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European Event 2 – Judd makes the final at the Paul Hunter Classic 2014

21 August 2014 No Comment

Stadthalle, Fürth, Germany – 20-24 August 2014
All Grove players are involved, except Zhang Anda who couldn’t get a visa. Judd, Lihang and Cao Yupeng played on day 1 and Judd booked his spot in the Finals day. On day 2, Neil Robertson and Liang Wenbo won their three matches. Wenbo lost to Mark Selby in the last 16, and Neil went out to Dechawat Poomjaeng. Judd made it to the final but lost 4-2 to Mark Allen.

Last 128

Liam Highfield 4-0 Cao Xinlong

Andrew Higginson 2-4 Liang Wenbo

Judd Trump w/o Zhou Yuelong

Chris Melling 4-2 Cao Yupeng

Neil Robertson 4-3 Elliott Slessor
Neil played pretty terrible through this match. He went 3-1 down and then pressure started to get at his inexperienced opponent… Elliot should have won 4-1 but missed a fairly easy final green. Neil stole the frame. In the next Elliot had the perfect table and needed only a couple more balls to put Neil in the snookers required situation. He missed a straightforward blue. Neil gave him another chance and he missed a regular pink. At 3-3 his head was gone. The last frame was fragmented but Elliot never looked like he could be back in the match. To his credit, he fought for 3 snookers and got two of them … but it was too late and when Neil potted the last red it was truly over.

Dechawat Poomjaeng 4-2 Lyu Chenwei

Sam Baird 4-1 Yu Delu

Kurt Maflin 0-4 Li Hang

Last 64

Judd Trump 4-0 Anthony Hamilton

Li Hang 3-4 Scott Donaldson

Liang Wenbo 4-3 Mark Davis

Neil Robertson 4-0 Jimmy Robertson

Last 32

Judd Trump 4-3 Mitchell Travis
Mitchell came back from 3-0 down to force a decider… bit of a scare there for Judd.

Liam Highfield 2-4 Liang Wenbo

Anthony McGill 3-4 Neil Robertson

Last 16

Mark Selby 4-1 Liang Wenbo

Judd Trump 4-3 Stephen Maguire

Neil Robertson 2-4 Dechawat Poomjaeng

Quarter Finals

Judd Trump 4-3 Tian Pengfei
Judd came back from 3-2 down to beat Tian. Tian looked set to win 4-2: he was on a break and cruising in frame 6, but landed in the middle of the pack after an unlucky split. He had only one difficult red to play, cueing over the pack with the cue elevated as he was very close to the ball on. He did pot the red but the referee called a foul. Either Tian touched another ball with his cue, or it was a push shot … Anyway, Judd went on to win the frame and the match from there.

Semi Finals

Judd Trump 4-1 Ricky Walden

The Final

Mark Allen 4-2 Judd Trump

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