Rocket sets up semi-final thriller

Ronnie O’Sullivan set up a mouth-watering semi-final with his fellow crowd-pleaser Jimmy White at the Rileys Club Masters by blasting past Chinese teenager Ding Jun Hui on Friday night.

O’Sullivan, the champion at Wembley ten years ago, fired in a string of sizeable breaks after falling 2-1 behind to Ding, who at 17 had become the youngest-ever Masters quarter-finalist.