LIANG WENBO didn’t score a single point in the first three frames but staged a dramatic comeback to knock second favourite Judd Trump out of the Betway UK Championship.

The 2011 champion at the York Barbican was the tenth of the top 16 seeds to exit the competition as he lost 6-4 on a dramatic night of snooker.

As Thai player Thepchaiya Un-Nooh missed the final black for a 147 on the other table, Wenbo kept the pulses racing with a stirring recovery - reeling off five straight frames from 4-1 down.

He was under siege early on, though, as Trump looked like he would be making an easy passage into the last 16.

The Bristol potter had described Wenbo before the game as the the best player he had ever come up against in practise, and it looked like he would be the unwitting ideal partner in the match.

He could have saved the referee a job and picked the balls out of the pockets himself as Trump reeled off 278 unanswered points in going 3-0 up.

Wenbo did not have a sniff as Trump, with the help of 112 in the first and 75 in the third, completely dominated.

His first chance did not come until the fourth, when Trump finally missed a ball, and it was a classy reply - a break of 78 reducing the arrears to 3-1 at the mid-session interval.

Trump quickly re-established his advantage with 75 on the resumption but Wenbo dug deep to take a scrappy sixth frame and keep his hopes alive.

It would turn the match on its head.

He struck breaks of 54 and 62 on his way to claiming an unlikely victory and set up a last 16 clash with Tom Ford on Thursday.

Trump said the latter stages of the game were the worst he had “ever felt as a professional”.

“The frame at 4-1 changed it,” he said. “I felt in complete control. I was playing well and then I had a kick - just rolling a red onto another red to split the pack - and, at that point, I felt I was going to clear up every time.

“After that it was just embarrassing towards the end. It was one of those games where I didn’t want to be out there anymore and it’s disappointing because I practised hard for this.

“Everything I did towards the end, I didn’t think I was going to pot a ball and I didn’t really know what went wrong.”

He added: “It’s worrying. It’s probably, with no exaggeration, the worst I have ever felt as a professional.”

Wenbo said: “I am very happy. I think Judd had a wonderful start. In the first three frames I never had a chance.

“In the fourth, he gave the chance and I played okay. After 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, I was thinking ‘If I have got a chance here if I play my game.

“I had to concentrate on every ball and enjoy playing.”