World Championships Last 16 Round-up

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Ronnie O’Sullivan joined Shaun Murphy, Judd Trump, Michael White and Barry Hawkins in the quarter-finals after seeing off last year’s fellow semi-finalist Ali Carter. Carter had never beaten O’Sullivan at a full ranking event and with The Rocket 9-7 up after the second session the record looked likely to continue. O’Sullivan won four of the next five frames with top breaks of 88, 106 and 89 to progress to the last eight.

He’ll face Stuart Bingham who came through a closely fought match with Mark Davis. The scores were locked at 8-8 coming into the final session and the next four were also shared, with Bingham making notable breaks of 77 and 70. However, the Essex man finished well after the interval to pull himself over the finish line with breaks of 111 and 57 to win the next three frames.

Ricky Walden also secured a quarter-final spot against White after defeating Robert Milkins 13-11. The Chester man came into the concluding session 10-6 ahead but looked in danger early on as Milkins won four out of five to close to 11-10. But breaks of 79 and 86 in frames 22 and 24 were enough to see him secure the match.

Ding Junhui made a strong finish to his last 16 match against Mark King to win 13-9. King had led 6-2 after the opening session although Ding had an excellent second session, winning seven frames to go 9-7 up. Ding took the 17^th with a 69 but King won the next two to close to 10-9. But runs of 104, 987 and 52 saw the Chinese through and he will face Barry Hawkins.