The Embassy world championship is going on at the crucible in Sheffield. So far there has been some quality matches and many of the leading stars have been knocked out including the current holder Williams and last years runner up Higgins.
The last eight are:
O’Sullivan
Perry
Stevens
Hendry
Hamilton
Dott
Gray
Mcclough
O’sullivan must be the favourite out of this lot, even though I will be rooting for Hendry.
my fav’ player stephenie aka stephen hendry did well to get past barry pinches the conqurer of people’s champ jimmy white in the 1st round. pinches made stephenie work for this win although i had my doubts @ stephenie pulling through @ 12-12. phew 
i think matthew stevens has a very good chance of winning this year alongside the game’s most prize possession ronnie o’sullivan. i truely hope stepghenie can wina unbelieveable 8th world crown but time will tell i suppose, come on stephenie lad all the way my man 
ronnie should breeze past the robin hood of snooker anthony hamilton in today’s 1st of 4 quarter finals, he’s 7-0 up @ the mo’, the rocket is on fire.
matthew stevens will have a close one i believe with joe perry who is no mug with that snoker cue his game is ona new high, @ the mo’ matthew leads perry 4-2.
i can’t wait for this afternoon’s session for obvious reasons, stephenie get’s his quarter fional campiagn underway by playing alan mcmanus’s conqurere in the 2nd round ian mculloch
Ronnie O'Sullivan powered past Anthony Hamilton 13-3. It was a ruthless display of superb snooker.He now has 10 centuries under his belt in the tournament so far.
In other matches Hendry leads Ian McCulloch 6-2, Dott leads Gray 6-2 and Stevens leads Perry 11-5.
The match of the tournament will be Sullivan against Hendry in the semi finals, if Hendry wins his qtr finals. A must watch for all snooker fans.
and prior to that match in 2001 ronnie promised to “send hendry back to his sad little life in scotland”. 
i think matthew stevens has shown gr8 composure thus far in the championships so he shouldn’t have any prob’ in reaching the final of the embassy world championships.
whilst on the other hand ronnie hasbeen on fire throughout this tournament and has 10 centuries to his name already, he has played better snooker then stephenie, so :insha: hendry will riase his game later tonight and win this won but i think ronnie is favourate to win 
Oooo I love stepheine..... the way Rocket is going is so thunderous, he seems unsoppable.Lets see
Sullivan is 6 - 2 up after the first session.
Whoever wins this semi will probably win the title.
I used to like Hendry but now Im all for Sullivan, a player of his quality deserves to win the title more than the one time he has. No better natural player, if only he could hold it mentally.
Also lets hope next time rumours start of him becoming muslim its for real :insha: 
O sullican is 13 - 3 up after the second session.
Hes destroying Hendry.
No stopping him now, surely.
Yes it is a shame. I wanted Hendry to win, but it is turning into a rout. O'Sillivan will now take the world championship.
O’Sullivan moves into world snooker championship final](http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/040501/3/3klp.html)
SHEFFIELD (AFP) - Ronnie O’Sullivan beat Stephen Hendry 17-4 :eek: to move into the final of the World Snooker Championship and inflict on the seven-times champion his worst ever defeat in the tournament.
O’Sullivan won three of the first four frames to lead 16-4 at the session’s interval, meaning he needed just one more frame on resumption of this 33-frame match.
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O’Sullivan duly obliged Saturday to take the first frame after the break to shoot back to the top of the world rankings for the 2004/05 campaign and earn him his first win at Sheffield over Hendry in four attempts.
Hendry also had to endure the embarrassment for the first time in his career of losing a match with a session to spare.
A 13-5 setback by Matthew Stevens in the 2001 quarter-finals was Hendry’s previous worst performance.
O’Sullivan overcame Hendry in the second session 7-1 to lead 13-3 and effectively ensure his place in the final, but there was no let-up in his performance when play resumed on Saturday.
The first frame was over in eight minutes, O’Sullivan potting a long red into a black pocket and then putting together a run of 71.
He looked assured of his 13th century of this season’s championships until a kick led to him missing a straightforward black off its spot.
Hendry conceded and he was quickly back in his chair in the next frame as O’Sullivan clipped a red into the middle bag from an acute angle.
It came as a major surprise when the 28-year-old from Chigwell broke down on 48 when cutting a red back into a black pocket.
Hendry made the most of his unexpected reprieve with a faultless 75 clearance - only his third half-century of the match.
The Scot also had a chance to make further inroads into O’Sullivan’s massive lead in the next, after he had faltered on 39 when 58-4 ahead.
But he failed to pot the penultimate red down the side cushion to give O’Sullivan the opportunity to clear sufficient points to move 15-4 in front.
O’Sullivan was making Hendry pay for any error, and when he failed to convert a cut red into the middle pocket he weighed in with a 93 to the blue.
The contest was quickly brought to a conclusion when the players returned to the arena, O’Sullivan’s 79 break settling the issue.
i was absolutely disgusted with the outcome of the rocket V stephenie match, never has hendry been beaten so pathetically @ the crucible.
the rocket was on fire, he was just not willing to miss a single pot, hendry was under termendous pressure and ronnie capitalised and won with a session to spare.
coming to the other semi’ i was not happy to see matthew stevens lose to glaswegen graeme dott, and i fear this year’s world champs’ final to be the most one sided affair for a long long time provided ronnie doesn’t turn up and thrash dott like he thrashed hendry. i feel matthew would’ve gave ronnie a better game then dotty, oh well let’s wait and see…
:insha: the crucible king stephen hendry will be back next year to win a world record 8th world crown…
O’Sullivan ‘may be greatest’](BBC SPORT | Other Sport | World Snooker | O'Sullivan 'may be greatest')
New world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan is arguably the best snooker player the sport has ever seen, according to beaten finalist Graeme Dott.
O’Sullivan took an inspired 18-8 win to clinch his second world crown, and Dott conceded: "He’s phenomenally good.
"You have to say he is getting to the point where he could be considered the greatest of all time.
“He’s got absolutely everything. He can even play left-handed. It’s hard to see how he can lose when he plays well.”
Dott added: "I don’t know if he can match Stephen Hendry’s seven world titles. It’s up to Ronnie and his attitude.
"You don’t know what he’ll do next week, never mind next year.
“In the last few days I have learnt that Ronnie is just incredibly good. Everything in his game is strong.”
Dott had raced into a 5-0 lead early on in the final, but could not maintain the momentum.
“I was in dreamland at the start. But I would have only got carried away if it was first to six!” he said.
“I was just happy to win five frames. It’s been unbelievable here. The whole tournament’s gone like a dream.”
And Dott was philosophical after O’Sullivan prevented his dream being fully realised.
“I felt the final went OK. I lost one session 6-2 and Monday afternoon 7-1. You beat yourself up about it, but he’s just phenomenally good,” he said.
"Normally if you lose a session you think of mistakes you made. Not this time. His safety is just brilliant.
“It could have been worse. I’m just happy I took him to a fourth session.”
Well played ronnie