Tour Championship snooker 2023 LIVE – Kyren Wilson faces Ali Carter in last eight after Mark Allen dumped out

Hello!

And welcome to the Tour Championship 2023 – day two!

Tour Championship quarter-final schedule

Monday March 27

13:00 and 19:00

• Mark Allen 5-10 Ding Junhui

Tuesday March 28

13:00 and 19:00

• Ali Carter v Kyren Wilson

Wednesday March 29

13:00 and 19:00

• Shaun Murphy v Robert Milkins

Thursday March 30

13:00 and 19:00

Hendry: Allen’s form has deserted him at worst part of the season

Allen arrived at the Tour Championship as the No. 1 seed after being the most impressive player on the circuit for the current season.

But with the World Championship still to come, Allen failed to impress against Ding and registered just three half-centuries in a 10-5 defeat.

Ding hit 10 half-century breaks, converting one to a break of 116, as he punished Allen’s mistakes and often kept his opponent in his seat when he was given a single chance to win a frame.

Speaking on ITV4 after the match-up, seven-time world champion Hendry compared the two players and pointed out Allen’s biggest weakness right now.

Of Ding, he said: “He was by the far the heavier scorer, [but Allen’s] scoring has deserted him at the worst part of the season.

“Ding kept on scoring, 50, 60, all day. Nothing was going right for [Allen].”

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