Judd Trump beats Zhang Anda to reach UK Championship semi-finals
World number one Judd Trump produced a devastating display of attacking snooker on his way to a 6-2 win over Zhang Anda and the semi-finals of the UK Championship at the Barbican in York.
Trump, whose only title in this Triple Crown event came in 2011, opened up with an 89 break to win the first frame in less than 10 minutes.
He continued in the same vein with exhilarating breaks of 126, 120 and 131 in a rampant performance to lead 4-0 at the mid-session interval.
Having reached 527 points without reply in the fifth frame, Trump looked on course to eclipse Ronnie O’Sullivan’s record of 556, set in 2014 against Ricky Walden, before missing a red to the right corner on 61.
Zhang exuberantly celebrated finally potting a ball but Trump still won the frame and, though his opponent took the next two, the Englishman then sealed his victory with his fourth century of the match.
