barry Hawkins in the semi-final

winning this Barry Hawkins in the semi-final

ease and also with a session to spare. Very, very difficult playing

O'Sullivan. I knew it would be a challenge. Nobody has beat him here

for nearly three years. I don't think will is a player in the game

he has not done that too at some stage. Maybe I was due a good

smashing up. Very tough to take. I did have my chances in the game. All

credit to Ronnie. When he got his chances he was very clinical. That

is why he is the best. You never know what type of match you are

going to get. You can expect a tough match, it turn out easy, like it did

with Shaun. I didn't expect to kind of win it that easy, to be fair. He

is a free scoring, great putter and he just missed a few balls and let,

left me in quite easily. I still had to pot them. I didn't have to fight

for my chances. You just never know how a match will turn out. Mark

for my chances. You just never know Selby wasted no time in seeing off

Alan McManus in his quarter-final match. Selby winning 13-5. The first

session I mean Alan played good snooker. It got tactical. It seemed

as though Alan was controlling the match. I sort of got drawn into his

way of playing in the first session. Second session I thought I would

come out and attack Second session I thought I would

the balls up more. That seemed to work to my advantage. It was four

years ago since I work to my advantage. It was four

semi-final before. It seems like forever. It is only half way there

really. First to 17 and first to 18 still to go. It will be tough. I

know that I am capable. One more match to show you. That is between

the world number four, Barry Hawkins and the Welsh qualifier Dominic

Dale. Hawkins led 11-5. Dominic Dale won seven frames on a bounce to take

12-11 lead. Hawkins squared it at 12 a piece, into the deciding frame we

go. Your commentators are Terry Griffiths and John Virgo.

COMMENTATOR: He has taken this red on. Very brave.

He is going for it. I think he has made his decision, whatever comes

out here, he's going to have a go at it. Nothing wrong in that.

APPLAUSE I can't tell you how difficult that

shot was, in the circumstances. He has got the first chance.

Just overrun it slightly. Just about on this red to the left middle.

It's a little bit awkward. Awkward cueing. You just feel, in these

situations, you make one mistake and it could be your last. You don't

want to take any undue risks. Didn't feel as though he wanted to

take the risk. He had the first chance.

Well, much too thick on the safety. Switch your phones off, please. Come

on! Switch the phone off. This is a deciding frame in the World

Championship. These two lads are playing one of the biggest frames of

their life. Barry didn't make the most of his first chance. He's

quickly got another one. Yeah, the pot is easy enough. The

position certainly isn't. He has played the right way. He has come

across. He's not on the pink. He's not on the black. Couldn't have

played that shot much better. He played for that sort of gap he found

there, hoping to stay on the black. It's not available. He has been

potting everything. He's got a big choice here. At this stage, I would

say he should play a safety. I would agree. I think the blue.

It's tough, at the best of times, but in this situation, you'd be

putting your - all your eggs in one basket. Why would you want to do

that? Sometimes it's the way you feel. Particularly in the modern

game now, there is the culture, if you get a chance, try and win the

frame. No, he is playing safe. His main concern there, Barry

Hawkins, was the red, as you can see nearer to the right corner pocket.

If there is anything as straight-forward here at the moment

this is not a difficult safety. That is sliebgly too thick. He has

done that before. He needs the green to help. -- slightly. Not quite. He

can cue past the green. This red to the right corner.

He may have a chance of the red to the left corner as well, the way he

is looking. And the red to the left corner, although can he cue it

properly? That green will make it awkward. Because he is left handed.

Right hand. You think he would be OK, but more comfortable cueing

playing this red, but a bit more to do with the cue ball.

He got a kiss. He could have been on something easier. Good pot. The

yellow is available. The black is available with the rest. Barry

Hawkins is one of the better players on the circuit with the rest.

Amazing what momentum can do. Earlier on, you wouldn't have

fancied him to make a 20 break. At this moment, he seems to have found

a second wind, when he needed it the most.

Good solid pot. APPLAUSE

I think he has the red to the left middle, which he can control and

possibly play for pink or black. The fact he's having

red, that's to the right of the pink, into the far left corn, he's

Well played! Very well played. -- pressure on this.

Well played! Very well played. -- corner.

It look s as though the blackspot has held. He won't mind it going on

the blue spot, as long as you have the pink and black in play and the

red spread as they are, he will think this is an opportunity to win

frame and match. But he will take nothing for granted.

He didn't play for the red on the blackspot. He's OK. He has a red in

the middle. Dominic Dale is sit sitting there. He is thinking, is he

going to get another chance. He played wonderful snooker in this

session. He won seven frames in the spin. He has had to sit out the

previous frame, and maybe this one. All the effort you make and get

nothing out of this match. So much put into it. So much

pressure, for both players. If the pink goes to the right

middle, can he just get past the pink for the red to the right

middle? He didn't play for this, but he'll take it.

He played it well. Just not got the angle on the black, which would have

made the next red that little bit easier.

Now, has he screwed back far enough so he will not be hampered by that

He was aware they were there. brown and blue?

Well, you said, Terry, he is good with a rest. You wouldn't normally

want to use the rest on this type of shot, but the brown and blue make it

awkward cueing, so rest it is. Solid shot. Solid shot.

APPLAUSE Not inch-perfect on the black, but

not bad. That was as good a positional shot

as he's play. He really cued that nicely. Quick glance at the score

board, 48 points in front. 83 remaining, three reds, three

colours, he would be in the semi-final.

A little bit straighter on this pink would have been ideal, but he's

going to play a delicate little stun run. You can see where he is

pointing now on his cue. Pot the pink and leave the cue ball about

there. It is not a full shot. He needs just a little stun run

through. What a turn around, John. Barry

Hawkins has been sitting in the chair for about three hours this

afternoon. Made a lot of mistakes. All of a sudden, he's found

something, from somewhere. It's obviously courage. He always has the

game. The players don't lose their skill, they lose their belief

sometimes out there. Yes. Dominic didn't score a point in

the last frame. Chances are, he's not going to score one in this.

Isn't this just some snooker. It's a cool game.

So just this red needed to go 63 points in front, with 59 remaining.

Every credit to Barry Hawkins, from 11-5 in front to go 12-11 behind.

Then stop your opponent. There is the bang on the table. That is what

it means to him. Great performance. I don't blame him showing his

emotions because there must have been times in this match that he

thought he'd thrown it away. Dominic smiles. I give you every credit,

Dominic Dale, when you were 9-3 behind, in that second session last

night, a lot of people would have dropped their heads.

Now, it's all over. It's been a tremendous match. Who would ever

have thought we got to a decider. Well, the black hasn't gone in.

Dominic gives Barry a warm handshake. What a match. What a

comeback from Dominic Dale. He con grat lates Barry warmly. Barry is

absolutely delighted. More relieved than anything else. He is through to

the semi-final to meet the defending Champion, Ronnie O'Sullivan. He

beats Dominic Dale by 13-12. What a match. To win a match like that,

especially at this place, it's unbelievable feeling. I'd have been

like finding the nearest bridge if I'd lost that, obviously. Fair play

to Dominic. It wasn't though I was squandering chance after chance from

11-5 he played so solid. His safety was great. Scoring when he got in

and making it difficult for me. It wasn't as if I was getting chance

after chance and throwing it away. I didn't feel I was doing that. Snide

I had to play out of my skin to mount a comeback. Which I did. I

played really, really well. The last two frames he found his absolute A

game. I don't think I potted anything in the last two frames. I

didn't really do anything wrong. I found his A game. He won it, I

didn't lose it. One minute you are up, the next minute you are down. .

I was more down for most of that session until the very end. You

could see how much it meant to me to go over the line and just a massive,

massive release. I just wanted to get that one table set up so badly

again after tasting it last year. So much emotion today. So much passion

and how lovely to see Dominic Dale congratulating Barry Hawkins after

an epic battle at the Crucible. We have our two semi-finals, Ronnie

O'Sullivan will play Barry Hawkins a repeat of the 2013 World

Championship final and Mark Selby takes on Neil Robertson. We have our

semi-final venue. These are live pictures. This is happening right

now in the Crucible. We move from the two table setup to the one table

setup. A lot of men in hard hats to making sure the venue is set for the

semi-finals. Snooker Extra is up next with highlights from The

Crucible. We will be back at 1.00pm on BBC Two, live coverage of Barry

Hawkins against Ronnie O'Sullivan. Do not miss it. We will see you

tomorrow. Goodbye for now.