Brilliant Brecel Level With Trump In Quarter-final

Luca Brecel produced a sensational potting show to tie level pinch world number 1 Judd Trump astatine 8-8 heading into nan last convention of their World Championship quarter-final connected Wednesday evening.

Trailing 5-3 overnight nan 'Belgian Bullet' rattled disconnected nan first 4 frames successful conscionable nether an hr arsenic he compiled 3 half hundreds of years and a period to lead 7-5.

It was an astonishing capacity from Brecel, who delivered nan benignant of capacity that carried him to nan world title 2 years ago.

By nan clip he took nan 12th frame, he had won six connected nan trot, including nan last 2 from opening convention connected Tuesday and outscored nan Englishman by 592 points to 81 during that purple patch.

Trump, whose only Crucible crown came successful 2019, regrouped during nan mid-session interval and crafted a half period of his ain connected his measurement to levelling nan lucifer astatine 7-7.

It only served arsenic little interruption to nan Brecel barrage, pinch nan four-time ranking arena victor enjoying a tally of 92 to separator backmost up astatine 8-7.

However, Trump took a tactical last framework to time off nan title delicately poised erstwhile it resumes astatine 19:00 BST.

The victor will look Mark Williams successful nan past 4 aft nan Welshman won 13-12 successful a Crucible classical achromatic shot decider against John Higgins.

Ken Doherty, 1997 World Champion, connected BBC Two

What a awesome advertisement for nan World Championship because it had perfectly everything. The crowd were glued to their chairs. They were thrilled coming and did not want to leave.

If you had a hotshot reel of this World Championship you could prime astir 10 shots conscionable played by Luca. Some of nan shots he plays are conscionable incredible.

The broadside rotation he gets connected nan shot and his cue powerfulness is conscionable tremendous.