World Snooker Championship 2022 - Judd Trump finds his stride to sink Stuart Bingham and set up clash with Mark Williams

Judd Trump found something resembling top form at the business end of his clash with Stuart Bingham to secure a 13-8 win and a place in the World Championship semi-finals. Despite winning two tournaments this season, Trump has spoken about being disillusioned with his game and is planning on taking an extended break from the sport.

Ad/> His holiday plans will need to wait a little longer, as he took control late in the afternoon session — after Bingham missed a simple black off its spot — and carried on the momentum in the evening to set up a meeting with Mark Williams. World Championship'It was a Judd Trump special' — Crucible crowd wowed by naughty pot on the pink2 HOURS AGO While Trump got stronger as the contest wore on, Bingham never recovered from the inexplicable miss which totally deflated the 2015 Crucible champion.

For Trump, he will need to up his level again to beat Williams, who has arguably been the player of the tournament so far, but his long game got better as the match developed and the rest of the game could click on the back of that. Trump’s long game has been way short of its usual standard, but he produced an excellent long red in the first frame of the evening and raced through a break of 78 to move ahead.

Back to business — White delighted to see O'Sullivan take focus off tip Williams battles past Bingtao to reach semi-finals He extended the lead to two frames, with the long game once again impressive. It took a bit of time to close out the frame, but he did so when knocking in two reds in one shot.

Trump made it six unanswered frames, and an 11-8 lead, when taking the 19th frame — but only after a counter from Bingham was halted in its tracks when he cued across a pink. The sight of Bingham, head