{"id":20089,"date":"2024-12-01T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=20089"},"modified":"2024-12-01T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:37:08","slug":"trump-beats-hawkins-to-win-second-uk-championship-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=20089","title":{"rendered":"Trump beats Hawkins to win second UK Championship crown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Judd Trump claimed his second UK Championship title with a hard-fought 10-8 victory over Barry Hawkins at the Barbican in York.<\/b><\/p>\n

Only Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan, Stephen Hendry and John Higgins have won more than the 35-year-old\u2019s tally of 30 ranking titles although, given his current dominance, the expectation on him now will be to add to his haul in the Triple Crown events.<\/p>\n

He is currently joint-eighth on the all-time list with Alex Higgins in fifth position.<\/p>\n

However, he had to endure a stirring fightback from Hawkins, who fought back from 9-6 to 9-8 and almost got the two snookers he required in a dramatic 18th frame to force a decider before Trump prevailed.<\/p>\n

“It was such a hard game. The way Barry battled today considering what happened yesterday was incredible really,” Trump told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“He made it so hard. He had a chance to go level and the game could have changed. I was not enjoying myself in the seat at 9-8. I just wanted it to be over with. <\/p>\n

“Every shot I was snookered and I was thinking, ‘this could be the worst loss of all time’. It is pure relief.”<\/p>\n

World number one Trump, who had collected his only previous UK crown in 2011, led 5-3 going into Sunday evening\u2019s concluding session.<\/p>\n

He knocked in two half-century breaks to retain his two-frame advantage at 7-5 going into the mid-session interval.<\/p>\n

Hawkins, 45, searching for his first Triple Crown title 28 years after turning professional, took the next and looked well-placed to level the match at 7-7 before running out of position, allowing his opponent to pull clear again.<\/p>\n

Trump compiled a sublime break of 133 – his highest of the tournament – as he opened up a 9-6 lead but a gutsy response saw Hawkins enjoy runs of 75 and 82 before his resistance was finally broken as he narrowly missed out on a deciding frame.<\/p>\n

With Trump securing the \u00a3250,000 top prize it means he has now tasted success at the two most lucrative ranking events on the Tour this term – having also triumphed at the Saudi Arabia Masters \u2013 to cement his status at the top of the world rankings.<\/p>\n

Hawkins, who earned \u00a3100,000 as runner-up, had been bidding to become the oldest first-time winner of a Triple Crown event.<\/p>\n

However, just pushing Trump close was quite a feat, given the 45-year-old began Sunday\u2019s final barely 12 hours after concluding his semi-final win<\/a> over Mark Allen in the early hours. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judd Trump claimed his second UK Championship title with a hard-fought 10-8 victory over Barry Hawkins at the Barbican in York. Only Ronnie O\u2019Sullivan, Stephen Hendry and John Higgins have won more than the 35-year-old\u2019s tally of 30 ranking titles although, given his current dominance, the expectation on him now will be to add to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}