John Higgins has a 5-3 advantage in relation to the building of the Grand Mark Williams after the inclusion in the opening of their World Cup-final conflict championship.

At a meeting between two-thirds of the Snooker’s iconic “class” 92 “- with Ronnie O’Sullivan Filling a legendary trio – It was Higgins who used the handful of reckless mistakes from Williams to the edge in front.

Both players, who are commended four world titles, is chasing another deep stain that added to their reserved career.

While Higgins and Williams exchanged frames in an ordinary cage battle, Zhao Xintong made by far more determined move against Chris Wakelin over another table.

Wakelin, who has already stunned former world champions Neil Robertson and Mark Allen To reach your first crucible quarter-final, he made a bright start with a 93 break to ask for an opening.

However, the 28-year-old Zhao responded with six consecutive clinical snooker frameworks, establishing the command 6-1 advantage before Wakelin was made by compelling the final session frame in Traz 6-2.

Zhao is running up to the quarterfinals, everything is more exempt to give your recent history. Former winner of the Championship in the UK, Zhao was one of the ten Chinese players sought up in a scandal repaired last year.

Although he did not intentionally lost the matches, he accepted the charges relating to compasses in the economy of another player and for betting at matches. He served a ban on 20 months – the longest among them punished – and lost the place on a professional world snooker tour.

Despite the official competition in this tournament as amateur, Zhao has already secured a return to the tour for the next season, and his performances in Sheffield showed his significant talent.

In order to reach this phase, Zhao had to come through four round qualifications, which is already their seventh match of the competition – and probably one of the most impressive stories about this year’s championship.

Both of the quarterfinal match will continue later on Tuesday evening (19:00 BST), with semi-final places for capturing.