Trump Ahead But Still Two Tons From £100,000 Prize

World number 1 Judd Trump took a 5-3 lead successful his World Championship last-16 necktie pinch chap erstwhile world champion Shaun Murphy, but narrowly missed a chance to move person to winning a £100,000 bonus.

Trump, 35, fought backmost from 2-0 and 3-2 down, winning nan past 3 frames of nan session, but, erstwhile connected 98 successful framework eight, missed a cookware connected nan yellowish that would person fixed him a period break.

He has made 98 hundreds of years this play and is nan only subordinate who could get to 1 100 tons this term, thing that would gain him a £100,000 prize.

Trump will person different 8 frames to play later connected Sunday arsenic nan lucifer resumes astatine 19:00 BST, earlier nan last convention connected Monday from 13:00 BST, successful nan best-of-25 match.

Only 2 players person made a 100 period breaks successful 1 run - Neil Robertson successful 2013-14 pinch 103 and Trump himself pinch 102 successful 2019-20.

Most period breaks successful 1 season

China's Zhao Xintong moved into nan quarter-finals for nan first clip successful his profession acknowledgment to a 13-10 triumph complete Lei Peifan.

Leading 10-6 aft nan 2nd session, 27-year-old Zhao looked connected people for a maximum 147 successful nan opening framework of nan time and potted 9 reds and 9 blacks earlier his break ended connected 72.

He was 41-12 up successful framework 20, only for Lei to triumph that and nan adjacent 2 frames arsenic Lei, who hit 2024 world champion Kyren Wilson successful information one, threatened a comeback.

But a break of 54 saw Zhao clinch triumph to group up a quarter-final against England's Chris Wakelin, a subordinate that has already eliminated 2010 world champion Neil Robertson and erstwhile world number 1 Mark Allen.

"I'm truthful happy, that's nan first clip into nan quarter-finals and I'm truthful proud of myself," he said. "In nan first information he [Lei] came backmost against Kyren Wilson truthful I knew I wasn't fresh to triumph and I needed to beryllium strong.

"I conscionable want to spell done nan Crucible and I request to effort my champion and bask it arsenic it is very nice, nan crowd is bully and I want to enactment longer. This is my first clip to play Chris Wakelin, I cognize he is really bully player."

In June 2023, Zhao, a erstwhile UK Championship winner, was 1 of 10 Chinese players to person bans for their engagement successful match-fixing.

He served a 20-month prohibition and has been nan only subordinate to return aft he had not straight thrown a lucifer but accepted charges of being a statement to different subordinate fixing 2 matches and betting connected matches himself.

Zhao is officially classed arsenic an amateur for this tournament, but had already ensured his return to nan World Snooker Tour full-time adjacent season.