World Championships Day 7 Round up.

Day seven and we have the first man into the quarter final plus the hot favourite for the title in a bit of trouble.

Mark Allen is into the last 8 after a strong final session performance to see off the challenge of Joe Perry 13-8.

Allen had held a 5-3 lead overnight,but Perry started the better this morning,knocking in a couple of centuries on his way to 6-6 at the mid session interval.

Allen took the next two when they resumed to lead again 8-6,but Perry rallied again to hit back & level it up at 8-8.

Things now seemed beautifully poised going into tonight,but Allen was in no mood to hang around and quickly took the five frames he needed to secure a 13-8 win,sealing it a fine break of 122..

So the Masters champion marches on and with the confidence a major win can bring,he will  be starting to fancy his chances here as we move in the second week.

It may be a case that by tomorrow afternoon,a number of players will be fancying their chances here if Ali Carter can hold his nerve & secure a first ever career victory over Ronnie O'Sullivan from a position of 9-7 ahead.

Indeed it could have been a whole lot better for "The Captain" who after starting the night session with a 5-3 lead,took the first three of the night to lead 8-3.

Ronnie looked completely off his game,but managed to nick the last before the interval to trail 8-4.

From here Ronnie knew he needed to win the next mini session at least 3-1 & suddenly finding his potting,if not his normal pinpoint positional play,thatsjust what he did. He may well have won all four,but for a kick on 54 in frame 14,but he'll be relieved to be still in with a chance when they play to a finish tomorrow afternoon.

Also playing to a finish tomorrow are Barry Hawkins & Lyu Haotain in a match that followed a similar pattern to the above game, this time it was Hawkins who lead 8-3 only for his young Chinese opponent to fight back to trail also by two at 9-7 overnight.

Elsewhere Kyren Wilson holds a 5-3 lead over Jamie Jones after the opening skirmishes in their encounter.