Defending champion Judd Trump beat John Higgins 5-2 to succeed in the quarter-finals of the Wuhan Open – regardless of taking one other participant’s cue into the sector after the mid-session interval.
Main 3-1, Trump alerted the referee as he was about to interrupt off for the fifth body and instructed Higgins that he had inadvertently picked up the incorrect cue.
“My cue was within the case I believe, however Ben [Woollaston] put his cue subsequent to my case,” Trump stated to the Scot as he was reunited along with his personal cue, with Higgins seeing the humorous aspect of the mix-up.
World primary Trump went on to win the fifth body to go 4-1 up and though four-time world champion Higgins responded with a break of 126, Trump wrapped up a victory to arrange a quarter-final assembly with both fellow Englishman Chris Wakelin or China’s Ding Junhui.
In an interview with the World Snooker Tour, the 35-year-old stated: “I’ve by no means performed that earlier than. It was a little bit of a shock.
“It wasn’t till I actually acquired to the desk that I seen. I used to be going to interrupt off and the cue felt unusual, so I appeared down and it wasn’t my cue.
“Fortunately for me, John was very good about it and he simply instructed me to attend so long as potential.
“I believe it has occurred earlier than and somebody acquired awarded the body, however John was good sufficient simply to permit me sufficient time to get my cue again.”
Woollaston misplaced his last-16 match 5-3 to Lengthy Zehuang, whereas Jack Lisowski beat Wu Yize 5-0 to succeed in the quarter-finals.
Shaun Murphy can be by way of to the final eight after beating final 12 months’s runner-up Ali Carter in a final-frame decider.
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