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An angry John Higgins lost to Chris Wakelin in the quarter-finals of the International Championship in Nanjing after the deciding frame was postponed for several hours.
With the best-of-11 frame match level at 5-5, the referee ruled the afternoon session over, much to the obvious disgust of four-time world champion Higgins, who gestured and appeared to curse before leaving the table.
When the players finally resumed after the evening session, 32-year-old Wakelin’s break of 62 secured a 6-5 victory – his third successive victory over a former world champion in Nanjing, eastern China.
The defeat for 49-year-old Higgins means the Scot will not qualify for next week’s Champion of Champions event in Bolton.
After beating Shaun Murphy and Mark Williams in the previous two rounds, Wakelin will face China’s Xiao Guodong in the semi-finals after beating Wales’ Jackson Page 6-4.
China’s Ding Junhui is also through to the last four, with breaks of 129 and 123 in a 6-4 win over Kyren Wilson.
Junhui will play fellow countryman Xu Si after beating Gary Wilson 6-5.