World Snooker Championship quarter-final schedule. 4 players from the qualifiers, among the last 8

Northern Irishman slips away with victory: Despite starting the deciding session at 9-7 and 3 games ahead, Higgins somehow managed to stay in the match and level at 10, although his first two games last night could very well to reach the right of the nicknamed “The Pistol”.

Without a break of over 100 points in the match, the Scot hung on to every opportunity, although he missed a lot and failed to build consistent breaks. John came back from 11-10 and 12-11 down, but it looked like the chance had left him in the decider when Allen put a 62-point break on the table. However, he missed a shot with the support, but did not leave Higgins any pocket balls. Apparently, because the four-time world champion pulled off an all-or-nothing shot with the mantle, managing to close out an incredibly tough table where he had an impossible mission down to the last red ball on the table.

Higgins therefore reaches the quarterfinals of the World Championship, after a game in which he did not shine, but in which he made a final break that erased all his pale evolution. In order to reach the semi-finals he will have to be much better, because in the last 8 Kyren Wilson, the finalist from 2020, awaits him. “The Warrior” is in turn a Crucible specialist, ticking off two other semi-finals and 3 quarter-finals and he is in excellent form (conceding only 7 frames in the two disputes in Sheffield: 10-1 with Dominic Dale and 13-6 with Joe O’Connor).

Higgins has the upper hand over Wilson, winning 8 of his last 10 head-to-head contests, but the Englishman currently looks the fitter player. It will be a thrilling battle, where it is almost impossible to predict who will win.

In parallel with the Higgins – Allen (13-12) dispute, the round of 16 of the World Championship was played, Stuart Bingham in turn obtaining a dramatic qualification, just 3 minutes after the end of the game in which the Scot won.

And the 2015 world champion needed a lot of luck in the duel with Jack Lisowski (13-11), managing to go further even though his opponent was better in most chapters.

Like Mark Allen, Bingham led 9-7 and 10-7, only to be tied at 11 by a Lisowski who had the crowd on his side. The 47-year-old veteran was mentally stronger in the end, being the 4th player from the qualifiers to reach the quarter-finals at the current edition of the WC, after David Gilbert, Stephen Maguire and Jak Jones.

For a place in the semi-finals, Stuart will have a 100% English battle, coming up against the big favorite of the competition, Ronnie O’Sullivan. The very tactical and rather slow game of the nicknamed “Ball-run” could cause problems for the “Rocket”, although the history of head-to-head meetings shows us a clear advantage for the most titled player in history: Ronnie has won 7 of the last 8 confrontations with Bingham.

Today, from 12:00, on Eurosport 1 and in the Eurosport app, the quarters of the World Championship begin, the first to enter the arena being Judd Trump and Jak Jones. In parallel, the first session of the quarter David Gilbert – Stephen Maguire will be contested.

World Championship quarter-final schedule:

• David Gilbert – Stephen Maguire
• Judd Trump – Jack Jones
• Stuart Bingham – Ronnie O’Sullivan
• Kyren Wilson – John Higgins

The quarters of the World Snooker Championship are still played on the best of 25 games (first in 13) system.