Mark Allen is through and will face Barry Hawkins on Saturday evening.

The Northern Irishman was simply too good for Jack Lisowski, who seemed to lose his momentum when the mid-session interval arrived.

Kyren Wilson gets over the line but he looks slightly bemused as a an attempted 147 maximum break comes to an end after 12 reds and 11 blacks.

A tense eighth frame goes the way of Mark Allen after Jack Lisowski had an opportunity to pinch it but missed a green to the top right corner pocket.

It is very much last chance time for Lisowski.

It has not been plain sailing by any stretch for Kyren Wilson but he is now just one frame from victory thanks largely to a very timely break of 67.

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Michael Holt appeared down and out at 4-1 down but is looking the part now.

He constructs a lovely break of 75 and is back within a frame.

Holt claimed his place in a first UK Championship quarter-final since 1999 with a thrilling 6-5 win over Crucible finalist Jak Jones, after trailing 5-2.

Well what a turnaround. Since the interval Mark Allen has really come to the fore and a half century helps him reel off his third straight frame.

Mark Allen crafts a superb break of 103 and all of a sudden we are all square.

Over on table one, Michael Holt needs a couple of goes but gets over the line in the sixth frame to reduce his arrears to just two frames.

Mark Allen is playing his way back into this match although a couple of loose shots in the fifth frame from Jack Lisowski certainly helped.

Meanwhile, Michael Holt looks to be kicking himself. A missed red to the right corner when he was on 50 points costs him dearly as the reigning world champion responds with a run of 72.

That is Jack Lisowski is in full flow. He goes 3-1 ahead with a break of 88 that included some stunning pots.

Michael Holt needed that. The 46-year-old will feel he is in the match now after securing the fourth frame with a run of 64.

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Jack Lisowski played an unbelievable plant in the third frame which just underlined how talented he is.

But then instead of rolling up behind the green or brown he took on a risky long green to the corner and rattled the jaws. If any two shots encapsulate his playing style they were the perfect example.

Exhilarating, exciting but occasionally frustrating.

Both players had chances there but Lisowski takes it on the black. The Englishman looks determined to avenge his defeat in the last four to Allen a couple of years back.

Kyren Wilson latches on to a mistake from Michael Holt to hoover up another frame.

Kyren Wilson is playing with the authority that comes with being a world champion and puts another frame on the board with a break of 72.

That all came about because Michael Holt went in off while trying to dump the white ball on the top cushion.

What a match this could be...Jack Lisowski levels with a superb break of 114.

Mark Allen knocked in a long red off Jack Lisowski's break-off shot and built a 59-point lead before faltering but it did not cost him the frame.

Kyren Wilson has also wrapped up the first frame.

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It's Friday night in York and world champion Kyren Wilson is in action against qualifier Michael Holt, who is ranked 98th in the world.

Jack Lisowski, who has never won a tournament as a professional takes on world number three Mark Allen in a repeat of their semi-final from two years ago.

You can of course stay across all the action here and on BBC Two.

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In the time that Judd Trump was performing his post-match media duties, Barry Hawkins has emerged as a 6-2 winner against Shaun Murphy.

That means Hawkins will now play Jack Lisowski or Mark Allen in the semi-finals.

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Judd Trump played down suggestions he was the favourite to win the UK Championship in his post-match news conference after beating John Higgins in a decider.

However, the performance he delivered against Zhang Anda is very much evidence to the contrary.

Judd Trump reaches his seventh semi-final of the campaign with an exhilarating display of attacking snooker.

The world number one rounds off his victory in style with his fourth century of the match.

Another frame goes Zhang Anda's way with an impressive century.

Judd Trump will want to get this done sharpish and not give his opponent any more encouragement.