World Snooker Championship LIVE: Latest scores and results from Robert Milkins vs Si Juahui

Robert Milkins could not pull off a second straight huge comeback at the World Snooker Championship as he failed to overturn a heavy deficit against impressive debutant Si Juahui on Monday afternoon.

The 20-year-old Si, who at 80 is the lowest-ranked player at the Crucible, turned an 11-5 overnight advantage into a 13-7 victory as he sealed the win with a break of 105. Milkins had recent experience of big comebacks, after overturning a 7-2 deficit in his first-round match with Joe Perry to win 10-9, but couldn’t pull off another great escape.

Milkins vs Si was the only game taking place on Monday afternoon, following a vintage John Higgins display that saw him sweep past Kyren Wilson 13-2 with a session to spare to book his place in the quarter-finals.

The evening session at the Crucible will see Anthony McGill look to convert an 11-5 lead over Jack Lisowski, while four-time world champion Mark Selby leads Gary Wilson 10-6.

Follow all the live coverage from the Crucible with our live blog, below:

World Snooker Championship live updates

• The World Snooker Championship has reached Day 10 at the Crucible

• Robert Milkins fails to overturn an 11-5 overnight deficit to impressive debutant Si Juahui

• RESULT: Robert Milkins 7-13 Si Juahui

Quarter-final line-up at the World Snooker Championship

15:30 , Luke Baker

Just two places left to fill in the quarter-final line-up now. You have to say that the top half of the draw has opened up very invitingly for a certain Mr R. O’Sullivan...

Quarter-final line-up:

• Ronnie O’Sullivan v Luca Brecel

• Anthony McGill/Jack Lisowski v Si Jiahui

• Mark Allen v Jak Jones

• John Higgins v Mark Selby/Gary Wilson

Evening session line-up

15:12 , Luke Baker

Not exactly an all-time classic afternoon session at the Crucible but Si’s win means there are just two matches left to complete in the second round before we know the full quarter-final line-up.

Both matches are first to 13 and Anthony McGill and Mark Selby appear to be heavy favourites to advance given their healthy overnight leads.

Evening session line-up (play resumes at 7pm BST):

• Anthony McGill 11 v 5 Jack Lisowski

• Gary Wilson 6 v 10 Mark Selby

Si Juahui’s dream run continues

14:56 , Luke Baker

Si once again looked so impressive in dispatching Milkins with the minimum of fuss. He’ll fancy his chances of reaching the one-table set-up on debut by beating most likely Anthony McGill in the quarter-finals.

Not since Matthew Stevens in 1998 has there been a Crucible quarter-finalist this young but the world No 80 plays with a maturity far beyond his years.

Si Jiahui beats Robert Milkins to reach Crucible quarter-finals on debut

14:43 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Si has won all three of his previous meetings with McGill - the length of these World Championship matches means it will be a different sort of encounter, but that hasn’t seemed to trouble the 20-year-old so far.

He’s the youngest Crucible quarter finalist for 25 years.

Si Jiahui beats Robert Milkins to reach Crucible quarter-finals on debut

14:41 , Harry Latham-Coyle

It was a little nervy at times in the last couple of frames, but that’s a sizeable win for Si, showing his talent and big-game bottle to reach a second quarter-final of the season. Anthony McGill, who starts tonight’s evening session with a commanding lead over Jack Lisowski, is all but certain to be his last-eight opponent - McGill likes the Crucible and has looked in good touch, but you’d give the young Chinese player every chance of at least challenging the Scot.

Robert Milkins 7-13 Si Jiahui

14:38 , Harry Latham-Coyle

What a way to finish, too, the last red beautifully guided home and then the black slammed in too to bring up a 100. The yellow and green make 105 - Si Jiahui is through to the last eight!

Robert Milkins 7-12 Si Jiahui

14:36 , Harry Latham-Coyle

And in goes frame ball. Si Jiahui will be a quarter finalist on Crucible debut.

Robert Milkins 7-12 Si Jiahui

14:35 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Si takes an extra second or two over his shots, keen not to repeat the error he made two frames ago with the chance to seal his place in the quarter finals. But his head drops as he fails to put quite enough on a positional shot to the pink, ending up on the wrong side.

That’s good salvaging, though, playing with top spin and a touch of side to get on a red on the cushion.

Robert Milkins 7-12 Si Jiahui

14:28 , Harry Latham-Coyle

That’s the extent of the early scoring, though, with both players sitting in and playing safe. Milkins eventually chances his arm, cuttign a red between pink and blue and up past the yellow, but a bash of the mandibles and its away.

Si doubles his tally with the chance to build a score of substance.

Robert Milkins 7-12 Si Jiahui

14:25 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Si won’t be overly concerned by this Milkins rally yet, particularly given the Englishman isn’t playing truly outstanding snooker, but he would ideally like this wrapped up before the mid-session interval. He starts smartly with a lengthy red.

Robert Milkins 7-12 Si Jiahui

14:20 , Harry Latham-Coyle

This is frame shot, surely, trying to knock the last red away from the pink. In goes the black, up goes the cue ball...and away springs the red perfectly! A beautifully deft shot from Milkins, and into the colours he moves 19 in front needing only a couple more balls to make sure.

In they go - another frame back! There’s life in this one yet.

Robert Milkins 6-12 Si Jiahui

14:18 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Milkins has played a couple of corking safeties in this frame. Si is forced into a prolonged consideration of options, and ends up making a hash of his riposte, fumbling around the right corner and ending up knocking both a red and the black back into a more convenient position.

Robert Milkins 6-12 Si Jiahui

14:15 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Si squanders a second opportunity of the frame while amongst the balls, screwing back too far from a red and leaving himself a little too straight on the yellow, meaning there is no straightforward scurry back towards the remaining five reds. He misses a cut on one of the quintet to the corner to leave his lead at 16.

Robert Milkins 6-12 Si Jiahui

14:12 , Harry Latham-Coyle

A jaunty cross-double earns Milkins another point and the chance to plant Si on the yellow’s backside. The youngster comes off three cushions with expert weight, dropping on a red to deny Milkins the chance to make further inroads.

Robert Milkins 6-12 Si Jiahui

14:09 , Harry Latham-Coyle

The fourth escape route is the correct one, but Si leaves Milkins a starting red on. In it goes, followed by the blue and then another one-pointer, but an incorrect cannon on the black means the break is over at seven.

Robert Milkins 6-12 Si Jiahui

14:06 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Closer, but still not there. Five more to Milkins, who has cut Si’s lead in half without potting a ball.

Robert Milkins 6-12 Si Jiahui

14:06 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Very nicely, in fact - Si has no sight of a red, and twice meets the blue full on as he tries to come off two cushions. Milkins asks him to have a third attempt.

Robert Milkins 6-12 Si Jiahui

14:04 , Harry Latham-Coyle

30 will be Si’s lot, though, not getting the requisite biff on the bunch to send a red scuttling free and thus forced to play safe, Si switching to his left hand and hiding the cue ball in baulk. Milkins replies nicely.

Robert Milkins 6-12 Si Jiahui

14:02 , Harry Latham-Coyle

A forced long Milkins red ends up hopping on the top of the cushion, leaping out of the pocket and back into play. Si hurries to 17 before he is forced to pause, getting down to check a red above the black will miss the colour and find the corner. It will, and it does.

Robert Milkins 6-12 Si Jiahui

13:59 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Right - seven more of those will do for Rob Milkins. Si Jiahui just needs to reset. That frame was very much within his grasp.

Robert Milkins 6-12 Si Jiahui

13:56 , Harry Latham-Coyle

An empty baize and on we will go - Milkins hits back.

Robert Milkins 5-12 Si Jiahui

13:55 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Milkins will have to make his second highest break of the match to stay in it, but this is some of his most fluent stuff so far, perhaps the reality of the situation he faces freeing him up. The last red is knocked into the yellow pocket with the rest and the brown is valuable enough to ensure a clearance will give Milkins the frame.

Robert Milkins 5-12 Si Jiahui

13:54 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Hang on! Si comes a cropper on 68, running aground after just, perhaps, losing focus for a moment to leave himself a tough red. Milkins in with 75 still remaining.

Robert Milkins 5-12 Si Jiahui

13:52 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Si is up to 44, finding few balls overly bothersome thus far, and still with a couple of reds with clear runs to a pocket. It is worth remembering that he’s only 20 - regardless of what happens later this week, this feels a coming of age performance, a young player showing he’s got both the game and the mindset to succeed on snooker’s biggest stage.

A crisp splitting of the pack means Rob Milkins’s race is all but run.

Robert Milkins 5-12 Si Jiahui

13:47 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Kapow! That’s delicious from Si, atoning for those early long-potting errors with a lively pot up the right. He’s up and away.

Robert Milkins 5-12 Si Jiahui

13:46 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Milkins will be kicking himself. He had plenty of chances in that frame, with scoring opportunities readily available, but positionally he was all over the place. The veteran stares mournfully into the Crucible carpet, picking at his fignernails as he waits for his opponent to return and allow him to start what could be the final frame.

Robert Milkins 5-12 Si Jiahui

13:44 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Si has the freedom to take on a difficult cut to the middle, knowing any colour but the yellow will suffice to allow him to clear without requiring snookers. His choice is black, trying to play a tricky shot to leave himself in position to clean up...

Superb! An excellent navigation up to the yellow and then a neat green, and this should be it.

For the third time, a phone goes off in the auditorium, drawing an angry warning from the referee. And that’s a sparkling finish to a sloppy frame, Si clearing up briliantly with particularly impressive pots of the pink and black. One more frame needed.

Robert Milkins 5-11 Si Jiahui

13:37 , Harry Latham-Coyle

This is almost comical at this point. Si manages to snooker himself off the black, ending up right by the spot and having to come off a side cushion to contact the last remaining red.

Somehow, he manages to then snooker Milkins! The Englishman narrowly misses the red going up to baulk and then again on the way back down. That makes Si’s task a little easier, now only 30 behind. It’s a free ball, too, with Si surprisingly taking on a tough pink rather than asking Milkins to find an alternative route to the red. No dice.

Robert Milkins 5-11 Si Jiahui

13:35 , Harry Latham-Coyle

A simply brilliant red to the middle enables Si to start scoring, but true to this wretched frame, it isn’t long before he makes an error, the white skewing into the centre pocket after Jiahui had found the left corner.

But Milkins misses a simple enough pot that would have secured the frame! This has been a rather ropey start to the session.

Robert Milkins 5-11 Si Jiahui

13:32 , Harry Latham-Coyle

That’s much more like it from Si. A gorgeous cut into the corner of the second red below the pink, played as a shot to nothing with room to get back up to baulk.

His attempted safety is lax, but Milkins leaves him another potting opportunity, which Si just about capitalises upon with a friendly peck on a fellow red.

Robert Milkins 5-11 Si Jiahui

13:28 , Harry Latham-Coyle

More chuntering from Milkins, another loose positional shot leaving one red half-blocking a corner pocket. Can he squeeze it through? Nope, a healthy snick and break over with only three points scored.

Si is, at least, matching him miss for miss. A nervy start from the match leader.

Robert Milkins 5-11 Si Jiahui

13:25 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Or not! Milkins shakes his head as he carelessly lets the white get away from him, forcing him to take on that other red near the green spot. A miss allows Si to score for the first time today, but the yellow isn’t there. A slightly scrappy start.

Robert Milkins 5-11 Si Jiahui

13:23 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Si deliberates over a shot, weighing up whether to venture another long-range attempt with two tempting reds up by the green, or play safe. He’ll take it on...in and out. He never quite looked comfortable standing over it, and Milkins extends his lead.

This should be his from here...

Robert Milkins 5-11 Si Jiahui

13:19 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Si is in an ambitous move - Milkins’s safety leaves a long pot up to the yellow pocket, which the youngster takes on, again just a little off. He’s a tough fortunate to not leave it on.

That’s superb from Milkins, sneaking the cue ball in through the back door to disguise it behind the black. Si extricates himself well.

Robert Milkins 5-11 Si Jiahui

13:18 , Harry Latham-Coyle

It is far from perfect from Robert Milkins, struggling to settle in but with enough potting acumen to keep the scoring moving. The bridge rest is employed to cut in a red at the bottom of the bunch, and an untimely kick brings an unintended flick of the bunch to leave a tougher pot on the black than it should have been.

Nicely done - Milkins both pots the colour and develops a red off the cushion...but there’s no potting angle on the next red! Break over at 39.

Robert Milkins 5-11 Si Jiahui

13:14 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Si takes on a long red up the right cushion, rattling the jaws after electing to play it at pace. A chance for Milkins, stretching awkwardly over a red and the black but making sure of the pot.

Milkins somehow avoids the bunch after being left with a tough angle on the black, rolling through to nudge up against the opposite cushion. A red and a yellow and he’s up into double figures.

Robert Milkins 5-11 Si Jiahui

13:12 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Out into the Crucible come the two players, a solid enough crowd patting their hands together in time with The Wurzels to welcome Bristol’s Robert Milkins.

Si will break first.

World Snooker Championship

13:08 , Harry Latham-Coyle

An interesting comment from John Higgins on Eurosport last night, saying that he felt the pockets were playing “bigger than usual”. There’s been some good scoring in this tournament, and he’s certainly this year’s tables.

Surely a comeback in our sole game this afternoon is beyond Robert Milkins? The Englishman has been playing some fine snooker in the last year or so, but Si Jiahui didn’t look like he was likely to wobble yesterday.

World Snooker Championship - Ronnie O’Sullivan through to quarter finals

13:00 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Also looking in fine fettle over the weekend was Ronnie O’Sullivan, blocking out a noisy build-up to his encounter with Hossein Vafaei and rarely troubled by his Iranian opponent. Luca Brecel will be the seven-time winner’s last eight foe.

‘I’ve got nothing to lose’ says Ronnie O’Sullivan after crushing Hossein Vafaei

John Higgins thrashes Kyren Wilson to lay down World Snooker Championship marker

12:53 , Harry Latham-Coyle

John Higgins looked rather good yesterday, back to his best after a tough season and sweeping aside Kyren Wilson in some style. His 137, 136 start to the match was snooker at its very best with the Scot in total control of the cue ball to clean up twice, and Higgins rarely looked back from there.

John Higgins thrashes Kyren Wilson to lay down World Snooker Championship marker

World Snooker Championship - hearing begins after betting scandal

12:50 , Harry Latham-Coyle

With all three matches one-sided so far, it may be that the big snooker story of the day comes some way south of Sheffield, with an independent disciplinary hearing set to begin in London after ten Chinese players were charged with various alleged breaches of betting rules.

Here’s everything you need to know:

What is snooker’s Chinese betting scandal?

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12:46 , Harry Latham-Coyle

Si has been mightily impressive so far on debut at the World Championship, surviving that final frame against Shaun Murphy and then playing some of the best snooker of his young career over the weekend to leave himself on the brink of victory. He’s got every shot of continuing on, too, with a potential last eight encounter with Anthony McGill unlikely to intimidate him.

World Snooker Championship

12:43 , Harry Latham-Coyle

John Higgins hastily secured his place in the quarter-finals yesterday, leaving us with just one item to occupy our attention this afternoon. Robert Milkins, who produced a superb comeback to pip Joe Perry in the first round, again has it all to do, with Si Juahai in total command ahead of the resumption this afternoon.

World Snooker Championship

12:34 , Luke Baker

Welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

We’ve reached Day 10 and the last of the second-round action. Monday afternoon’s session will see Robert Milkins try to overcome a hefty 11-5 deficit to Si Juahui to seal an unlikely place in the quarter-finals.

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