UK Championship snooker 2024 LIVE RESULTS: Mark Allen completes turnaround to beat Wu Yize, Judd Trump in action TODAY
Trump vs Higgins heads Thursday’s action
World No 1 Judd Trump facing four-time Crucible king John Higgins grabs the spotlight for Thursday’s last-16 matches.
That 1pm clash starts at the same time as World No 11 Zhang Anda vs 2015 world champ Stuart Bingham.
Then at 7pm Welshman Jak Jones, the 2014 World Championship runner-up, then takes on English outsider Michael Holt, ranked 98th on the planet
An all-English match runs alongside that contest on the other table.
World No 15 Chris Wakelin does battle with reigning Crucible king and World No 2 Kyren Wilson.
Latest score – Allen wins!
Mark Allen, take a bow!
The World No 3 reeled off four brilliant frames in a row to clinch victory in a match of incredible quality.
His 80 break to clinch the tenth frame 80-5 summed up his flawless all-round play after he trailed 4-2 in the match.
That deficit was down to Yize’s own purple patch of four straight frames.
But from that point Allen rallied to give the 21-year-old barely a sniff.
The Northern Irishman ended with a foul – but with Yize so far behind, the Chinese prodigy conceded.
- Mark Allen 6-4 Wu Yize
Latest score – could Allen finish match with this break?
Allen is crafting this break so carefully and expertly.
A firm black took him to a 50 break.
And all the remaining reds look inviting.
- Mark Allen 5-4 Wu Yize (59-1)