Mark Allen was edged out 10-8 by world number one Judd Trump in their last-16 clash of the Sportsbet.io Tour Championship in Manchester.<\/p>\n
The Antrim native made all the early running by racing into a 4-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Allen, ranked 15th in the world, came from 59-0 down to take the opening frame, then took the next three on the colours with a top break of just 38 to assume a solid lead.<\/p>\n
Trump however rallied to reel off the next four frames, helped by runs of 71, 104 and 88.<\/p>\n
Allen made breaks of 121 in the ninth and 12th frames, but Trump then crafted 114 and 86 to edge back in front at 8-6 before eventually getting over the line with another century.<\/p>\n
Wu Yize will return on Tuesday evening with a 6-2 advantage over Chris Wakelin, having made five half-century breaks.<\/p>\n
Earlier at Manchester Central, Barry Hawkins came from 3-2 down to hold a 5-3 lead over Thepchaiya Un-Nooh \u2013 who beat Ronnie O’Sullivan in last week\u2019s World Open final \u2013 and will play to a finish during Tuesday\u2019s afternoon session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Allen was edged out 10-8 by world number one Judd Trump in their last-16 clash of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-374245","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\/374245","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=374245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}