Mark Williams to face Mark Selby or Andrew Higginson in quarter-final of PTC 2010-11 Grand Final
Welshman Mark Williams stormed into the quarter-finals of the PartyCasino.com Players Tour Championship 2010-11 Grand Final after thrashing England’s Anthony Hamilton 4-0 in the second round at the Helix Theatre in Dublin on Friday. Williams will now face
the winner of the match between Mark Selby and Andrew Higginson in the last eight.
The 2010 China Open champion Williams overcame Hamilton strongly from the very first frame when he built a supreme knock of 111 with his sparking cue to take it 111-8 and lead 1-0. A couple of decent breaks of 33 and 35 from Williams in the second frame,
which he grabbed 73-7, gave him a 2-0 lead.
The Euro PTC event 1 runner-up Hamilton got no chance to get into the game during the first two frames but he struck back in the third and led 0-37. Williams then got a chance to capitalise and took the frame to 35-37 before another break of 29 from the
Welshman gave him the frame at 70-48 and he led the match 3-0.
The two-time World Snooker champion (2000, 2003) Williams fired an excellent break of 143, the highest of tournament so far, in the fourth frame and swept the frame 143-0 to whitewash Hamilton and cruised into the quarter-final. He will meet Mark Selby or
Andrew Higginson in the next round.
Selby and Higginson are playing their second-round match at the Helix Theatre today.
Stats
Mark Selby
The Englishman Mark Selby is placed fourth in the world snooker rankings 2010-11, which were revised after the Welsh Open 2011. In the PTC order of merit he occupies second spot after Shaun Murphy. He has won his second PTC event of the season. In 2010-11
he played a total of 64 matches and won 48 out of them. He possesses a match winning ratio of 75 percent and his frame winning ratio is 61.9 percent, as he grabbed 250 frames out of 404.
Head-to-Head against Mark Williams
Selby has faced Williams three times during the 2010-11 season. He lost to Williams 2-4 in PartyCasino.com Premier League group stage with frame scores of 101 (101)-3, 85(84)-0, 0-113 (113), 52-61, 0-82 and 3-73. He lost again to Williams 1-3 when he faced
him in the group-1 matches of Championship League. He has qualified for the winners group of Championship League where he will again meet Mark Williams. He lost to Williams 7-9 in the German Masters final.
Andrew Higginson
Higginson is ranked 23rd in the 2010-11 world rankings and 22nd in the PTC order of merit. The 33-year-old has played 52 matches so far in the ranking events this season, winning 33 out of them. He holds a winning percentage of 63.5
along with a frame winning percentage of 55.9 as he clinched 189 frames out of 338 in the present season.
Head-to-Head against Mark Williams
He faced Williams in the PTC Event 4 where he was beaten by the Welshman 4-2 in the third round.
Mark Selby vs Andrew Higginson
He played against Higginson in the third round of PTC Event 5 (7-10 October, 2010) and lost to him 0-4.
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