Fergal O'Brien has been knocked out of the World Snooker Championships at the Crucible in Sheffield. He was 12-4 down to Mark Williams overnight. The pair returned this morning with Williams needing just one more frame for victory and a place in the semi finals. O'Brien took the first frame in the morning however, but Williams secured the frame he needed with a break of 82.
The news of Northern Ireland's Joe Swail is much better. He beat Dominic Dale 13-9 in this afternoon's final session and now goes into the semi-final. There he will face Matthew Stevens, who brushed aside Jimmy White 13-7.
In the other quarter-final 1998 Champion John Higgins crushed Anthony Hamilton 13-3, winning all eight frames in this afternoon's session.
Result:
M Williams 13-5 F O'Brien
111-0 (66) 53-64 62-83 (77) 74-16 68-15 28-91 (90) 69-1 (60) 70-56 (Williams 70, O'Brien 56) 101-4 (101) 112-22 (112) 88-24 70-8 76-0 (52) 68-75 79-37 117-0 (71) 23-56 95-33 (82)
D Dale 9-13 J Swail
33-96 (96) 76-47 (63) 61-68 33-70 119-2 (119) 91-1 (60) 75-35 (65) 30-66 0-75 (59) 22-103 (88) 33-57 79-52 30-80 (50) 84-18 10-78 (78) 63-39 0-82 (82) 0-105 (50) 70-36 (70) 77-48 (52) 5-79 (79)
J Higgins 13-3 A Hamilton
64-27 8-128 (78) 85-20 (51) 56-65 (Higgins 55) 123-0 (108) 66-22 65-20 61-62 69-15 72-9 (66) 73-54 112-25 (86) 136-0 (136) 108-0 (103) 135-0 (135) 72-24 (52)
M Stevens 13-7 J White
75-32 0-84 (84) 1-70 (69) 90-0 (90) 109-0 (109) 12-65 (50) 84-16 (60) 17-89 71-1 107-17 (87) 53-0 64-53 (56) 33-88 (60) 73-0 (73) 70-414-68 73-47 (54) 29-63 50-8
