Superb Wu fightback sends Trump out in Nanjing

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China's Wu Yize produced a sensational comeback to knock world number one Judd Trump out of the International Championship in Nanjing.

Trump, 36, was 4-0 in front at the mid-session interval but managed only 18 more points in the match as Wu, ranked 22nd in the world, won the next six frames in succession to reach the quarter-finals.

The former English Open and Scottish Open runner-up, 22, made five breaks of 80 or more - including a 109 in the sixth frame - on his way to victory.

Trump has had a mixed start to the season but he reached the final of the Northern Ireland Open in Belfast last month, losing in a deciding frame to fellow Englishman and close friend Jack Lisowski.

However, it is approaching a year since Trump's most recent ranking title at the UK Championship in York in December 2024.

Wu's quarter-final opponent will be England's Barry Hawkins, who ended in-form Lisowski's winning run with a 6-4 success.

Lisowski, who defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan in the third round on Tuesday, knocked in century breaks in three consecutive frames as he fought back from 4-0 behind to draw level with Hawkins.

But the former World Championship runner-up restored his lead with a break of 75 in the ninth frame on his way to confirming his place in the next round.

World champion Zhao Xintong of China and England's four-time Crucible winner Mark Selby will meet in one of the other quarter-finals, following 6-1 wins against China's Si Jiahui and Scotland's Anthony McGill respectively.

The line-up for the last eight will be completed later on Wednesday, with the four remaining last-16 matches starting at 11:30 GMT.

Ding Junhui, last year's International Championship winner, will face Masters champion Shaun Murphy in his fourth-round match.

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