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Dott dashes Ding's hopes

[ 07-9-12 16:28]    作者:Shanghai Daily        录入:lixuan    进入论坛
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  DEFENDING China Open champion Graeme Dott took advantage of a below-par performance from home favorite Ding Junhui to move into the last eight of the Shanghai Masters last night.

  Ding, playing in front of an adoring crowd at the Shanghai Grand Stage and probably weighed down by the burden of high expectations, was well off his game against the 2006 world champion, losing 1-5 in under two hours.

  Dott, the world No. 2, is the only top-seven seed through to the quarterfinals, and will fancy his chances of adding to his two ranking titles - although he faces a tough test in the last eight against Stephen Lee.

  Englishmen Lee took out Scotland's seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry 5-3 last night.

  Earlier, Mark Selby exacted some measure of revenge for his world championship defeat by knocking John Higgins out in the second round.

  The Englishman enhanced his reputation as a rising snooker star after coming from 1-3 down to win 5-3 against the world No. 1.

  That put him through to the quarterfinals and a match against Stuart Bingham.

  Higgins defeated Selby 18-13 at the Crucible in April, denying "The Jester from Leicester" after he had fought back from 4-12 down on the final day.

  But the Scot has since lost to the 24-year-old twice - at an invitation event in Poland and yesterday.

  Higgins won the opening frame and made a break of 53 in the second only for Selby to steal it on the pink. But Higgins recovered to win the next two for a 3-1 lead.

  However, Selby was transformed after the interval as he fired in runs of 90, 74, 131 (missing the black when set for a tournament-high 138) and 57 to reel off four frames in superb fashion.

  "I don't know whether Mark's got my number now, but he's definitely a very good player," said Higgins. "I didn't do a lot wrong in the last four frames."

  Selby said: "I'm really chuffed to bits with that result. Beating John has given me a lot of confidence to go on and win the tournament."

  Bingham produced a terrific comeback himself, beating fellow Englishman Stuart Pettman in the final frame. Pettman failed in his bid to make the quarterfinals of a ranking tournament for the first time in his career.

  Preston's Pettman raced to a 3-0 lead with 48, 60 and 71 before the Basildon native recovered to 3-2.

  Pettman closed to within sight of victory when he took the sixth for 4-2 but Bingham battled back to 4-4 then edged a nervy decider on the last black by producing a cool colors clearance.

  In his last encounter with Selby, in the final of last season's SAGA Insurance Masters qualifier, Bingham came out on top 6-2.

  It was a bad day for Preston as Welshman Ryan Day booked his quarterfinal place with a 5-3 victory over Ian McCulloch.

  Day now faces compatriot Matthew Stevens, who rallied from 0-4 down to stun Stephen Maguire of Scotland 5-4 in a late-night encounter.

  Runs of 52, 83 and 62 gave Day a handy 3-1 lead. McCulloch came back to within a frame before the Malta Cup finalist sealed victory in the eighth.

  Dave Harold, Asian Open champion back in 1993, kept alive his hopes of another ranking title in Asia with an impressive 5-1 win over an out-of-sorts Steve Davis.

  The Stoke player recovered from the loss of the first frame to take the second on the pink. He was on for a 147 maximum in frame three - which would have earned him a car provided by title sponsor Roewe - until he got a kick on the 11th black and missed the next red on 88.

  An 83 put Harold in command at 3-1.

  Davis missed frame-winning chances in both the fourth and fifth frames, with Harold stepping in after breaks of 45 and 51 proved insufficient for the six-time world champion.

  And Davis, at 49 by far the oldest man in the top 16 ranks, also had a chance during a long, tactical sixth frame, but he missed a forced pink and Harold stepped in to clear and close out the match.

  Harold next takes on Dominic Dale, following the Welshman's emphatic 5-1 victory over England's Adrian Gunnell.

  Dale, who beat world No. 4 Ken Doherty in the first round and sported a new blonde hair-do conjured in Shanghai, raced in to a 4-0 lead at the interval. And although Gunnell took the first frame back, Dale closed out the win with a knock of 95.

  
 
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