Mark Selby powered into the Shanghai Masters quarter-finals with a 5-0 thrashing of Mark King.
Masters champ in great form to make Shanghai quarters
Mark Selby powered into the Shanghai Masters quarter-finals with a 5-0 thrashing of Mark King, while veteran Steve Davis and Ricky Walden both came from 4-1 behind to go through.
Click
here for the latest results from Shanghai
Welsh Open and Masters champion Selby was in ruthless form against left-hander King, and breaks of 48, 68, 48, 44 and 68 were enough to send the 25-year-old into the last eight.
"I played really well. I didn't have many big breaks but I didn't give anything away either," said Selby, who took just 81 minutes to complete the win.
"I've played well in China over the last three tournaments so hopefully I can go one better this time."
Fu through
World number four Selby now goes up against Marco Fu of Hong Kong, after his comfortable 5-2 success over Andy Hicks.
Hicks, the world number 56, had thrashed Shaun Murphy 5-1 in the first round but was never in the contest against Fu - who needed just two decent breaks of 76 and 54 on his way to victory.
World number 35 Ricky Walden showed great determination to come from 4-1 down to stun Australian Neil Robertson 5-4 to make the last eight.
Walden banged in breaks of 75, 66 and 89 in the final three frames to clinch his quarter-final spot.
Six-time world champion Steve Davis showed he has still got the taste for a fight as he also came from 4-1 down to see-off Northern Ireland Trophy finalist Dave Harold.
The 51-year-old trailed 3-0 and 4-1 before showing his famous battling qualities to grind out a 5-4 win.
Rocket fires
World champion Ronnie O'Sullivan made no mistake with a 5-3 success over Joe Perry, but former Crucible champion John Higgins suffered an early exit.
The Scot was beaten 5-2 by Welshman Ryan Day to become another big name to exit the Shanghai Masters early.
"It was a strange game and could have gone either way so I'm delighted to get through. Joe's a good player," said O'Sullivan.
Another successful Welshman was Mark Williams - he made his way into the last eight with a convincing 5-2 win against Jamie Cope.
Stoke potter Cope made his second ranking event maximum, just the tenth player to do so, but the 147 was not enough to win him the match.
"I'd rather have won the match because I came here to win the tournament," said Cope.
"It's getting on my nerves that I haven't won one yet.
"Overall, I'm disappointed. I hope no-one else makes a 147 to share the prize money but anyone is capable of doing it."
