UK Championship 2016: Mark Selby beats John Higgins to reach semi-final

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Mark Selby has won three ranking events this yearUK Championship 2016Venue: York Barbican Dates: 22 November to 4 DecemberCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV, Connected TV, Red Button, BBC Sport website and app from Saturday, 26 November. TV times and channels

World number one Mark Selby resisted a brilliant John Higgins fightback to win the last two frames and beat the three-time champion 6-5 in the UK Championship quarter-finals.

Selby opened with a break of 119, and at 3-0 up had scored 297 points, with the world number four managing just four.

Higgins pinched frame four, the start of a four-frame burst, but Selby responded and went on to win an error-ridden decider set up a semi-final with world number six Shaun Murphy.

Murphy scored three …

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