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The quarter-finals were played as best-of-25-frames matches over three sessions on 29 and 30 April.[26] Davis compiled a 136 break in the third frame against Higgins.[49] In the eighth frame, Higgins was on course to achieve a maximum break, when he became the first player in the history of the world championship to pot black balls after each of the fifteen red balls during a break.[49] After running out of position on the fifteenth black, he managed to pot the yellow, but failed in an attempt to then double the green ball.[49] The pair finished their first session tied at 4–4.[49] In the second session, the players were level at 7–7 before Higgins won the next two frames to carry a 9–7 lead into the last session, in which he won the match 13–9.[50] It was the first time that Higgins had reached the semi-finals since 1976[51] Having lost the first two frames to Wych, Thorburn built a 5–3 lead at the end of their first session.[52] and after having led 9–3 and 10–6, progressed 13–6.[53] With Stevens's "all-out attacking" play featuring "brilliant" potting, according to Clive Everton,[44] he was 5–3 and 10–6 in front of Charlton after the first and second sessions,[33] and won 13–7,[50] becoming the youngest-ever world championship semi-finalist, aged 21.[33][54] Reardon had three breaks over 40 in the first frame against Taylor, and won three of the next four for 4–1, before losing the next two and then finishing the first session 5–3 up.[33] He extended his lead to 7–3, but Taylor then won six successive frames leaving Reardon 7–9 behind at the start of the last session.[33] Taylor added a frame, but Reardon tied at 10–10 by winning the next three.[33][44] From 11 to 11, Reardon missed some easy shots as Taylor won 13–11 for what Snooker Scene described in their match report as "the best win of his career."[33] Semi-finals The semi-finals took place between 1 and 3 May as best-of-31-frames matches played over four sessions.[26] Stevens led 5–2 against Higgins after winning four frames in a row from 1–2.[26][55] Their second session finished at 7–7,[56] and Stevens made a number of mistakes during the third session, including missing a black from its spot when he was 8–9 behind, and the session ended with him 9–13 in arrears.[33] Higgins won the first frame of the fourth session, with Stevens, successfully potting a number of long-distance shots, then taking the next two, and adding another by winning the 26th frame on the black to make it 12–14.[33] Although Higgins appeared tense, he