Stephen Hendry was the youngest player to win the Snooker World Championship at the age of 21, back in 1990.  Since then he has won the title no less than six times, the last of which was in 1999 against Mark Williams.

Englishman, Shaun Murphy on the other hand was the Snooker World Champion in 2005 and is the current UK Snooker Champion.

The quarter final match resumes today with Shaun Murphy leading Stephen Hendry 9-7.

Before the start of the 2009 Snooker World Championship, Ronnie O’Sullivan was in hyper confident mood when he predicted the winner would be either John Higgins or himself.  But after O’ Sullivan’s shock defeat to Northern Ireland’s Mark Allen 13 frames to 11 in the 2nd round last Saturday, Allen is currently beating Ryan Day of Wales 9-7.

In the other quarter final matches, John Higgins and Mark Selby are all square (4-4) in a tight encounter, while Australia’s Neil Robertson is beating Scotland’s Stephen Maguire 5-3.

All quarter finals resume today and are the best of 25 frames.