Teenager Moody's Wuhan Open Run Ends In Quarter-finals

English teen Stan Moody's unexpected tally successful nan Wuhan Open has ended successful nan quarter-finals pursuing a conclusion by defending champion Xiao Guodong.

Moody, from Halifax, defeated Ding Junhui and Barry Hawkins to scope his maiden ranking quarter-final.

However, nan 18-year-old, who is classed 61st successful nan world, couldn't problem nan 2024 champion, who completed a comfortable 5-2 win.

Xiao will look Mark Williams successful nan past 4 - nan Welshman hit Zhang Anda 5-1.

It will beryllium Williams' 68th quality successful nan semi-finals of a ranking event, pinch nan 50-year-old telling nan World Snooker website he has to "pinch myself sometimes" arsenic he continues to compete astatine nan business extremity of tournaments contempt being "20 years past" his peak.

In nan other half of nan draw, England's Gary Wilson hit Scotland's John Higgins 5-3 to group up a semi-final pinch Northern Ireland's Mark Allen, who hit 2024 runner-up Si Jiahui 5-4.