{"id":1196,"date":"2026-01-13T00:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/mark-allen-advances-in-masters-despite-battle-with-food-poisoning\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:06:29","slug":"mark-allen-advances-in-masters-despite-battle-with-food-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/mark-allen-advances-in-masters-despite-battle-with-food-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Allen advances in Masters despite battle with food poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allen wins five frames in a row against Mark WilliamsZhao Xintong cruises to 6-2 win over Gary WilsonMark Allen shrugged off a bout of food poisoning to beat Mark Williams 6-2, winning five successive frames, and book a Masters quarter-final with Judd Trump or Ding Junhui, who play on Wednesday.Speaking to the BBC, Allen, the 2018 champion, said: \u201cI prepare properly for these events, but I couldn\u2019t prepare for this at all as I\u2019ve been lying in bed all week with food poisoning. I just thought: \u2018Go out there and give my best.\u2019 I wouldn\u2019t have had much left if it had got much closer.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen wins five frames in a row against Mark WilliamsZhao Xintong cruises to 6-2 win over Gary WilsonMark Allen shrugged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}