Snooker: O'Sullivan on title trail
RONNIE O'Sullivan's bid to become the first player in 15 years to win three successive ranking titles remains on course after he reached the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters.
O'Sullivan, who captured the World Championship last May and the Northern Ireland Trophy in August, defeated Joe Perry 5-3.
"It was a strange game and could have gone either way so I'm delighted to get through," said O'Sullivan, who let slip an expletive in frame three and was warned for swearing by referee Brendan Moore.
Stephen Hendry and Steve Davis are the only players in the game's history to have won three ranking events in a row, but O'Sullivan is three wins from joining them.
England's Jamie Cope hit a 147, but still lost 5-2 to Mark Williams, Scotland's two-time world champion John Higgins lost 5-3 to Ryan Day, while another Scot, Stephen Maguire, beat Stuart Bingham 5-3.
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