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Pain-suffered Selby breezes into Snooker China Open quarters

Xinhua, April 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

Neck-pain tangled Mark Selby tore English snooker starlet Elliot Slessor's dream of career's first quarterfinal in 2015 World Snooker China Open here on Wednesday.

"Stay motionless too long, then it might get stiff again," said Selby who was suffering neck injury since 2012, when he had to withdraw from China Open that year in earlier round.

The pain struck back again in the first round of the event this year. Yet Selby found his way to dent it. "It was the same position so I assume it was the same injury."

Selby consulted his physician back home and began to practice stretching exercises he did before.

"Hopefully it was just like a muscle strain and nothing too serious," said Selby.

Selby saw off Slessor 5-0 including a 126-point clean. Slessor turned professional last season and this was his career's first second-round trip.

David Gilbert will wait for Selby in the next day's quarterfinal. Endi