British Open 2023 LIVE – Mark Williams faces Fan Zhengyi, Mark Selby against Jack Lisowski to come
Table 1 focus
We’ll be concentrating on Williams against Fan with score updates from the table 2 clash between He Guoqiang and Vafaei.
Friday fun in Cheltenham
We’ve got Vafaei and Williams in early afternoon action in their respective matches, but that’s not all that’s on the agenda today.
Later, Mark Selby faces Jack Lisowski in arguably the tie of the last eight while Tom Ford locks horns with Xiao Guodong.
Best-of-nine
A reminder that this stage of the competition means it’s effectively a first to five frames scenario.
H2H
It looks like this is the first tour meeting between He Guoqiang and Vafaei while Williams leads his match-up with Fan 1-0 having prevailed 5-3 in the German Masters back in 2018.
GOOD AFTERNOON!
Hello and welcome to our LIVE updates from the quarter finals of the British Open.
First up in the afternoon action, we’ve got He Guoqiang taking on Hossein Vafaei and Mark Williams against Fan Zhengyi. The boys will be at the baulk from 13.00 BST.
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Selby beats Gilbert on final black to set up quarter-final clash with Lisowski at British Open
Mark Selby beat David Gilbert in a final-frame decider to reach the quarter-finals of the British Open in a late-night finish in Cheltenham.
It was not vintage snooker on display at the Centaur in Cheltenham, but there was no shortage of drama for a match that finished after midnight.
It boiled down to a battle on the final black, and in dramatic scenes at 00:38, Gilbert saw the white go in-off to hand Selby the win.
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