{"id":28158,"date":"2019-01-21T12:46:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28158"},"modified":"2019-01-21T12:54:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:54:54","slug":"judd-trump-defeats-the-rocket-ronnie-osullivan-in-the-final-of-masters-snooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/21\/judd-trump-defeats-the-rocket-ronnie-osullivan-in-the-final-of-masters-snooker\/","title":{"rendered":"Judd Trump defeats The Rocket Ronnie O’Sullivan in the Final of Masters Snooker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judd Trump said he was “sick of losing and watching other players win” after he beat Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-4 to claim his first Masters title.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 29-year-old\u00a0won only his second Triple Crown event at Alexandra Palace, to add to the 2011 UK Championship.<\/p>\n

“I’ve tried to be more mature and my mindset is a lot different now,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

“It has sunk into my head that I want to be winning four or five tournaments a season.”<\/p>\n

Six-time Masters champion Stephen Hendry had recommended the victory could be a “career changer” for Trump.<\/p>\n

The West Country Lad had beaten rival Kyren Wilson, world number one Mark Selby and 2012 winner Neil Robertson, before overwhelming the five-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan in the final.<\/p>\n

Hendry, who had also won seven world titles and five UK crowns, said: “Trump has tremendous self-belief and has the game and talent.<\/p>\n

“His safety play was great all week, especially against Selby where he showed great patience. He always had the talent – it is only one tournament – but this could be a career changer for him.<\/p>\n

“To take apart Ronnie O’Sullivan in a major final will give him great confidence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judd Trump said he was “sick of losing and watching other players win” after he beat Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-4 to claim his first Masters title. The 29-year-old\u00a0won only his second Triple Crown event at Alexandra Palace, to add to the 2011 UK Championship. “I’ve tried to be more mature and my mindset is a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,27,112],"tags":[1867,1866,1175,1864,1865],"class_list":["post-28158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-sport","category-top-stories","tag-alexandra-palace","tag-judd-trump","tag-london","tag-masters-snooker","tag-ronnie-osullivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}