Rocket rumbled in Newport

'Jester from Leicester' to face Ding in Welsh Open final

Mark Selby wore down Ronnie O'Sullivan in a gruelling encounter to reach the final of the 888 Welsh Open in Newport.

The Leicester potter won 6-2 and will play Ding Junhui, a victor by the same margin over Shaun Murphy earlier in the day, in Sunday's best-of-17-frames final. O'Sullivan was the man in form heading into tonight's semi-final, fresh from winning the German Masters, his first major ranking title since September 2009, and from knocking out Judd Trump in the Newport quarter-finals yesterday. Selby, though, has done enough over the past two years to be ranked the world number one. Although O'Sullivan started as favourite, it was easy to make the case for his opponent who delivered a safety-first performance - the clever way to play against O'Sullivan - to advance to the meeting with Ding. After a scratchy start from both players, Selby did enough to take the opening frame. O'Sullivan did not make a pot, but it had still been slow going and it came as some relief when a fluent 80 from the three-time former world champion made it 1-1. - http://www1.skysports.com/

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