Players Championship: Hawkins and Walden reach semi-finals

Barry Hawkins will meet Ricky Walden in the last four of the Players Championship after the pair came through their quarter-finals.

World number eight Hawkins held off a comeback from Ding Junhui to beat the Chinese player 4-2 in Manchester.

Walden made century breaks in the first and third frames before easing to a 4-1 victory over Ali Carter.

Mark Allen was also a 4-1 winner, over Mike Dunn, and faces Shaun Murphy, who edged past Ben Woollaston 4-3.

Semi-finals (best of 11 frames)

NB: Clocks go forward one hour on Sunday, 27 March at 01:00 (1am) to mark the start of British Summer Time (BST).

Final (best of 19 frames)

Quarter-finals (best of seven frames)

Barry Hawkins (Eng) 4-2 Ding Junhui (Chn)

Ricky Walden (Eng) 4-1 Ali Carter (Eng)

Mark Allen (NI) 4-1 Mike Dunn (Eng)

Shaun Murphy (Eng) 4-3 Ben Woollaston (Eng)

Second round (best of seven frames)

Ben Woollaston (Eng) 4-2 Matthew Selt (Eng)

Shaun Murphy (Eng) 4-1 Dominic Dale (Wal)

Mark Allen (NI) 4-2 Mark King (Eng)

Mike Dunn (Eng) 4-2 Ryan Day (Wal)

Ricky Walden (Eng) 4-2 Marco Fu (HK)

Ali Carter (Eng) 4-1 Judd Trump (Eng)

Ding Junhui (Chn) 4-0 Michael White (Wal)

Barry Hawkins (Eng) 4-3 Robert Milkins (Eng)

First round

Barry Hawkins (Eng) 4-2 Michael Holt (Eng)

Matthew Selt (Eng) 4-1 Andrew Higginson (Eng)

Mark Allen (NI) 4-1 Mark Davis (Eng)

Mark King (Eng) 4-2 Sam Baird (Eng)

Ryan Day (Wal) 4-1 Kyren Wilson (Eng)

Tian Pengfei (Chn) 1-4 Robert Milkins (Eng)

Mark Williams (Wal) 3-4 Dominic Dale (Wal)

Tom Ford (Eng) 1-4 Ricky Walden (Eng)

First round

Ding Junhui (Chn) 4-1 David Gilbert (Eng)

Marco Fu (HK) 4-3 Alan McManus (Sco)

Shaun Murphy (Eng) 4-1 Liang Wenbo (Chn)

Ben Woollaston (Eng) 4-3 Jimmy Robertson (Eng)

Michael White (Wal) 4-2 Luca Brecel (Bel)

Allister Carter (Eng) 4-1 Graeme Dott (Sco)

Martin Gould (Eng) 1-4 Judd Trump (Eng)

Rory McLeod (Eng) 1-4 Mike Dunn (Eng)