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TRUMP 1-7 WILSON
Trump can't get the first century of the match but more importantly to him his 83 means he will not go into the evening session 8-0 down.
It is still very difficult to see him winning but if there is any player who can go on a quick-fire run to notch three or four frames it is Trump.
TRUMP 0-7 WILSON (67*-1)
A fine break from Trump and he is now on the board. It will be a huge relief to avoid a whitewash.
TRUMP 0-7 WILSON (6*-1)
Wilson misses a tough long red and Trump now has a chance to make a score, albeit the black is out of commission and the pink only available to right middle.
TRUMP 0-7 WILSON (0-1)
Trump's errant safety leaves a red over the bottom right pocket but Wilson does not get on a colour off it and plays safe.
TRUMP 0-7 WILSON (0-0)
Wilson looks shocked himself as he is once more left a mid-range opener but he jaws the left middle pocket - and to Trump's frustration leaves the reds safe.
TRUMP 0-7 WILSON
It is easy to focus on this match-us horriblus for Trump, but Wilson has played wonderfully well.
TRUMP 0-6 WILSON (61-51)
Wilson with a narrow cut, with an extended rest, pots the brown. He only needs the rest off their spots now.
TRUMP 0-6 WILSON (61-47)
Wilson pots up until the brown which is on the right cushion, and plays safe off it. The second frame was huge. The finish to this is huge-r.
TRUMP 0-6 WILSON (61-36)
A fine half-century, his first of the match. He gets the red off the cushion but he pushes it just too far to cut into the middle.
TRUMP 0-6 WILSON (1*-36)
He is going for everything. And missing most. But he pots a good red to give himself a chance to pull back a frame. Much-needed break isn't stating it big enough.
TRUMP 0-6 WILSON (0-35*)
A surprising mistake when potting the pink. He nestles into the pack and has to play away to safety with a touching ball.
TRUMP 0-6 WILSON (0-23*)
Same tune as the last...and the one before that...and the one before that. Trump misses a tough red, Wilson pots a tough red. And it looks like going to SEVEN-NIL!
TRUMP 0-6 WILSON
Still no century but another fine break. His biggest so far, with 88. He's missed one black off the spot. It's difficult to think of another while a frame has been live.
TRUMP 0-5 WILSON (0-47*)
He didn't win the frame in this visit and left a long pot on for Trump as the ball came back to D line. Trump misses the pot though and now Wilson is on to go 6-0 in front.
TRUMP 0-5 WILSON (0-31*)
A lot of action on the cue ball, but Wilson did not get a ball run (for once), but he pot an incredible red into the middle to continue the break.
TRUMP 0-5 WILSON (0-9*)
Trump leaves Wilson a narrow cut into the green pocket, but he makes it, gets on the black and now is back with his hand on the table - like it never left it.
TRUMP 0-5 WILSON
One more miss when the frame was in the bag, this time a narrow cut on the black, ends the break on 75. A bit like John Parrott in the 1991 World Final when he didn't necessarily get centuries to suggest domination but he has put in the match-winning breaks to get over the line in each instance and, like Jimmy White in that final, Trump looks like being all-but beaten after the first session.
WHITE SHOWS HE'S STILL GOT IT!
‘What have you had for breakfast?’ - White dazzles with potting exhibition
TRUMP 0-4 WILSON (1-67*)
Can this remorsely march to victory from Wilson be stopped? He has his fifth frame in the bank.
TRUMP 0-4 WILSON (1-7*)
Wilson gors into the pack off the pink which is over the pocket and gets a ball run like Bingham. The table looks great to go another frame further clear.
TRUMP 0-4 WILSON (1-0)
Trump first on the board after Wilson leaves an easy red over the pocket but he misses a cut on the pink and leaves Wilson a chance.
TRUMP 0-4 WILSON
A break of 77 in the end for Wilson. Three fifties in the first three frames for the world champ, plus that fine colours clearance to steal the second.
Wilson pinches second frame against Trump after needing a snooker
TRUMP 0-3 WILSON (12-58*)
He has clinched the frame and a 4-0 interval lead. Who can have expected this.
TRUMP 0-3 WILSON (9-17)
Trump with another fine long pot, but again he doesn't get the best ball run and takes a very difficult red on to continue the break only to miss it and give Wilson a fine chance for a pre-interval whitewash.
TRUMP 0-3 WILSON (9-17)
Another safety error from Trump gives Wilson a chance and then with the cue ball close to the blue he squeezes a pot into the bottom left pocket, but has no position so it is end of break.
TRUMP 0-3 WILSON (5*-11)
Trump's superior safety gets him a chance to put his first frame on the board. He forced a foul from Wilson and is then left a pot he squeezes into the green pocket.
TRUMP 0-3 WILSON (0-11)
We hadn't seen that before today but there Wilson misses a simple black off the spot. He is fortunate not to leave a red on for Trump.
TRUMP 0-3 WILSON (0-11*)
The break ends at 10 to Trump's relief, but shortly after he leaves a long straight red for Wilson and he is back at the table.
TRUMP 0-3 WILSON (0-1*)
A safety error from Trump gives Wilson a chance from mid-range and he makes no mistake.
TRUMP 0-3 WILSON
Wilson just fails to roll in the final red along the bottom cushion but a break of 81 is more than enough to give him a big early lead.
TRUMP 0-2 WILSON (11-51*)
Trump has made the eye-catching pots, but its not gymnastics, Wilson's cue ball control and consostency has beeen superior and he is closing in on a 3-0 advantage.
TRUMP 0-2 WILSON (11-6*)
Trump looked to have the better of a lengthy safety exchange, forcing another Wilson foul, but one poor shot gives the Warrior a chance into the green pocket - and he goes onto pot that and the blue, setting up another chance at a break.
TRUMP 0-2 WILSON (6-0)
Wilson makes one foul, then second time round leaves a red on, but once again the nothing part of the shot-to-nothing is too good and with the white behind baulk he plays a snooker.
TRUMP 0-2 WILSON (1-0)
Wilson misses a long pot and Trump then puts it in the bottom right pocket but the ball comes back beyond baulk and he plays a snooker behind the green.
TRUMP 0-2 WILSON
What a steal! On such frames, matches can swing.
TRUMP 0-1 WILSON (56-35)
Wilson's yellow to middle looked uncertain until the second it dropped with his weight of shot key. After a good rest shot on the green, the frame is now at his mercy.
TRUMP 0-1 WILSON (56-30)
Trump tries to use swerve off the bottom cushion to get out of a snooker but misses the yellow. The ball lands on the baulk so Wilson lets Trump play again.
TRUMP 0-1 WILSON (56-26)
Trump leaves Wilson leaving a snooker, but the frame is far from over yet. Trump misss the chance to win the frame not potting a red into the middle.
TRUMP 0-1 WILSON (40*-20)
Faced with a very difficult plant with the two reds a fair distance apart, Trump sees the second red roll into the middle pocket.
Trump pulls off brilliant plant against Wilson in Northern Ireland Open final
TRUMP 0-1 WILSON (22*-20)
Wilson leaves the red in the jaws and Trump now has the chance to take advantage.
TRUMP 0-1 WILSON (21-6*)
A good long pot from Wilson and an even better positional shot off the blue to put him amongst the balls and with a chance to go well beyond Trump's score.
TRUMP 0-1 WILSON (21-0)
Trump with his third remarkable pot of the match. This one from D cutting a red by the cushion into that dastardly bottom left pocket. Again he can't keep position though.
‘Wow, what a shot’ - Trump thunders in red in second frame against Wilson
TRUMP 0-1 WILSON (17-0)
They want to look at this bottom left pocket! It kept Trump's black out in the first frame and Wilson's long red looked certain to go down only to bounce out. Trump can only add one to his score though.
TRUMP 0-1 WILSON (16-0)
Trump went into the pack after potting a black only to see the white cling to a clutch of reds and forcing him to play safe.
TRUMP 0-1 WILSON (8*-0)
Trump with another fantastic long pot to get himself starting. There is nothing wrong with his cueing today.
TRUMP 0-1 WILSON
Trump contrived to pot the red when he was trying to tuck the cue ball behind the black. Somehow the black then stuck in the jaws, with the referee poised to collect it from the pocket. This put Trump needing four snookers back and prompted him to concede.
TRUMP 0-0 WILSON (1*-62)
Trump needs a snooker but Wilson was one pot away from clinching the frame, only to screw too far after potting a green. Trump promptly nails a long red with the cue ball near the baulk cushion.
TRUMP 0-0 WILSON (0-54*)
It was an inviting table and the Warrior has made the most of it. He is a couple of pots away from taking the first frame now.
TRUMP 0-0 WILSON (0-12*)
Wilson with a fine plant and he now has a chance to build a score.
TRUMP 0-0 WILSON (0-4)
The first points on the board are for a foul and a very unTrump like follow through of the cue ball after a long pot.
THE BOYS ARE ON THE BAIZE...
The action will be underway shortly.
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TRUMP DOMINANT ON WAY TO FINAL
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