Judd Trump bizarrely sinks white without touching another ball in Six Red World Championship match

Judd Trump bizarrely sent the cue ball straight into the pocket as he completely missed two reds in his Six Red World Championship match against Hossein Vafaei. The 33-year-old former world No. 1 was trailing 3-2 in the match-up on Thursday at the tournament in Pathum Thani.

Ad The event is played with six reds in the pack from the off, and was last played in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic, and was won by Stephen Maguire. Players ChampionshipCarter springs surprise by battling past Trump to set up Milkins quarter-final clash22/02/2023 AT 00:13 Four years later the action was back and Judd Trump, the world No. 5, was in action against his 28-year-old opponent, currently ranked at No.

22. Despite the obvious quality that Trump boasts, he nevertheless committed a schoolboy error with a wayward stroke. In the best of 11, Trump was 19-0 up and looking to go level, when he was looking to sink a red.

He had three balls remaining on the table, all around the pink spot, but commentator Philip Studd thought that there was no plant on, nor an obvious, more routine shot. Ding makes 'sensational' escape pot from O'Sullivan snooker O'Sullivan and Trump out of Six Red World Championship as Ding reaches last four O'Sullivan where he wants to end career as he sizzles in Bangkok Trump then settled and appeared to aim into the two closest balls that rested against one another. It is not clear what the Englishman was attempting, but he may have hoped to graze one of the reds with minimal disturbance to then leave the white safe for Vafaei to take on his own awkward conundrum.