Top Trump wins Group 2

Judd Trump won the second group of Championship League last night as he overcame Mark Williams 3-1 in the final. Judd only just managed to get into the semi-finals after winning two of his final three group games on Thursday evening to finish the round robin stages in fourth place. In the semi-finals he played Mark Selby who had yet to lose a game after finishing the group stages with six wins out of six. However, Trump got his revenge for Selby's comeback from 0-2 in the round robin stages with a 3-0 putting him into the final. Mark Williams 3-0 win over third place Joe Perry gave him the final match up with Trump.

After beating Williams from 0-2 behind earlier in the day to keep his hopes of making the knock out stages alive, he carried on that momentum with a 3-1 win in the final.

Ricky Walden was the 'lucky loser' in the sense that despite not making the semi-finals, by finishing fifth in the group he will move on to Group 3 with Mark Williams, Mark Selby and Joe Perry.

As for Robert Milkins and Barry Hawkins they were both eliminated, after Milkins could not follow his runners-up finish in group one with only one win from six group matches leaving him bottom of the group. Barry Hawkins couldn't take advantage of his fortunate fifth place finish in group one and over the course of the week was only able to win four matches out of 12, with two wins in each group.

The Championship League will now be back with Group 3 starting on Monday 18th January with Michael White, Marco Fu and Stephen Maguire being the newcomers that are joined by Williams, Walden, Selby and Perry who are all aiming to try and join Ronnie O'Sullivan and Judd Trump who have qualified for the Winners Group so far.


Now though it's time for the Masters, the preview for which I published earlier on today here:

http://cueactionsnookerblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-big-masters-preview.html