Last chance saloon at UK Championship for Judd Trump to preserve proud decade-long title winning streak

The current world number one has won at least one event on the professional snooker circuit every calendar year since 2014.

Having not entered either the Shoot Out or Scottish Open tournaments later this month, the ongoing UK Championship at the Barbican Centre in York - where he is the reigning and defending champion - will be his final engagement of 2025 on the World Snooker Tour, and therefore his final opportunity to keep his yearly winning streak going.

The 30-time ranking event winner, who has not been dislodged from the top of the global standings for over 15 months now, is aiming for his first title since claiming his second UK crown last December when he ousted Barry Hawkins, 10-8, in a thrilling final.

That triumph for Trump in York capped off an incredible 2024 for him having also won the German Masters, World Open, Shanghai Masters and Saudi Arabia Masters earlier in the year.

After such a golden spell of success, this year’s unwanted clean sheet for Trump is surprising, although the 36-year-old has still featured at the business end of several tournaments in 2025.

In March, he reached the Players Championship final where he was pipped 10-9 by world number two Kyren Wilson.

In recent weeks - despite not being anywhere near his best as he struggled to adapt to a new cue - Trump has made the finals of both the Northern Ireland Open, and Champion of Champions. In the former, in Belfast, he was one frame away from a record-extending fifth title in the event but was denied by good friend Jack Lisowski.

Trump also appeared in the semi-finals of the Masters, World Grand Prix, and World Championship.

Judd Trump’s sequence of success from 2014 to 2024

Trump won his first professional title in 2008 at the Masters Qualifying Event, he then won the Championship League the following year - both of which were non-ranked.

In 2010 he won a European Players Tour Championship tournament in Germany - a minor-ranked event - before his really big breakthrough arrived at the 2011 China Open in Beijing where he claimed his maiden full ranking title.

Later in the same year he collected his first Triple Crown accolade at the UK Championship, and in 2012 he was victorious at the inaugural International Championship.

Having briefly reached the world number one spot - for the first time in his career - near the end of 2012, Trump did not win a title in 2013.

Since then, though, 'The Ace in the Pack' has added accolades to his career CV each and every year.

He really began to ramp up his trophy tally six years ago. Trump enjoyed the best year of his life on the baize in 2019, sensationally winning six titles, including his first Masters and World Championship crowns.

Trump repeated that total in 2020 with another six titles - this time all of them were ranked - before three more top prizes in 2021.

Then there was a dip with Trump not reaching the same heights and productivity, but he still managed to bolster his count in 2022 with victory at the Turkish Masters.

The pace picked up again for Trump in 2023 as he lifted the Masters trophy for the second time before joining an elite club of players who have won three consecutive ranking events by securing English, Wuhan, and Northern Ireland Open glories later in the year. He then racked up the five aforementioned titles in 2024.

Will Trump return to winning ways in York this week?

Trump recently ditched his new cue and has gone back - at least temporarily - to his old cue that helped him achieve so much success in the sport.

The UK title holder overcame a difficult opening assignment in round one last Saturday as he defeated former champion Stephen Maguire, 6-4.

Next up for Trump in the last 16 is a date with number 16 seed Si Jiahui who whitewashed Ryan Day, 6-0, to reach this stage.

To view the full draw, results, match schedule, and other information from the 2025 UK Championship, visit here.