Judd Trump hits 'unbelievable' maximum 147 break in emphatic win over Mitchell Mann at Scottish Open
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ByEurosport
Updated 29/11/2022 at 17:21 GMT
Judd Trump got off to the best possible start against Mitchell Mann in the Scottish Open on Tuesday when he rolled in a 147 maximum break, the eighth of his career. "Has anyone ever started a match like that?", wondered the Eurosport commentary team. Trump went on to rout Mann 4-0 as he advanced to the next round of the tournament, being held in Edinburgh.
'An extraordinary break!' - Trump hits stunning 147 in opening frame
Judd Trump hit the eighth maximum of his career on Tuesday afternoon with a marvellous break of 147 against Mitchell Mann in the first frame of their Scottish Open clash, which he ended up winning 4-0.
Trump came to the table moments after the encounter had begun with a couple of loose reds, and he got amongst the balls straight away, with Eurosport's commentators calling it early, saying that a maximum could be on.
The final red was extremely tricky but Trump got a brilliant pot off.
The last problem shot was the blue and pink, which were quite close together in the middle of the table. But he produced a fabulous shot to take them both out.
It is the eighth 147 of Trump's career, and remarkably, the third of 2022 after maximums at the Champion of Champions and Turkish Masters.
Speaking in the Eurosport studio Ronnie O'Sullivan and Jimmy White were loving what they were seeing.
“I think he needs to change that tip!" joked O'Sullivan after Trump's comments on his cue yesterday.
“I could just tell early on in the break, he was just getting perfect [placement] on everything. You just think ‘okay his touch is really, really good’ and once he went into the reds about 56 I just couldn’t see him not making it.
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'Just brilliant, fantastic!' - O'Sullivan and White react to Trump 147
“He wasn’t out of position, it was a fantastic break, cue ball on a bit of string. That’s just unbelievable."
White added “Players love making breaks. To make breaks you can be playing okay but to make 147s you have to be playing really well. And he’s been saying that he’s really been playing well in practice, even though he hasn’t won any tournaments, as Ronnie said pre-match it’s only matter of time and patience and it shows well he is cueing.
"He was never really in trouble, the last red was his only difficult shot but the pink was lovely, he got right through this."
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WATCH - Trump's masterful 147 against Mann in full at Scottish Open
Trump knocked in a break of 62 to seal the second as Mann struggled to get enough table time to do any damage.
2-0 became 3-0 after a scrappy third went Trump's way, and then he made another century break - this time a 107 - to conclude his rout, and send a message to the rest of the field about where his game is at.
Murphy and Zhao knocked out
There were two big surprises on Tuesday with 2021 UK Championship winner Zhao Xintong losing 4-3 to Joe O’Connor in the morning and Scott Donaldson whitewashing Shaun Murphy 4-0 to the delight of the Edinburgh crowd.
Ding Junhui, Barry Hawkins, Joe Perry and Zhou Yuelong were among the other second round winners.
Following his incredible century break, which was just three seconds short of Tony Drago's record mark for a ton, Ronnie O'Sullivan is back in action at 7pm on Tuesday, along with Mark Selby and Neil Robertson.
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