Masters 2023: Judd Trump beats Barry Hawkins to reach semi-final

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Judd TrumpJudd Trump won the Masters successful 2019
Venue: Alexandra Palace, London Dates: 8 January -15 January
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Former champion Judd Trump came from down to bushed Barry Hawkins 6-5 and scope the semi-finals of the Masters.

Both players made galore errors successful a scrappy contest, but it was Trump who held himself unneurotic to progress.

The brace shared a period apiece and had traded frames astatine 4-4, Hawkins took the adjacent but Trump's ton forced a decider earlier helium claimed the victory.

Two much erstwhile winners are successful enactment successful the evening session, with Shaun Murphy taking connected Stuart Bingham.

Hawkins stroked successful 110 and Trump made 69 arsenic the archetypal 4 frames were shared, but the out-of-sorts 2019 champion was punished arsenic helium fell 4-3 behind.

Trump, 33, responded by scoring a sublime 143 - a joint-highest interruption of the tourney - but 43-year-old Hawkins moved 1 framework distant from victory, helped by a fluked reddish into the mediate pocket.

Trump refused to beryllium beaten and dug successful with a chill 107 to instrumentality the lucifer each the way, sealing progression with a nerveless 81 break.

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