OSullivan To Play Hendry In Semi Final

Ronnie O'Sullivan booked a World Championship semi-final with Stephen Hendry by completing a 13-7 victory over China's Liang Wenbo.

Wenbo started positively despite resuming 11-5 down and a break of 66 reduced the deficit.

O'Sullivan edged the next but despite a 54 break in frame 19, Liang made the score 12-7 with the help of a superb pink to the middle pocket.

But the result was never in doubt and O'Sullivan's 79 break sealed the win.

"I'm pleased to be through, I could have played better but overall it's OK," he said. "I wanted to finish the match as quickly as possible but I started to miss a few balls.

"I didn't want to be there all night.

"I think that the pressure is off when you get to the semi-final stage. We know what to expect and we just have to go out and play.

"You either relish these situations or you don't - I do and Stephen Hendry does and I am looking forward to it.

"He has probably not done as well as he would have liked over the last two or three years but when you have the ability to do anything to such a high standard you can still win tournaments.

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Frame Score (O'Sullivan first): 0-80 (80) 0-101 113-0 (109) 78-27 (58) 75-0 (71) 24-104 (104) 20-112 (89) 70-25 (64) 76-14 80-29 77-53 109-0 (52, 57) 138-0 (138) 92-8 (86) 9-75 76-0 8-78 (66) 69-57 54-62 (O'Sullivan 54) 79-48 (79)