Snooker: Ali Carter beats Judd Trump to reach Players Championship semi-finals
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World number eight Carter will face Mark Allen or Gary Wilson next
Ali Carter beat top seed Judd Trump 6-4 in the first quarter-final of the Players Championship in Telford.
Trump threatened to level the match to make it 5-5 but Carter edged a tense tenth frame to seal victory.
World number eight Carter will meet Northern Ireland's Mark Allen or Welsh Open winner Gary Wilson in the semi-finals.
Earlier Mark Selby beat Barry Hawkins 6-3 to set up a quarter-final tie against Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Selby reeled off four frames in a row to get past Hawkins, who had taken a 2-0 lead.
"Barry let me off the hook a bit. He had a good chance to go 3-0 and he missed a red you wouldn't expect him to miss, and the game sort of turned on that. I played some good stuff after that," Selby told BBC Radio Shropshire.
"Every time I play Ronnie is always a great occasion. I lost to Ronnie in the semis here 13 years ago. Neither of us are getting any younger. More grey hairs, so I suppose we have to pat ourselves on the back for still being here."
China's Zhang Anda beat Thailand's Noppon Saengkham 6-5 to complete the quarter-final line-up, where he will meet John Higgins.
Zhang came from 5-4 behind and sealed the win with a 65 break in the deciding frame of a match which lasted more than four and a half hours.
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