UK Championship snooker 2022 LIVE – Judd Trump meets Shaun Murphy for quarter-final place, Ding Junhui in action

Trump 1-1 Murphy (34-30)

Plenty of reds here in open positions for Judd to punish the earlier Murphy miss. Doesn’t need to trouble himself with any cannons. Plenty of points in open to put this third frame to bed.

Trump 1-1 Murphy (8-30)

Quickly up to 30 before a mid-range red eludes him as he tried to hold for black. He’ll be disappointed with that outcome. Solid safety from Trump and Murphy misses thin snick off red from distance to leave a free ball for Trump. In goes the yellow and on goes the Juddernaut.

Trump 1-1 Murphy (0-17)

Trading blows at the moment as Murph drops in a crunching long red. That fairly rasped the leather of the pockets when it disappeared. Barbican crowd loving every moment of this duel so far.

Trump 0-1 Murphy (89-0)

Murphy played the break-off shot, left Trump a long red shot and has not returned to the table. High quality stuff. A lovely run of 89 from Judd and we are level at 1-1.

Trump 0-1 Murphy (75-0)

Some fabulous pots by Trump in this break. Off two cushions via thumping pot on blue to develop reds. And this could be a one-visit kill to restore parity at 1-1. Neither of these men hanging about. The Ace In The Pack against The Magician is certainly producing plenty of theatre here.

Trump 0-1 Murphy (26-0)

Trump carts a magical long red into a top bag from distance. What a fabulous effort that is. And he has chance to make good on his early promise in this frame.

Trump 0-0 Murphy (18-105)

A blistering break of 100 from the world No. 13 and he is off to an ideal start in this last-16 match against Trump. He leads 1-0 in the race to six. Game on.

Trump 0-0 Murphy (18-80)

Murphy is certainly restricted in movement, but not in scoring. This has been a fabulous break to win the opening frame of the day.

Trump 0-0 Murphy (18-46)

This is a very decent opportunity for The Magician. Won’t be feeling aches and pains of neck and back so much if he can compile a big break here.

Trump 0-0 Murphy (18-5)

Well, can always happen. Trump tries to develop reds off blue. In goes blue, but he plants a red into the top pocket. That halts the break in its tracks. Murphy handed an unforeseen reprieve.

Trump 0-0 Murphy (9-0)

Early fluke on a red for Trump enables him to roll up behind the yellow in setting a snooker. Murphy in a spot of bother here. Escapes from snooker via two cushions, but leaves his opponent an easy opening red to get hand on table.

Trump 0-0 Murphy (0-0)

So what is the narrative between these two blokes on the old green baize? 2019 world champion Trump is 11-10 clear of 2005 Crucible winner Murphy since they first met in the last 32 of the 2007 World Championship. Murphy won that one 10-7, but Trump emerged a 6-2 victor the last time they met in the Turkish Masters semi-finals earlier this year.

Murphy not feeling fit

The 2005 world champion has taken to Twitter this morning admitting he has neck and shoulder problems after his thrilling 6-5 win over David Gilbert on Tuesday in the last 32.

“In terrible pain today with my neck/shoulder,” he said. “Started getting worse two days ago and I could hardly play at all yesterday. Going to try everything to be ready to play at 1pm, but right now it’s not looking good.”

Hopefully he never suffered injury via his trademark fist pump.

Welcome back to the York Barbican

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Thursday’s schedule

13:00

Shaun Murphy v Judd Trump

Jamie Clarke v Ding Junhui

19:00

Hossein Vafaei v Jack Lisowski

Joe Perry v Stuart Bingham

Yesterday’s results

13:00

Zhou Yuelong 0-6 Ronnie O’Sullivan

Luca Brecel 3-6 Tom Ford

19:00

Mark Allen 6-3 Kyren Wilson

Sam Craigie 6-4 Ryan Day

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