:00:41. > :00:48.Ed Leigh is though they won the Scottish guy in the quarterfinal. --
:00:49. > :00:56.at least. I am just going to get on with it. Normally I am watching the
:00:57. > :01:05.quarterfinals back in the house. I have to play the shots. Who knows? I
:01:06. > :01:12.am in the quarterfinal of the world championship and hopefully I can
:01:13. > :01:19.play better. To go on here qualify and win two matches is unbelievable.
:01:20. > :01:24.Good evening. Welcome to highlights of Day 11 of the 2016 bet Fred World
:01:25. > :01:32.Snooker Championship. One of those players will be lifting snooker's
:01:33. > :01:42.biggest prize on Monday. Mark Williams has won it twice. He plays
:01:43. > :01:47.China's Ding Junhui. Ding got off to a cracking start in the evening
:01:48. > :01:58.session. We join it in frame 12. Williams to play. No score.
:01:59. > :02:19.He has found the gap. Now, what has he left? He has looked at the cut.
:02:20. > :02:23.He has got this along the top cushion. It is tricky but the pink
:02:24. > :02:28.is available to the right middle, which may tempt him to go for it. If
:02:29. > :02:35.he comes around, he has got a straight red to the far left corner,
:02:36. > :02:43.which he has not even love that. -- looked at.
:02:44. > :02:52.He has knocked that in like it was a pool table. I know. How many times
:02:53. > :02:55.do we see that shot missed? He is just absolutely fluid. That is very
:02:56. > :03:12.accurate. Creeping up to 91%. Mark Williams is
:03:13. > :03:55.down to 80%. Ding Junhui has parted 80 balls in
:03:56. > :04:11.this session. Mark Williams has potted two. His pot success is 25%
:04:12. > :04:15.against 95%. I do not think he will be winning too many matches with
:04:16. > :04:22.those statistics. He cannot get going. That is not down to Mark's
:04:23. > :04:27.bad play. Let's be honest. He has been played off the table by
:04:28. > :04:32.somebody in top form. Absolutely. There is nothing you can do when you
:04:33. > :04:40.are setting your seat. Ding Junhui has played excellent safety. He
:04:41. > :04:43.should have had two centuries. He has had one. He is just relentless
:04:44. > :04:47.at the moment when he is getting among the balls. You cannot pot
:04:48. > :04:55.balls when you are in your seat looking on. He just had to play that
:04:56. > :04:57.dead weight to drop it in, so he could land on this red next to the
:04:58. > :05:15.pink. He did well there. Not ideal with
:05:16. > :05:24.this though. I do not think he has got much of an angle. He found a
:05:25. > :05:29.nice path. If any thing, he just needed to travel and in Shaw two
:05:30. > :05:40.further. He is playing it quick, so there must be a red available. Yes,
:05:41. > :05:46.third one down. It looks like he is straight on it, which is as good as
:05:47. > :05:56.perfect. He can stun this aim. -- in. Does not look like missing. Cue
:05:57. > :06:40.ball exemplary, full of confidence. It is a wonderful game when you are
:06:41. > :06:45.playing well, when you are in total control of everything you are doing.
:06:46. > :06:51.The cue action, the balls, the way you hit them. Everything seems so
:06:52. > :06:57.easy. To be fair it must be a wonderful feeling for Ding Junhui.
:06:58. > :07:06.Snooker is required. He has gone through a rougher time. -- rough
:07:07. > :07:11.time. We have all gone through rough times in the game. It is nice to see
:07:12. > :07:20.him back to playing at his absolute best. He has taken a few rounds, to
:07:21. > :07:25.be honest. He had a real fight against Martin Gould in the first
:07:26. > :07:34.round when he trailed 8-6. He got his game together. Reeled off four
:07:35. > :07:47.in a row. Screwed back onto the black. Martin Gould is a good
:07:48. > :07:52.player. He won in Germany this year. When the draw came out, he was not
:07:53. > :07:58.too enamoured with it. Nobody wanted Ding Junhui from the qualifiers. It
:07:59. > :08:02.was a match that could have gone either way. In the next round he
:08:03. > :08:07.played Judd Trump. Neither played their best. There was a lot of
:08:08. > :08:15.mistakes. Because there was a lot at stake. Maybe winning those matches,
:08:16. > :08:26.here in the Crucible, which has been a bogey venue, he has come out in
:08:27. > :08:30.this match and after the early exchanges, this evening this is the
:08:31. > :08:45.Ding of old. Superb standard he is setting. If you had told me that
:08:46. > :08:48.Ronnie O'Sullivan, Trump, Murphy and Bingham would not be in the
:08:49. > :08:57.quarterfinal, I would've thought you mad. I was only working out this
:08:58. > :09:06.morning, of the last eight, only five of them were in the top 16.
:09:07. > :09:17.Seeded here. There have been some big shocks. And I don't think there
:09:18. > :09:23.is any doubt about it, with Ronnie going out last night, everybody will
:09:24. > :09:29.think they have got a chance. That brings its own pressure. You cannot
:09:30. > :09:36.get ahead of yourself. He was the favourite for a reason. You have to
:09:37. > :09:43.forget about that. We have all done it, looked at the draw and thought,
:09:44. > :09:47.that is handy. Yes, meanwhile a wry smile from Ding Junhui. He did not
:09:48. > :09:57.screw back far enough for this pink. This pink will put him 66 points in
:09:58. > :10:07.front with 67 remaining. He is looking for the pink and one more
:10:08. > :10:16.red. Right in the heart of the pocket once again. If he can get his
:10:17. > :10:21.hand on the table and find that gap between yellow and brown... It is
:10:22. > :10:27.all happening. The things that happen when you play well. Look at
:10:28. > :10:34.it, it is perfect for the hand. Just this red to get to the snookers
:10:35. > :10:42.required stage. In it goes. 67 points the lead. 65 remaining. He
:10:43. > :10:46.has started this evening with a four frame advantage. It looks now
:10:47. > :10:52.certain to be an eight frame advantage. Just three frames away
:10:53. > :10:55.from a place in the semifinal. It is looking pretty grim for the twice
:10:56. > :11:26.world champion, Mark Williams. Just concentrated on the pot. He
:11:27. > :11:28.knows if he pots that, no return for Mark Williams. Now he will be
:11:29. > :11:41.concentrating on getting his second century. Well, so close. Mark
:11:42. > :11:53.Williams sitting in his seat. There is an interval now, boys. Marcus
:11:54. > :11:59.conceded. Have I got it wrong? I think there should be an interval
:12:00. > :12:05.now. The referee is setting them up. Four frames and you have a break,
:12:06. > :12:12.guys. OK? Williams has only potted two balls
:12:13. > :12:16.in the first four frames of the evening session. He did win the next
:12:17. > :12:27.only four are doing to come back and win the next two. -- he did win the
:12:28. > :12:31.next one and only for Ding to come back and win the next two, leaving
:12:32. > :12:41.him one frame away from the semifinal.
:12:42. > :12:52.Two reds in the middle of the pink and black. Could be made into a
:12:53. > :12:55.plant. The problem is the path back to the baulk macro area. -- baulk
:12:56. > :13:08.macro. Just having a look at coming down.
:13:09. > :13:13.He could play the old dump shop, and down, and dump the ball on the top.
:13:14. > :13:26.That is what he has decided on playing. He has to be careful.
:13:27. > :13:37.In the end he decided to go for the pot. And he got it. Decided he could
:13:38. > :13:47.not guarantee the safety, so went all out for the pot and missed
:13:48. > :13:53.chance for frame and match. He is getting a few funny contacts. That
:13:54. > :14:01.was another one. Yes. Of course, after these quarterfinals, as we
:14:02. > :14:05.watch this jump again, they go down to two-table. Normally they keep it
:14:06. > :14:09.a secret which table they put in the middle. If they do not pick the
:14:10. > :14:23.right one here, there is something wrong!
:14:24. > :14:35.Put it this way, I would like to have a bet. Yes, we will sneak in on
:14:36. > :14:37.Thursday night, Wednesday night, tomorrow night, and see who's table
:14:38. > :15:01.they moved to the middle. This black will put him 11 points
:15:02. > :15:11.behind. He is going to need these four remaining reds, and possibly
:15:12. > :15:31.the green, evenly brown. Depending on the colours he takes.
:15:32. > :15:45.A touch short of pace. That is the thing, or when the cue
:15:46. > :15:51.ball is coming straight to the cushion it seems to bounce. When you
:15:52. > :16:01.try to run around two-cushions it is very rare you get bounce. He could
:16:02. > :16:06.have played that better. He should have gone into the cue ball little
:16:07. > :16:16.bit more than that. The cue ball going up for the blue now, probably.
:16:17. > :16:26.You would think one good positional shot here... Yes. This is the shot
:16:27. > :16:31.which could decide whether we have a session tomorrow. He could not have
:16:32. > :16:37.played it better. That is a shot he has played. He has hit that to
:16:38. > :16:45.perfection. Yes, I feel for mark this evening, and this morning. I
:16:46. > :16:49.did not know about the new tip on till I was informed this morning.
:16:50. > :16:57.That is the reason he did not make the most of his opportunities. But
:16:58. > :17:04.knowing Mark, he will not be disheartened. He is a laid-back kind
:17:05. > :17:07.of guy. Getting to the quarterfinal of the world championship he has
:17:08. > :17:14.shown everybody he can still play. He played really well in his first
:17:15. > :17:24.couple of matches. A thousand balls potted, that was. He needs the
:17:25. > :17:30.green, the yellow and the brown. He is laughing to himself. He has hit
:17:31. > :17:39.that terrible. Well, apologies. What a jump on yellow that was. It is
:17:40. > :17:47.maybe the way he struck the cue ball. It is unbelievable how many
:17:48. > :17:56.bad contacts we seem to slip sea. -- to see. The green and brown for a
:17:57. > :18:01.place in the semifinal. The green is there. He is on the brown to the
:18:02. > :18:13.middle. This brown to go 25 points in front with 18 remaining. To win
:18:14. > :18:18.with a session to spare. It is in! Ding Junhui, everybody said when he
:18:19. > :18:24.was having to qualify, he was the man you wanted to avoid. He has won
:18:25. > :18:31.his three qualifying matches. He has had a tremendous run. Beat Judd
:18:32. > :18:34.Trump in the last round. And now beating the two time world champion,
:18:35. > :18:43.Mark Williams, with a session to spare. We may have a new favourite
:18:44. > :18:51.for the tournament. Ding Junhui gets a warm handshake from Mark Williams.
:18:52. > :18:56.I feel for mark. That tip problem through the match. But Ding is in
:18:57. > :19:01.good form and he is definitely a major contender. He is into the
:19:02. > :19:06.semifinal. He wins by a wide margin. 13-3.
:19:07. > :19:23.The first session was 2-2. He got some bad kicks. I was lucky to have
:19:24. > :19:31.another chance. I just took every chance I could make breaks. This
:19:32. > :19:38.time it is different. I think I have got more confidence. I play well.
:19:39. > :19:42.And I have got a day off! What a story it would be if Ding Junhui
:19:43. > :19:45.could lift the world title. He will play the winner of the quarterfinal
:19:46. > :19:51.between Alan McManus and John Higgins.
:19:52. > :19:58.The battle of the Scots, Alan McManus and John Higgins.
:19:59. > :20:08.John Higgins takes the opening frame. Very good pot.
:20:09. > :20:27.Tremendous break from Alan McManus. He has played it well. Very good.
:20:28. > :20:36.He is hitting the ball so good. Leading John Higgins by 3-1.
:20:37. > :20:53.That is a lovely shot. John Higgins is back level again. This is good
:20:54. > :21:01.stuff. He has won three on the trot. He leads 4-3.
:21:02. > :21:08.That has turned out well. He has fluked that.
:21:09. > :21:17.Wow! Another fluke. Things going John's way at the
:21:18. > :21:21.moment. John Higgins will be delighted, 5-3 in front in this
:21:22. > :21:26.session. And that match resumes in the
:21:27. > :21:30.morning. We are calling that the all Scotland Derby. One of the matches
:21:31. > :21:36.of the tournament so far involved Barry Hawkins and Ronnie O'Sullivan,
:21:37. > :21:40.a repeat of the Crucible final in 2013. Hawkins winning it in dramatic
:21:41. > :21:46.fashion. But did it have an affect on his quarterfinal match today
:21:47. > :21:50.against Marco Fu? All eyes will be on Barry Hawkins to
:21:51. > :21:51.see how he plays this afternoon after that unbelievable win against
:21:52. > :22:10.Ronnie O'Sullivan. That was a beauty. He leads by 1-0.
:22:11. > :22:16.Good pot, that. It is not good to watch when this is happening. This
:22:17. > :22:28.is tough. Well played.
:22:29. > :22:37.It is now, believe it or not, 5-0. Barry Hawkins has got to get a
:22:38. > :22:40.couple of frame's from somewhere. And a big smile from Barry Hawkins.
:22:41. > :22:43.At last he has got a frame on the board.
:22:44. > :22:59.That is a bit more like it. That is a brilliant pot. What a shot
:23:00. > :23:06.that was. Barry Hawkins in all sorts of trouble.
:23:07. > :23:12.Marco Fu takes a 6-1 lead. It is a beauty. It really is. And what a
:23:13. > :23:18.start for Marco Fu. I bet he can't believe it.
:23:19. > :23:22.7-1. We look forward to the second session of that match, which begins
:23:23. > :23:29.tomorrow. The winner of that quarterfinal will take on either
:23:30. > :23:30.Mark Selby, the 2014 champion, burqa and Wilson, the qualifier who has
:23:31. > :23:46.seen off Joe Perry and Mark Allen. We join it with the score at 8-5.
:23:47. > :23:56.Your commentary team, Stephen Hendry and Willie Thorne.
:23:57. > :24:11.Mark Selby breaking off. The 14th frame.
:24:12. > :24:15.As Stephen just said, if he can get a 10-6 lead overnight, that is just
:24:16. > :24:18.about as good as you can yet this evening.
:24:19. > :24:49.-- get. Nice angle on the blue to the far
:24:50. > :25:37.right corner. He can play for the loose red to the
:25:38. > :25:44.same pocket. After that I would be looking for an angle on the black.
:25:45. > :25:49.That was a poor shot. He will have to go for the blue now. He can play
:25:50. > :25:52.with lots of top spin to follow through the bunch.
:25:53. > :26:16.But that is too risky. Nice angle on the blue. If he is
:26:17. > :26:40.going to go into the bunch, he must hit this blue full in the face.
:26:41. > :26:54.That was perfectly hit. He has put the pink and black save. Very
:26:55. > :26:58.unfortunate. That is the ideal way of playing that shot. Keep the cue
:26:59. > :27:02.ball in the middle of the table. Very unlucky to put pink and black
:27:03. > :27:16.out commission. He needs to get one of them back
:27:17. > :27:18.onto the spot quickly. He is unlikely to win the frame by potting
:27:19. > :28:05.blue. He would like to have that one back.
:28:06. > :28:21.To land short of the blue from such a perfect angle is careless.
:28:22. > :28:32.What a great strike. Incredible top spin.
:28:33. > :29:00.Watch the cue ball accelerate. Again, short on the blue. Two reds
:29:01. > :29:07.either side of the group of four. He can play them through yellow and
:29:08. > :29:12.brown. But like I said, it is so hard to win a frame off just blue
:29:13. > :29:48.and baulk colour. He risked playing to get the pink
:29:49. > :29:56.out that time and the white is going in quite dead off the screw shot.
:29:57. > :30:02.But he has got the pink in play, if he can pot the blue and get back
:30:03. > :30:17.onto a red he can easily get back onto the pink.
:30:18. > :31:26.This has been a very, very good break, considering the pink and
:31:27. > :31:34.black were out of commission until just then. Just red and colour
:31:35. > :31:44.needed. I would even go as far as to say
:31:45. > :31:50.this is the first time in the whole match we have seen the Kyren Wilson
:31:51. > :31:51.of the first two routs. Aggressive striking of the cue ball, Power
:31:52. > :32:42.Snooker. Kyren Wilson's highest break of the
:32:43. > :33:06.match so far, and just at the right time.
:33:07. > :33:09.Kyren has already had three centuries in this tournament so far.
:33:10. > :33:20.This is a chance for his fourth. Another fabulous break. It really
:33:21. > :33:50.has been top drawer. Well, no century, but Kyren Wilson
:33:51. > :33:54.worked very, very hard for that break. Some exceptional shots with
:33:55. > :34:00.top spin. We will show you those shortly. It is 9-5. My apologies,
:34:01. > :34:07.it's 8-6! STUDIO
:34:08. > :34:10.Keep up, Willie! Selby won the next, and we join it in the final frame of
:34:11. > :34:58.the session with the score at 6-6. Well, he would love to have an angle
:34:59. > :35:05.on the blue to play the red near the black spot. If he can get on that
:35:06. > :35:13.more or less straight, he can play the black to the right corner.
:35:14. > :35:41.Yes, if you're ever going to go on to win this World Championship,
:35:42. > :35:48.you're going to have a bad session. The thing is with a bad session, if
:35:49. > :35:54.you make the best of it, that is what Mark Selby has done so far...
:35:55. > :36:02.Kyren Wilson will be kicking himself to have not won this session at
:36:03. > :36:05.least 6-2. Yes, I don't think there's another player in the game
:36:06. > :36:11.that could play this badly and possibly come out of it for- four.
:36:12. > :36:24.It's to his credit, Mark Selby. Obviously helped by his opponent,
:36:25. > :36:26.who hasn't punished him. But to come out at 4-4 when at times he has
:36:27. > :37:02.looked totally gone... Normally mark would be playing the
:37:03. > :37:07.power stunt into the three reds, but he's not perfect. -- Mark. He's
:37:08. > :37:13.looking at that case is on the middle read full ball, pushing that
:37:14. > :37:17.red out of the way and hopefully remaining on the red nearest the
:37:18. > :37:21.pocket. If he gets the double-kiss, he will be nowhere. He has got to
:37:22. > :37:44.find that gap, hasn't he? If he's got the right angle, this
:37:45. > :37:47.red is still pottable. If he were straight on this, it would be
:37:48. > :38:27.impossible. But because he's got an angle, it can go.
:38:28. > :38:35.This is such a massive frame for both these players. Mark Selby is
:38:36. > :39:42.leading by 41, 48 after the black. Three more reds needed.
:39:43. > :39:49.GROANS FROM CROWD REFEREE: Foul, 54 Mark Selby, four
:39:50. > :40:08.Kyren Wilson. Well, it's amazing that he's gone
:40:09. > :40:16.in- off, there. Kyren Wilson still in this frame, 50 points behind, but
:40:17. > :40:18.with the four reds being saved, it would be a huge task for him to get
:40:19. > :41:10.back into this frame. Well, a lot of excitable people went
:41:11. > :41:13.crazy about that red, but he's now 49 behind with 51 on. He didn't want
:41:14. > :41:31.it to go in! Well, he's missed the cannon but
:41:32. > :41:37.he's still perfect on this red, as good as he could have wished for.
:41:38. > :41:47.When it's going to cost you the frame, there's pressure on this...
:41:48. > :41:58.Well, good shot. There was pressure on that.
:41:59. > :42:08.It looks like he's got a decent angle on this lack to take this red
:42:09. > :42:14.off the vision. I don't know if it's an -- a natural, but it's close. It
:42:15. > :42:21.wasn't a natural, he had to stun it. So all of a sudden...
:42:22. > :42:43.Will that proved to be a frame- winning fluke?
:42:44. > :42:52.He can't really afford to play for a baulk colour, so he wants a high
:42:53. > :42:58.value colour from this red. Not the best angle.
:42:59. > :43:07.Essential to have got top side of the blue. He's going to be forced
:43:08. > :43:13.into playing the pink now. Playing ball, he has to be careful to miss
:43:14. > :43:19.the kiss on the black. The claim ball he should get nicely on this
:43:20. > :43:23.red, as long as he puts the pink, that is. Again, normal situation
:43:24. > :43:26.this is an easy shot, but the pressure on every pot for Kyren
:43:27. > :43:56.Wilson now is immense. What a shot he's played there! One
:43:57. > :44:00.of the shots of the night, this one. You see the action he got with the
:44:01. > :44:12.cue ball off the cushion. Oh! What a time to get a kick like
:44:13. > :44:29.that. Could you clean the white, please?
:44:30. > :44:33.And the red as well? Yes. This was an horrendous kick. The White nearly
:44:34. > :44:39.jumped over the top of the red. That is unlucky. I suppose he started the
:44:40. > :44:45.break with a fluke, but it shouldn't end with something like that. Mark
:44:46. > :44:53.Selby needs to pot the red to go 10-6 ahead overnight. It is starting
:44:54. > :44:59.to become a feature of this championship, Willie. Bounces and
:45:00. > :45:11.kicks. This is not straightforward by any stretch of the imagination.
:45:12. > :45:15.Well, it's curled, it's curled! Bent. That was right in the middle
:45:16. > :45:28.of the pocket. That was right in the middle of the pocket and just bent.
:45:29. > :45:34.Just keep an eye on this red as he plays it.
:45:35. > :45:39.Just look at that. Right in the middle of the pocket there and then
:45:40. > :45:56.all of a sudden it starts to pull in. I still fought he'd got it.
:45:57. > :46:23.REFEREE: Touching ball. Well, I'm lucky. Absolutely touching the blue.
:46:24. > :46:29.Especially as he needs a colour. He's going to try and pot the
:46:30. > :46:39.yellow, that's all he can do really. He still needs a snooker. That was
:46:40. > :46:47.incredible. Probably favourite to go off the blue and try and get the
:46:48. > :46:52.yellow in behind the black. What would you play here? 31 points
:46:53. > :47:03.behind. The thing is, with a four point snooker, you can only tie.
:47:04. > :47:11.Well, credit to Kyren Wilson. Potting -- credit to Kyren Wilson
:47:12. > :47:47.for still potting the yellow. Just looking at where he wants to
:47:48. > :48:04.leave the cue ball to get it tight in behind that brown, send the green
:48:05. > :48:09.up the table. That was pretty good. He was putting the green towards the
:48:10. > :48:13.right middle pocket. He's just going to hit the green before the middle
:48:14. > :48:21.and stun the cue ball in behind the brown.
:48:22. > :48:35.Not bad. But barring snookers, Mark Selby will take a 10-6 overnight
:48:36. > :48:38.lead. STUDIO
:48:39. > :48:45.And Mark Selby did in fact win that frame to make it 10-6 going into the
:48:46. > :48:50.morning session. That is it from us but Snooker Extra follows us on BBC
:48:51. > :48:54.One in 25 minutes time. 20 snooker for you in the early hours of the
:48:55. > :49:00.morning. We are back with further live coverage of the 2016 Betfred
:49:01. > :49:04.World Snooker Championship. See you then, goodbye for now.