China Open: Five-star Judd Trump makes progress


Defending champion Judd Trump stormed into the second round of the China Open with a comfortable 5-1 victory over Ashley Hugill in Beijing.

Trump (pictured) raced out of the blocks with a break of 108 to take the opener before Hugill levelled the scores by sealing the second frame. 'The Ace in the Pack' regained the lead with a run of 105 in the third before cruising through the next three frames to secure a resounding win.

World number one Mark Selby made amends for a slow start in his qualifying match against Adam Stefanow on Monday by steamrolling Alfie Burden 5-0 in just 61 minues, including breaks of 88, 104, 95, 87 and 74.

"I played really well," Selby told worldsnooker.com. "Every time I got a chance I punished Alfie. I could have had four centuries.

"I haven’t played as well in the last few weeks as I did in the first  half of the season so it would be nice to have a good run this week.

"The World Championship is less than three weeks away and it’s exciting looking forward to that but I have to focus on the job in hand here in  China.” 

Home favourite Ding Junhui was in equally dominant form as he dispatched Paul Davison in a 5-0 whitewash which saw the Chinese player record the second highest break of the tournament - 138 - in the fourth frame.

Ronnie O'Sullivan also eased into the second round with a 5-0 triumph against Wales' Gareth Allen.

John Higgins was a 5-3 victor over Ian Burns, Matt Stevens defeated Alan McManus 5-3 and 2016 finalist Ricky Walden beat wild card Niu Zhuang 5-1.

Michael Holt and Kyren Wilson secured 5-3 successes over Jimmy White and Xiao Guodong, respectively, and there were also wins for Martin Gould, Rory McLeod, Dan Wells, Stephen Maguire, Andrew Higginson, Martin O'Donnell and Li Hang.

 Click here for latest draw, schedule and results 

Like what you've read?

MOST READ

Sporting Life
Join for free!
Access to exclusive features all for FREE - No monthly subscription fee
Race Replays
My stable horse tracker
giftOffers and prize draws
newsExclusive content

Next Off

Fixtures & Results

Fetching latest games....