Ronnie O'Sullivan/Stephen Maguire in German Masters final
Ronnie O'Sullivan reached the final of the German Masters with a 6-4 semi-final win against Stephen Lee.
O'Sullivan began the week with his top-16 ranking and automatic place in the World Championships in doubt but defied glandular fever symptoms to thwart Lee.In Sunday's best-of-17 frame final he will play Stephen Maguire, who thrashed Masters runner-up Shaun Murphy 6-0.It was the Scot's second whitewash of the week, after his 5-0 win over World Champion John Higgins in round two.O'Sullivan, without a ranking title since the 2009 Shanghai Masters, revealed he had been suffering with the virus for two months.He needs to secure ranking points to avoid dropping out of the top 16 for the first time since he was a teenager.The Welsh Open, which starts on 13 February, is the last ranking event to count towards seeding for the World Championship.Failure to retain his place in the elite top-16 would leave the three-time world champion facing a series of qualifying rounds to make it to The Crucible in April.Before a full house of 2,500 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, O'Sullivan was not at his mesmeric best but a break of 73 put him 2-0 ahead.He missed a red into the centre pocket in frame three, which Lee secured with a 72, but O'Sullivan regained a two-frame cushion after a run of 59 in frame four.Lee, playing in his first ranking semi-final for six years, rolled in a 63 to reduce the deficit again, but O'Sullivan won a scrappy sixth after clearing from the green.An 82 saw O'Sullivan move within a frame of victory but Lee clawed back the next two and had chances to take the match to a deciding frame when The Rocket missed the green off the penultimate red.But after further misses by both players Lee left a thin cut on the pink in the jaws and a relieved O'Sullivan advanced to his first final since the 2010 World Open. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/
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Ronnie O'Sullivan reached the final of the German Masters with a 6-4 semi-final win against Stephen Lee.
O'Sullivan began the week with his top-16 ranking and automatic place in the World Championships in doubt but defied glandular fever symptoms to thwart Lee.In Sunday's best-of-17 frame final he will play Stephen Maguire, who thrashed Masters runner-up Shaun Murphy 6-0.It was the Scot's second whitewash of the week, after his 5-0 win over World Champion John Higgins in round two.O'Sullivan, without a ranking title since the 2009 Shanghai Masters, revealed he had been suffering with the virus for two months.He needs to secure ranking points to avoid dropping out of the top 16 for the first time since he was a teenager.The Welsh Open, which starts on 13 February, is the last ranking event to count towards seeding for the World Championship.Failure to retain his place in the elite top-16 would leave the three-time world champion facing a series of qualifying rounds to make it to The Crucible in April.Before a full house of 2,500 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, O'Sullivan was not at his mesmeric best but a break of 73 put him 2-0 ahead.He missed a red into the centre pocket in frame three, which Lee secured with a 72, but O'Sullivan regained a two-frame cushion after a run of 59 in frame four.Lee, playing in his first ranking semi-final for six years, rolled in a 63 to reduce the deficit again, but O'Sullivan won a scrappy sixth after clearing from the green.An 82 saw O'Sullivan move within a frame of victory but Lee clawed back the next two and had chances to take the match to a deciding frame when The Rocket missed the green off the penultimate red.But after further misses by both players Lee left a thin cut on the pink in the jaws and a relieved O'Sullivan advanced to his first final since the 2010 World Open. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/
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