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“It was just pure battling qualities. At 5-4 you think, ‘I’ve got to make it happen.’ There was just far too many mistakes in there for me. Some basic, basic mistakes. It’s just the way it goes. He’s been playing well for a long time. Since he won the World Championships, I don’t know what year it was, 2019?

“Since then he’s been playing phenomenally consistent, scoring really well. I’m surprised he hasn’t won more given the quality he has and how well he’s playing. Hopefully he goes on and wins this. He deserves it.”

Williams will now face either Jack Lisowski or Hossein Vafaei in the semi-final. The other two quarter-finals feature a quartet of Englishman as Judd Trump faces Barry Hawkins while Stuart Bingham takes on Shaun Murphy.