Superb Wu fightback sends Trump out in Nanjing

Judd Trump was knocked out of the Nanjing International Championship by China’s Wu Yize in a spectacular comeback.

At the halfway point of the match, Trump, 36, led by 4-0 going into extra time, but Wu, who was 22nd overall, won the following six frames to advance to the quarter-finals.

The 22-year-old, who finished second in the English Open and Scottish Open, won by making five breaks of 80 or more, including a 109 in the sixth frame.

Trump has had a mixed start to the year, but he made it to the Northern Ireland Open final last month in Belfast, where he lost to fellow Englishman and close friend Jack Lisowski.

Barry Hawkins, who ended Lisowski’s successful winning streak with a 6-4 victory, will be Wu’s quarter-final opponent.

As he came back from a 4 0 adrift to level with Hawkins, Lisowski, who defeated Ronnie O’Sullivan on Tuesday in the third round.

However, the former World Championship runner-up restored his lead with a 75-frame break in the ninth frame to secure his spot in the following round.

Following 6-1 victories over China’s Si Jiahui and Scotland’s Anthony McGill, world champion Zhao Xintong of China and England’s four-time Crucible winner Mark Selby will face off in one of the other quarter-finals.

The final eight matches will be played on Wednesday at 11:30 GMT, with the final four remaining last-16 games beginning at that time.