Former world snooker champion calls for Judd Trump to 'remove curse' he's put on him

Neil Robertson has accused rival Judd Trump of placing a curse connected him arsenic helium continues to conflict for wins and look adjacent misses with the UK Championship astir the corner

Neil Robertson has asked rival Judd Trump to "remove the curse" helium believes has been placed upon him.

The Australian bushed Trump 6-4 successful the quarter-finals of the Champion of Champions past week. Since past though Robertson has recovered wins hard to travel by and has avoided immoderate superior scares aft Trump declared helium was an unlucky loser.

He said aft being edged retired by the 2010 World champion: "I thought I was precise unlucky. To beryllium honorable I deliberation Neil knows that helium didn’t merit to triumph similar that, but that happens. He enactment successful a bully spell to spell 3-1 up, past aft that helium had rather a fewer chances, missed rather a fewer agelong balls and got harmless each time. It’s conscionable 1 of those days."

After beating Trump Robertson mislaid his semi-final to eventual champion Mark Williams.

On Tuesday night, helium survived a large scare successful UK Championship qualifying arsenic helium came from 5-4 down to bushed Oliver Lines - who is ranked 81st successful the world - 6-5. His adjacent hostile is Matthew Stevens successful the last circular of qualifying but helium has called connected Trump to region an evident curse.

Robertson said connected his Instagram story: "So Judd, aft our lucifer erstwhile you called maine truthful lucky, I person had thing but luck. Could you delight region the curse that you person enactment upon me? Was it the bladed red, 2 cushions successful down the yellow, touching shot that sent you implicit the edge?

"So yes mate, tin you delight region the curse, due to the fact that playing the crippled similar this isn’t overmuch fun. I bash similar a challenge, but capable is enough, you’ve had your amusive truthful delight region the curse and let maine to play the crippled with adjacent luck arsenic everyone. Thank you mate."

Robertson is simply a three-time UK Championship victor having triumphed successful 2013, 2015 and 2020, but since winning his 3rd rubric 4 years agone the antheral from Melbourne has suffered 3 successive first-round eliminations.

He is assured though that helium tin nutrient his champion contempt respective adjacent misses. He said aft seeing disconnected Lines: "My crippled is there, successful a mode it was bully to person to excavation heavy contiguous successful a lucifer wherever things were not going my way."

Trump automatically qualifies for the past 16 of the UK Championship due to the fact that of his satellite ranking. Trump himself past won the tourney successful 2011 and has been a beaten finalist doubly since - losing to Ronnie O'Sullivan and Robertson.