In the 1/4 finals of the 2024 World Snooker Championship, Trump played against Jack Jones, and in the end, Jones broke out a big upset 13-9 and took the lead in reaching the top 4!
Judd Trump is a world champion and Grand Slam player, the No. 3 seed in the tournament, who eliminated Wafei 10-5 and Tom Forde 10-7 in the first two rounds to advance to the quarterfinals. Jones, ranked 44th in the world, broke out of the qualifying round, and in the first two rounds of the main event, he went 10-4 Zhang Anda and 13-9 Si Jiahui. The two have played each other a total of 5 times before, and Trump has a clear advantage with 4 wins and 1 loss.
In the first game, Trump won with a single stroke of 110 points, and in the second game, Trump scored 58 points with a single stroke, and Jones scored 69 points with a single stroke and narrowly won 1-1 with 75-62. In the 3rd and 4th games, Jones scored 94 points in a single stroke to win two games in a row, 3-1. In the 5th game, Jones scored 61 points in a single stroke and Trump won 71-52, 2-3. In the 6th game, Trump won 77-27 many times, 3-3. In the 7th game, Jones won with a single stroke of 74 points, 4-3. In the 8th game, the two competed on the pink ball and black ball, Trump scored the pink ball and turned the bag to score the black ball, and the two played 4-4 in the first stage.
In the ninth and 10th games, Jones won two games in a row, 54-43 and 71-46, 6-4. In the 11th and 12th games, Trump returned 66-0, 80-28 to color, 6-6. In the 13th game, Jones scored 55 points in a single stroke, 62-13, 7-6. In the 14th and 15th games, Trump scored 68 points in a single stroke and won two games in a row to overtake 8-7. In the 16th game, Jones easily scored 117 points in a single stroke, and after two stages, the two played 8-8.
In the 17th game, Jones won 60-27 many times, 9-8. In the 18th game, Jones appeared with a white ball and dropped the bag, and Trump smiled and gave a big gift, 59-24 to color, 9-9. In the 19th game, Jones won with a single stroke of 87 points, 10-9. In the 20th game, Jones won 85-10 and extended the advantage 11-9. In the 21st game, Jones won 54-21 and won the match point 12-9. In the 22nd game, Trump gave another chance, and Jones won it and eliminated Trump 13-9.