The encounter between Trump and Williams will pit the game’s two most decorated left-handed players against each other in a repeat of the 2022 semi-final.
Trump edged that nerve-shredding contest 17-16 against the Welshman and expended little energy on Wednesday evening to dispatch Brecel.
Unlike the afternoon session when 2019 winner Trump did well to emerge at 8-8 after watching Belgium’s Brecel produce an array of stunning pots, once play resumed the Englishman was in the ascendency.
He set the tone with a superb 115 in the opening frame to equal Neil Robertson’s landmark total of 103 centuries set in 2013-14.
And he eclipsed the Australian in the very next frame with a run of 116.
That brought up Trump’s 11th century at this year’s World Championship, with the record of 16 in a single Crucible campaign, set by Stephen Hendry in 2002 and equalled by Mark Williams in 2022, now in his sights.
Brecel, who won the world title two years ago simply had no answer, scoring a meagre 19 points from the first four frames, and when he missed a brown to the left middle Trump wrapped up the contest.
