Neil Robertson wants Judd Trump to remove the curse he’s put on him

Neil Robertson is inactive going astatine UK Championship qualifying, but lone just, arsenic helium asks Judd Trump to ‘remove the curse’ that helium enactment connected him.

The Thunder from Down Under narrowly bushed Oliver Lines connected Tuesday nighttime to marque the last circular of qualifying for York, wherever helium faces Matthew Stevens connected Thursday.

Lines was up 5-4 and things looked bleak for the Australian, but helium scrapped his mode implicit the line, contempt feeling that his luck was against him.

Robertson bushed Trump astatine past week’s Champion of Champions, with the Englishman complaining astir his deficiency of luck aft the defeat.

The Aussie present reckons Trump has cursed him with atrocious luck since those comments and wants the satellite fig 1 to assistance his hex.

Robertson said successful an Instagram video aft beating Lines: ‘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 told World Snooker Tour: ‘I was dormant and buried astatine 5-4. I played large isolated from the seventh frame, past Oliver took power and helium had chances to win.

‘I made a truly bully interruption successful the past framework to get backmost into it. I cognize there’s a batch connected the line, my Masters spot is astatine involvement truthful each crippled successful this lawsuit is simply a treble whammy, contempt the information that I person had a large season.

‘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, being successful the world’s apical 16, has already booked his spot astatine York and doesn’t person to look the nervy qualifiers.

After his 6-4 Champion of Champions decision to Robertson, helium said: ‘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.’

The last circular of qualifiers is played implicit Wednesday and Thursday successful Leicester, with the main lawsuit successful York getting underway connected Saturday.

Judgement Days Schedule

Wednesday 20 November

1pm

• Elliot Slessor vs Stephen Maguire
• Jak Jones vs Fan Zhengyi
• Jackson Page vs Hossein Vafaei
• Jimmy Robertson vs Stuart Bingham

7pm

• Ryan Day vs Sanderson Lam
• Wang Yuchen vs Barry Hawkins
• Jack Lisowski vs Bai Yulu
• David Lilley vs Wu Yize

Thursday 21 November

1pm

• Zhou Yuelong vs Matt Selt
• Lei Peifan vs Ben Woollaston
• Ricky Walden vs Zhao Xintong
• Julien Leclercq vs Dave Gilbert

7pm

• Rob Milkins vs Xu Si
• Liu Hongyu vs Michael Holt
• Stan Moody vs He Guoqiang
• Matthew Stevens vs Neil Robertson

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