Alfie Burden 1-3 Tony Drago (55-35)
What a shot!
Burden looks to rifle the black away once more, but it cannons off the jaws of the bottom-left and flies up towards the upper-left, where it just stays up!
Some fluke, that would have been.
Alfie Burden 1-3 Tony Drago (45-35)
It’s been a tense start to this fifth frame, but now we’re getting some quality potting coming through.
It seemed as though Drago would cruise it to put the disappointment of the fourth behind him, but Burden is back in the game here, and he crashes the black into the bottom-left with aplomb. Not once, but twice.
Alfie Burden 1-3 Tony Drago
Blimey!
A battle of the safeties as we get down towards the final balls, but it’s Drago who cedes as he gives up his whitewash victory!
Burden is on the board, and we play on.
Alfie Burden 0-3 Tony Drago (66-44)
He’s so unlucky, Burden, as he tries to bury the yellow into the top-right, but it clatters the jaws and stays up.
Drago sends it into the top-left, instead, and he’s beginning to clean up now.
The brown follows it, and he sets eyes on the blue, where his run ends.
Alfie Burden 0-3 Tony Drago (66-35)
A red just misses the centre-right pocket from Burden, and his unbeaten run ends at 53.
Drago is back on the table, looking to capitalise and clear the table to take the win.
He can’t, however, as Burden is back with the cue in his hand.
The reds are being fired off here, and he takes aim to kiss the brown into the upper-right.
He’s forced into a safety off the yellow, however, and the run is over.
Alfie Burden 0-3 Tony Drago (37-34)
Drago is in cruise control here.
He racks up an unanswered 34 before he crashes a red into the jaws.
It gives Burden a chance to build a break, which he does with some decent potting.
He’s sinking the reds with relative ease here, and the pink finds the bottom left pocket.
The black is next to go, and he’s on a roll! 37 and counting.