Another lengthy frame goes the way of Judd Trump.

John Higgins is now the one fuming albeit with himself after missing a pink down the right cushion to hand a second consecutive frame to his opponent.

Neither player has managed a break in excess of 40 yet.

Steve Sutcliffe
BBC Sport at York Barbican

Stuart Bingham opens up a three-frame gap with a break of 105 but he does not look happy.

Far from it actually.

He had potted 14 reds and 13 blacks and was on for a maximum 147, when he missed a black to the left corner and then pointed his cue towards someone at the side of the table.

If table one is all about gripping match-play snooker, table two has been rather more fluent.

And Stuart Bingham is the man who continues to make the running with a run of 60 helping the 48-year-old head to the mid-session interval with a healthy lead.

Steve Sutcliffe
BBC Sport at York Barbican

John Higgins is aiming to end an almost four-year ranking title drought but he will not do it playing like he did in the second frame.

The three-time UK champion had a couple of chances to double his lead but could not take them and then missed the pink altogether when trying to play a thin safety shot. His second attempt at the same pink left Judd Trump with the sort of long pot he knocks in, in his sleep.

And he obliged to take the frame.

Zhang Anda is up and running.

The 32-year-old is yet to make it beyond the quarter-finals of a tournament yet this season but will be hoping that settles him into this contest.

Steve Sutcliffe
BBC Sport at York Barbican

John Higgins has not beaten Judd Trump over this sort of distance since the Hong Kong Masters in 2022 but he takes the opening frame here with a tough black along the bottom rail.

Higgins had trailed by 40 points at one stage and that is some steal.

Stuart Bingham is not hanging around albeit he is helped considerably by a Zhang Anda miss on the green to the top right corner pocket with the frame seemingly at his mercy.

Stuart Bingham is motoring and wraps up the first frame with a superb break of 101.

Only 14 points have been scored on table one in the time it took the 2015 world champion to wrap up a frame.

BBC Two

World number one Judd Trump is taking on four-time world champion John Higgins in the feature match on table one this afternoon.

You can watch that live on BBC Two.

Over on the other side of the auditorium Zhang Anda plays another former world champion Stuart Bingham, who needs to win the UK Championship to complete the Triple Crown.

With 67 ranking titles between this quartet this should be a compelling afternoon of snooker.

Shaun Murphy beats three-time winner Ding Junhui 6-5 in a final-frame decider to move into the quarter-finals of the UK Championship in York.

BBC iPlayer

BBC TV will show live action from the UK Championship at the York Barbican every day on either BBC One, BBC Two or BBC Four.

You can watch uninterrupted coverage of every match on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport mobile app, with additional coverage on BBC Red Button.

The BBC Sport website will stream the live coverage and provide live updates and reports plus a full live text commentary of the final. Get full details here.

Thursday, 27 November

Live coverage

13:00-17:15, BBC Two

13:00-18:00, BBC Red Button / BBC iPlayer / BBC Sport website & app

19:00-23:00, BBC Red Button / BBC iPlayer / BBC Sport website & app

Highlights

23:40-01:40, BBC Two

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