Ronnie O’Sullivan out of Six Red World Snooker Championship as Ding Junhui reaches last four, Judd Trump suffers exit

Ronnie O’Sullivan is out of the Six Red World Championship after he was beaten 6-2 by former winner Ding Junhui in the last 16 before the Chinese icon continued his solid form by progressing to the semi-finals of the Bangkok invitational event. Masters champion Judd Trump will also be missing from the final stages after suffering a 6-5 defeat to Hossein Vafaei in the last eight that saw Trump somehow miss a straight match-ball brown on the cusp of a 6-4 success.

Ad O’Sullivan had previously stated he was targeting the £100,000 first prize on his competitive debut in the shorter format at the Thammasat University Convention Centre in Pathum Thani, but missed some crucial shots which saw the match slip away after levelling at 2-2. Six-Red World Championship‘A horrendous thing to happen!’ — Trump inexplicably pots the cue ball11 MINUTES AGO World No.

24 Ding is aiming to emulate his 2016 Six Red title victory and later completed another comfortable 6-2 win over 2015 world champion Stuart Bingham – the man he defeated 8-7 in the final seven years ago – in the quarter-finals. He will face Tom Ford in the semi-finals on Friday (11:30am GMT LIVE on discovery+ and Eurosport) after the Leicester man resisted a spirited comeback by 2019 finalist John Higgins, who levelled at 5-5 from 5-0 behind before the German Masters finalist held his nerve to dominate the decider with a 67 break to advance.

Thai speed merchant Thepchaiya Un-Nooh kept alive his bid to claim a second Six Red crown on home soil after his 8-2 dismissal of Liang Wenbo in the 2015 final courtesy of a 6-2 triumph against Zhang Anda in his quarter-final. Un-Nooh will meet Hossein Vafaei in the last four (8am GMT LIVE on discovery+ and Eurosport) after the attacking