But Dake opened the final frame with an escape and scored a takedown for a 3-0 win.
In what proved to be the final frame, Dott came within a missed blue of forcing a one-frame shootout.
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Chicago trailed by 28 at one point, and only cut the final deficit to 17 by outscoring the Nets by 10 in the final frame.
Ebdon needed two snookers in the final frame but after getting them he was snookered himself and dropped to the ground in despair in Glasgow.
However, the 'Shotgun' from Stoke, 23, was victorious once again, scraping through a nervy final frame to win 5-4 and set up a clash with Murphy.
He was outshined in this game by Flacco, who led the Ravens to two third-quarter scores that put Baltimore up 20-16 heading into the final frame.
In the eighth frame, Stevens looked to have Hendry in real trouble but an excellent break of 50 put the Scot clear and he held his nerve in the final frame.
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Hendry was in imperious form in the opening session, racking up breaks of 89 and 80 and taking the final frame on the final ball to wrap up an 8-1 lead.
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Maguire was short on confidence and left a red short of the pocket while using the rest in the seventh frame to let O'Sullivan in again with a 52, and lost the final frame of the session after missing an ambitious long pot.
Alexander Semin netted his 200th NHL goal, and Jiri Tlusty scored twice and had two assists in the decisive final frame for the Hurricanes, who overcame three deficits and a poor night of penalty-killing to send the Islanders to their fifth straight loss, 6-4 on Monday.
Opinion was divided over whether the peak of his game was the 1982 world championship semi-final, when he rescued a deficit of 59-0 with a break of 69 to reverse the match entirely, or the final, when he made a total clearance of 135 in the final frame (his opponent, Ray Reardon, sitting pale with disbelief) and then, in tears, called his wife and baby daughter out of the crowd to hug them.
Defending champion Murphy has suffered some agonising final-frame defeats this season but came through this time.
Hendry had won 14 of their previous 18 meetings, and each of Ebdon's four victories - including his 18-17 win in the 2002 world final - had come in final-frame deciders.
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Your height, inseam and weight are all taken into account - even the possibility that you'll be toting around a toddler in a child seat on the rear rack is considered in the equation that decides the final shape of the frame.
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Justices and their law clerks are holed up in chambers, furiously working to frame and craft the final opinions, making sure every fact, every footnote, every legal theory is fully checked and articulated.
It was a very nervy finish for the 2001, 2004 and 2008 champion but he hung on with a 73 in the last to set up a mouth-watering clash with Williams three months after their epic last-frame thriller in the Masters semi-final.
Later, medal in hand, I watched, awestruck, from the stands as the winners were awarded their trophies and the final two competitors -- one using a walking frame, the other on crutches -- made it across the line to the roars of the crowd.
The final image, a lap-dissolve in which Prefontaine and Bowerman appear in the frame together, suggests that Towne was shooting for something that never really made it to the screen.
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