Ronnie O'Sullivan refused to get excited after booking his place in the semi-finals of this year's Royal London Watches Grand Prix today.
The 'Rocket' fought back from 2-1 down to beat Northern Ireland's Joe Swail 5-3 in their last-eight clash at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
O'Sullivan faces reigning Malta Cup winner Shaun Murphy tomorrow after he fought back from 2-1 and 3-2 down to beat reigning UK champion Ebdon 5-3 in their quarter-final.
However, it was two-time world champion O'Sullivan who was once again the main talking point after he offered little reaction after his seventh successive win.
'It was okay,' muttered the Chigwell professional. 'I was okay in that match. I'm quite happy.
'I was okay today, so I don't want to look too far ahead.'
Swail pinched the opening frame with a break of 42 before O'Sullivan, who has not won a ranking event for 31 months, hit back immediately with a break of 98.
Swail again edged ahead thanks largely to a break of 47 but breaks of 80, 76 and 137 moved the world number five within one frame of victory,
Swail reduced his arrears by pinching a scrappy seventh frame, but the end was not far around the corner as O'Sullivan won the next frame to progress.
'I haven't been very well, it was only going to be a matter of time before I got caught out out there,' reflected Swail, who has been suffering with Tinnitus this week.
Partially deaf, the two-time Crucible semi-finalist Swail added: 'It was very hard to maintain my concentration out there. I tried, but if I had of won, the same thing was going to happen tomorrow.
'I was suffering badly out there, but it's more disappointing because you don't get too many opportunities to play in many quarter-finals.'
Hong Kong's Marco Fu tonight booked his place in the other semi with an impressive 5-0 whitewash of Chinese prospect Liu Song.
However, the 1998 Grand Prix winner did not show the same fluidity which helped him inflict a 5-4 upset over world champion John Higgins in the last 16.
Fu said: '5-0 was cruel on Liu, he had chances to win every frame. He wasn't very well today and lost a little bit of concentration. If he'd have been well I'm sure it would have been a tougher match.
'It was very tough although he had bad flu. But it's a good win for me, 5-0 in a quarter-final of a ranking tournament is always good.
'It's nice to be in the semis again. I played Liu three years ago and I think he's improved a lot as a player.
'I'm looking forward to my next match. I'll need to play a lot better because today I wasn't feeling as fluent amongst the balls as I was against John Higgins.'
In the other final quarter-final match of the evening Gerard Greene extended his excellent run on Scottish soil with a hard-fought 5-3 win over Joe Perry.
The world number 32 had lost all of his four previous ranking quarter-finals, but compiled breaks of 49, 57, 123, 47 and 53 to dump out Perry.
'I'm chuffed, it's great to be in my first semi-final,' said Greene.
'I've played well in all the other quarter-finals I've been in, but I've come up against good players. That was until today, I played well.
'Hopefully I can play well tomorrow and then maybe in the final.'
