Masters snooker 2024: Ali Carter admits ‘I lost my composure’ after wild Judd Trump fluked snooker

Ali Carter has admitted he had to overcome a loss of composure following a remarkable Judd Trump fluke in their Masters quarter-final.

Carter held a 4-3 lead and looked primed to move two frames to the good and one from victory when Trump missed a green and left it hanging over the yellow pocket.

But a flick of the brown came to Trump’s rescue as it nestled on top of the green and left Carter snookered.

Carter went for a hit-and-hope escape, but went in-off and Trump took the frame a short while later to draw level.

“For all the money I am 5-3 up,” Carter said in the Eurosport studio. “I felt like I had worked really hard.

“That is probably the most outrageous thing as a professional I have ever seen. I had no shot.

“I lost my composure after that for a frame and a half.

“I just said to myself ‘don’t throw it away through your own stupidity. Don’t give it to him, make it hard for him.’ I made it hard for him, then he missed (in the 10th) and I’ve cleared up and made a great break in the decider.”

Talking through Trump’s fluked snooker in the eighth, Carter said: “First of all I thought he fluked it. Then, look, the brown is going over the hole and the green is there. I had no shot.

“I was thinking all sorts of things.”

Despite the upset of losing the eighth frame, Carter was pleased with how he responded with a brilliant clearance in the 10th before a thrilling break to take the win in the 11th.

“I had a few tricky balls there, a lot of just off straight and stuns,” Carter said. “You know if you are striking and aiming where intended I know that I am not missing those balls.

“They are the ones that if you are not sure of your action you can miss anything, but any tricky ball I middled it in the final frame so I am delighted.”