Steve Davis still maintains advantage
Steve Davis still has the upper hand over John Higgins in the last-16 of the snooker world championship after the second session’s play, maintaining a lead of 9-7.
Davis surprisingly had a 6-2 lead overnight, and was playing the better snooker over the reigning world champion.
Higgins started the session by taking the ninth frame with a break of 78, and then won a scrappy 10th. Both players missed key balls in the next, but it was Davis who stole it to extend his lead, and he pulled further clear by taking the last before the mid-session interval.
However, The Wizard of Whishaw was not going to lie down, and he stormed to the next three frames, compiling his first century break of the match with a 106 clearance, to go within one of the 52-year-old. The final frame should have gone to Higgins, but he missed a simple red, and that allowed Davis to make a 55 to hold the advantage.
The match will conclude in the final session tomorrow morning at 10am.
Meanwhile Mark Allen became the first man through to the quarter-finals with a resounding 13-5 win over Mark Davis. Allen again has reached this stage of the competition like he did last year and will now play either Stephen Maguire or Graeme Dott.
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