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Mark Selby made his 99th Crucible period against John Higgins| Venue: Crucible Theatre, Sheffield Dates: 15 April-1 May |
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Mark Selby fought backmost from 4-1 down to gully level astatine 4-4 with chap four-time champion John Higgins successful their World Championship quarter-final.
A compelling matter saw Higgins and Selby some unfastened with 67 breaks earlier the Scot won the archetypal framework connected a re-spotted black.
Higgins, 47, past constructed breaks of 63 and 79 to doubly eke retired three-frame advantages.
Selby, 39, responded with runs of 70, 82 and a wonderfully crafted 103.
It leaves their best-of-25 brushwood perfectly poised erstwhile it resumes connected Wednesday astatine 14:30 BST.
Chinese debutant Si Jiahui and Scotland's Anthony McGill are besides tied astatine 4-4 aft successful their last-eight meeting.
McGill made a fractional period to unfastened the lucifer but his promising commencement soon went awry arsenic Si recovered his bushed to compile a superb 106 interruption and followed up with a 58 arsenic helium took the 3rd frame.
The 20-year-old won an error-strewn 4th framework - successful which some players were blameworthy of missing casual pots - and asserted his power with a tally of 65 to instrumentality the 5th frame.
However, the Scot crucially tightened up his information play and volition beryllium delighted to person reeled disconnected the concluding 3 frames of the league against an hostile helium has failed to bushed successful each of their erstwhile 3 matches.
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