David Gilbert advanced to the World Snooker Championship quarterfinals with……
World Snooker Championship with a 13–4 victory over Robert Milkins, the 16th seed who was having trouble and once tossed his cue on the ground. When it was 7-4 down, Milkins failed to see a red and threw his cue down in despair. Gilbert took a 12–4 lead at the close of the second session and easily secured the one frame he need at the beginning of the Friday evening session. Following the game, Milkins disclosed that his performance had been affected by a back ailment.
“I really did something to my back because I woke up in agony at six in the morning,” Milkins remarked. “Normally, when I take some ibuprofen tablets for it, it goes away in a few hours, but not today. I get it once or twice a year. “My chin hurt so much when I tried to place it on the cue. It was the upper back; it was always there at the same time, exactly at the base of my neck.
I took four tablets in two hours after being here, but it didn’t help and I was unable to get down on any shots.” The 48-year-old commented on the cue-throwing incident, saying, “It wasn’t because I was playing badly, it was the frustration of not being able to have a good crack at it.” It was an impulsive decision that I shouldn’t have made.”
Strong Trump is gaining ground on the quarterfinal position; Murphy is behind Maguire
With an 11-5 advantage over Tom Ford, world number two Judd Trump is just two frames away from earning his tenth career trip to the final eight. On the afternoon restart, Trump, 34, had a 6-2 lead and won three of the first four sets as it appeared that he may win with one session remaining. In the 2023 tournament, two players—Kyren Wilson and Mark Selby—made maximum breaks of 147. As of 2024, Ford was on track to match that total, having potted 10 reds and nine blacks until his break collapsed at 73.
Trump won two more frames with breaks of 50 and 59, but Ford had enough to carry the match into the morning session on Saturday and win the final frame with a break of 83. “Pride does come into it and Tom showed a lot of character with that wonderful break in the last frame,” BBC pundit Ken Doherty, a 1997 world champion, said. It offers him a glimmer of hope for tomorrow, and games have been changed from 11 to 5 in the past. “Neil Robertson did it against Martin Gould [in 2010] – but it’s a different animal against Judd Trump, of course.”
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