John Higgins will be staged with Mark Williams at the Snooker World Championship quarterfinals after exceeding Xiao Guodong 13-12 in a marathon match at Crucible theater on Saturday.

Higgins AND Xiao They were crushed for the time to complete their match before the afternoon session, but were taken from the table with Scotland 12-11 ahead.

They resumed in the morning with the score level at 8-8 and exchanged long frames, which eventually left Higgins a frame from victory.

However, he destroyed a chance to seal it and allowed Xiao to fall inside and send the match to a crucial framework.

But Higgins-A winner four times in The Crucible-Brondy that disappointment with a 75 break To finally remove xiao After 10 hours of exhausting.

“Anyway feeling strange was, turning home when you know you are turning for only one or two frames, it’s just a surrealist feeling,” Higgins told BBC After that.

“I really liked the game, really made it because it’s just an incredible place to play.

“You’re playing well a few minutes. The pressure is on you. The crowd is all included. You can’t repeat playing here.”

Other Higgins’ opponent Williams Reserved his country in the quarter -finals after seeing Iran’s Iran Hossein Vafaei 13-10 Earlier Saturday.

Welshman Williams resumed 9-7 and received two of the first three frames to continue his moment in clash.

Vafaei closed the deficit in 11-10, which did not prove to be significant after Williams cleared and ended with an 115 break.

Meanwhile, Ronnie O’Sullivan Created a 6-2 BULLET Pang Junxu at the first session of their second round match.

Seven times the O’Sullivan champion capitalized a mistake from Pang China, claiming each of the first four frames in The Crucible.

Pang left the sign with a useful break 119 before O’Sullivan finally took his four -frame advantage starting at resume on Sunday.

Luca Brecel Also set a skintying screen to open a command 7-1 advantage Ding junhui.

After throwing the first frame, the Belgian turned into the back consequences to wrap seven straight, before heading to the arena in a standing ovation.

England Ben Wooollaston trails Like JiAii 5-3-3 AND Zhao Xintong rive Lei Peifan 10-6-6 in an All-Kinse affair.