Selby & Ding in command in semis

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Brilliant Ding races to 4-0 lead

Mark Selby made the most of a tentative start by Marco Fu to build a 5-3 lead in the opening session of their World Championship semi-final.

World number one Selby, the 2014 champion, looked impressive as he went 3-0 ahead with half-century breaks in frames two and three.

Hong Kong’s Fu hit back with a 72, and the pair shared four frames after the mid-session interval.

China’s Ding Junhui leads Alan McManus 6-2 in the other semi-final.

Both Ding and Fu are hoping to become the first Asian player to win the sport’s showpiece event.

But Fu’s chances appear fainter than Ding’s after a characteristically dogged effort by Leicester’s Selby in the best-of-33 contest.

Stubborn Selby holds sway

World number 14 Fu began anxiously, perhaps affected by the late jitters that saw him surrender a 9-1 lead in beating Barry Hawkins 13-11 in the quarter-finals.

Selby won a scrappy opener in …

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