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Selby edges Murphy, Higgins departs
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September 10, 2011, Saturday
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MARK Selby won the final three frames of a titanic struggle with Shaun Murphy to book his place in the last four of the Bank of Communications Shanghai Masters with a 5-4 win yesterday.
In a late match, John Higgins lost 2-5 to Neil Robertson. The 2010 world champion set up a semifinal against Mark Williams, who had few problems seeing off fellow Welshman Matthew Stevens for a 5-0 victory.
Selby clawed his way back from 1-3 and 2-4 down to oust Murphy with a closing break of 107, the highest knock of a tense struggle in Shanghai.
The pair split the opening two frames of the day before Murphy assumed control at the mid-session interval aided by an 85 in the fourth frame after he snared a scrappy fifth frame.
A 70 from Selby allowed him to close to 2-3 behind only for Murphy to make a second 85 of the match to restore his two-frame lead.
Selby kept his hopes alive by pocketing the seventh frame before building a 53-27 lead in the eighth frame.
Murphy was handed a glorious chance to seal the victory after Selby escaped from a snooker, but stuck the final red over a middle hole.
Murphy, who had downed in Dominic Dale 5-4 in the last 32 and Mark Allen by the same narrow margin in the previous round, potted the red, but somehow managed to sink the blue to the middle bag in trying to get nice position on the final yellow.
That moment was to prove pivotal as Selby gladly accepted the reprieve with his winning century in the final frame. He will face Mark King in the semifinals today.
King made a closing 47 to down Anthony Hamilton 5-2 after over four hours of play in an often turgid affair.
Hamilton will be disappointed he could not replicate the form that accounted for Ronnie O'Sullivan in the previous round.
There was controversy as a furious Hamilton blamed a TV cameraman after his loss.
"The cameraman was moving on every shot, all the way through the match," Hamilton said. "It was hard to concentrate and it did my head in. I'm still angry about it now.
"Whenever I was down on the shot he was in line with me and his arms were moving around.
"He had an attitude problem. I complained three times about it but it didn't make any difference.
"Then they changed one of the cameramen but it was the wrong one. Once your concentration is gone it's difficult to get it back. I know it was the same for both players but I let it get to me."
In a late match, John Higgins lost 2-5 to Neil Robertson. The 2010 world champion set up a semifinal against Mark Williams, who had few problems seeing off fellow Welshman Matthew Stevens for a 5-0 victory.
Selby clawed his way back from 1-3 and 2-4 down to oust Murphy with a closing break of 107, the highest knock of a tense struggle in Shanghai.
The pair split the opening two frames of the day before Murphy assumed control at the mid-session interval aided by an 85 in the fourth frame after he snared a scrappy fifth frame.
A 70 from Selby allowed him to close to 2-3 behind only for Murphy to make a second 85 of the match to restore his two-frame lead.
Selby kept his hopes alive by pocketing the seventh frame before building a 53-27 lead in the eighth frame.
Murphy was handed a glorious chance to seal the victory after Selby escaped from a snooker, but stuck the final red over a middle hole.
Murphy, who had downed in Dominic Dale 5-4 in the last 32 and Mark Allen by the same narrow margin in the previous round, potted the red, but somehow managed to sink the blue to the middle bag in trying to get nice position on the final yellow.
That moment was to prove pivotal as Selby gladly accepted the reprieve with his winning century in the final frame. He will face Mark King in the semifinals today.
King made a closing 47 to down Anthony Hamilton 5-2 after over four hours of play in an often turgid affair.
Hamilton will be disappointed he could not replicate the form that accounted for Ronnie O'Sullivan in the previous round.
There was controversy as a furious Hamilton blamed a TV cameraman after his loss.
"The cameraman was moving on every shot, all the way through the match," Hamilton said. "It was hard to concentrate and it did my head in. I'm still angry about it now.
"Whenever I was down on the shot he was in line with me and his arms were moving around.
"He had an attitude problem. I complained three times about it but it didn't make any difference.
"Then they changed one of the cameramen but it was the wrong one. Once your concentration is gone it's difficult to get it back. I know it was the same for both players but I let it get to me."
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