The sporting weekend in pictures
Manchester City retained their slender advantage over Liverpool as the Premier League title contenders both enjoyed vital wins over the weekend.
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'lt nearly took my head off' - Mark Selby takes positives from World Championship after run-in with pigeon
Mark Selby has said enjoying snooker again is the big positive he will take into the summer following his exit from the World Championship. Selby’s defence of the Crucible title came to a halt at the hands of Yan Bingtao in an amazing second-round encounter. Ad/> The four-time Crucible winner emerged from the contest with credit, as he performed well and was just edged out in the tight frames — which he is famed for winning.
'Nervous' Yan Bingtao said controversial decision to ask for white ball to be cleaned was a joke to ease tension
Yan Bingtao has said he chose to ask the referee to clean the white at a key juncture in his World Championship match with Mark Selby as a joke in a bid to lighten the mood. The 2021 Masters champion was 10-7 ahead in a match he went on to win when he was left with a fiendish shot. Ad/> It was not clear whether the cue ball would pass the blue on the way to the brown that was sat over the pocket, and he agonised over the shot.
Ronnie O’Sullivan moves to brink of World Championship quarter-finals
Ronnie O’Sullivan continued to home in on a record-equalling seventh Crucible title on a day when a pigeon fluttered onto centre stage at the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.
World Snooker Championship 2022 LIVE - John Higgins and Stuart Bingham in action before Judd Trump and Neil Robertson
'You don't do that in snooker' — White not impressed as Yan wanted white cleaned on tough shot Ad/> Yan Bingtao versus Mark Selby always had the feel of a match that could burn the midnight oil, as neither is famed for swashbuckling snooker, with caution often the watchword. /> World Championship‘When you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go’ — Selby and Bingtao take toilet break during epic frame11 HOURS AGO Matches often tend to last a long time when three minutes are taken over a shot.
World Snooker Championship news: Ronnie O'Sullivan through - Mark Selby out
'The Rocket' will now take on Stephen Maguire of Scotland in the last eight of the major after his 13-9 win over Zhao Xintong of China.
World Snooker Championship 2022 - Yan Bingtao produces battling display to beat Mark Selby in record-breaking match
Yan Bingtao produced Mark Selby-type snooker to beat Mark Selby 13-10 and book his place in the quarter-finals of the World Championship. It was a war of attrition, well suited to the demands of Selby, but he met his match in a player whose game is very similar to his own. Ad/> Yan won all but one of the long frames, including the longest frame in Crucible history at 85 minutes and 22 seconds, to send the defending champion out of the tournament.
Leicester snooker ace Mark Selby out of world championship after Yan Bingtao wins longest-ever frame
Defending champion Mark Selby lost the longest frame in Crucible history as he crashed out of the World Snooker Championship against China’s Yan Bingtao. Selby, nicknamed "the jester from Leicester", came off worst in an epic 22nd frame lasting 85 minutes and 22 seconds – eclipsing the previous mark of 79 and a half minutes set by Gary Wilson and Luca Brecel in 2019.