Matthew Stevens blew Ronnie O'Sullivan off the table at the UK Championships at Bournmouth today. Stevens had seized a 5 frames to 3 advantage over O'Sullivan to put himself in the driving seat after the first session of their quarter-final and when it resumed today he took the next four straight frames to win comfortably.
Stephen Hendry moved a step closer to the capture of a sixth Championship title by defeating Dave Harold 9-5 last night. Hendry, made several sizeable breaks during a confident quarter-final performance. He recovered from 2-1 down to lead 5-2 by knocking in breaks of 96, 72, 116 and 92 during a purple patch of high-quality scoring. Hendry now meets the Welshman Mark Williams who beat fellow countryman Darren Morgan.
Latest: (Best of 17 frames)
J Higgins (Scotland) 6-6 M Holt (England): 60-59 29-91 (85) 38-66 (58) 0-124(69, 54) 64-17 (64) 68-17 (58) 59-45 54-64 45-85 (54) 90-0 (90) 73-0 0-131
Results:
M Williams (Wales) 9-1 D Morgan (Wales): 78-42 (71) 79-42 (72) 55-49 100-0 (59) 53-35 68-0 (68) 109-0 (109) 74-16 35-76 54-42
M Stevens (Wales) 9-3 R O'Sullivan (England): 78-54 (67-53) 1-100 (62) 74-41 67-45(61) 0-76 (52) 103-13 (63) 2-67 66-56 66-35 (50) 77-14 (61) 138-0 (138) 93-0 (61)
D Harold (England) 5-9 S Hendry (Scotland): 77-4 (77) 46-75 78-29 0-97 (96) 13-99 (72) 0-116 (116) 1-97 (92) 87-0 (87) 72-0 6-64 71-39 (70) 67-68 (51 Harold) 0-66 55-68
