The Ace in the Pack Judd Trump has racked his 3rd career 147 - in the China Open in Beijing.
The Juddernaut, 27, World number two, who has won two ranking titles this season, the European Masters and the Players Championship, made the perfect break in the 5th frame against China's Tian Pengfei to lead 4 - 1 in the match. It was a difficult last black for the potter from Bristol as it was a thin cut but it just wriggled in.
After, it was a short flurry of form for Pengfei who pegged the scoreline back to 4 - 3, but Judd manag
The Ace in the Pack Judd Trump has racked his 3rd career 147 - in the China Open in Beijing.
The Juddernaut, 27, World number two, who has won two ranking titles this season, the European Masters and the Players Championship, made the perfect break in the 5th frame against China's Tian Pengfei to lead 4 - 1 in the match. It was a difficult last black for the potter from Bristol as it was a thin cut but it just wriggled in.
After, it was a short flurry of form for Pengfei who pegged the score line back to 4 - 3, but Judd managed to get over the line to book his place into the quarter-final and the defending champion is on course still to win back to back ranking titles this season. That's the 12th maximum this season, beating the 11 made in 2011, and Trump becomes the seventh player to have made three career 147s in snooker history.
This is the third maximum of the China Open's history, with Stephen Maguire and Neil Robertson both making maximums in 2008 and 2010 respectively. The likes of current players Stuart Bingham and Neil Robertson also have three career maxis, who are currently in the top 16 with Trump.
China's Zhang Anda originally had the high break of 140 and was on for the £2,000 high break prize in Beijing before Trump had both the high break and maximum prize.
Watch Trump's first professional 147 in 2013 at the Antwerp Open, which was the 99th maxi before Mark Selby made the 100th maximum in the UK Championship, in the video below...
ed to get over the line to book his place into the quarter-final and the defending champion is on course still to possibly win back to back ranking titles this season.
That's the 12th maximum this season, beating the 11 made in 2011, and Trump becomes the seventh player to have made three career 147s in snooker history.
This is the third maximum of the China Open's history, with Stephen Maguire and Neil Robertson both making maximums in 2008 and 2010 respectively. The likes of current players Stuart Bingham and Neil Robertson also have three career maxis, who are currently in the top 16 with Trump.
China's Zhang Anda originally had the high break of 140 and was on for the £2,000 high break prize in Beijing before Trump had both the high break and maximum prize. Watch Trump's first professional 147 in 2013 at the Antwerp Open, which was the 99th maxi before Mark Selby made the 100th maximum in the UK Championship, in the video below...
Maximums this season include:
1) Judd Trump - 2017 China Open
2) Mark Davis - 2 in the 2017 Championship League
3) Tom Ford - 2017 German Masters
4) Ali Carter - 2017 German Masters
5) Ross Muir - 2017 German Masters
6) Mark Allen - 2016 UK Championship
7) John Higgins 2016 Northern Ireland Open
8) Alfie Burden - 2016 English Open
9) Shaun Murphy - 2016 European Masters
10) Stephen Maguire - 2016 Shanghai Masters
11) Thepchaiya Un-Nooh - 2016 Paul Hunter Classic
This is snooker's 130th official maximum with the very first one being back in 1982 when Steve Davis made one in the Lada Classic and won a Lada! China's Ding Junhui in 2011 made 2 maximums in competitive play in the 2011/12 season. 12 maximums are a record for one season.
