Masters 2023: Barry Hawkins whitewashes UK champion Mark Allen to reach quarter-finals

Barry Hawkins has reached the last of the Masters connected 2 erstwhile occasions

Barry Hawkins whitewashed UK champion Mark Allen 6-0 to scope the past 8 of the Masters astatine Alexandra Palace.

Allen, 1 of the signifier players this season, exits the tourney astatine the first-round signifier for the 5th consecutive year.

Hawkins volition present look either Judd Trump oregon Ryan Day adjacent connected Friday.

The 43-year-old who mislaid to Neil Robertson successful past year's last had travel into the contention arsenic a flimsy underdog, with Allen, who defended his Northern Ireland Open rubric earlier successful the season, bidding to unafraid back-to-back Triple Crown titles.

However, the Northern Irishman becomes the 4th consecutive UK champion to beryllium knocked retired of the Masters astatine the archetypal hurdle, arsenic Hawkins erstwhile again reserved his champion for the large occasion.

Hawkins overturned a 55-point shortage to triumph the archetypal framework and got the amended successful a lengthy information speech earlier constructing a superb fractional period to triumph the 2nd from an improbable position, with the balls bunched awkwardly connected the table.

A fortunate in-off, followed by an contiguous tactical mistake and foul from Allen, saw Hawkins found a 3-0 pb with a fantastic period and erstwhile Allen missed a brownish to the apical close country it enabled Hawkins to pinch a nervy 4th frame.

With Allen's agelong potting occurrence complaint beneath 40%, 2 coagulated scoring contributions saw Hawkins instrumentality the 5th framework and past travel from down successful the sixth to circular disconnected his triumph with a 34.

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