Carter leads Maguire in semi

Ali Carter leads Stephen Maguire 5-3 once a scrappy gap session of their World Championship semi-final at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.

With the Crucible moving from a 2 to one-table set-up for the semi-finals and final, each players struggled badly with the pace of the fabric in mere beneath 3 hours of play.


Scotland's Maguire - who last appeared at this stage in losing to John Higgins in 2007 - wasn't complaining as he created slightly fewer errors than Carter in winning the gap 2 frames of the competition.

Carter restored parity by finding out future 2 frames together with his opponent failing to pot a ball as a forty six within the third frame and ninety one within the fourth frame enabled him to level at 2-2.

2008 World Championship finalist Carter - who ousted pre-tournament favorite Judd Trump within the second spherical - won his third straight frame despite Maguire obtaining a snooker he required by rolling the white behind the black with simply the pink and black left up.

Carter missed the pink before seeing a white fly into a high bag making an attempt a security shot leaving Maguire with ball in hand needing pink and black for the frame.