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Ssb - sofia so good for trump
So Judd Trump won the fourth European Tour event of the season in Sofia, Bulgaria with a 4-0 victory over John Higgins.
I won’t wax lyrical about Trump any more on here because he will take out a restraining order against me. However, he demonstrated terrific confidence and poise to comprehensively outplay Higgins in the final.
It will be a satisfying win because Higgins has won all of their previous key meetings, including the 2011 world final and the finals this season in Shanghai and at PTC4 in Gloucester.
Higgins looked to be the one player who had the beating of Trump, the new world no.1. He still may in the future of course but he was simply blown away tonight.
It was a full house on Sofia and they clearly loved every minute. At the Masters last season I met Oleg Velinov, the chairman of Bulgarian snooker and the organiser of this tournament.
He told me then it was his dream to stage a professional event in his home country. Well, he did it and it was a success.
The question now is how big these European events can become. Or maybe it should be whether they should become any bigger.
There’s no law to say tournaments have to be a week long with the same old formats. These short PTCs with their best of sevens are refreshing to watch, although players will obviously hope prize money rises in time.
This week attention turns to the qualifiers for the UK Championship. This is an event with a great history and of course carries huge ranking points.
The defending champion in York will be Judd Trump. Qualifying for him is now a distant memory.
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I won’t wax lyrical about Trump any more on here because he will take out a restraining order against me. However, he demonstrated terrific confidence and poise to comprehensively outplay Higgins in the final.
It will be a satisfying win because Higgins has won all of their previous key meetings, including the 2011 world final and the finals this season in Shanghai and at PTC4 in Gloucester.
Higgins looked to be the one player who had the beating of Trump, the new world no.1. He still may in the future of course but he was simply blown away tonight.
It was a full house on Sofia and they clearly loved every minute. At the Masters last season I met Oleg Velinov, the chairman of Bulgarian snooker and the organiser of this tournament.
He told me then it was his dream to stage a professional event in his home country. Well, he did it and it was a success.
The question now is how big these European events can become. Or maybe it should be whether they should become any bigger.
There’s no law to say tournaments have to be a week long with the same old formats. These short PTCs with their best of sevens are refreshing to watch, although players will obviously hope prize money rises in time.
This week attention turns to the qualifiers for the UK Championship. This is an event with a great history and of course carries huge ranking points.
The defending champion in York will be Judd Trump. Qualifying for him is now a distant memory.
More...
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