World Snooker Championship 2023 results: Si Jiahui opens up a 5-3 lead over Luca Brecel

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Venue: Crucible Theatre, Sheffield Dates: 15 April-1 May
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Si Jiahui opened up a 5-3 pb implicit Luca Brecel successful an enthralling commencement to their World Championship semi-final.

Brecel took the opener with a interruption of 50 but Si past took power with 2 period clearances and a tally of 97 arsenic helium reeled disconnected 4 framework successful a row.

Belgium's Brecel countered with runs of 72 and 69 but saw China's Si pinch the last framework connected the black.

Four-time satellite champion Mark Selby gets his last-four gathering with Mark Allen nether mode astatine 19:00 BST.

Debutant Si, who won 3 qualifying matches to scope the Crucible, came into the contention having already played 113 frames to Brecel's 66 connected his mode to becoming the youngest semi-finalist since 1996.

The satellite fig 80 is the lowest ranked subordinate to scope this signifier of the tourney since Welshman Terry Griffiths won it arsenic an unranked qualifier astatine the archetypal effort successful 1979.

And the 20-year-old made a formidable start, showing nary hint of nerves oregon fatigue contempt lone clinching his last-four berth successful a tense final-frame decider against Scotland's Anthony McGill precocious connected Wednesday evening.

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