Judd Trump’s match was bizarrely interrupted by a fire alarm as chaos reigned over the first day of the English Open.
The alarm sounded during Trump 's match in the Brentwood Centre on a damaging day for the sport as snooker bosses suspended another player in an unprecedented match-fixing probe.
Snooker was reeling after Yan Bingtao became the seventh player suspended over match-fixing allegations upon his arrival in Brentwood. Former Masters champion Yan joined Chinese compatriots Lu Ning, Li Hang, Chang Bingyu, Bai Langning and Zhao Jianbo to be barred from competitions by the WPBSA governing body in recent days, amid the sport's biggest ever ongoing match-fixing investigation. The bans came after Liang Wenbo was also suspended back in October over a probe into unspecified "allegations of misconduct"
