{"id":19065,"date":"2024-11-26T18:26:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19065"},"modified":"2024-11-26T18:26:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:26:46","slug":"trump-recovers-to-beat-robertson-at-uk-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19065","title":{"rendered":"Trump recovers to beat Robertson at UK Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier on Tuesday, four-time world champion Higgins produced a superb performance to gain a 6-0 win over China&#8217;s He Guoqiang and move into the last 16 of the UK Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Higgins, 49, made breaks of 110, 92, 72 and 64 as he dominated his 24-year-old Chinese opponent, a player down at 60th in the world rankings and who had to get through three qualifying rounds to get to York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 14th-seeded Scot has won this tournament three times, in 1998, 2000 and 2010, and also lost in the final in 1996 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Against He, Higgins scored a total of 554 points, compared to only 107 from his opponent, for the second 6-0 tournament win in two days after Kyren Wilson thrashed Stephen Maguire by the same score on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I play like that I&#8217;m a match for anyone,&#8221; said Higgins. &#8220;I got off to a decent start and put the pressure on him. He had a few chances but it&#8217;s difficult out there when things go wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a special venue, but I&#8217;ve never really done great here and it\u2019s a great venue to play in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/c0793g7mzn9o\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier on Tuesday, four-time world champion Higgins produced a superb performance to gain a 6-0 win over China&#8217;s He Guoqiang and move into the last 16 of the UK Championship. Higgins, 49, made breaks of 110, 92, 72 and 64 as he dominated his 24-year-old Chinese opponent, a player down at 60th in the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}