Neil Robertson duffs a easyish (for him) red to left corner. Wow. He's on 39 but Barry Hawkins has a chance to get back into this.

The 42-year-old makes 16 and then misses a black off its spot. Horrendous.

He'd pot that 99/100 times normally.

Elementary. Neil Robertson gets a slight bit of fortune hitting the knuckle on the right middle. That could have gone anywhere but it leaves him well placed to knock the blue in and get up and down the table.

Some serious points could be scored here.

Neil Robertson rolls a red into the right middle after a dump shot goes slightly awry from Barry Hawkins.

But it's just a safety next as the Australian digs into the green and sends it down the table...

He has Barry Hawking in trouble again here and the Englishman can't get the cue ball safe. Robertson is back at the table eyeing up a long red.

Barry Hawkins is wiping his cue down as he waits for Neil Robertson to come back into the arena.

If this sort of match doesn't give you sweaty palms I don't know what would.

Steve Davis
Six-time world champion on BBC Two

I feel Barry Hawkins has to play no-miss snooker from here. He has to try from nowhere to somehow try to stamp his authority on the match and that is so hard to do from 7-4 down.

It does help to have won a major title before. It gives you that inner self-confidence. Until you have done that you just don't know if you're capable, but once you've won one you have that confidence and you jump up a level.

John Parrott
1991 world champion on BBC Two

Neil Robertson puffs his chest out and there's great authority the way he walks around the table. He looks like he owns the place.

When he is playing quicker, with more fluency, he does not look like he is going to miss.

It shows the strength in our game that he has only won one world title.

Neil Robertson is 68 ahead with 59 left on the table.

Barry Hawkins is doing his sums. He gets up then decides to sit down again.

Absolutely flying. Neil Robertson is wandering round the table caressing balls into the pockets. This all looks so effortless. He's up to 60 and closing in on another frame.

A very cagey opening to the 11th frame. Now Barry Hawkins has a chance. An awkward, horrible starter that's gone wrong.

He knew he was going to leave Neil Robertson with a pot if he missed. Huge pressure on that.

The Australian makes no mistake with a much simpler opening red to the right middle and couple of shots later he's opening the reds up.

Robertson is currently fourth on the all-time list for centuries and you can see why.

Barry Hawkins' pot success so far is 85%. I may be wrong but I'd imagine he was around 90-93% in his last couple of matches.

A break of 69 in the last frame, his highest of the match so far, will help lift his spirits.

John Parrott
1991 world champion on BBC Two

You go through the mill mentally when you are out there in a match like this. He has to remember how well he has played all week.

Red, pink, red, blue, the black pretty much out of commission Neil Robertson recognises that this chase for three snookers is over.

Barry Hawkins picks up his first frame of the night.

Neil Robertson tries to cut a thin red into the bottom left corner, it travels across the baize but it an inch or two out.

Barry Hawkins gets back to the baize to knock in a longish red, which is followed by the brown.

Robertson needs a couple of snookers but will play on.

Marvellous cueing from Barry Hawkins rifling a red into the right middle.

But then a cannon into the remaining reds in the middle of the table from the blue goes wrong.

The snooker gods aren't playing fair at the minute. He's got no pot on. He is 69 ahead with 75 on the table.

Shaun Murphy
2005 World champion

Neil is looking like he might run away with it. Barry Hawkins needs to send Neil Robertson a message here, that if he makes a mistake he will pounce on it.

Nothing is easy when you are behind but Barry Hawkins is doing pretty well to hold things together here.

He's up to 41.

If Barry Hawkins could buy any frame of snooker I reckon this one would be right near the top of his list.

A slack pot from Neil Robertson might just have given him a chance. He rockets a red into the bottom right corner. The shout of 'come on Barry' whips up around the arena again.

John Parrott
1991 world champion on BBC Two

It's a little bit scrappy but at the moment Robertson is doing enough. It isn't brilliant but he is 6-3 ahead and the objective is just to win the match.

Steve Davis
Six-time world champion on BBC Two

You need a bit of help in this game and when your opponent misses and the white goes in you expect to get a chance and a nice easy one.

So when things aren't going your way it makes it doubly hard. He needs to be able to focus on just the balls on the table rather than the occasion. He'll get a few more 'C'mon Barry' shouts than he'll probably like. A couple of easy chances will help.

Neil Robertson is keeping the scoreboard ticking over. There a three trickyish reds remaining but he knocks the first in no problem and makes a half century.

Barry Hawkins is going 6-3 down.