Snooker: Trump knocks Robertson out of UK

YORK: Judd Trump beat Australia’s Neil Robertson 9-7 in the semi-final of the UK Championship. The 22-year-old Englishman, this year’s beaten World Championship finalist, now has the chance to end a breakthrough 2011 on a massive high. Robertson was 7-5 down but pulled back to level at 7-7, abandoning his normal free-flowing game for a slow-paced approach designed to wear his opponent down. However, Trump kept his composure to seal victory over the 2010 world champion. “It’s really disappointing because that’s probably a match where I can say I really threw it away,” said Robertson.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 11^th, 2011.