Judd Trump pinched a decent deciding body as he got here from behind to beat fellow Englishman Chris Wakelin and attain the semi-finals of the Wuhan Open.
Wakelin, who beat Chinese language residence favorite Ding Junhui within the earlier spherical, continued his spectacular kind to ascertain a 2-0 lead, helped by a break of 97 within the first body.
Trump edged the third however Wakelin closed out the fourth to carry a 3-1 lead, earlier than the defending champion made 54 and 58 within the subsequent two frames to degree.
Wakelin regained the lead within the following body however Trump clinched victory by taking the following two for an exhilarating 5-4 win, snatching the close-fought decider on the colors.
“It was irritating at instances and particularly in that final body, the place it seemed like he was going to fluke a few balls and find yourself profitable,” mentioned Trump.
“Ultimately, I took my probability and performed a extremely good shot on the brown to knock the pink out.
“You might be simply relying in your opponent to overlook [in those situations]. He did that within the final body. There was a little bit of stress on the market and he took his eye off the brown searching for an angle to get the pink out.”
Earlier, England’s Shaun Murphy fell to a 5-1 defeat towards China’s Xiao Guodong.