On 5 January 2022, the fourth group of the Snooker Champions League started and the world's second Trump made his debut, resulting in two consecutive defeats, first by Scott Trump. Donaldson kept a clean sheet, and then won the match point and lost three consecutive sets to be reversed by Bingham, this season Trump's results are average, although the championship is a big victory, but the ranking game is not played well, he himself is very dissatisfied with the recent performance.
The fourth group line-up is strong, Selby, Trump, Bingham are all world champions, Karen. Wilson has won the ranking tournament four times and won the world championship runner-up, Scott Scott. Donaldson is a former tournament champion who has won consecutive victories over Trump and Graeme. Dot, the two Chinese players Xiao Guodong and Lu Ning are also not to be underestimated, and Xiao Guodong even lost to Zhao Xintong in the final of the last group.
This is Trump's first tournament this year, he hopes to adjust his form through actual combat, preparing for the Masters, but he did not expect to come up and lose the game, losing to Scott. Donaldson, the group's lowest-ranked player in the world, scored a single 91 points in the first set before winning two straight sets 62-57, 71-63 to make a 3-0 win over Trump.
Originally Scott. Donaldson did not qualify, as a result of the world's tenth ranked Hawkins withdrew, he was lucky to be shortlisted as a substitute, then Trump against Bingham, the two World Championship winners began to compete, 31 career encounters, Trump 22 wins to occupy a clear advantage, last year's World Grand Prix, 45-year-old veteran Bingham reached the final four, lost to O'Sullivan did not qualify for the final.
After the game began, Bingham only scored 19 points to interrupt the attack, Trump started to blast a single shot 107 points to take the lead, the second set Bingham defense was not in place to directly miss the ball, Trump played a single 69 points to get the match point, the key moment Bingham felt back up, blasted out a single shot 119 points, 104 points in a row to win two sets, bringing more pressure to Trump, both of them are single-shot winning quality is very high.
In the decider Trump scored 23 points without scoring a key goal, Bingham played a single 55 points to turn into defense, there were 35 points on the table, the two competed around the last red ball, and finally Bingham ended the game 60-23, 0-2 behind the three consecutive wins reversal, 3-2 victory over Trump, the latter lost two consecutive games, currently at the bottom of the ranking, to advance to the final four is very difficult, is likely to be eliminated.
Trump mentioned that he is confident of achieving good results in the Masters, this time to compete for the championship, but the current state is really bad, there are too many simple mistakes, all aspects of the performance have declined, if he can not adjust in time, the first round out is not a surprise.