{"id":175925,"date":"2025-12-05T04:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175925\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T04:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:21:09","slug":"ding-junhui-survives-scare-to-set-up-judd-trump-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175925\/","title":{"rendered":"Ding Junhui survives scare to set up Judd Trump clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time winner Ding Junhui held off a fightback from Scotland&#8217;s Scott Donaldson to set up a quarter-final showdown with defending champion Judd Trump at the UK Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Ding, who is also a two-time runner-up at the event, looked set to cruise through after a break of 114 helped him take a 3-0 lead at York Barbican.<\/p>\n<p>But world number 52 Donaldson responded impressively with a knock of 118 and then battled back from 5-3 down to force a final frame.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old led by 22 points in the decider before Ding produced a superb long pot to launch a match-winning break of 109.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning world champion Zhao Xintong was beaten 6-2 by fellow Chinese player Zhang Anda.<\/p>\n<p>Barry Hawkins progressed to a meeting with Mark Selby by whitewashing Elliot Slessor 6-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time winner Ding Junhui held off a fightback from Scotland&#8217;s Scott Donaldson to set up a quarter-final showdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-175925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}