Jack Lisowski got one over on his close friend Judd Trump with a 6-2 quarter-final win at the International Championship in Daqing.

The English duo are firm friends away from the table, with Lisowski suggesting they’d likely have breakfast together on the morning of their match before parting ways to complete their preparations.

Trump had won three of the previous four meetings, while Lisowski anticipated they’d either spur each other on or drag one another down, in terms of performance.

“I expect we’ll both be really good or rubbish. I don’t like playing him because he’s my best mate,” was Lisowski’s pre-game assessment. “We just have to ignore each other for three hours.”

As it turned out the duo sparked in a high-class tussle, with a half-century break coming in seven of the eight frames they contested. Lisowski came storming out from the starting blocks with runs of 53, 95 and 71, seeing him move into a 3-0 lead.

Trump would take two of the next three frames but arguably it was the one scrappy frame that got away from him that did the most damage.

Frame five went Lisowski’s way, a low-scoring 63-24 encounter that put him into a 4-1 lead.

While his pal responded with a 119 in frame six – the highest of the match – Lisowski again managed to pinch a big momentum changer in the next.

Trump’s 57 break appeared to have him within touching distance at 4-2, but it was Lisowski that stole it on the final black to move within one of victory and he went over the winning line in style, compiling a 106-break to move into the last-four in China.