Judd and Anda were in action on day 1 against Ali Carter and Alfie Burden respectively, and both won by 5-0. They played each other next, with Judd a winner by 5-1. Unfortunately, Judd’s run ended in the QF, with a 5-4 defeat at the hands of Martin Gould. Neil who didn’t qualify, made his debut as a pundit for Eurosport. He was in the studio during the first three days.
Alexandra Palace, London – 10-18 January, 2016.
Grove’s Neil and Judd are competing in the most prestigious invitational tournament in the calender, The Masters. Neil has won it in 2012 and was runner-up twice since, Judd reached the Semi Finals in 2012 but lost in the last 16 in 2014 and 2015,
Judd beat Stephen Maguire by 6-4 in the last 16 whilst Neil beat an ailing Marco Fu by 6-0.
They had to play each other in the QF and it’s Judd who came on top, a winner by 6-5, but lost …
Judd found form at the right time in Crondon Park and won Group 2 of the Championship League Snooker, played 6 and 7 January 2016, and joined Ronnie O’Sullivan in the Winners Group. Mark Selby had dominated the league stage, winning all six matches whilst Judd only just qualified for the play-offs. But form clicked in and in their semi-final, Judd came out the winner with a convincing 3-0. He then went on to defeat Mark Williams by 3-1 in the final.
All detailed results can be found on cuetracker.net
The German Masters 2016 qualifying rounds took place in Wigan from 15th to 19th of December 2015. The players had to win 2 matches to book their place in the tournament proper that will be played in the Tempodron, Berlin, early February. Judd, Wenbo and Anda will be in Berlin, having won their two matches. The biggest surprise of those qualifiers was probably Neil’s defeat to an amateur, Ashley Hugill. Neil wasn’t alone in his fate though, as as many as 7 out of the top 16 failed to qualify. …
Today, the snooker world took farewell of Billy O’Connor, a talented young snooker player, but more importantly a very nice, selfless and ever brave person. Snooker players including Ronnie O’Sullivan, Stuart Bingham, Judd Trump, Jack Lisowski, Oliver Lines and Sean O’Sullivan were there to remember Billy, whose brave three-year battle with cancer ended on December 9th.