shaun murphy

"Wow," says a member of the Crucible crowd, fairly audibly. Rightly so. Wu Yize absolutely smashes in an incredibly tough blue along the top cushion as he goes exhibition style on the colours. An amazing 90 break in an afternoon full of stunning snooker from the Chinese 10th seed, who has won six of the eight frames on offer. As the commentators have repeatedly said, Hossein Vafaei has not done much wrong - Wu has just been irrepressible. These two will be back to play to a finish tonight, with Wu needing just three frames to book a first-ever Crucible semi-final, against Mark Allen.