Dale, Day in all-Welsh final

Ryan Day set up an all-Welsh final in the 2007 World Snooker Roewe Shanghai Masters with an emphatic 6-2 defeat of Graeme Dott.

The 27-year-old from Pontycymmer showed his break-building class with a century and three more runs over 50 as he ended Dott's hopes of becoming the first player to win two ranking events in China in the same year.

Day goes through to face friend and practice partner Dominic Dale in the first all-Welsh ranking final since Mark Williams beat Matthew Stevens at the 2000 World Championship.

Today's conclusion to the season's first event is over 19 frames, with the winner to scoop £48,000.

World No.16 Day, among the top echelon of the rankings for the first time, reached his first final at the Malta Cup in February, losing 9-4 to Murphy.

"I got off to a bad start in that final which unsettled me," said Day.

"Hopefully I can learn from that experience and play better. It's good for Wales that one of us will win it."

Earlier, Dale reached his first ranking event final in ten years by beating Mark Selby 6-3 to secure his second appearance in a ranking final and his first since a 9-6 victory over John Higgins in the 1997 Grand Prix at the Bournemouth International Centre.

He converted his sixth semi-final place after a marathon 4 hr 44 min struggle against Selby. The Welshman, arguably the form player at the Shanghai Grand Stage during the week, could not get into his stride as both he and Selby struggled, with just one break over 50 between them in nine frames.

"It was a totally different setting today, one table and a huge crowd. To make another ranking event final means a lot to me," said the player nicknamed the Spaceman.