Mark Selby and Mark Allen face one another within the second semi-final, with the winner going by means of to face Stephen Maguire for the £150K prize within the closing on Friday.

In his quarter closing towards 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 is not any imply feat.

Mark Allen got here by means of 9-8 in a decider towards 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’ve got arguably the 2 most grittiest gamers on tour who we all know won’t ever quit. Their preventing qualities pitched collectively, in a recreation of this magnitude, lead me to assume that this match might nicely go to a decider.

I’ll tentatively stick my neck out and go for Mark Allen 9-8….