Judd Trump enjoys unbeaten start to season in winning Championship League snooker group, Joe Perry advances
Masters champion Judd Trump fought back from 2-0 behind to earn a 2-2 draw with world No. 66 Xu Si in reaching the last 32 of the Championship League in Leicester on Tuesday.
Trump had earlier completed 3-0 wins over former women’s world champion Reanne Evans and six-time world finalist Jimmy White respectively, but required a point to top Group 2 after Xu had overcome White 3-0 before drawing 2-2 with Evans.
Trump hit two centuries in a productive outing at the season’s first ranking event, but the highest effort of the day came from ‘The Gentleman’ Joe Perry, who compiled a 128 break on his way to winning Group 18 with a 3-0 win over Jamie Clarke.
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The former Welsh Open champion had earlier completed a 3-0 win over Andy Lee before a 2-2 draw with Stuart Carrington set up a winner-take-all group decider against Clarke which Perry dominated.
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Tour champion Shaun Murphy and Barry Hawkins are in action at the Morningside Arena on Wednesday with six more spots in the second group phase on the table over the final three days of stage one.
The tournament carries total prize money of £328,000 with the final on Friday, July 21 also worth a spot in the Champion of Champions in November.
Championship League latest group winners
- Group 3: Ashley Carty (Eng)
- Group 30: Daniel Wells (Wal)
- Group 11: Martin O’Donnell (Eng)
- Group 21: Chris Wakelin (Eng)
- Group 10: Michael White (Wal)
- Group 22: Robbie Williams (Eng)
- Group 5: Kyren Wilson (Eng)
- Group 29: Thepchaiya Un-Nooh (Tha)
- Group 6: Mark Williams (Wal)
- Group 27: Barry Pinches (Eng)
- Group 32: Xiao Guodong (Chn)
- Group 16: Ben Woollaston (Eng)
- Group 15: Matthew Stevens (Wal)
- Group 28: Anthony Hamilton (Eng)
- Group 17: Zhou Yuelong (Chn)
- Group 26: Jak Jones (Wal)
- Group 7: Long Zehuang (Chn)
- Group 24: Pang Junxu (Chn)
- Group 8: Robert Milkins (Eng)
- Group 23: Sam Craigie (Eng)
- Group 20: James Cahill (Eng)
- Group 25: Si Jiahui (Chn)
- Group 1: Michael Holt (Eng)
- Group 19: Noppon Saengkham (Tha)
- Group 2: Judd Trump (Eng)
- Group 18: Joe Perry (Eng)
Championship League Stage 1
- June 26-30
- July 3-8
- July 10-14
Championship League Stage 2
Championship Stage 3
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