After the end of the 2022 Snooker Masters, with Neil Robertson's strong victory, another player, Judd Trump, was in a crisis of public opinion, and due to the poor performance of this season, the British media criticized its strength for not being able to enter the ranks of the best players in Snooker.
Trump is now ranked second in the world, has won 22 ranking championships in his career, and is the creator of the record of six crowns in a single season and eleven crowns in a double season, these report cards are enough to make other players look out of reach, but compared with the "75 three masters" and "80 big three" the other two Selby and Robertson are still far behind.
After the end of the World Championships last season, Selby officially surpassed Trump to return to the world number one with a prize of 500,000 pounds for the championship, and thought that Trump would regain his top position in the new season, but the result was not satisfactory.
So far, although Trump has won the championship in the invitational championship this season, there are no other ranking champions in the account, and the best ranking results before the Masters are only in the quarterfinals, I thought that the Masters could meet Robertson in the final, but I never expected to be eliminated by Barry Hawkins in the final four.
After the Masters, the total number of Robertson's three major championships officially rose to six, Selby was as high as nine, and Trump only had a pitiful three far behind the two of them, last season the British media satirized Trump as the "king of the harvest of the small game", Trump shouted that the British media should win more three major championships in the next three major competitions, but the results of the British Championship and the Masters, so that the British media once again criticized Trump for not measuring up to his own strength and did not deserve to win the championship of the three major competitions.
Chris, a well-known commentator in the British media, recently said in the program that Trump's strength can get good results in many small ranking competitions, but the imbalance between his psychological quality and comprehensive strength is doomed to fail to become the best player recognized in the three major competitions.
Chris said: Trump's offensive ability is beyond doubt, but his defense and possession may not be able to enter the top ten in history, in the small ranking of the short game format game he can also rely on accuracy to win, once in the big game his accuracy will decline with the number of innings, shortcomings will be fully exposed.
If in the future, Snooker Sports only relies on the number of small ranking championships to judge a player, then Trump will definitely be at the top, but unfortunately the three major competitions are the key to measuring the greatness of a player, and now Robertson has led him in three major three championships, Trump is doomed to fail to enter the top six in history.
According to Chris, snooker Sports still needs to rely on the results of three major competitions to judge the achievement of a player, and Trump's current results are obviously not convincing, which is also an important factor in the British media to call him the king of small game harvesting.
Chris finally said that Trump could not win the three major championships at the best of his form, which meant that he was doomed to not be able to go further in the next three major competitions, which meant that Trump was doomed to not become a top snooker player.
Objectively speaking, Trump's current results are good enough, but there is still a gap compared to several other people, after all, it is not enough to become a great snooker superstar by small competitions, and only by constantly reaching the top of the three major competitions can we completely dispel the doubts of the outside world.