Scotland's Graeme Dott tonight reached his third World Championship final with a stunning victory against Mark Selby.
Dott, runner-up in 2004 and champion in 2006, fell so far in the world rankings he had to go through the qualifying rounds to reach the Crucible and once in Sheffield for the main event he produced shock wins over Peter Ebdon, Stephen Maguire and Mark Allen to reach the last four.
Tonight he completed a semi-final win over Selby, who had been priced as tournament favourite prior to their tussle.
Dott has come through tragedy in his private life which led to him being diagnosed with depression, and he fell as low as 48th in the provisional world rankings in late 2008.
But by winning through to the semi-finals he guaranteed himself a return to the top 16, who qualify automatically for ranking events, and now he has a bigger prize in his sights.
In the final he will play Neil Robertson, who made history by becoming the first Australian to reach a Crucible final.
Dott led Selby 14-10 at the start of the session but saw that gradually eroded.
The 32-year-old from Larkhall, just outside Glasgow, lost the first three frames of the evening to Selby who had come from behind to knock out Ronnie O'Sullivan in the quarter-finals and looked set to repeat the comeback trick which has become his trademark.
Dott gave himself some breathing space by taking the next with a break of 47, but Selby again narrowed the gap.
Then came a 45-minute frame, which Dott won 87-45 with a highest break of just 26.
That put him just one frame from victory and another break of 47 gave Dott control of the next.
Selby soon needed a handful of snookers, and they would not come. When Dott fired in the final red, that was it.
