Extraordinary: Judd Trump won two races in two weeks on two continents

More important is how easily Trump won this race. Until the final, he had never lost more than two frames in any of his matches. TRUE, On Barry Hawkins Aside from that, he didn’t have any insanely difficult opponents. But it’s still a big number.

in the end Ali Carter I got it, and the game started great. After two big breaks at 1-1, they both started making mistakes and the game slowed down a lot. Trump went 4-1, but Carter still led 5-4 after the first stage, winning the final four frames.

In the evening, the game started brilliantly again. This time, only Trump came out on top, turning it around with three big runs and taking a 7-5 lead. He had a chance at 8-5 but Carter won the thirteenth frame with a break of 56. It was his first fifty since the third frame…

After a 15-minute break, two frames went to Trump, who came within one frame of the win. It looked like he was going to get it, but he was stopped at 57 in the 16th frame. Carter stole the frame, if not easily, to close at 9-7 and thus keep his hopes alive.

But he did not go far, because Trump ended the meeting with a great hundred. It was his second century in the final, his eighth in the tournament, 32nd of the season, and the 933rd century of his career. Mark Williams On the all-time list.

It happened that a player won two championships in a row, and Trump himself had done it before. However, it is very rare for the same player to win the tournament two weeks in a row. Stephen Hendry In 1990, he won the Dubai Classic Cup after the Asian Open. In 2002, Mark Williams also won the Thailand Masters after the China Open. In 2016 John Huggins After the Chinese Championship he was awarded the Champion of Champions. The last two competitions were invitational competitions, but that didn’t make getting the prizes any easier. Higgins traveled from China to Great Britain, making his success greater than that of his predecessors.

Now Trump has also had this success, only in reverse, traveling from Great Britain to China. Of course, this does not change the essence, it was a great success. Another question is whether he can somewhat silence the voices critical of the World Snooker Tour, because he has no problem organizing a tournament here and there one after the other, because he has won both.