UK Championship snooker LIVE: Score and updates as Judd Trump beats John Higgins in final frame

That sums up this match, really. Higgins misses a red to right middle with the score on just 19. A real missed opportunity.

Trump’s chance now as he strokes in a mid-range red to get things started. He brings a few reds into the open as he pots the first black - nice shot. He quickly surpasses Higgins’s score and this is a very good chance for the world No 1.

We’re back after the mid-session interval and underway in frame five. Higgins in first and for once, the reds are nicely clustered in the centre of the table, potentially allowing him to build a decent break. The current highest form either man today is 39.

Higgins leaves himself a chance at the final red down the left cushion. A smelly shot though... But he’s got it! Rattles both jaws and goes in - gutsy, gutsy pot that.

Surely there are no issues clearing up the colours? They are all pretty well located. And indeed, the four-time world champion makes no mistake!

A break of 40 to clear the table and John Higgins wins frame four to ensure we’re all square at 2-2 at the mid-session interval!

Trump back in and he’ll want to finish the frame off at this visit. Tidies up the reds in the middle of the table and he just needs one of the two tricky reds, currently on cushions, to move to a snookers required stage.

But he’s missed the brown, focussing too much on position for the final red. Trump 52-27 ahead but Higgins still in this frame.

Trump working mostly with the pink but once he passes 20, he opts to get the black off the bottom cushion with a pot to the right corner. He immediately runs out of positoon though and is left with a tough cut ona red along the bottom cushion - good pot! Although the cue ball runs up to the baulk end of the table.

And the break comes to an end on 30 when the white runs loose and there’s no pot on a red available. Five reds left, all near either side cushion, and Trump leads 38-27.

Not a huge surprise, Higgins breaks down once he reaches 27 as he misses a black to the right corner. Trump right in among the balls and there’s plenty of points waiting for him here. He can really put his stamp on the match with a big contribution here. 34 is currently the high breka by either player in this match.

Higgins gets in first in frame four. The reds are spread at the business end of the table but a lot of them are blocking each other, meaning it’s not the easiest situation to make a big break.

Neither player has managed to really string together three or four good positioonal shots in a row in this match. Higgins’s break moves to 20 but he finds himself having to pull out increasingly tricky pots. He’s still going with this break for the time being though.

Higgins pulls out a pot on the brown and then the blue. Just pink and black to win the frame but he misses the pink! It’s not an easy pot, with the rest but he leaves the ball in the jaws and it’s simple for Trump.

Judd Trump wins another 40-minute frame to lead 2-1. A lot of work done by Higgins there for no reward.

Trump wins the safety battle on the green and makes the pot, so extends his lead to 48-40. He then leaves Higgins in trouble, snookered behind the blue on the bottom left cushion, needing to play the brown ont he top cushion.

First attempt misses, four points to Trump, but he hits it on the second attempt and gets it safe. The world No 1 is now 12 points ahead with 22 remaining.

The average frame time is 38 minutes - not what you might expect from these two. If the match continues at this pace and it’s goes down to the wire, we won’t get this finished before the evening session and the players will have to return later this evening.

A couple of nice pots by Higgins as another frame looks to be coming down to the wire but he misses a very pottable blue to the right corner with his lead at 40-35 and he’s left the last red waiting for Trump!

Not an easy table of colours but Judd will fancy his chances of clearing from here. He’ll need to pot up to and including the blue but his cannon on the green goes wrong, so the break ends with Trump leading 45-40. Higgins will need all the remaining colours, Trump just green, brown and blue.