Allen and O'Brien through to quarters in Shanghai

Mark Allen and Fergal O'Brien are through to the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters.

Allen qualified courtesy of a 5-1 win over former world number one Mark Williams.

The Antrim man will now face Michael White, who beat Welsh compatriot Ryan Day 5-2.

Breaks of 67 and 56 helped Allen into a 4-0 lead before Williams, currently ranked 20th, pulled one frame back.

A run of 85 in the sixth handed victory to world number nine Allen, who is bidding for his second title in three weeks having claimed the Paul Hunter Classic last month.

After the match, Allen said: "I wasn't at my best but I felt I did enough to win.

"I just needed to be patient and make sure I didn't miss anything silly, and I did that pretty well throughout the match.

"In the fourth frame, unfortunately for Mark the table seemed to roll off a bit because on the third attempt he said he was trying to make sure he hit the red.

"I'm confident, I've won a lot of matches lately and hopefully I can turn that into more titles. My form hasn't been brilliant so if I can start playing well I could be very dangerous.

"It won't be an easy match tomorrow because I know what Michael is capable of, he's very aggressive and scores heavily."

Dubliner O'Brien saw off Zhao Xintong 5-3, and will now face world number one and conqueror of Ken Doherty, Mark Selby.

O'Brien, ranked 29th, trailed 3-2 to his Chinese opponent but took the last three frames to progress to a meeting with the world champion.

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