Judd Trump gets up to speed to beat John Higgins at UK Championship

World number one Judd Trump dug in to see off John Higgins in a last-frame decider and book his place in the quarter-finals of the UK Championship, while Zhang Anda made a superb fightback to beat Stuart Bingham.

After the first four frames failed to see a single break over 40 from either player, Trump finally found his rhythm after the interval, moving 3-2 ahead with a break of 111.

Higgins capitalised to take the sixth frame after Trump went in off and then produced a century run of his own with 106 to edge in front again at 4-3.

Trump, though, then turned in breaks of 69 and 75 to reaffirm his advantage, only for Higgins to take the 10th frame with a half-century and force the decider.

It proved a tense affair, with Trump failing to glance a red as he tapped the cue ball into a bunched pack before Higgins, who was 34-0 ahead, laid up off the back cushion, which left a red into the middle.

Trump needed no second invitation, clipping in the red before building a match-winning break of 106 as Higgins watched on forlornly from his chair.

"In the first four frames, we just showed a lot of respect for each other, didn't want to give easy chances," Trump told BBC Sport.

"After (the interval) I just tried to make it a bit more attacking, a bit more free flowing and I think we both benefited from that in the end.

"The game was just too slow and I just want to speed it up.

"After I get into the game, I just feel like I can relax and let go, and that is when I play my best."

Trump may be many people’s tip to go on and win the triple crown event once again, but the 2019 world champion is taking things as they come.

"I haven’t played my best so far," he said.

"It is nice to do it when it really matters, like in the last frame, it was a great