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Stuart Bingham: Match-winning break was the best of my career
England's Stuart Bingham plays a shot during day 13 of the World Snooker Championships 2021 at The Crucible, Sheffield

SNOOKER fans returning to Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre were treated to two classic quarter-finals as the tournament approaches its fabled one-table set-up.

Mark Selby dispatched Mark Williams 13 frames to three, while Kyren Wilson overcame one of the tournament favourites, Neil Robertson, 13-8.

But the quarter-finals between world No 1 Judd Trump and Shaun Murphy, and Anthony McGill versus Stuart Bingham were hard-fought epics that had a bit of everything for spectators.

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