Mark Selby and Mark Allen face one another within the second semi-final, with the winner going via to face Stephen Maguire for the £150K prize within the remaining on Friday.
In his quarter remaining in opposition to Yan Bingtao, Selby trailed 3-1, earlier than coming again to expire a 9-6 winner. Some might argue, that Mark Selby has produced some underwhelming performances this season, nonetheless, he has nonetheless gained two rating occasions which isn’t any imply feat.
Mark Allen got here via 9-8 in a decider in opposition to Shaun Murphy, in what was a cracking match. He has performed in six semi finals this season and misplaced all of them.
The face to face is deadlocked at 9-9 and in Selby and Allen, we now have arguably the 2 most grittiest gamers on tour who we all know won’t ever hand over. Their combating qualities pitched collectively, in a recreation of this magnitude, lead me to suppose that this match might properly go to a decider.
I’ll tentatively stick my neck out and go for Mark Allen 9-8….