Robertson, who was also crowned UK Champion in 2013 and 2015, eventually proved a too strong for China’s Pang, who was making his bow in a quarter-final of one of snooker’s Triple Crown events.<\/p>\n
While Pang took the opener, he made a number of unforced errors and rarely put Robertson under pressure early on.<\/p>\n
The 26-time ranking event winner made just one break over 50 as he reeled off the next four frames and then constructed a superb run of 111 to move within the cusp of victory. <\/p>\n
Yet the momentum shifted in a remarkable seventh frame, when 25-year-old Pang came to the table 72-11 points down with only 51 on offer. <\/p>\n
Instead of shaking hands, he got a snooker and when Robertson fouled and gave up seven points by hitting the black, there was also the bonus of a free ball which gave him the impetus to make an outstanding clearance of 51 to pinch the frame.<\/p>\n
“That is the thing that would be on a quiz of what happened next,” said Robertson.<\/p>\n
“You could never even try to do that again. I was brilliant to get to 5-1. That would be one of the breaks of the tournament [from Pang].”<\/p>\n
Seemingly with a new found freedom, qualifier Pang crafted a wonderful 115 break and then won the ninth frame. <\/p>\n
However, his comeback ended there, with Robertson rounding off the match with a break of 75.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robertson, who was also crowned UK Champion in 2013 and 2015, eventually proved a too strong for China’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-176968","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\/176968","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=176968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}