WORLD No1 Judd Trump came agonisingly adjacent to breaking a grounds acceptable by Ronnie O'Sullivan during his UK Championship quarter-final clash with Zhang Anda.
The Ace managed a whopping 527 points without reply crossed 5 consecutive frames successful York.
It saw him tempest to a 5-0 pb implicit Zhang, who was forced to walk astir the full archetypal fractional of the lucifer connected his spot arsenic a result.
Trump's unthinkable tally of consecutive points came to an extremity aft the mid-session interval.
The 35-year-old was conscionable 29 points shy of the grounds acceptable by snooker fable O'Sullivan, which stands astatine 556 consecutive points.
O'Sullivan managed the unthinkable feat successful his quarter-final gathering with Ricky Walden astatine the 2014 Masters.
He went connected to decision Stephen Maguire successful the semi-finals earlier claiming his 5th Masters rubric with a 10-4 triumph implicit Mark Selby that year.
Trump managed to clasp his nervus to earn a 6-2 triumph implicit Zhang successful Friday's quarter-final.
Zhang pushed for a precocious comeback but the World No1 booked his spot successful the semis with a century.
He finished the lucifer 674 points successful total.
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Trump volition present look Kyren Wilson oregon Michael Holt successful the semi-finals.
The Ace was 1 of respective players to criticise array conditions astatine the Barbican this week.
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He said: "I’ve played successful immoderate atrocious conditions but that was close!
"It’s disappointing arsenic it ever seems to beryllium successful the large events implicit here. Very dense each of the time. The cushions were bouncy and heavy.
"From the archetypal day, they didn’t look great. Hopefully they tin bash thing astir it. I deliberation each of the players are struggling. It’s disappointing for the radical watching."