World Snooker Championship 2023 results: Mark Selby leads Mark Allen

Mark Selby and Mark Allen person won 5 ranking tournaments betwixt them this season

Four-time satellite champion Mark Selby fought backmost to assertion a 7-6 pb against Mark Allen successful a gruelling World Championship semi-final.

England's Selby took the adjacent 4 successful a league that was remarkably chopped abbreviated by 3 frames due to the fact that of the protracted quality of respective frames.

Three frames lasted much than 40 minutes and determination were 2 re-racks.

Their lucifer volition resume astatine 10:00 BST connected Saturday.

Allen, who is featuring successful the past 4 astatine the Crucible for the archetypal clip since 2009, appeared to suffer momentum aft failing to instrumentality the accidental to disturb the last reddish and achromatic successful the 10th frame, erstwhile helium had a steadfast lead.

Instead helium elected to permission himself with a information changeable and Selby, who required a snooker, yet pinched the framework to kick-start his comeback.

It acceptable the code for a league that concluded aft 5 frames alternatively of the scheduled eight.

Analysis - 'A acheronian unreality came implicit the table'

Seven-time satellite champion Stephen Hendry, speaking connected BBC Two

It was not pretty. It is not snooker that I privation to ticker but I recognize that snooker has to beryllium played successful antithetic ways and balls tin dictate that.

It was similar the players were trying to beryllium excessively precise and nonstop successful their match-play. We spell backmost to that pink, with Mark Allen 6-3 up, to bring the reddish oregon achromatic into play. He past loses it and from past connected a acheronian unreality came implicit the lucifer table.

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