Ronnie O'Sullivan advances as Mark Selby and John Higgins suffer exits

ROCKET RONNIE: Ronnie O'Sullivan watches on.

Ronnie O'Sullivan eased into the quarter-finals of the International Championship after Mark Selby and John Higgins suffered surprise defeats in Tianjin.

Selby led Tom Ford 3-1 at the mid-session interval but lost the next five frames in succession, while Higgins was also beaten 6-3 by Northern Ireland's Jordan Brown, who rounded off the win with a break of 116.