Trump 'looking for flights home' before remarkable comeback

World number 1 Judd Trump joked he was checking for flights location earlier coming backmost from 4 frames down to hit Wu Yize 5-4 and scope nan past 16 of nan inaugural Saudi Arabia Masters.

It looked for illustration China's Wu, 20, was going to extremity Trump's 28-match unbeaten tally successful best-of-11 matches, which stretched backmost to December 2022, arsenic he went into nan interval 4-0 up.

But Trump, 35, showed why he classed apical of nan heap arsenic he re-emerged to triumph 5 frames successful a statement and progress.

"I was looking astatine flights home!" Trump told Eurosport afterwards.

"I'm very, very happy pinch that. That was 1 of my champion wins successful nan mode of digging successful and [having] aforesaid belief."

World number 2 Mark Allen, however, exited nan tourney arsenic he mislaid 5-1 to Xiao Guodong of China.

It looked for illustration Allen would besides shape a comeback aft falling down 2-0, erstwhile he deed a period break (104) to return nan 3rd frame, but Xiao won nan adjacent 3 to progress.

There were besides defeats for Ali Carter and Barry Hawkins.

World number 10 Carter was beaten 5-3 by chap Englishman Elliot Slessor, while 16th-ranked Hawkins mislaid 5-1 to Scotland's Scott Donaldson.

The Saudi Arabia Masters, which has been fixed nan unofficial title of being nan sport's 'fourth major' by organisers, is nan biggest ever staged extracurricular nan UK.

With a £2.3m prize money and £500,000 winner's cheque, only nan World Championship successful Sheffield is comparable.