Both Selby and Trump were eliminated from the Round of 32 of the British Open, and after this week's tournament, Selby will surpass Trump in the rankings and regain the world number one throne.
文/Daniel Moxon，《Express》
Trump lost 2-3 to Elliott Slather in the English Open round of 32, and although Selby had already lost 3-0 to Ali Carter before that, Mark Selby replaced him as world number one after the match. Despite his frustration, Judd Trump still insisted that it was "powerless" to give the world number one to him.
It was Selby's victory at this year's World Championships that brought him back to the top of the rankings after 28 months since March 2019.
Selby's fourth World Championship winner won £500,000 in prize money so generously that Trump's 14 ranking titles in the past two and a half years were not enough to keep the 32-year-old at the top of the list.
After Trump's victory over Mitchell Mann in the first round, he had objections to the British Open schedule, and from the game, his highest single score was only 33 points, and he was obviously in a very bad state.
When Slather, who is only 49th in the world ranking, scored a difficult red ball into the middle pocket in the decider, Trump's world number one was over.
Trump said after the game: "I've won enough races to be a well-deserved world number one and now the situation clearly leaves me powerless. ”
In fact, before this round was out, Trump had complained that it was the "error of the ranking system" that caused him to lose the world number one position.
"It's really a difficult question to answer, even though I haven't won a world championship with a lot of weight in the last two years, and it would have been a miracle that I'm still number one in the world."
"I'm disappointed, not that I don't think Selby deserves the title of world number one. But it's clear that I've been the most eye-catching player in the last two years, so he's probably a mistake in the ranking system for overtaking me. ”
Trump was obviously a little annoyed that a short-term match could sway the world number one rankings, and that was exactly what had happened that forced him to suffer the consequences.
Although he had been eliminated, Selby also thanked his hometown fans who had come to cheer him on and wished Ali Carter good luck in the following games.