SCARE AS WILLIAMS HIT BY CHEST PAINS

DefenDing world champion Mark Williams was taken to hospital suffering from chest pains last night. Williams, trailing 5-3 to David gilbert, complained of feeling unwell at the end of their session. A doctor was called and, with wife Jo and son Kian, Williams, 44, went to northern general Hospital in Sheffield for tests. Williams tweeted: ‘in A&e, could be here for a while, couldn’t stick the chest pains no more. Lucky there wasn’t more frames to play. Doctors are confident it’s not anything to do with my heart.’ He is due to resume the best-of-25 frames contest this morning. Meanwhile, Mark Selby faces a battle against former cabbie gary Wilson. The three-time world champion goes into this morning’s final session of his Betfred World Championship last-16 clash trailing 9-7. earlier, armchair fans blasted the BBC on Twitter after the feed from the World Championship froze for 14 minutes during the match between neil Robertson and Shaun Murphy. The BBC started to screen an episode of and a presenter apologised, saying: ‘i am a snooker fan as well as you. We are doing what we can to fix the fault.’ Australian Robertson, chasing a second world title, became the first player into the quarter-finals with an emphatic 13-6 win.