Jimmy White ends Judd Trump’s Tour Championship hopes with stunning victory for legend at WST Classic
Jimmy ‘Whirlwind’ White continued his remarkable return to form with a 4-2 victory over Masters champion Judd Trump in the last 32 of the inaugural WST Classic in Leicester.
The six-time world finalist followed up his opening 4-2 win over 2006 world champion Graeme Dott and 4-3 victory against former Welsh Open winner Joe Perry in the second round with another assured display of typical grit against Trump on Tuesday morning to reach the last 16.
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The Londoner will meet China’s Pang Junxu on Tuesday afternoon for a quarter-final place after Pang enjoyed a 4-0 whitewash win against compatriot Si Jiahui, boosted by breaks of 139 and 96.
To illustrate his potting renaissance period, at the age of 60, the evergreen White reached his last world final in 1994, five years after Trump was born, and won the last of his 10 career ranking titles at the 2004 Players Championship, four years after Pang was born.
He last reached the quarter-finals of a major tournament at the 2005 Masters when he defeated Williams 6-5 at the old Wembley Conference Centre.
The defeat also ends Trump’s hopes of qualifying for the elite eight-man Tour Championship in Hull next week (March 27-April 2).
He needed to reach the final of the Classic, but joins world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan, Neil Robertson, Mark Williams and John Higgins in having the next few weeks off to prepare for the 47th World Championship in Sheffield (April 15-May 1).
Only Scottish Open champion Wilson can force his way into the top eight for the Tour Championship via the WST Classic, but he needs to at least reach the semi-finals at the Morningside Arena on Wednesday, the final day of the ranking event.
Latest Tour Championship qualifiers
(players in bold still competing at WST Classic)
- 1 Mark Allen £530,500
- 2 Shaun Murphy £240,000
- 3 Ali Carter £190,500
- 4 Kyren Wilson £176,000
- 5 Ryan Day £159,000
- 6 Robert Milkins £157,500
- 7 Ding Junhui £140,500
- 8 Mark Selby £140,000
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- 9 Luca Brecel £131,000
- 10 Gary Wilson £130,000
- 11 Jack Lisowski £128,000
- 12 Judd Trump £120,000
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Latest WST Classic results
Third round
- Judd Trump 2-4 Jimmy White
- Si Jiahui 0-4 Pang Junxu
- Hossein Vafaei 2-3 Scott Donaldson
- Lyu Haotian 2-3 Oliver Lines
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