World Championship 2012 (Day 10) - O'Sullivan and Jones move into last eight

O'Sullivan moves into quarters

Ronnie O'Sullivan and Jamie Jones are the last two players with a secured spot in the quarter-finals of this year’s World Championship, the three-time world champion beating Mark Williams by 13-6, while the Welshman Jones proved to be a bit too strong for Andrew Higginson and ended the Englishman’s run at 13-10.

To see O'Sullivan in the quarter-finals is not a shock, nor a surprise, as the Essex man had ended the first session against Mark Williams leading the Welshman by 5-3 and the second one by being 11-5 in front.

The last session was opened with a 65 break that was getting Ronnie one step closer to the victory-line, while Williams scrapped his way and pulled back a frame just for the sake of the game with a top break of just 24 points.

One more time Williams gets beat by the Rocket

O'Sullivan was finishing the snooker-deal with runs of 40 and 65 to book himself a place in the next round, where he's meeting with another in-great-form player, Neil Robertson.

Jamie Jones caused another upset, after moving pass Shaun Murphy in the first round, putting an end to another player’s run (who although is not a top-seeded one, has a better position in the system than him 19 v. 36), Andrew Higginson.

Although the lads finished their first session on a tight result of 4-4, the second one was finding Jones in front at 10-6, Higginson's mistakes costing him a lot of frames.

"Kiddo" Jones makes another victim

Still, as the last session started Higginson made the impossible-possible and started his comeback. Breaks of 54, 42, 53 and 41 were levelling the match at 10 apiece as the mid-session interval was kicking off.

But at returning into the arena, things went on exactly as they did in the previous session, Jones regaining his leading position with a break of 50, moving one away from victory with a great 135 clearance and finally ending the match with a top break of 42 points.

Tomorrow, the quarter-finals matches kick off, as it follows:

10am

2.30pm
QF2 Jamie Jones v. Ali Carter
QF3 Ronnie O'Sullivan v. Neil Robertson
 
7pm
QF1 Stephen Hendry v. Stephen Maguire
QF4 Ryan Day v. Matthew Stevens

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