Robertson finishes off Davis

Veteran fails to replicate earlier heroics

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Robertson finishes off Davis

Sportsmanship: Davis congratulates Robertson

I'm over the moon to get to the semis considering the way I've played so I'll have to improve a lot to get to the final.

Neil Robertson
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Neil Robertson required just two frames of the final session to end Steve Davis' surprise run at the Betfred.com World Championship.

Resuming with a 12-4 lead in the best-of-25 quarter-final on Wednesday afternoon, the Australian was briefly made to wait as Davis claimed the opener with a 59 break.

But the six-time former champion, at 52 the oldest player to make the last eight for 27 years after beating Mark King and defending champion John Higgins, was merely delaying the inevitable.

Robertson duly sealed a 13-5 success in style with a run of 107 and the Melbourne-born left-hander, who came from 11-5 behind to beat Martin Gould 13-12 in the second round, advances to play either Ali Carter or Shaun Murphy in the semi-final.

Humour

The session had started in bizarre fashion when Crucible master of ceremonies Rob Walker, welcoming the players into the arena, introduced Davis as Dennis Taylor.

Walker was embarrassed but Davis took it in good humour, locating a pair of glasses and putting them on upside down, striving for the look made famous by Taylor, his 1985 final conqueror.

"I think the match against John Higgins maybe took it out of Steve a little bit," said Robertson.

"In the first session he didn't play as well, but the table was really poor - we both were talking about it at the interval.

"Seven-one is a massive lead - it doesn't matter who you're playing.

"I was a little bit disappointed I didn't wrap it up last night. But all credit to Steve for taking it to the extra session.

"I was very relieved to get through because I haven't played very well at all.

"I'm over the moon to get to the semis considering the way I've played so I'll have to improve a lot to get to the final."

O'Sullivan leads

Meanwhile on the other table, Ronnie O'Sullivan moved 9-7 up on Mark Selby after the middle session of their all-English quarter-final.

From an overnight position of 4-4, O'Sullivan had runs of 92, 89, 86, 117 and 52 to win five out of six frames and open a 9-5 lead.

But Selby, from Leicester, took the final two, including a break of 107, to trim his deficit back to two frames.

They play to a finish on Wednesday evening with Graeme Dott awaiting the winner in the last four.

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