Trump in control against Gould

Judd Trump marched towards a quarter-final place at the Betfred.com World Championship as he sped into an 11-5 lead against Martin Gould.

Trump believes he can claim the Crucible title this year and he offered more compelling evidence to support that confident view as Gould suffered in their second session.

If there is any consolation for Gould, who slipped from 5-3 at the start of the session to within two frames of defeat, it comes in the fact that he knows an 11-5 lead is not necessarily a winning one. He too led by that margin at the last-16 stage last year, but Neil Robertson fought back to win 13-12.

The 29-year-old from Pinner in north-west London will return for Sunday morning's final session with a glimmer of hope, but Trump should not crumble as Gould did last year.

Ali Carter or last year's runner-up Graeme Dott awaits the winner of Trump's match.

The first session of Dott and Carter's opening session was on the slow side, but the pace did not worry Dott who had trailed 3-1 early on but took four frames in a row to develop a 5-3 lead.

The Larkhall man, world champion in 2006, had a 111 break in frame five but looked like being pegged back to 4-4 when he missed a short-range pink to the middle pocket. However, Essex potter Carter squandered a chance to a corner and that let the Scot back in to snaffle a lead to take into tonight's middle session of the best-of-25-frames match.

Mark Williams moved to within one frame of a quarter-final place as he continued his mauling of Jamie Cope.

The Welshman rolled in consecutive century breaks as he built up a formidable 12-4 lead over his opponent from Stoke.

Mark Allen's dramatic first-round victory over Matthew Stevens was a fading memory as the Northern Irishman fell 5-3 behind to Barry Hawkins.