{"id":20037,"date":"2024-12-01T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=20037"},"modified":"2024-12-01T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T16:44:27","slug":"trump-leads-hawkins-5-3-in-uk-championship-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=20037","title":{"rendered":"Trump leads Hawkins 5-3 in UK Championship final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Judd Trump is on course to claim a second UK Championship title after establishing a 5-3 lead over Barry Hawkins in the first session of Sunday\u2019s final at the Barbican in York.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Trump, who is aiming for his 30th success in ranking events, won his only previous UK title in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old left-hander took the opening frame with a break of 73 but was twice hauled back by Hawkins, who made a superb 116 and produced a 70 clearance to level at 2-2 heading into the mid-session interval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump then accelerated clear, enjoying a run of 102 as he reeled off the next three frames in a row for a healthy lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, qualifier Hawkins, who entered the auditorium to a huge roar barely 12 hours after the conclusion of his <a href=\"\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/ce8d8z8lxelo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">gruelling semi-final victory against Mark Allen,<\/a> displayed great resolve to reduce his arrears with a break of 81.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will, though, have headed back to his dressing room rueing several missed opportunities to make the contest even closer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 45-year-old failed to convert chances to score heavily in three of the frames he eventually lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Uncharacteristic misses on the black to the left middle in the fifth frame and a green to top left corner in the sixth frame will particularly rankle as he aims to win his first Triple Crown event, 28 years after turning professional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Play will resume at 19:00 GMT with the winner of the best-of-19 encounter earning a top prize of \u00a3250,000.<\/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\/cql53rrqe95o\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judd Trump is on course to claim a second UK Championship title after establishing a 5-3 lead over Barry Hawkins in the first session of Sunday\u2019s final at the Barbican in York. World number one Trump, who is aiming for his 30th success in ranking events, won his only previous UK title in 2011. The [&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-20037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037","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=20037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}