Judd Trump aiming to join exclusive 'UK-World' winners club with title victory at the Crucible
World number one Judd Trump is two more wins away from becoming a multiple-time winner of the World Snooker Championship title.
Trump claimed snooker's ultimate prize at the Crucible in 2019 in rip-roaring fashion, defeating John Higgins 18-9 in a final that featured a record-breaking 11 century breaks.
Earlier that 2018/19 professional season, Trump comfortably dispatched Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-4 in the final at the Alexandra Palace in London to win the Masters for the first time in his career - snooker's most prestigious invitational tournament.
Having won the UK Championship crown back in 2011, Trump's triumphs in York and Sheffield meant he had completed a 'Career Triple Crown' - a winner of all three of the sport's biggest titles.
Since then, Trump - who has a total of 30 ranking event titles to his name - has notched up two more Triple Crown event accolades.
In 2023, he won the Masters title for the second time with a 10-8 verdict over Mark Williams in the tournament decider.
Back at the start of December in this season, Trump denied Barry Hawkins, 10-8, in the final to become a two-time UK Championship victor, and rack up his fifth Triple Crown prize.
Should Trump taste Crucible Theatre glory for the second time in his career over the coming days, he would become the seventh player in history to have won the UK Championship and World Championship within the same professional snooker season. It would be the 12th time that feat had been achieved, overall.
Steve Davis was the first cueist to complete the UK and World double during the 1980/81 season. He later repeated the trick in consecutive seasons - 1986/87 and 1987/88 - the latter term also saw him win the Masters, therefore becoming the first player to win all three Triple Crown events within the same season.
Signalling a changing of the guard in the sport, 90s king Stephen Hendry also secured a seasonal Triple Crown in 1989/90 as he took over from Davis as the sport's number one ranked star.
Hendry won all three Triple Crowners again in the 1995/96 campaign, and did another UK-World double the season before.
The first member of the fabled 'Class of 92' to achieved both these feats was Mark Williams who did the UK-World double in the 1999/2000 term, and a Triple Crown clean sweep in 2002/03.
Ronnie O'Sullivan was a UK-World double winner in 2007/08, and the remaining 'Class of 92' exponent John Higgins joined his contemporaries in that clubhouse at the end of the 2010/11 season.
The last person to record UK Championship and World Championship title successes within the same term was Mark Selby in 2016/17.
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