Mark Williams surged into the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship with a session to spare after wrapping up a dominant 13-3 win over his fellow Gwent potter and protege Jackson Page.

Three-times champion Williams produced some of the best form of his career to compile six centuries and eight further breaks of 50-plus as he rendered Friday night's scheduled concluding session obsolete.

Williams said: "If it was anybody else with a session to spare it would be 'good, hammered him', but I don't feel like that playing Jackson.

"I played really well, kept him under pressure and it is a good learning curve for him. He can bounce back.

"I played really well and didn't really give him any chances. I did not ease up all game and he can't be too disappointed. I can't play any better than that at my age."

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Resuming with a 7-1 overnight advantage, Williams continued to show no mercy to 20-year-old Page, who trains at Williams' club in Tredegar and whom he considers a close friend.

Opening with a break of 110 to move further in front, Cwm's Williams then snatched the 10th frame with a clearance to black after Page missed the last red to leave him stranded on a highest break of 69.

Two half-centuries in the next frame made it 10-1 for Williams, who was fulfilling his tongue-in-cheek claim that he wanted to "destroy" Page, who set up the meeting with an impressive first-round success over Barry Hawkins.

Ebbw Vale's Page got a second frame on the board but Williams was merciless, firing back-to-back centuries and then, after Page clawed back another frame, finishing with a 56 to book a last-eight spot.

Page said: "He was unbelievable in the first session and it set the tone of the match. He ran away with it and it takes your very best to compete with that. He was just absolutely ridiculous. You can't fault it."