World Snooker Championship LIVE David Gilbert takes on Kyren ...

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That, my friends was a fantastic session of One-Table Situation World Championship Snooker snooker. We're level going into tomnorrow morning's second session, and I've not a clue what's going to be. But I can't wait to find out!

COME ON KYRIZZLE! Eleven reds, 11 blacks, but when the white slows a choice: red to left corner and around the table, or red to left-middle and gentle float backwards; he opts for the latter, gets position ... but misses the pot! But what an effort, and what a session!

On 56, Kyren has to make a call: the 147 or the frame, and he takes the 147 - good for him, there are loads of the latter and few of the former. So he slithers in a horrible black to left corner from right side, steadies to steers down a straight diagonal, and there are no difficult balls, but also not that many dead easy ones. I say that, but he breaks the pack, the next red secures the frame; "Thank God Mark Selby's out this year," he says, as last time his made a maxi in the final to win a share of the prize pot.

How much is too much? Dave's so confident now he goes nails at a brute to right corner, misses, and Kyren immediately gets to work, four red-blacks reminding us of the maxi he scored here last term. But have a look He splits the pack beautifully but must now face down a minger of a black from the side rail; he strokes it home superbly and, student of the game that he is, he'll really want a shy at the big fish. Come on the Kyrizzle!

"He's always been good enough," says UJ of Dave. "Maybe his thought processes aren't as good as those others have, but he's good enough." And so is this match - so far, the standard has been high with neither player just letting things go - they're taking on everything, and when Dave's left with the final black, he thwacks it off the table, making the point that he's absolutely loving this contest. So are we, old mate, so are we.

Dave makes the frame safe and he's not going to let this chance go without a serious scuffle.

Dave has a long think, thinking about sending red on to red into left corner, the pink in the road. But then he decdes he can just go direct ... can he?! You bet he can! That's a glorious pot, and it should mean the frame.

Dave doesn't hit the pack as he'd planned but he's on one, then has to find a recovery-pot thanks to lax cue-ball control. So far, the method is working, but he'll want to play a little tighter than he is. Still, he's at the table potting balls ... or was, jawsing a brute to the green but getting away with it, leaving not. It He had to take it on, though, because he can't get the white doing what he tells it.

"Brilliant ... brilliant!" croons Uncle Joe when Kyren leathers a starter down right corner. But then he misses one he shouldn't, leaving Dave a simple starter, but there aren't many loose reds at which he can pick.

A run of 67 levels the match again.

Kyren calmly removes balls, a lovely delicate floater slipping down left corner, and we're back level; should someone with the last two frames of the session, they'll lead overnight, but only by two

Bridging awkwardly, Dave jabs down on one to right corner, undercuts it, and Kyren will be pleased to back in: his opponent looked like he might catching a buzz, so will want to harsh it up pronto.

Now then! Dave is proper into this, power-caressing a diagonal starter into left corner, returning to the business end off the green, and he's enjoying this now. But, well, this game! Poking over a cut having played an unnecessary cannon, Dave clips a stray ball with his cue, calling foul on himself ... only for Kyren to hit the knuckle sending one long to the green! Another chance for the AF, but there's a lot of work to do to make something substantial/

Kyren now knows mistakes are likely to be punished and with that comes pressure. But the same is so of the lead Dave now has; he'll be looking to cash-in while the going's good because this is a long old match.

Dave's been good in the balls so far, but a careless shot means a snooker or a difficult pot; he's feeling good so he takes on the latter, landing another banger to right-middle - the pocket to which Kyren missed in the process of letting him in. he's going to take the lead, and is visibly growing in confidence. He belongs here.

Dave sends a nice one spinning the right-middle just when he looks in trouble, and the frame is now on his cue.

A poor positional shot means that to sustain the break, a plant through a tiny gap, sent long to the green bag is necessary. Is he really taking this on? He is you know ... and it's there! Fantastic behaviour and a nice split follows, but the only one he's is a tight cut to the middle, and he's too high! Chance for Dave to counter!

Kyren, we're told, was in the practise room during the break and he immediately strokes down a starter. He'll have wanted to take charge of this match early doors - my sense is Dave is more open to going with the flow - but two safety errors have cost him. In the balls, though, he looks decent.

Dave records his seventh ton of the competition, that's three more than anyone else, and a glorious exhibition green, cut to the middle, puts an exclamation mark on a run of 104. We're into this, and the players depart for the mid-sesh; I can't wait to see what happens next.

Dave plays for a red he might've left till later and now has to send a tricky recovery-pot to the green bag; he does so well. So can he break what's left off the pack off the brown? Can he ever! The black is covered, but the pink and almost all the reds are there for him. This is going to be all-square!

Dave steers in a beauty, sending the white long, dead slow, to pot in a tiny fraction of right corner; his reward is getting to play a safety. But then Kyren catches one too thin - sorry Dominic, thinly - cannons a stray red and offers a chance. Usually, the Warrior is solid in those situations, but that's his second such error and Dave has to cash in because most likely, there won't be many.

Kyren clears the table, and already the next frame feels a biggie.

Dave looks poorly sat in his seat as Kyren levels the scores, the two remaining reds are in open play. But he gets low on the final one, considers a safety, then takes on a narrow oneto the centre .. and it's there, right in the heart of the pocket. Colour, yellow and green for the frame...

Eeeesh, Dave undercuts a black off its spot but before he can respond - with plenty at which to go - Kyren has to ask the ref to remind people to leave their phones off. It's nuts really, how can you not know that needs to be done? But back on the table, this is a chance for the Warriro to make clear such carelessness will not be brooked.

Dave accumulates nicely, but after removing loose reds he has to ruffle the pack and does so well enough for the now.

A poor break from Dave offers Kyren one to right corner, and when he misses it, the initial error yields an opportunity, a red beyond the blue to left-middle. A decent contribution here would be interesting.

It is and, for the sake of our match, good.

Dave picks around the table, strokes a nasty redemption-blue into the green, gets on to one of the harder reds, digs in behind it, down it goes, and that should be the frame.

Oh Dave. A lax positional shot means a nasty oblique red to the middle and he can't cut it down; he's not settled yet and, in comms, Dave notes that last evening he said if he had Kyren's self-belief he'd have won one of these by now. That sounds a little glib to my ear - Kyren is a better player than him and doesn't have one - but so far we're seeing the difference on the table. Or are we? A poor safety offers another opportunity, but the remaining reds are awkwardly situated.

Kyren nails a gorgeous starter diagonally into left corner but a bad miss hands Dave a chance; he winds up stuck in the reds, the speed of the new cloth perhaps deceiving him, so it's end of break. Thinking more about how this match might go, I'd say if Dave wins, it'll be an arse-nipper but Kyren, if he plays well early doors, is capable of winning by a way. And as I type, he cannons a red and pots it, the last thing the Angry Farmer needs ... but a miss with the rest, a rarity from the Warrior, and even though it's only frame two, you feel he needs to make something of what's a decent chance.

Kyren hits the front and Dave hasn't settled yet.

Kyren secures the frame, the only remaining seed looking good. I doubt three qualifiers have ever made the last four, and it happening now tells us how many brilliant players we have in our game. It sometimes means, though, that the world championships won't confirm for us the identity of the best player in the world, and as someone who grew with Davis and Hendry, that's a shame. But at the same time, it's great having no clue what's going to happen

Kyren looks settled and why not, this is his fourth one-table situation in seven years. On 40, he strokes a pink to middle that gets him in position to dismiss another red, and though of the remaining three, two aren't far off cushions, they're far enough such that I expect him to find route to them. Of course, as soon as I type that he makes one difficult for himself, but sends it spinning to the green bag, and this is very good work.

It's Dave in next, he keeps the run going with a nice red and delicious cut-back black, but you can only chase for so long and the next red, a tightish cut to left corner, goes astray leaving a decent scoring opportunity for Kyrizzle.

Now that you ask, I strongly fancy Kyren for this one. He's playing well - though not as well as he can, he noted pre-match - and given the remaining field, will be convinced this is his time. What he has is a superb long-potting game and good tactical discipline, perfect for the long format, and if he sustains his level, of the three others left, only Stuart Bingham can beat him. And he's in first here, Dave missing to left corner which allows him to tidy up, but after he cleverly releases the black, it rolls safe, just

But how dare he change his walk-on music from this:

And our boyz baize.

He says he lost himself for a while but he's back at it now, eating well and "smashing the gym". What's most interesting, though, is what he says about Kyren, difficult to play because of his "mannerisms around the table,and his "ultimate belief" - which now, Dave has too.

Dave Gilbert is a beautiful cueist and he's reached this stage before, losing a final-frame decider to John Higgins, which is to say if he's on, he can stroke them in with the best. Kyren, meanwhile, loves Sheffield - he's made three quarters, two semis and a final, unable to do much in the latter having spent himself struggling past Anthony McGill in the last four. Now, though, he's a much better player, he's in form, and he's certain that this is his destiny.

We all had these as our final four, right? Course we did. But though we might not have our biggest names, what we do have is four men about to attack the opportunity of their lives with everything they've got. Stuart Bingham has won at the Cruce before so is probably under less pressure than Kyren Wilson, Jak Jones and Dave Gilbert, but like them he has sacrificed and grafted for a moment he thought might never come again. So, over the next three days, these four are going to empty their souls for our entertainment - and it's going to be great.

Semi-finals

• Kyren Wilson v David Gilbert

• Stuart Bingham v Jak Jones

• Kyren Wilson 9-7 John Higgins
• Judd Trump 9-13 Jak Jones

• David Gilbert 13-8 Stephen Maguire
• Stuart Bingham 8-8 Ronnie O'Sullivan

• Kyren Wilson 13-8 John Higgins
• Stuart Bingham 13-10 Ronnie O'Sullivan