Players Championship

Yes, Williams started out with a 141 break in the first frame, but Judd is on a fine run of form, and although Williams came back from 4-1 to trail only 4-3, Judd stopped his comeback with a 70 break in frame 8 and capped his victory off with a 123 break.

Judd now has a chance of getting his revenge on Higgins in the semi-finals after Higgins beat him 6-5 at the Masters.

Nice touch from Williams, throwing in the towel at the end.

Zhao Xintong 6 Tubbs 3

While 4 Chinamen fell by the wayside celebrating Chinese New Year, one Chinaman is still celebrating after getting into the semis. A 142 break to go 3-2 up, and a 118 break to finish Tubbs off were the highlights of Zhao's victory.

In a match of excellent break building Mark.Allen prevailed 6-2 over Mark Selby.

Selby took too long to turn up.

Allen got nice compliments afterward, and sounded like he'd just lost 6-2.

John Higgins eventually edged out Judd Trump 6-5 after threatening to throw away leads of 3-0 and 4-1.

Same as last night, too slow a start from Trump. All credit to him in taking it to the decider, though. And to John for making another final.

Zhao Xintong beat Mark Allen 6-5 in a thriller. It was the first time Zhao was ahead in the match, but he always found something to stop Allen from pulling away from him, and with a couple of crucial pots and a 56 break in the decider, Zhao emerged victorious.

John Higgins hasn't won a title this season, the last tournament he won was last season's Tour Championship. If the final follows the trend of a different winner for each ranking event, Higgins will win. A Zhao victory would finally buck that trend.

Credit to Zhao for pushing through, he seems to have had mixed luck with the whole "reigning World champ" tag (as most do), and Allen did well to push him as hard as that.

6-6 at the last mid-session..!