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Congratulations to Tian Pengfei, who following his impressive victory over David Gray has now knocked out another 110sport player, this time Marco Fu. It appears to have been a high quality match throughout, six breaks over fifty including one century between them, but ultimately it was Tian who managed to score the more heavily and power to victory. It is a disappointing result for Fu but he is at least already well inside the top 16 for next season and will be looking to shine again at the World Championship next month.

World number one Ronnie O'Sullivan rattled in two centuries to see off Ali Carter 6-2 and set up a Masters semi-final clash with Stephen Maguire. O'Sullivan was not at his fluent best but went into overdrive as Carter crumbled after the mid-session break. The first four frames were shared in an enthralling start but after a re-rack in the fifth O'Sullivan made breaks of 82, 128, 115 and 91 to seal the win. Scotland's Maguire beat Neil Robertson 6-3 in Friday's earlier quarter-final.
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Mark Selby scraped into the Masters semi-final on Thursday after an outrageous last-frame fluke left even beaten Mark Allen smiling. The reigning champion, who has won five of his six Masters games 6-5, tapped his heart in mock relief as he marched out of Wembley Arena having trailed 4-2 at one stage.

Daily Mail

Former champion John Higgins fought back superbly to defeat Marco Fu 6-4 in the Masters first round at Wembley. Having hit a break of 140 in frame two, the Scotsman should have gone into the mid-session interval 3-1 up but lost a frame he led by 67 points. Fu took the next two frames to open a 4-2 lead, before Higgins, winner in 1999 and 2006, captured the final four.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan launched a heartfelt tirade against the way the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association circuit is run after narrowly avoiding a first-day exit from the Masters, where he finally emerged with a 6–5 win over Joe Perry.
The Guardian

Mark Selby compiles a 105 break against Kasra Kharavan at the 2008 Belgium Snooker Open. Well in that match he went 209 points without reply as he made back-to-back centuries. The 104 in the first frame was backed up with a 105 in the second.

Shaun Murphy, the 2005 world champion, laboured for 6hr 25min to beat Marco Fu 10-9 and claim the ?100,000 first prize in the UK Championship in Telford, thereby recovering the third place in the rankings in which he started the season. Fu, who took ?46,000 as runner-up, rises to sixth, his highest ever placing. It was far from the highest quality UK final but certainly one of the most engrossing.

Murphy led 6-3 and 8-6 but, as tension began to bite, Fu accumulated three consecutive frames to go one up with two to play. The 26-year-old Yorkshireman levelled with a 69 break but there were errors galore in the 32-minute decider before he fluked the pink from the penultimate red — effectively championship ball, in that it left Fu needing a snooker.

The Guardian

World number three Shaun Murphy set up a UK Championship final against Marco Fu with an emphatic 9-4 semi-final win over Scotland's Stephen Maguire. Murphy was always in control of the match after taking a 6-2 lead in the first session, although Maguire hit back with a flourish as he made a 112. A superb 136 from Murphy restored his momentum, and a lengthy 11th frame also went his way to put him on the brink. Maguire made a 115 to stay in the match at 8-4, but Murphy sealed the victory.

BBC Sport

Ronnie O’Sullivan recovered from a tricky start tonight to come out with a 5-3 lead over Joe Perry after today’s eight frames. Meeting for the third time this season in a ranking event, it was Perry who made the stronger starting, taking the opening frame before recovering from over fifty points down in the next to win and make it 2-0.

O’Sullivan though responded in typical fashion, making breaks of 127, 143 and 114 on the way to a 5-3 lead as Perry snatched the last one to give himself a chance going in the final session. If the defending champion plays like that though, it will be a tall order for Joe to avoid falling at the last 16 hurdle for the fifth time this year…

Pro Snooker

World number four Mark Selby also fell at the first hurdle as a resurgent Mark Williams won another tight match 9-7. The Welshman moved 7-3 up before Selby reeled off four frames to level, but Williams held his nerve to progress.

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