Tour Championship: Mark Selby Thrashes ding junhui 10-2 to set the final against John Higgins
Mark Selby won for a 10-2 victory over Chinese ding junhui to reach the final of the Manchester tour championship.
The 41-year-old Englishman went to the evening session with a 6-2 commander against Ding, then marked the breaks of 104, 54 and 58 while going towards the victory.
Selby will face John Higgins, who Batti Barry Hawkins in the other semifinal On Friday, in the Best-Of-19-Famme final on Sunday with the winner who collected £ 150,000 in cash prizes.
“I doubted myself for a while, but I’m trying to climb the time and go on a little when I see the shot – and it seems to work so far,” Selby said to ITV after his victory.
“I felt in control of myself during the game. I go to my blows and I imagined them, which is a good place to stay.”
Both Selby and Higgins are four times world champions and have met 24 times with the first one who has 16 wins at the eight of Scot.
Selby, in third place in the world, added: “I have so much respect for John as a player. He played phenomenally last night.”
