Wuxi Classic Day 6

Ricky Walden secured a place in only his second ranking event
final with a comfortable 6-1 victory over Marcus Campbell

Stuart Bingham’s amazing start to the season continues with as he secured his third consecutive final spot with a tense 6-5 victory over Mark Davis. In fact, all of Bingham’s matches in this year’s Wuxi Classic have seen him take the win after a deciding frame but in the opening encounters, a final frame decider looked highly unlikely. The Essex man made a storming start and was already 4-0 up at the interval but Davis was not ready to lie down and take a battering. The 39-year-old scored a hat-trick of 70 breaks followed by another two 50+ breaks to incredibly win five frames on the bounce and take the lead. Bingham managed to stop the rot to win the tenth to force a decider and knocked in an incredible 134 break under extreme pressure to reach tomorrow’s final.

He will face world number 16 in the final, Ricky Walden, who easily dispatched Marcus Campbell, 6-1 in the evening session. Walden won the frame one, with a break of 90 and frame two. The Scot closed the gap by winning a scrappy third frame but Walden took an equally scrappy fourth to lead 3-1 at the interval. Despite Campbell getting the two snookers required in frame five, Ricky secured the frame with brown and blue and gave himself an even stronger lead by knocking in another break of 90 to be 5-1 in the lead. And his place in the final was secured by claiming a fourth frame in a row in a bid to win his second ranking title, following victory in the 2008 Shanghai Masters.