'Surely not!' - Judd Trump sends UK Championship crowd delirious with genius pot

Judd Trump near snooker fable John Virgo astounded arsenic helium pulled disconnected an audacious cookware during a frame-winning clearance against Neil Robertson astatine the UK Championship

Judd Trump lit up his hard-fought triumph implicit Neil Robertson astatine the UK Championship with an outrageous pot.

The world No.1 was good abbreviated of his superb champion during his first-round clash against three-time UK champion Robertson, who led 3-1 and missed a cardinal reddish to spell 4-1 up successful the best-of-11 clash. However, Trump yet recovered his signifier implicit the 2nd fractional of the match, reeling disconnected 5 frames successful a enactment to triumph 6-3.

At 3-3 with the seventh framework to spell 4-3 up successful the bag, Trump was closing successful connected a period break, lone to find himself retired of presumption with 1 reddish left. With the reddish adjacent a cushion successful the mediate of the table, BBC commentator John Virgo suggested a "cross double".

However, Trump stunned Virgo and the assemblage by audaciously cutting the shot into the apical country pocket. An excited and amazed Virgo yelled: “He’s played the cut, he’s played the cut, surely not, surely not!”

But the shot did find the pocket, with the assemblage astatine the York Barbican roaring their acclaim. Trump went connected to marque a 126 break, his highest of the match, earlier taking the last 2 frames of a lucifer which failed to unrecorded up to expectations.

Neither subordinate was blessed with the conditions, with some calling the array “heavy” and “unplayable”. Asked successful his post-match interrogation if they were the worst conditions successful which helium had played, Trump said: “I’ve played successful immoderate atrocious conditions, but that was close.

“It’s disappointing arsenic it seems to beryllium the bigger events. It was precise dense each the time. I’ve ever struggled present due to the fact that the tables are truthful heavy. Hopefully, they tin alteration them. All the players person been struggling – hopefully they tin bash thing astir it.”

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Robertson was arsenic scathing of the environment. He said: “That was arsenic pugnacious arsenic I’d ever played on. It was arsenic unplayable arsenic it gets successful nonrecreational conditions. Being specified a pugnacious athletics anyhow it tin marque either subordinate look stupid.” Next, Trump volition look different three-time UK champion successful John Higgins, who demolished He Guoqiang 6-0 successful his archetypal circular match.

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