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'It's there, it's close, it's very close... what a shot this is!' - Ken Doherty

Mark Selby hit the ‘mother of all doubles’ in tonight’s semi-final with Ding Junhui at the Crucible.

Betfred Snooker World Championships 2017 - Day Thirteen - Crucible Theatre Selby takes a shot this evening. Tim Goode Tim Goode

CHINA’S 2016 WORLD finalist Ding Jinhui took the first steps to avenging last year’s defeat as he will go into Friday’s second session of his world championship semi-final leading champion Mark Selby 5-3.

The 30-year-old — who received a congratulatory kiss and heaps of compliments from the mercurial five-time champion Ronnie O’Sullivan after beating him on Wednesday — was twice pegged back by Selby when he took the lead.

Selby hit this brilliant double in the second frame, leading Ken Doherty — commentating for the BBC — to gush:

“It’s there, it’s close, it’s very close… what a shot this is!”
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Selby — who has been in sparkling form and only allowed Hong Kong veteran Marco Fu three frames in their quarter-final — edged in front at 3-2 but Ding rattled off the final three frames of the session to secure a two frame advantage.

Indeed Ding — whose exploits has unleashed a wave of Chinese snooker talent — finished it with a flourish recording a break of 110 in the final frame.

However, Ding will be mindful that the semi-final has a long way to go with it being the best of 33 frames.

The second semi-final between Scotland’s four-time champion John Higgins and the 2013 finalist Barry Hawkins, who beat both Selby and Ding on his way to the climax of the tournament that year, has ended for the evening with Higgins leading 5-3.

– © AFP 2017 

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