‘I feel like I'm back to my best’ – Judd Trump sounds ominous warning to rivals after David Grace win

Judd Trump sounded an ominous warning to his rivals after overcoming David Grace to reach the second round of the Welsh Open. The world No. 5 recorded a 4-0 whitewash win on Monday and served as a perfect response to a dramatic 10-9 defeat to Mark Allen in the Grand Prix final on January 22.

Ad That agonising defeat came only a week after the euphoric high of beating Mark Allen 10-9 in the Masters final, and Trump reflected on a topsy-turvy couple of weeks. Welsh Open'I feel like I’m back to my best' — Trump confident after whitewash win13 HOURS AGO He said: “I was happy with the way I battled, didn't give in and the way I performed at the end (Grand Prix final). “I thought I was back to my best.

Obviously, you're going to be disappointed when you don't take your chance, but I was happy with how much pressure I put him under and I've never seen him crumble like that before. “I took pride from that, he's normally really good under it, but I put him under so much pressure he couldn't pot a ball. So obviously when you get chances in the last, you're going to be disappointed, but I just tried to look at it as a positive from where I was three or four months ago.

“Looking back to the Masters, when you get a win like that in a season, you're just on a free role afterwards. You've got one of the big ones out of the way. It would've been lovely to back that up, but I feel like I'm back to my best.” ‘Like getting on a bike’ – O’Sullivan says he is ‘enjoying’ his snooker Williams roars back to oust White, Higgins and Robertson also through Welsh Open as it happened — Selby safely through after Trump and O’Sullivan win The 33-year-old believes it shows a sign of tremendous strength when being able to win majors when not at peak