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"It has been a really tough time so I thank you for all your love you have given me, it really lifted me," Kyren Wilson told the crowd after the match.

"This venue can bring the best out of you. I still have a lot of time in this game so hopefully I can conquer this venue for a long time."

On his cue woes at the UK Championship, Wilson added: "I had to put a ferrule and a tip on the cue on the day of my first-round match and it got to boiling point when I felt I had let people down and I felt a bit silly.

"Having a cue I'm happy with, I'm just so excited I can deliver - the cue is so important. I felt very similar to how I've been over the past 18 months, bar the last six months.

"When you go out there and can't trust what you're using you have no chance. I think this cue is better because there's a bit more power, a bit more whip and it's about learning how to control that - I've had a month to get used to it, I've had to modify my cue action.

Former world champion Kyren Wilson put his UK Championship disappointment behind him as he produced some superb snooker to defeat China's Si Jiahui 6-2 and move into the Masters quarter-final.

At last month's UK Championship in York, Wilson, using a replacement cue after his one had been damaged, was in tears after his 6-4 round-one loss to Elliot Slessor and said he had been "close to a mental breakdown".

But Wilson, the 2024 world champion, has found a new cue which he has been using for a month and looked happy, confident and rejuvenated at Alexandra Palace.

In frame two, he potted 10 reds and 10 blacks but his attempt of a maximum 147 break ended on 80.

Si, a former World Championship semi finalist, trailed 3-2 in an entertaining match, before England's Wilson pulled clear to win three frames in a row.

He made the 545th century of his career in frame seven with an effort of 101, getting to three figures with an audacious no-look shot on the black, and then followed that with another century, a 105, to seal the victory.

Bizarrely, Wilson's 6-2 success continues the trend of all five matches to be played at this year's tournament to have been won by the same scoreline.

Kyren Wilson gets the win over Si Jiahui to move into the quarter-finals.

Bizarrely, it continues the run of 6-2 victories - with every match in the tournament so far ending in that scoreline.

Wilson ends the match with back-to-back centuries, an effort of 105 this time.

Wilson on the verge of victory.

Some superb showboating from Kyren Wilson with a no-look pot on the black to get to his century - the first of the match and the 545th of his career.

He can't pot the yellow so it ends on 101, but he is one away from victory.

The run of 6-2s in the tournament could well be continuing.

This could be 5-2 here.

Unsurprisingly, Si can't get the three snookers he needs, Kyren Wilson pots the last red and restores his two-frame lead.

Kyren Wilson makes a break of 59 to go 71-0 ahead but Si, needing three snookers, carries on anyway.

The last frame was the longest of the tournament, but no messing about in this one as Kyren Wilson is on course for the first century of the match.

All of the matches so far in this tournament have ended 6-2. Kyren Wilson needs to win the next three frames to keep that streak going.

Wilson, trying to get the yellow safe, pockets the cue ball and Si does the rest to wrap up a hard-fought fifth frame. At 34 minutes that is the longest frame of the tournament so far.

Tight and tense and now a high-quality safety battle.

We have one red left on the table and Si leads 55-51. This is a vital phase of the match as it is either going to be 4-1 or 3-2 some time soon.