STORM TRACKER: Follow 'Storm Amy' as it bears down on Ireland amid brutal forecast
Search
06 Sept 2025
Search
06 Sept 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
Judd Trump made a winning start in the Six Red World Championship in Thailand with a 5-0 whitewash of Ricky Walden on Monday.
Trump, playing in the event for the first time since 2015, wasted no time in clinching the Group D opener which puts him on the cusp of the last 16.
Trump is taking nothing for granted as he plans to build momentum ahead of his bid for a second world title at the Crucible next month.
💬 “There’s carnage going on in the rankings.”@juddtrump thinks things are wide open ahead of the Crucible, but first he must focus on the World Championship of the shorter format.
The Ace in the Pack scored a 5-0 whitewash win this evening. #SixRedWorldChampionship pic.twitter.com/VRBVKQMMhe
— World Snooker Tour (@WeAreWST) March 6, 2023
He told World Snooker Tour: “The standard is incredibly tough and I think that is the case this season more than ever.
“It has been the widest open season heading into the World Championship. I know we say that all the time, but this one really is.
“There have been a lot of first-time winners and a lot of people you don’t expect in the top events. There is carnage going on in the rankings at the moment and that makes for an interesting end of the season.”
Hossein Vafaei booked his place in the next stage after beating John Higgins 5-1, but defending champion Stephen Maguire crashed out after successive 5-2 defeats to Ding Junhui and Zhang Anda.
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
