Mark Selby conquered the Crucible for the first time by beating Ronnie O’Sullivan 18-14 in the final of the Dafabet World Championship.   PICTURES by Tai Chengzhe   Selby produced an astonishing fight-back to win 13 of the last 17 frames and inflict O’Sullivan’s first world final defeat on the […]

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Neil Robertson stormed to a 13-7 win over Mark Allen at the Dafabet World Championship – but just missed out on a piece of snooker history. World number one Robertson looked in danger of a second round exit at the Crucible when he trailed 7-6 last night, but he fought […]

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Dominic Dale reached the quarter-finals of the Dafabet World Championship for the first time since 2000 with a resounding 13-4 win over Michael Wasley. Welshman Dale did the damage in the first two sessions with top breaks of 74, 75, 59, 106, 78, 89 and 62, taking the first session 7-1 […]

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China’s Ding matched the record set by Stephen Hendry in the 1990/91 season by adding the China Open crown to the Shanghai Masters, Indian Open, International Championship and German Masters won earlier in the season. The 27-year-old goes into the Dafabet World Championship with a chance to set a new […]

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China’s Ding has already won four ranking crowns this term and victory against Neil Robertson tomorrow in the best of 19 final in Beijing would see him match Stephen Hendry’s record of five, set in 1990/91.   It will be the third time that Ding and Robertson have met in […]

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