SNOOKER REVOLUTION UNDER JUDD TRUMP: “I WANT TO REACH A STANDARD NOBODY HAS SEEN BEFORE”

According to Desmond Kane, Judd Trump is the best snooker player ever and has the potential to completely change the game’s rules after claiming his first World Championship.

For Judd Trump, everything has finally come together at the Crucible. The latest world champion in snooker is the game’s best natural talent. Fantastic news for Trump, but even more good news for the sport he controls.
It was quite an impressive exhibition of furious, powerful potting by the man known as “The Ace In The Pack,” who is now holding all the cards on the green baize. A nasty aspect to snooker from the gods was utterly captivating. Beyond these totemic and torturous 17 days, the bouncing Bristolian’s options at age 29 are virtually limitless. After this, there is no turning back.

In Sheffield, the world snooker tectonic plates moved over the slates of the tables. Though Trump had always threatened to transform the game since making a 147 break at the age of 14, this was perhaps not quite snooker’s A Star Is Born on the green baize. Still, there was a certain maturity to his extremely impressive 18-9 slaughtering of an astounded John Higgins on Sunday and Monday.

In addition to winning the £500,000 first prize and the Masters, Northern Ireland Open, and World Grand Prix, he became the first player to make a million dollars in a single season. However, the performance itself was an incredible gift from heaven.
He informed me, “I’ll take it one step at a time and not get too carried away.” “I’ve had an incredible season. Even though I’m still a young snooker player, I want to keep getting better and raising the bar on my game.
You were occasionally left in a state of shock at the relentlessness with which he attacked on the biggest platform in sports. “He does not just overpower the opponent, he overpowers the snooker table,” as Higgins put it so eloquently.

It wasn’t meant as a criticism on Higgins’ abilities, but Trump’s deception was impressive.
In 43 years of hosting the yearly potting jamboree, The Crucible has seen and entertained a variety of wannabe heroes, but it has never seen a talent like Trump. Even though Stephen Hendry, Ronnie O’Sullivan, and Higgins have won 16 world titles between them, they are not quite as good as Trump when he is playing at his best.
Trump is unmatched at the height of his game, as all three have acknowledged, which speaks volumes.
“I tried to have fun while entertaining the fans. Take a couple alternative shots that aren’t often taken by other players, he said. “You work so.

Trump has it all and more: incredible potting ability, bold shot-making, magnificent break-building abilities, fearlessness, speed, inventiveness, tactical acumen, and a work ethic behind the scenes to back his unparalleled natural skill.
Because of how skillfully and gracefully the slender form glided about the table, practically gazing up the balls like prey, at moments it felt like seeing snooker’s Swan Lake. He felt as though he was one with the table during the cathartic event.
In interviews, Trump is polite, considerate, and talkative—all traits you would want in a world snooker champion. Being the first world champion in his 20s since Neil Robertson in 2010, he is a marketing man’s dream.

“It was quite enjoyable to be able to perform as I did in my younger years,” remarked Trump, who had learned a lot from his 18-15 defeat to Higgins in the 2011 championship game after leading 10-7 the previous night.

Trump scored seven hundreds and eight breaks above 50, setting the highest level ever seen in a final. The numbers speak for themselves. Despite putting on his best performance of the season with four tons and four more knockouts of his own, Higgins—a losing finalist over the previous three years—lost by nine frames.
The difference from the past is striking: the first time this event was held here in 1977, six centuries were made throughout. A referee with a rosette resembling a dustbin lid praised 65-year-old Fred Davis for his compilation forty years prior. Indeed, these are changed times. Though the game of snooker is always changing, the principles stay the same when it comes time for the World Championship.

It is somewhat funny to hear the term “snooker’s triple crown” thrown around, with the UK Championship, Masters, and World Championship being accorded the same weight as majors, similar to the old adage that snooker no longer has personalities. It’s made-up nonsense that has been around for the previous fifteen years, somewhere in the archives of a national broadcaster, and it works well enough when you televise the three events. It’s not real news.
Snooker has a single major; it does not have majors. The only one that counts is in Trump’s possession. Before the final, Trump, the 2011 UK champion, declared that he would exchange all of his season-long trophies for the World Championship. He would exchange everything for the big win.

When they first become pros, they are all vying for the same title, and there is only one location where the snooker player legend is created and honored. Nothing else even comes close to determining legacy—it is entirely dependent on what you accomplish at the World Championship.
As harsh as it sounds, does anyone remember Jimmy White defeating John Parrott to win the UK Championship in 1992? The public’s memories of him are his loss to Parrott in the 1991 world final, along with five previous setbacks, including four Sheffield losses to Hendry and one to Steve Davis. Trump will no longer be burdened by the Whirlwind’s reputation as the greatest almost man in snooker.

Trump flourished following his survival of a first-round clash with Thepchaiya Un-Nooh, in which he overcame a 6-3 deficit to win 10-9 in the decisive frame with a make-or-break cross double.

In the second round, he fell down Ding Junhui 9–7, but prevailed 13–7. In the last eight, he outscored the prolific, free-flowing qualifier Gary Wilson 17-11, and in the semifinals, he outplayed Stephen Maguire 13-6. He had prevailed in every situation, yet he lost this competition.
Trump understands how important it is to turn pool into a popular activity that young people can participate in. When it comes to interacting with audiences in the digital era, Trump is the ideal prototype.