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Judd Trump will play Lu Ning in Saturday’s UK Championship semi-final after beating Kyren Wilson 6-4 in the quarterfinals at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes.
The Bristolian raced to a three-frame lead on the back of a sublime snooker that produced runs of 73, 102 and 106, but a fluke from Wilson in frame four restored momentum, allowing Kettering’s cueist to take a frame. , completely against the current. game – on the board before the mid-session interval. Ronnie O’Sullivan, in his role as an expert, called Trump the Tiger Woods of snooker during halftime, such had been his dominance.
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However, Wilson, buoyed by his pre-interval fortune, emerged re-energized and hit breaks of 64 and 88 to reach parity at 3-3 and then 4-4 to send the quarterfinals into a three-frame shootout, but Trump showed his Decide to Win the next two frames (frame nine courtesy of a 71 and frame 10 with series of 63 and 55) to seal its progression. The 31-year-old will face Lu in Saturday’s semi-final.
“I started well and pushed him a lot,” Trump told Colin Murray in the Eurosport studio after the game.
I felt confident and felt that I could win the game easily, but then chance changed things. It was incredible, one of the best coincidences you have ever seen, because at the time it was 4-0. [if Wilson had not fluked the red] and it’s game over. From there, it became a bit difficult.
Chance undoubtedly set in motion a twist in momentum. Trump had been on the verge of gutting his opponent up to that point, but Wilson used his moment of fortune to put on a contest, winning three frames on the rebound to put the game in the balance.
Yet within that three-frame streak, Trump noted his brilliance, producing a bounce, at frame six, reminiscent of one of the most talked-about shots in snooker history: Alex Higgins’s iconic blue against Jimmy White. at the 1982 World Championship.
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Wilson would go on to win that mark, but Trump will later rally to secure an eighth win in his seventeenth match against Wilson as he continues his quest for a second UK Championship title.
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