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Selby beats Higgins in last-frame decider to reach semis
- Updated: December 2, 2016
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 half-centuries and a ton to beat Belgium’s Luca Brecel 6-1.
World champion Selby, who is into the last four at the York Barbican for the fourth time in the last five years, joked the result was “never in doubt”.
“At one stage I felt I …
