Snooker results: Ali Carter beats Robert Milkins to reach German Masters final

Carter will bid for a second German Masters title 10 years after his first following a 6-5 semi-final defeat of Robert Milkins.

Carter held off a fightback from Milkins to seal a place in Sunday's final, where he'll face either Ford after his defeat of Jack Lisowski.

Ford looked set to surrender a 5-3 lead when trailing 52-0 in the final frame, only for Lisowski to run out of position and have to lay a snooker instead.

Ford could only hit and hope, leaving Lisowski a half-chance which rattled in the jaws before Ford went on to cooly clear for the narrowest of wins.

Captain Carter lands safely

Less than a day on from his 147 heroics, Milkins made a good start to lead Carter 3-1 at the interval despite failing to register a break of real significance.

Carter though found his scoring touch and turned the match on its head by winning the following four frames with breaks of 72, 67, 133 and 83 to move within one victory.

Milkins dusted himself down and made a century of his own to claw his way back into the match and then took the following frame courtesy of a fabulous green off the cushion, having been snookered by Carter.

Both players had chances in the deciding frame but it was a long red from Carter that allowed him to lay a tricky snooker, from which Milkins could only leave his opponent among the balls.

Carter plotted his way to the snookers required stage before a farcical ending, as he first missed a simple pot, Milkins then missed the remaining red altogether, and Carter finally finished things off.

He's now one win away from his first ranking title since 2016.

“It’s massive because there was so much riding on that game, possibly a Players Championships, winning another title,” Carter told World Snooker.

“I’ve had a good week and played some good stuff. I was disappointed with the way I went out in the first half of the match. I played really well to go 5-3 up and didn’t really do a lot wrong to go five-all.

“It was then nip and tuck in the final frame… there was a lot of pressure out there. It would have been a massive win for both of us and I was pleased to get the victory today.”

Ford keeps his focus

In the second semi-final, a more fluid game which featured a century apiece and several more stylish breaks, Ford looked set to win well when breaks of 104 and 89 took him clear.

Lisowski though produced some fabulous snooker to level and his half-century in the deciding frame was equally sublime, until the cue ball came to rest against the brown rather than an inch either side.

After laying a deadly snooker, Lisowski might have expected an easier red than the half-ball Ford left for him, and it always looked low despite threatening to wobble and drop.

It stayed out and left Ford with just two problem reds, the Leicester man finding the solution before he too appeared set to run out of position only to have a delicate yellow to middle.

When that went in, he had the relatively simple task of clearing the colours and did so to reach just his second ranking final.