World Snooker Championship 2023 results: Mark Allen beats Jak Jones to reach semi-finals

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Mark Allen plays a remainder changeable against Jak Jones

Venue: Crucible Theatre, Sheffield Dates: 15 April-1 May
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Mark Allen won a hard-fought brushwood with Jak Jones 13-10 to scope the World Championship semi-finals for the archetypal clip since 2009.

An intriguing matter saw some players pb respective times arsenic the archetypal 2 sessions concluded 4-4 and 8-8.

Wednesday's decider saw Jones unfastened with a interruption of 77 and reply to 2 half-centuries from Allen with a superb 124.

However, 37-year-old Allen secured the last 3 frames to wrapper up triumph arsenic Jones faltered.

The Northern Irishman volition look either John Higgins oregon Mark Selby successful the past four.

Scotland's Higgins and England's Selby person some collected 4 Crucible titles, portion Allen volition beryllium featuring successful lone his 2nd semi-final, immoderate 14 years connected from his 17-13 decision to the Scot.

Meanwhile, Anthony McGill and Si Jiahui are tied astatine 8-8 aft the 2nd league of their quarter-final.

Having resumed astatine 4-4 Chinese debutant Si took the opener earlier 2020 semi-finalist McGill enjoyed breaks of 88 and 68 arsenic helium won 4 of the adjacent 5 to spell 8-6 up.

Si responded superbly though with runs of 80 and 86 to permission the lucifer delicately poised for their concluding league which begins astatine 19:00 BST.

Allen's winning acquisition counts

Jones had been aiming to go the archetypal Crucible debutant to scope the single-table set-up since Andy Hicks successful 1995 and the archetypal subordinate to triumph a satellite rubric connected his bow astatine the tourney since chap Welshman Terry Griffiths successful 1979.

But portion the 29-year-old produced a gritty show against Allen successful what has been a breakthrough tourney for him aft awesome victories implicit Ali Carter and Neil Robertson, it proved a measurement excessively far, contempt Jones making six half-centuries and 1 ton.

Allen, the satellite fig three, played with the assurance that winning the UK Championship, Northern Ireland Open and World Grand Prix has provided successful his best-ever run and seldom looked ruffled successful a lucifer that was nip and tuck until the finale.

Allen, whose lone century, a fantastic 137, arrived successful the 3rd frame, relied upon immoderate fantabulous match-play to spot him through, nary much truthful than erstwhile helium sealed his triumph successful a protracted 23rd framework that lasted much than an hour.

More to follow.