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Stuart Bingham needs to scope astatine slightest the semi-finals astatine the Crucible to clasp his spot successful the satellite apical 16| Venue: Crucible Theatre, Sheffield Dates: 15 April-1 May |
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Stuart Bingham moved into the 2nd circular of the World Championship with a comfy 10-4 triumph implicit David Gilbert successful Sheffield.
Trailing 6-3 overnight Gilbert, who reached the semi-finals successful 2019, took the archetypal framework connected Sunday.
However, the 2015 satellite champion past took control, making breaks of 54, 55, 59 and 98 to reel disconnected 4 frames successful a enactment to seal victory.
Bingham volition play Mark Allen oregon Fan Zhengyi successful the 2nd round.
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The effect maintained the 46-year-old's singular grounds of having won each 13 matches against satellite fig 22 Gilbert.
"I was nervy this morning. Once I took the 2nd framework that settled maine down," said Bingham.
"I went to the toilet, had a speech to myself and won the past 3 frames with a interruption implicit 50 successful each. I walked done into the arena and the World Championship trophy was there.
"I told myself that was wherefore I americium present and to get myself playing. That helped me. The downfall is trying to support that region implicit your hostile erstwhile you are ahead.
"You tin effort excessively overmuch to support a lead. I've done that successful the past and learned from it."
Sunday's different aboriginal lucifer saw three-time UK Championship victor Ding Junhui borderline to a 5-4 pb implicit Iran's Hossein Vafaei.
China's Ding, 36, who mislaid 18-14 to Mark Selby successful his lone Crucible last successful 2016, made 3 half-centuries and a superb 134 to borderline a hard-fought brushwood against Vafaei, who made 3 half-centuries of his own, including an 87 successful the last framework of the session.
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