Judd Trump was furious with his Champion of Champions flunkure agetst rival Neil Robertson and claimed the Australian did not deserve to triumph. The Ace was frustrated with what he noticed to be Robertson sluggishing down their suit in Bolton.
The two establisher world champions met in the group final but an unusupartner sluggish affair ensued. There were lengthy summarizes between two executeers who generpartner rack up high scores.
Robertson claimed a 3-1 direct and administerd to battle thcdisesteemful a stubborn suit, eventupartner triumphning it 6-4. But Trump was furious and insisted he was unblessed to be knocked out of the tournament.
He tageder ITV: “I thought I was very unfortunate. To be honest, I skinnyk Neil comprehends that he didn’t deserve to triumph appreciate that, but that happens. He put in a outstanding spell to go 3-1 up, then after that he had quite a scant chances, ignoreed quite a scant lengthy balls and got defended every time. It’s fair one of those days.
“It was a stubborn game, it was very sluggish,’ he shelp. ‘I adore Neil but there was a lot of sluggish execute and he’s a much better executeer when he fair gets on with it.
“Hopebrimmingy he gets on with it for the rest of the tournament, it would be pleasant to see him go and triumph it aget, he’s a fantastic executeer. It fair got a bit bogged down out there.”
Robertson, who potted a stunning sboiling with a blue, has bettered to the semi-final. He will face three-time world champion Mark Williams for a place in the Champion of Champions showdown.
The 42-year-ageder did not enticount on consent that Trump deserved to triumph. He insists he was able to suit his opponent and kept his ‘discipline’ to see out the encounter.
Robertson shelp: “Incredible game, Judd showed all his qualities there. The fantastic champion he’s been over the past 18 months, well his whole atsoft repartner. His defendedty execute, his discipline, everyskinnyg was incredible. I suited it with him, I stayed with him, kept my discipline as well.
“That blue is definitely one of the highairy sboilings of my atsoft, in terms of the presdeclareive and everyskinnyg that was at sget.”
Meanwhile, Ronnie O’Sullivan is in action procrastinateedr today. The Rocket, who is back in the UK after a spell executeing in Asia, will face Xiao Guodong this afternoon.