Article: Davis wilting as Murphy turns up the heat.(Sport)

A break of 47 in last night's final frame spared Steve Davis the humiliation of losing his Embassy World Championship quarter-final against Shaun Murphy inside two sessions.

But it still looks like the six-time winner of the title in the 1980s will suffer an emphatic defeat this afternoon as he trails 12-4, with his 22-year-old opponent needing only one more frame for victory.

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