Judd Trump

Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English professional snooker player who is a former world champion and the current world number one. He is currently in fourth place on the list of all-time ranking event winners, having won 30 ranking titles. He has also won five Triple Crown titles.

After a junior career that included winning the English Under-13 and Under-15 titles, and reaching the World Under-21 Championship semi-finals aged 14, Trump turned professional in 2005. He won his maiden ranking title at the 2011 China Open, was runner-up to John Higgins at the 2011 World Snooker Championship, and captured his first Triple Crown title at the 2011 UK Championship. By the end of the 2017–18 season, he had won eight ranking titles but was facing persistent criticism that he was underachieving in the sport, given his talent. In the 2018–19 season, he completed his career Triple Crown by winning both the Masters and World Championship, won two other ranking events, and became the first player to win over £1 million in prize money in a single season.

In the 2019–20 season, he won six ranking events, setting a new record for the most ranking titles in a single season. He added a further five ranking titles during the 2020–21 season. He reached his third World Championship final in 2022, where he was runner-up to Ronnie O'Sullivan, and was awarded an MBE in the same year. He won his second Masters title in 2023, making him the 11th player to win the tournament more than once. During the 2024–25 season, he won total prize money of £1,680,600, setting a new record for the most prize money in a single season. He has been voted the World Snooker Tour's Player of the Year four times—2019 to 2021 consecutively and again in 2025—and was inducted into the Snooker Hall of Fame in 2021.

Trump made his 1,000th century break in professional competition at the 2024 British Open, becoming the third player, after O'Sullivan and Higgins, to reach this milestone. He holds the record for the most century breaks in a single season, having made 107 in the 2024–25 season. Trump and Neil Robertson, who made 103 centuries in the 2013–14 season, are the only players to have achieved 100 or more century breaks in one season; Trump is the only player to have accomplished the feat twice, having previously made 102 centuries in the 2019–20 season. He has made eight maximum breaks in his career. In 2022, he became the second player, after Shaun Murphy, to compile three maximums in a single calendar year, having made 147s at the 2022 Turkish Masters, the 2022 Champion of Champions and the 2022 Scottish Open.