 Complete the following phrase:  Liang overcame Jamie Burnett 51 in the first round of the 2014 Wuxi Classic, and then inflicted the first defeat on Mark Selby since he won the World Championship, beating him 53. In the last 16, Liang was knocked out 25 by Joe Perry. He lost 35 against Robert Milkins in the opening round of the Australian Goldfields Open, and in the wildcard round of the Shanghai Masters 15 to Yan Bingtao.ref name201415ref He failed to get past the last 64 of the next two ranking events, but won two matches to reach the German Masters, where he eliminated Li Hang 51 in the first round. He reached the quarter-finals by coming back from 34 down against Stuart Bingham to win 54 on the final pink. He repeated this form when he edged Ryan Day 54 to play in his second career ranking event semi-final, where he took four frames in a row to hold a narrow 43 advantage over Shaun Murphy, before losing three successive frames in a 46 defeat. Liang did not drop a single frame in seeing off Cao Xinlong and Gerard Greene at the Welsh Open, but was then the victim of a whitewash by John Higgins in the third round. At the inaugural World Grand Prix, he lost 34 to Graeme Dott in the second round. In the final round of 