Day 12

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:00:32. > :00:41.Hello. Good evening. Welcome back to the Crucible Theatre. It is the

:00:42. > :00:49.final day of the 2017 BetFred world super championship. First of all we

:00:50. > :00:53.have Mark Selby who had a 6-2 overnight lead over Marco Fu.

:00:54. > :00:58.Beliefs were -- stretch to 11-3 this morning and he was looking to win in

:00:59. > :01:12.the two sections. This is what happened in frame 15.

:01:13. > :01:18.He was definitely playing for the cue ball to hit the side cushion

:01:19. > :01:19.first. The potted the red in the right-hand side of the pocket as he

:01:20. > :01:49.looked it. This is a tough black. Brilliant. Cuts are easier when you

:01:50. > :02:07.have an eight frame lead but that is still excellent cueing.

:02:08. > :02:11.Three or four shots ago there were about eight threads on the back

:02:12. > :02:16.crush on in the black was there was well and now all of a sudden after

:02:17. > :02:22.this next black he should get rid of the black that is stopping the red

:02:23. > :02:26.-- he should get rid of the red that is stopping the black potting in the

:02:27. > :02:30.left-hand corner. This is a very strange game. He doesn't really want

:02:31. > :02:47.to lose the black onto the brown spot here, he wants it to spot. 16.

:02:48. > :03:46.Seven. 32. With those reds on the black

:03:47. > :03:49.push and he will obviously finish low every time on the black because

:03:50. > :04:07.he doesn't want to stun of the cushion. 33.

:04:08. > :04:12.40 points ahead now so he is going to be able to win this frame without

:04:13. > :04:25.doing anything of out those awkward rents. -- about those awkward reds.

:04:26. > :04:28.You can see the determination in the face of Mark Selby. He was so

:04:29. > :04:37.disappointed to lose the last frame and he made a break of 57. At least

:04:38. > :04:42.if he wins this frame he has a chance of closing the match out

:04:43. > :04:44.before tonight 's final session. He knows this is a great chance now to

:04:45. > :05:49.lead 12-3. Well, he thought he had a very bad

:05:50. > :05:54.contact there. The obviously played for the pink in the corner of but he

:05:55. > :05:59.felt he got a very heavy contact and he took all of the pace out of the

:06:00. > :06:36.cue ball. You saw the red bounce and leave the table.

:06:37. > :07:22.62. So, red, pink, red. 63. So, one frame left in this session, one

:07:23. > :07:26.frame needed by Mark Selby. What willpower, what desire has Marco Fu

:07:27. > :07:48.got left to bring this match tour final session tonight?

:07:49. > :07:53.It goes without saying that Marco Fu has not really been at the races in

:07:54. > :07:58.this match but the way that Mark Selby has gone about it has been so

:07:59. > :08:06.clinical. He is playing one of the best players in the world here and

:08:07. > :08:18.he is 12-3 in front. He is cueing brilliantly. Four or five cushions.

:08:19. > :08:51.That will do it. 84. No he could not actually see that

:08:52. > :08:54.red, he had to use the left-hand side to bend that cue ball which is

:08:55. > :09:06.why he could not play a proper positional shot. The pockets really

:09:07. > :09:09.seem like buckets at the moment Mark Selby, to put the black in the

:09:10. > :09:28.middle at that pace and at that angle.

:09:29. > :09:46.This for the century. Is it there? It is. Brilliant.

:09:47. > :10:01.The chance of making the first 140 plus break in this championship now.

:10:02. > :10:05.A possible 143. Incredible. The last few shots have just been, to keep

:10:06. > :10:11.this break going, have just been incredible. 108. I don't think I can

:10:12. > :10:12.remember session where there have been three total clearance is in an

:10:13. > :10:35.eight frame session. I have no marks since he has been a

:10:36. > :10:40.12-year-old lad and he has played thousands of frames but I don't

:10:41. > :10:46.think I have seen him play better. No he is in a great place at the

:10:47. > :10:50.moment. The game is just seeming so easy. He has finished a bit straight

:10:51. > :11:07.on this green, though. He may just have to play for the brown one of

:11:08. > :11:13.the middle pockets. 121. He is screwing this off the push aside,

:11:14. > :11:23.what a shot this will be. Stop it! 125. He potted the black in the

:11:24. > :11:27.middle at 1000 miles an hour and then brown in the middle at 1000

:11:28. > :11:31.miles an hour. Kyren Wilson made the biggest break last at 143 and this

:11:32. > :11:48.will equal that. Does he have to go in and out of baulk once more?

:11:49. > :12:07.Magnificent. That was one of the best century breaks I've ever seen.

:12:08. > :12:11.An unbelievable break. Highest break of the championship so far, 143 and

:12:12. > :12:17.Mark Selby needs the last frame of this session to win the match. A

:12:18. > :12:21.lovely touch from Marco Fu, applauding Mark Selby and in this

:12:22. > :12:27.form he will take some stopping. He was quite brilliant today but Marco

:12:28. > :12:34.Fu, something was clearly not right at all today. Mark Selby is into yet

:12:35. > :12:39.another semifinal here. I think that is the first time I

:12:40. > :12:42.have one with a session to spare and normally I am being taken off and

:12:43. > :12:47.there is another session going on. Really, really happy. The best match

:12:48. > :12:50.I have played here for a long while, especially consistency, scoring wise

:12:51. > :12:53.it felt as though I was playing well in the first session yesterday

:12:54. > :12:57.against Marco Fu. I felt I controlled the game and I could have

:12:58. > :13:01.possibly come out 5-3 and I would have been disappointed but 6-2 was

:13:02. > :13:05.huge and is seen to continue the momentum today. The way I perform at

:13:06. > :13:20.the moment is probably the perfect way if I could have planned it.

:13:21. > :13:25.Just play really good match snooker in the first two matches and then to

:13:26. > :13:27.pick up as you go along as I did in the game against Marco. I just hope

:13:28. > :13:30.I have not peaked too soon. Tonight he was back in this practice room

:13:31. > :13:32.and getting ready for a huge semifinal. Next up is Ding Junhui

:13:33. > :13:34.against Ronnie O'Sullivan. Ding Junhui had a lead overnight and then

:13:35. > :13:40.Ronnie O'Sullivan cut the deficit to two frames and then doing one

:13:41. > :14:06.another. Then this... What a pot. What a pot.

:14:07. > :14:12.He just needs to get that Reddaway, the one that is to the right of the

:14:13. > :14:19.black, and I think he can play for it here. Maybe not this time, but

:14:20. > :14:24.certainly the next time. As long as he gets the correct angle this time.

:14:25. > :14:29.He wants that rednecks to his hand out of the way. Then the black will

:14:30. > :14:55.be clear into both corner pockets. You could not have the reds in a

:14:56. > :14:59.better position. We have had a magnificent, one of the best breaks

:15:00. > :15:08.I have ever seen, 143, from Mark Selby this morning. This could be

:15:09. > :15:22.better. Was certainly a higher break. I know you don't want to say

:15:23. > :15:42.it, but it is all right is, and all blacks -- Allred 's and all blacks.

:15:43. > :16:37.The first thing is to make sure you score enough to take the frame, a

:16:38. > :16:43.frame that he badly needs, as the boys in the studio were saying.

:16:44. > :16:55.12-8, you wouldn't give him much of a chance. 11-9 all to play for.

:16:56. > :17:04.Yes, I think pretty much as soon as he potted red and then black, he

:17:05. > :17:09.would be thinking about it. Then it will be for the glory of making a

:17:10. > :17:17.maximum at the Crucible. It won't be the prize thinking about. Because

:17:18. > :17:23.that is, well we work it into it too much, because it is disappointing.

:17:24. > :17:33.There is ?10,000 for the high break, but there is only ?5,000 for a

:17:34. > :17:37.maximum break so... This sitting absolutely perfect, and the last

:17:38. > :17:43.gentleman to make a maximum break in the Crucible Theatre is not too far

:17:44. > :17:51.from me. In 2012, that is not the kiss he wanted. He is smiling,

:17:52. > :17:58.Ronnie, and the cannon has kept him on the black. He is smiling. He is

:17:59. > :18:19.looking at Stephen Hendry in the commentary box. He was trying to pot

:18:20. > :18:25.the blue. He is a naughty boy! 86. He tried to get on it but he didn't

:18:26. > :18:30.manage it. Well, he has done it 13 times. He could still beat the

:18:31. > :18:41.highest break. It is 143, as we mentioned. 103. Well, even Ding

:18:42. > :18:53.Junhui was smiling in his seat there, match on! Let's just say, I

:18:54. > :19:05.don't think he was giving it 110%. 111. 112. Still under six minutes,

:19:06. > :19:06.just coming up to six minutes for this. Quite... Outstanding. Under

:19:07. > :19:24.the circumstances. 121. 124. He is flying around the table

:19:25. > :19:31.at the moment and he is still smiling up at Stephen Hendry. We had

:19:32. > :19:37.to wait over a week for 140 or above break and now a nice finish on the

:19:38. > :19:51.blue and the Wii will have two in the space of a few hours. Absolutely

:19:52. > :19:57.incredible. Don't miss the black, Ronnie. Genius! And he hasn't.

:19:58. > :20:02.Ronnie O'Sullivan, what a break he has made there! He has made the

:20:03. > :20:07.highest break of this year 's World Championship, a magnificent 146, and

:20:08. > :20:12.he goes to the mid-session interval just two behind, 11-9. What a match

:20:13. > :20:18.this could be! A joy to watch. 12-10. Could Ding Junhui win it in

:20:19. > :20:23.the end? Here really is playing next. Back to Dennis and Stephen. He

:20:24. > :20:28.scattered everything all over the table and he is on the blue. Another

:20:29. > :20:34.terrific chance for the Chinese player. Almost got into the semi

:20:35. > :20:43.final in the last frame, can he do it this time? Yes, he has just got

:20:44. > :20:52.to really concentrate on one shot at a time.

:20:53. > :20:58.Already he is putting a little careless one. He may have to just

:20:59. > :21:01.cannon into the three reds that are together. If only just to stop the

:21:02. > :21:18.pace of the cue ball. That has worked out OK. It has

:21:19. > :21:20.worked out perfect. He can play for the black. The black or the pink

:21:21. > :21:40.here. What a chance! That looked harmless enough shot,

:21:41. > :21:56.didn't it, Dennis, when Ronnie was playing into the back of the bunch?

:21:57. > :21:59.Yes, it was Ding Junhui 's safety shot that left Ronnie in an awkward

:22:00. > :22:09.spot. Just clicked off colour and got in the brown. -- in behind the

:22:10. > :22:24.brown. It didn't matter what side of the blue he got to there. But like

:22:25. > :22:28.you, Stephen, I thought Ronnie, coming off two cushions, would have

:22:29. > :22:40.left everything safe, but he picks one out, did Ding Junhui. I don't

:22:41. > :22:45.think he was as close to the learner -- yellow one that last shot, he was

:22:46. > :22:48.just taken up a little bit, understandable after what happened

:22:49. > :23:07.on the last frame. This is not the blue he wanted to play. Safely in.

:23:08. > :23:16.If he doesn't win it from here, can he win the match? He has got to win

:23:17. > :23:32.it from here. He was a little unlucky in the

:23:33. > :23:43.previous frame when he was on 63 and to red over a pocket and it finished

:23:44. > :23:47.a little awkward. There is nothing that can really go wrong because the

:23:48. > :23:52.reds are there for him. The pinks are in the open and the black is

:23:53. > :24:01.available. He is not that many more pots away.

:24:02. > :24:07.This is a very important victory in Maguire 's career. I have to admit

:24:08. > :24:13.that I did not think he could beat Ronnie O'Sullivan over three

:24:14. > :24:17.sessions. He has got the game but I don't think he is mentally up for it

:24:18. > :24:21.but he has shown fantastic character, especially after what

:24:22. > :24:30.happened in the first game -- the last game, to come out and win this

:24:31. > :24:35.in one visit is very impressive. You see it is a 68 ahead with 67

:24:36. > :24:45.remaining. Ronnie gave it his best shot here. He made the highest break

:24:46. > :24:54.of this year 's World Championship, a magnificent 146, but he has been a

:24:55. > :24:59.big help to Ding Junhui in the past and, as I mentioned previously, it

:25:00. > :25:04.is ten years since Ding Junhui has beaten Ronnie but this, without

:25:05. > :25:07.doubt, even all the titles he has one, this will go down as one of his

:25:08. > :25:14.best matches ever, you would have to say. What a great feeling it is when

:25:15. > :25:17.you are clearing up and knowing that you are going to be playing in that

:25:18. > :25:21.one-table situation now at the Crucible. I used to love this pot,

:25:22. > :25:25.when you are clearing up in the quarterfinal, just to know that you

:25:26. > :25:28.are through to that stage. It is hard to describe to people how you

:25:29. > :25:38.are feeling inside, but you are absolutely delighted. Could he

:25:39. > :25:45.possibly clinch it with a century break?

:25:46. > :26:00.77. He has had eight centuries so far, more than any other player.

:26:01. > :26:15.This would be the 60th. If he goes on to make it. 85. It is all about

:26:16. > :26:19.the green, you would have to say. Showing terrific character here, is

:26:20. > :26:52.Ding Junhui, he really is. Nicely on the green. 92. 95. Can he

:26:53. > :27:09.get up to the blue? He certainly can. Absolutely fantastic. He is a

:27:10. > :27:16.Chinese sensation. He has won this most important match in style. 110.

:27:17. > :27:21.Ronnie will come forward and have a little chat with him and wish all

:27:22. > :27:26.the best the semifinal. It has been a cracking match all around. Some

:27:27. > :27:32.brilliant breaks. Ronnie smiles. That is lovely to say. Well done to

:27:33. > :27:37.the two players who gave it a fantastic match, but Ding Junhui is

:27:38. > :27:40.a little bit emotional there because he has beaten his idol, who he

:27:41. > :27:45.hadn't beaten the ten years, and he did it in style with that the

:27:46. > :27:49.magnificent century break. Well done to both players, but congratulations

:27:50. > :28:01.to Ding Junhui, you beat your idol, and you are through to the semifinal

:28:02. > :28:06.by 13-10. Just the second time I met him in the World Championship at

:28:07. > :28:14.this time I win. I played this lucre how I want. It was not a terrible

:28:15. > :28:23.result and I enjoyed myself. I couldn't pot a ball last night and

:28:24. > :28:28.now I am perfect to 146, that's their 147! I am looking forward to

:28:29. > :28:37.the game against Mark Selby. I think he is a top player, number one for a

:28:38. > :28:51.few years and he is good tactically and everything. Everything is

:28:52. > :28:52.stronger than before. I hope it will be OK. What a lovely interview. A

:28:53. > :28:54.repeat of the World Championship final from last year. Mark Selby

:28:55. > :28:58.will play the conqueror of the Rocket, Ding Junhui. In the bottom

:28:59. > :29:00.half of the draw no problems at all for another former king of the

:29:01. > :29:13.Crucible, John Higgins. Well, that time he caught the jaw,

:29:14. > :29:32.and it didn't go in. Very unexpected miss.

:29:33. > :29:37.Just one frame away from a place in the semifinal.

:29:38. > :30:06.Mmm. Oh, the vital frame ball. How many

:30:07. > :30:12.times do we see this? Well, he decided to go for it.

:30:13. > :30:15.It didn't matter about the blue and Sir David Higgins stays in his seat

:30:16. > :30:38.O John Higgins stays in his seat. John Higgins through to his eighth

:30:39. > :30:42.semifinal. Wins by 13 frames to six. There was no place like The Crucible

:30:43. > :30:47.when it is down to one table. Just deing lighted. 2011 was the last

:30:48. > :30:52.time, you have the thoughts where I was pretty close last year, you

:30:53. > :30:56.begin to think you are never going to get there again to sample it.

:30:57. > :31:01.Luckily enough from here, I would be willing to now go, go one better and

:31:02. > :31:07.get to the final. And John Higgins will play the winner of the Barry

:31:08. > :31:10.Hawkins Stephen Maguire match. Maguire won the first two of the

:31:11. > :31:17.evening session including a break of 135. Into frame 19. Maguire to break

:31:18. > :31:27.commentary from Willie Thorne and Steve Davis.

:31:28. > :31:35.Frame 19. Stephen Maguire to break. Delighted Stephen Maguire getting

:31:36. > :31:43.the 19th frame under way. Can he win the remaining two frames in this

:31:44. > :31:49.mini-session? Barry Hawkins needs to win one of

:31:50. > :31:55.these two frames otherwise he will be feeling that his, he is on the

:31:56. > :32:04.8-ball as it were. Very easy miss brown.

:32:05. > :32:12.Well, could that be the turning point? There is always something

:32:13. > :32:17.that changes matches. Missed it by a long, long way and

:32:18. > :32:21.when you consider the cue ball is supposed to be near the baulk line,

:32:22. > :32:26.it shows you how badly he hit it. Every time you play a shot like that

:32:27. > :32:32.and miss it, it puts a certain amount of spin on the red ball. It

:32:33. > :32:38.is always likely to go back against the line of dugs. As the player

:32:39. > :32:41.sitting in your ball is supposed to be near the baulk line, it shows you

:32:42. > :32:44.how badly he hit it. Every time you play a shot like that and miss it,

:32:45. > :32:47.it puts a certain amount of spin on the red ball. It is always likely to

:32:48. > :32:52.go back against the line of dugs. As the player sitting in your chair,

:32:53. > :32:57.you think "Oh, don't. Not that one". Sometimes you think it's not fair,

:32:58. > :33:02.because Stephen Maguire has done all the hard work to take them, seen

:33:03. > :33:06.baulk miss the two easy shots we have talked about and now he has

:33:07. > :33:10.been gifted an opportunity through good fortune rather than good shot.

:33:11. > :33:43.He will be seething. The red closest to the pack could be

:33:44. > :33:53.used to open the pack up a bit. Certainly blocking, using the black

:33:54. > :33:59.at the moment. You get low on that red perhaps you

:34:00. > :34:16.can pot it, glance across the pack. Nudge a few out.

:34:17. > :34:21.He has left it low as you suggested, Steve. It is one of those where he

:34:22. > :34:25.is going to have to stun it to make the cannon on the edge of the pack

:34:26. > :34:31.and of course then you have to play the stun run through so it breaks

:34:32. > :34:35.away from the pack. Could screw it back across the face

:34:36. > :34:44.of it. He has judged that pretty well.

:34:45. > :34:48.Every one of these balls that Barry Hawkins is potting will be hurting

:34:49. > :35:00.Stephen Maguire knowing it came off that amazing fluke, the first red.

:35:01. > :35:04.But from baulk's perspective, he o won't be feeling marvellous, so all

:35:05. > :35:38.of these are effectively helping him to recuperate.

:35:39. > :35:46.Three more loose reds, and probably will come some 60 odd points in

:35:47. > :35:55.front. He will have to come into that cluster of reds at some stage.

:35:56. > :35:59.Of course Barry Hawkins will know how much this is hurting Stephen

:36:00. > :36:03.Maguire. That is probably what has give him a bit of a boost, because

:36:04. > :36:10.he was not feeling good in the opening two frames.

:36:11. > :36:16.When you flick a couple of reds into play here, and glance off them. He

:36:17. > :36:21.can play for the blue but if he flicks another couple into play, go

:36:22. > :36:31.for the blue baulk colour, that makes things easier at this end of

:36:32. > :36:33.the table. Amazing how different people break

:36:34. > :36:46.differently. Now he will have to leave an angle

:36:47. > :36:54.on this blue to pot, get on the red and flick a couple of reds out.

:36:55. > :37:01.Just come a fraction too far. He is OK though, he can play that stun run

:37:02. > :37:08.through, beyond the pink or the black.

:37:09. > :37:19.It is all about that cannon. This could be a frame-winner, this shot.

:37:20. > :37:29.It looked like it may well be. Just catching the red thicker that would

:37:30. > :37:35.have slowed the white down, but... If he thinks he's can kiss the red

:37:36. > :37:40.ball loose on, he will play that. If he doesn't catch it full ball he

:37:41. > :38:06.may not be on the a red. There it is. The full ball.

:38:07. > :38:13.Well it can be a cruel game sometimes, and this forum has

:38:14. > :38:18.certainly been cruel for Stephen Maguire.

:38:19. > :38:20.-- game. What a time to get a fluke when you haven't potted a ball for

:38:21. > :38:47.two frames. APPLAUSE The thing about it, is if

:38:48. > :38:50.Barry Hawkins was totally reeling, everyone the fluke isn't good

:38:51. > :38:59.enough, because he messes the positional play up, so this, this is

:39:00. > :39:02.an excellent effort, because no, obviously he didn't play the fluke,

:39:03. > :39:10.just had to respond to the situation. But he's got plenty of

:39:11. > :39:17.expense here at The Crucible so he knows the significance of trying to

:39:18. > :39:22.hurt his opponent. Amazingly enough, we could have had

:39:23. > :39:26.six total clearance in one day this is another chance of a possibly red

:39:27. > :39:43.clearance. The standard today has been ridiculous.

:39:44. > :39:50.Similar to Stephen Maguire, Barry Hawkins until this point had only

:39:51. > :39:58.had one century so far in the tournament.

:39:59. > :40:09.This is the first time he has had to play a difficult pot on this break.

:40:10. > :40:17.Amazing with the pressure off what a difference it makes.

:40:18. > :40:50.He has had to work hard for this break, hasn't he.

:40:51. > :40:59.We have had three frames so far in evening, this could be temperature

:41:00. > :41:02.second... Fabulous break from Barry Hawkins, although he did start with

:41:03. > :41:20.that amazing fluke. The rest has been played to perfection.

:41:21. > :41:51.You have to take you hat off to Barry Hawkins, he couldn't put make

:41:52. > :41:57.a pot in the first two frames. Barry Hawkins is once in the lead, he

:41:58. > :42:00.leads by ten frames to nine. What a terrific break from Hawkins. Maguire

:42:01. > :42:05.to play, trailing by eight points into the next frame.

:42:06. > :42:11.Oh he has another kick. Can you believe that kick, that was the

:42:12. > :42:14.worst of the lot. If the reason for the first kick was chalk dust, on

:42:15. > :42:18.the ball, sometimes it is no, sometimes it is, if it was a kick in

:42:19. > :42:21.and the reason perhaps that was the shot that Stephen Maguire, if he

:42:22. > :42:27.sensed it, should have had the ball cleaned.

:42:28. > :42:35.Perhaps he didn't think that Barry Hawkins got a kick.

:42:36. > :42:44.That is ridiculous. I took the pace out the ball, went square.

:42:45. > :42:47.Exasperation. Gb Don't want to predict anything in

:42:48. > :43:04.this frame any more. I don't know what Barry Hawkins's,

:43:05. > :43:08.sorry Stephen Maguire's usual procedure is after his opponent gets

:43:09. > :43:19.a kick and misses a shot. Some players just get on with it.

:43:20. > :43:23.He will have to play a little cannon here.

:43:24. > :43:28.Maybe a lifeline for Stephen Maguire. This could go wrong.

:43:29. > :43:53.This red more or less guarantees the frame.

:43:54. > :44:03.I think there'll be a dressing room door banging, should this black go

:44:04. > :44:08.in as well. Yes, I think on what we have seen so

:44:09. > :44:13.far, two all would have been a fair result, wouldn't it. Yes, I suppose

:44:14. > :44:18.so. Favouring Stephen Maguire for 3-1

:44:19. > :44:24.perhaps. That fluke that Barry Hawkins got.

:44:25. > :44:29.I think 2-2 is bad for Stephen Maguire out this session. That is

:44:30. > :44:33.what I meant, I didn't say it right. He is very aggrieved, he has,

:44:34. > :44:34.everything that could have gone wrong in this mini-session has gone

:44:35. > :44:56.wrong. Not too sure if Stephen Maguire is

:44:57. > :44:58.the type of player who has someone in his dressing room, but they will

:44:59. > :45:10.get an earful. That is the end of the frame. Barry

:45:11. > :45:15.Hawkins will be the more delighted of the two player, they he came in

:45:16. > :45:19.two frames in front, he goes into the interval two frames in front.

:45:20. > :45:26.And Barry Hawkins won the next frame to make it 12-9. And then sealed his

:45:27. > :45:33.place in the semifinals, in frame 22, with this break of 77. And so

:45:34. > :45:37.for the fourth time in five years, Barry Hawkins is back in the last

:45:38. > :45:41.four, here at The Crucible, as for Stephen Maguire, well, he will be

:45:42. > :45:46.bitterly disappointed, having had to play three matches to qualify for

:45:47. > :45:47.this year's World Championship as well, but it is Barry Hawkins who is

:45:48. > :45:58.through to the semifinals. Obvious, definitely good win, wasn't

:45:59. > :46:02.great Stan #2k5rd through the match but it is a good win, how badly we

:46:03. > :46:06.were both playing. I think I stayed a bit more patient than he did, and

:46:07. > :46:11.handled it a bit better towards the end. I had a bit of Lady Luck on my

:46:12. > :46:15.side tonight. I fluked a red at nine all, think it was nine all, and I

:46:16. > :46:22.still had to make the balls but I managed to clear up and it probably

:46:23. > :46:26.served me better. It is the calmest I have felt throughout the match.

:46:27. > :46:31.That is something to take forward. He is a force to be reckoned with.

:46:32. > :46:35.Barry Hawkins talking on John Higgins and four time world

:46:36. > :46:38.champion, what a story if John Higgins could win, making it five

:46:39. > :46:43.times a champion here, at the Crucible Theatre.

:46:44. > :46:47.Well, tonight is one of the best moments at The Crucible, during a

:46:48. > :46:51.World Championship, the arena undergoing transformation from two

:46:52. > :46:55.tables, to just the one, the perfect stage for what has been a wonderful

:46:56. > :46:59.tournament so far, and it's going to get even better over the next few

:47:00. > :47:03.day, stop whatever you are doing, at one clock and join us on BBC Two,

:47:04. > :47:05.for the first semifinal, as Mark Selby takes on Ding Junhui, thank

:47:06. > :47:41.you for watching. Bye for now. Our crack team of experts

:47:42. > :47:45.use pioneering research