Judd Trump

Trump was English Under-13 and Under-15 champion, and became the youngest ever winner of the Pontins Open in 2003 when he defeated Mike Hallett in the final. In 2004, he broke Ronnie O'Sullivan's record as the youngest ever player to score a competitive maximum break of 147, achieving the feat aged 14 years 208 days, and reached the World Under-21 Championship semi-finals. He joined the professional tour in the 2005‍–‍06 season, and at the Welsh Open he became the youngest player ever to qualify for the final stages of a ranking tournament. He defeated James Wattana 10–5 in the final round of qualifying at the 2007 World Championship, to become the third-youngest player at the time to reach the main stage of the tournament, after Stephen Hendry and O'Sullivan. He played Shaun Murphy in the first round, but lost 6–10 having led 6–5.

In the 2007–08 season, he reached the last-32 of the Welsh Open. He missed out on the 2008 World Championship after a 9–10 loss to Joe Swail in the final round of qualifying, having led 9–7. In the 2008–09 season, he reached the venue stages of the first four events. At the Grand Prix, he benefitted from Graeme Dott's withdrawal before defeating Joe Perry in the last-16. Then came the biggest win of his career so far, when he defeated O'Sullivan 5–4 to reach the semi-finals, in which he was defeated 4–6 by John Higgins. After that, Trump beat Mark Williams to qualify for the 2008 Bahrain Championship. He won a Masters Qualifying Event in 2008 to gain entry into the 2009 Masters as the only qualifier but was defeated by Mark Allen in the first round.^[]

At the end of the snooker year, Trump failed to reach the main stage of the 2009 World Championship, losing 8–10 to Stephen Lee in the final qualifying round, having led 6–3. Trump ended the season in the top 32 of the rankings for the first time. He was coached for a short time by Tony Chappel.

Trump's win in the previous season's Championship League qualified him for the 2009 Premier League event, in which he won four of his six matches. He finished second in the League table but lost 1–5 to O'Sullivan in his semi-final. In the 2009‍–‍10 season, Trump did not progress beyond the last-32 in any ranking tournaments. In January 2010, he joined Romford-based snooker agency Grove Leisure.

Trump defeated Peter Ebdon and Murphy at the 2011 China Open to reach his first professional ranking event final, in which he triumphed over Mark Selby 10–8 to win his first major title. He won £60,000 in prize money and provisionally climbed into the top 16 of the world rankings. On his way to winning the final, Trump made his 100th competitive century break.

At the 2011 World Championship, Trump was drawn against reigning champion Neil Robertson in the first round, whom he defeated 10–8. In subsequent rounds, he knocked out Martin Gould 13–6, Dott 13–5 and Ding Junhui 17–15 to qualify for his first World Championship final, which he lost 15–18 to Higgins.

Trump started the season with a loss to Mark Davis in the first round of the 2011 Australian Goldfields Open, before winning the second PTC event of the season, where he beat Ding 4–0 in the final. He finished runner-up to Robertson in the eighth PTC event of the season, before capturing Event 9, overcoming O'Sullivan 4–3 in the final. He later topped the PTC Order of Merit, qualifying him for the 2012 Finals, where he exited in the last-16 after a defeat to Xiao Guodong.

In December, Trump won his second ranking event tournament in the 2011 UK Championship at the Barbican Centre in York. He defeated Dominic Dale 6–4 in the last-32, before winning the final two frames of his second-round match to edge out Ronnie O'Sullivan 6–5. Afterwards, Trump said that he had been "outplayed" and was "lucky" to have got through. He then dispatched Stephen Maguire 6–3, and faced Neil Robertson in the semi-finals. Trump stated afterwards that he believed Robertson had tried to stifle his natural game by slowing him down and "making things awkward", but the Bristolian triumphed 9–7 to reach his first UK final. There, he played Allen, and trailed 1–3, before producing a match-defining run of seven straight frames to take an 8–3 lead. Allen fought back, winning five of the next six frames to trail just 8–9, Trump clinched the 18th frame with a break of 91, and won the match 10–8. The victory took him up to a career-high world ranking of five. Six-time winner of the event, Steve Davis, said that Trump's performances during the championship had shown that he was "spearheading his generation" of snooker players.

Trump then reached the semi-finals of the Masters in January. He defeated Stuart Bingham in the first round and O'Sullivan in the quarter-finals, his fifth career win in seven meetings against the latter. Trump then met Robertson in the semi-finals for the second successive major event, and it was the Australian who exacted his revenge for the defeat he suffered in York a month earlier, as he triumphed 6–3. Trump reached three quarter-finals in his next four ranking events to become the world number two in April, behind Selby, meaning that he had risen seven places in the rankings during the season. At the 2012 World Championship, Trump defeated Dale in their first-round match 10–7, stating that that he had been suffering from the effects of food poisoning. He was knocked out in the second round by Ali Carter 12–13, letting slip a 12–9 lead, thus ending his chances of becoming the new world number one.

Trump's first tournament of the 2012–13 season was the Wuxi Classic in China, where he lost to Robert Milkins in the second round. At the Shanghai Masters, he saw off Barry Hawkins, Allen, Dott and Williams to reach the final where he faced Higgins. Trump took a 5–0 lead, Higgins responded with a 147 maximum break, before Trump claimed a 7–2 advantage after the first session. Upon the resumption of play, Higgins won six frames in a row, with the match eventually going into a deciding frame, which Higgins secured to claim a 10–9 victory. At the inaugural International Championship, Trump won his third ranking event title. He eliminated Fergal O'Brien, Aditya Mehta and Mark Allen, before defeating Ebdon 9–1 in the semi-finals to become snooker's tenth world number one. He then recovered from 6–8 down in the final against Robertson to triumph 10–8.

Trump met Higgins in back-to-back Players Tour Championship finals, losing the first 2–4, but gaining revenge in the second, the Bulgarian Open by whitewashing Higgins 4–0. He also reached the final of the Premier League after beating Neil Robertson in the semi-finals, but lost 2–7 to Bingham. In the defence of his 2011 UK Championship title, Trump played Mark Joyce in the first round. After leading 3–0 and 5–2, Trump lost the last four frames of the match to suffer a surprise exit against the world number 50. The loss was compounded when Selby went on to win the title, reclaiming the top ranking in the process. Trump was defeated by Dott at the Masters, and by Anthony Hamilton in the first round of the German Masters. He regained the world number one ranking at the Welsh Open, coming back from 1–3 down to beat Dominic Dale 4–3 in the first round, after which he asserted that "players are changing their game to play slower against me. Dominic was too slow for himself and it caught him out towards the end". Further victories ensued over Andrew Higginson and Pankaj Advani to set up a semi-final meeting with Maguire, which Maguire won 6–4.

At the World Open, Trump played Matthew Stevens in the quarter-finals and lost 3–5. He qualified for the PTC Finals by finishing second on the Order of Merit, but lost to Alfie Burden 3–4 in the first round. He also lost in the first round of the China Open to good friend Jack Lisowski 3–5, relinquishing the world number one ranking to Mark Selby again in the process.

Trump headed into the 2013 World Championship saying that he had prepared better than ever for the event. He beat Dominic Dale in the first round for the second year in a row, this time by 10–5. At 8–7 ahead in the last 16 against Marco Fu, Trump won five consecutive frames to triumph 13–7 and set up a quarter-final clash with Murphy. Trump came from 3–8 down to level at 8–8 at the conclusion of the second session. The deciding frame of the match lasted 53 minutes with Trump winning it on the yellow to seal a 13–12 victory. He met O'Sullivan in the semi-finals and only made four breaks above 50 in an 11–17 defeat. Afterwards, Trump said: "It's probably the worst I've played all tournament. I would've probably expected to lose to anyone the way I played."

At the start of the season, Trump was ranked third in the world rankings. He began the season with first-round defeats at the Wuxi Classic, the Shanghai Masters and the International Championship, as well as failing to qualify for the Indian Open. In November, he reached the final of the minor-ranking Kay Suzanne Memorial Cup but lost 1–4 to Allen. Later that month, he made the first official maximum break of his career in the Antwerp Open during a last-32 defeat against Selby. He reached the fourth round of the UK Championship, where Mark Allen defeated him 6–4, and he lost 5–6 to Fu in the opening round of the Masters.

In the German Masters, he dropped just four frames in winning five matches to reach his first ranking final of the season, where he played Ding. Trump was two frames ahead twice in the first session, but it ended level at 4–4; he then lost five of the next six frames upon resumption of play to be defeated 5–9. Higgins then eliminated him in the last-16 at both the Welsh Open, and the World Open, where Higgins won 5–4 after Trump had taken a 4–0 lead. Trump then won the non-ranking Championship League title by beating Gould 3–1.

Trump defeated Tom Ford and Ryan Day to reach the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Championship, where he played Robertson. Trump led 6–2, 9–6 and 11–8, before Robertson fought back to win five consecutive frames and win the match 13–11. After their match, Trump received criticism for not acknowledging the fact, that during the match, Robertson had become the first player to make 100 centuries in a single season, choosing to walk out of the arena instead. He later said that Robertson's achievement meant nothing to him and he chose to congratulate his opponent after the match.

Trump claimed his fourth ranking title, and his first for 20 months, at the Australian Goldfields Open, defeating Robertson 9–5 in the final. He also reached the final of the Paul Hunter Classic but lost 2–4 to Allen. He then suffered first and second-round exits to Dale and Jamie Burnett respectively in the next two ranking events. He advanced to the final of the Champion of Champions where he trailed 3–8 to O'Sullivan, before reducing his deficit to a single frame by taking four successive frames. O'Sullivan then won the two frames he needed to triumph 10–7. The pair also met in the final of the UK Championship in which Trump was 4–9 behind with a highest break of 56. He won the 14th frame and then made back-to-back centuries and a break of 86 to trail 8–9. He then won the next frame to send the match into a decider, before O'Sullivan then made a title-winning break after Trump had failed to escape from a snooker. Afterwards, O'Sullivan described the match as the hardest of his career.

At the Masters, Trump lost 4–6 against Maguire in the first round. He made the second 147 of his career during his quarter-finals defeat to Selby at the German Masters. At the inaugural World Grand Prix, Trump eliminated Williams 4–3 on the final black, but then fell 1–5 behind against Gould in the semi-finals. He then took five successive frames, outscoring Gould by 395 points to 37, to win the match 6–5. He played O'Sullivan again and fell 4–7 behind, but then won six frames in a row, which included a 142 break (the highest of the tournament), to finish 10–7 and claim his second title of the season. He also reached the semi-finals of the PTC Grand Final, where he lost 2–4 to Williams. At the 2015 World Championship, Trump won his quarter-finals match against Ding 13–4, and stated afterwards, he believed that if he could maintain the same standard then he would secure his first world title. In the semi-finals, Trump trailed Bingham 14–16, before making successive centuries to force a deciding frame, which Bingham secured to triumph 17–16.

Trump's defence of his Australian Goldfields Open title ended with a quarter-final defeat by Maguire. He then reached the final of the Shanghai Masters and trailed Kyren Wilson 3–6 after the first session. Wilson also led 9–7 before Trump sent the match into a deciding frame which Wilson won. Trump scored 278 points to nil in taking the first three frames of his third round UK Championship match with Liang Wenbo, but eventually lost 4–6. Trump branded the collapse an embarrassment and said it was the worst he had felt as a professional. At the 2016 Masters, Trump and Robertson set a record of six centuries in a best-of-eleven-frame match (four from Trump and two from Robertson). Trump closed it out with a 129 break to win 6–5, with Robertson describing it as "the greatest Masters match ever". Trump was then defeated 4–6 in the semi-finals by Hawkins.

His first title of the season came at the Championship League where he defeated O'Sullivan 3–2 in the final. He then won his fifth ranking title, and first for almost two years by beating Ricky Walden 10–4 in the China Open final. After trailing Liang Wenbo 3–7 in the first round of the 2016 World Championship, Trump tweeted that the drinks would be on him if he could turn it around. He duly did by winning 10–8 and put a few hundred pounds behind the local bar. Trump could not escape from a similar position against Ding in the second round and was beaten 10–13.

At the 2016 European Masters, Trump progressed past Higgins and Selby to reach the final. Facing O'Sullivan, Trump was down 6–8, but took each of the three remaining frames to triumph 9–8 and win his sixth ranking title. In his next event, the English Open, he beat Higgins in the quarter-finals and Hawkins in the semi-finals to extend his winning run to 14 matches. He then lost 6–9 to Liang Wenbo in the final. Trump edged past Murphy 6–5 on the final black to reach the semi-finals of the International Championship where he was knocked out 4–9 by Ding. He then had a surprise 2–6 defeat to Oliver Lines in the second round of the UK Championship. He was 5–1 up on Higgins in the semi-finals of the Scottish Open, but Higgins recovered to win 6–5.

In his first-round match at the Masters, Trump made two centuries and Fu three, followed by nine further breaks above 50 as Fu edged through 6–5. At the Welsh Open, Trump defeated Scott Donaldson 6–3 to play Bingham in the final. Trump went 0–4 down, before recovering to lead 8–7, but then lost the last two frames and the match. Another final followed at the Gibraltar Open as he came from behind in the semi-finals against Day, before losing the final 2–4 to Murphy.

Trump reached his third ranking event final inside a month at the Players Championship where he reeled off six frames in a row from 2–5 down to Fu, and went on to win his seventh ranking title 10–8. In the third round of the China Open, Trump made his first televised 147 as he defeated Tian Pengfei 5–3, but he suffered a loss to Hossein Vafaei in the quarter-finals. Trump went into the 2017 World Championship declaring: "I honestly believe I can play to a standard which is very rare nowadays," and that he was "the best" in the world. He won the first four frames in his opening match, before Rory McLeod responded to lead 5–4. Trump appeared to be struggling with a shoulder injury and eventually lost the match 8–10 to a player ranked 52 places below him in the rankings.

At the start of the season, Trump was third in the world rankings. In October, he successfully defended his European Masters title by defeating Bingham 9–7 in the final, and the following month, he reached the final of the Shanghai Masters where he was defeated 3–10 by O'Sullivan. Trump then made semi-final appearances at the Scottish Open, the German Masters, and at the Players Championship. In January, he reached the semi-finals of the 2018 Masters where he was eliminated 5–6 by Kyren Wilson having led 5‍–‍2. At the 2018 World Championship, Trump won his first-round match against Chris Wakelin who took the match to a deciding frame. After beating Walden in the second round, he was defeated in the quarter-finals by Higgins in a final-frame decider, the first time they had met in a World Championship match since the 2011 final.

Trump began the 2018–19 season fifth in the world rankings. His defence of the European Masters ended with a defeat against Tian in the second round, but he later won his first ranking title of the season at the Northern Ireland Open, beating O'Sullivan 9–7 in the final. At the UK Championship, he suffered a 4–6 fourth-round loss to Perry, before reaching the semi-finals of the Scottish Open where he was defeated by Murphy. In January, Trump won his first Masters title, beating Kyren Wilson, Selby and Robertson en route to the final, where his opponent was O'Sullivan. In the opening session, Trump took a 7–1 lead, before securing the title with a 10–4 victory. A month later, he won his second ranking event of the season, the World Grand Prix, beating Carter 10–6 in the final.

Two more semi-final appearances in March 2019, at the Players Championship and the Tour Championship, were followed by the biggest success of Trump's career so far when he won the 2019 World Championship. He defeated Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 10–9 in the first round, having trailed 3–6 after the first session. In his second-round match against Ding, he led 5–1 and trailed 7–9, before winning six consecutive frames to clinch a 13–9 victory. A 13–6 quarter-final win over Maguire took him to the semi-finals, where he beat Gary Wilson 17–11 to secure his second appearance in a world final. His opponent was Higgins, in a repeat match-up of the 2011 final. Trailing 4–5 in the early stages, Trump dominated the second session, winning eight consecutive frames to lead 12–5 overnight, a display which Steve Davis described as the "controlled annihilation of a great player". Trump led 16–9 going into the final session, and won the opening two frames of the evening to seal an 18–9 win, and with it his first world title. The two players scored eleven centuries between them, a record for a professional match. Trump's seven centuries in the final equalled Ding's record for the most by one player in a World Championship match. Winning the world title also made Trump the 11th player to complete snooker's Triple Crown. Trump became the first player to win over £1 million in prize money during a single season and was named as the World Snooker Tour (WST) Player of the Year.

Trump won the International Championship by defeating Murphy 10–3 in the final, and subsequently regained the number one position in the snooker world rankings ahead of O'Sullivan. He also won the World Open, triumphing over Un-Nooh 10–5 in the final. before reaching the final of the Champion of Champions. There, Trump led Robertson 9–8 in a best-of-19 frames match, with Robertson requiring snookers to win the 18th frame: Robertson got the snookers he needed, and Trump lost the deciding frame. The following week, at the Northern Ireland Open, Trump won his third ranking tournament of the season, beating O'Sullivan 9–7.

In the second half of the season, Trump defeated Robertson 9–6 in the final of the German Masters, before claiming a record-equalling fifth ranking title of the season when he defeated Yan Bingtao 10–4 in the final of the Players Championship. With this victory, he became the fifth player to win five ranking events in a single season, after Hendry, Ding, Selby and O'Sullivan. Two weeks later, he became the first player ever to win six ranking titles in a single season, defeating Kyren Wilson 4–3 at the Gibraltar Open.

Trump qualified for the 2020 Tour championship as the leader of the one-season ranking list. He played Higgins in the quarter-finals round and prevailed to progress to the semi-finals, where he played Maguire who defeated him 6–9. Defending his world title at the 2020 World Snooker Championship, he fell prey to the "Crucible curse", losing 9–13 to Kyren Wilson in the quarter-finals. In his first-round match against Ford, he made his 100th century break of the season, becoming only the second player, after Robertson, to achieve that feat. Trump was then named as WST Player of the Year.

In the first ranking tournament of the season, the European Masters, Trump lost 3–6 to Gould in the semi-finals. At the English Open, he defeated Gary Wilson, Kyren Wilson and Higgins to set up a final with Robertson. The match went to a deciding frame, which Trump won with a century break, becoming the first player to win three Home Nations Series titles. Later that month, he reached the Championship League final after topping all three group stages. He faced Kyren Wilson, who won the match 3–1, ending Trump's run of 10 consecutive ranking final victories.

In November, Trump won his third consecutive Northern Ireland Open, beating O'Sullivan 9–7 in the final. The win made him the first to win four Home Nations events, and the second, after Selby, to win two Home Nations tournaments in a single season. In December, he reached the UK Championship final for the third time, but lost 9–10 to Robertson, after missing a final pink in the hour-long deciding frame. At the final ranking event of 2020, the World Grand Prix, he defeated O'Sullivan to reach the final, where he met Lisowski. Trump led 6–2, before Lisowski recovered to win four frames in a row. Trump then hit back to win the title 10–7.

In January, Trump was forced to withdraw from the 2021 Masters after testing positive for COVID-19. He returned to competition at the German Masters, where he trailed Hawkins 1–5 in the semi-final, but recovered to win five consecutive frames, making three consecutive centuries while doing so. He went on to win the event with a 9‍–‍2 victory over Lisowski. He then successfully defended his Gibraltar Open title, defeating Lisowski once more in the final 4–0, and winning 28 of the 31 frames he played in the tournament overall to claim his fifth ranking title of the season. He also secured the £150,000 European Series bonus, awarded to the player who wins the most prize money across the series, for the second consecutive season. Trump ended the snooker year with two more quarter-final appearances, at the Tour Championship, and the World Championship. At the end of the season, he was named WST Player of the Year for a third time, and inducted into the WST Hall of Fame.

At the British Open, Trump was defeated in the third round by Elliot Slessor and consequently lost his position as world number one to Selby. He then chose to enter his first nine-ball pool tournament at the 2021 U.S. Open Pool Championship, which was staged in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Trump won his opening three matches, before losing 1–11 to Jayson Shaw to move to the losers' side of the bracket, where he exited the tournament following a 10–11 loss to Jason Theron. Trump stated his intention to continue competing in nine-ball pool, saying: "I had a lot more support from fans than I was expecting, and there were enough positives to make me do it again."

Trump defeated Higgins 10–4 in the Champion of Champions final, winning the invitational tournament for the first time. He also reached the semi-finals of the 2022 Masters where he lost in a deciding frame to Hawkins. He reached the quarter-finals of the Northern Ireland Open, the English Open and the German Masters, but did not feature in any ranking semi-finals or finals until the twelth ranking event of the season, the Welsh Open, where he reached his first ranking final since the Gibraltar Open a year earlier. He lost 5–9 to Perry. The following week, he won his first ranking title of the season and the 23rd of his career at the Turkish Masters in Antalya, defeating Matthew Selt 10–4 in the final. In the tenth frame of the match, he made his sixth maximum break. Trump moved from 17th to fourth place on the season's money list, guaranteeing his place in the Tour Championship, where he exited in the first round after Brecel defeated him 10–6. Trump reached his third World Championship final at the 2022 edition, but lost 13–18 to O'Sullivan. He finished the season at number two in the world rankings.

At the beginning of the 2022‍–‍23 season, Trump suffered several early-round exits before reaching the quarter-finals of the 2022 Hong Kong Masters and the European Masters. He then reached the final of the Champion of Champions where he recorded his seventh maximum break, before losing 6–10 to O'Sullivan. Trump then completed his eighth maximum break in the second round of the Scottish Open against Mitchell Mann, before exiting in the quarter-finals, after losing to Un-Nooh on a respotted black in the decider. He then lost in the quarter-finals of the English Open to Luca Brecel.

Trump won his second Masters title in the 2023 edition, defeating Williams 10–8 in the final. At the World Grand Prix, he lost 9–10 to Allen in the final, fighting back to force a decider after being 2–7 down. He was also a finalist of the Championship League, losing 1–3 to Higgins, and a quarter-finalist at the 2023 Six-red World Championship. His season ended as he exited the 2023 World Championship in the first round following a 10–6 defeat by Anthony McGill.

After winning the invitational Huangguoshu Open 5–1 against Higgins, Trump was a finalist at the European Masters, losing 6–9 to Hawkins, and a quarter-finalist of the Shanghai Masters, suffering a 1–6 defeat by Selby. In October, by beating Zhang Anda 9–7, he won the English Open for a second time. The following week, he won the inaugural Wuhan Open, winning back-to-back ranking events for the fourth time in his career, one of only thirteen players to win successive tournaments, and being only the third, after Hendry and Williams, to win consecutive events held in consecutive weeks in different countries. He played Carter in the final and defeated him 10–7. Trump's winning streak continued at the Northern Ireland Open, claiming his fourth title there and sixth Home Nations title overall by defeating Wakelin 9–3, becoming the fifth player—after Ray Reardon, Davis, Hendry and Junhui—to win three ranking tournaments in a row. The final was his 20th consecutive match won, and he recovered from 1–4 behind to win 6–4 against Hawkins in their semi-final. Trump's run ended with 22 match wins, as he faced Maguire again in the last 32 at the 2023 International Championship and lost 3–6. At the Champion of Champions, he reached the final of the tournament, but finished as runner-up after a 3–10 defeat by Allen. In the following event, the 2023 UK Championship, he made it to the semi-final, but lost 4–6 to Ding.

Trump started the second half of the season by attempting to defend his title at the 2024 Masters, but was edged out 5–6 by Carter in the quarter-finals. He was then runner-up at the next tournament, the World Grand Prix, as he lost 7–10 to O'Sullivan, after leading 4–0 and 6–3 during the match. At the German Masters, Trump claimed both the title and the BetVictor European Series bonus for the third time, defeating Si Jiahui 10–5. At the Players Championship, he was beaten at the quarter-finals stage by Carter 4–6. In the 2024 World Masters of Snooker, Trump was a semi-finalist, but lost to O'Sullivan for the fifth time in a row. At the World Open, Trump was the defending champion, and he retained the title, defeating Ding in the final 10–4. He won at least five ranking titles and earned over £1 million in a single campaign for the third time in his career. Trump reached the quarter-finals of both the Tour Championship (losing 4–10 to Williams), and the World Championship (beaten 9–13 by world number 44 Jak Jones).

Trump began the season by defeating Murphy 11‍–‍5 in the final of the Shanghai Masters, and was also a finalist at the Xi'an Grand Prix, where he lost 8–10 to Kyren Wilson. He then reached the number one position in the world rankings, and became the champion of the inaugural Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters, beating Williams 10–9. Trump made the 1,000th century break of his career in his British Open quarter-final defeat against Allen, becoming the third player to achieve the feat following O'Sullivan and Higgins. He beat Hawkins 10–8 in the final to win the 2024 UK Championship, his second title at the triple crown event. At the 2025 Masters, Trump was defeated in the semi-finals by Kyren Wilson 3‍–‍6, and he also exited at the semi-finals stage of the 2025 World Championship, where he lost 14‍–‍17 to Williams. Trump made a record 107 centuries and won a record £1,680,600 in prize money during the season and was subsequently named WST Player of the Year for a fourth time.

In October, Trump reached the final of the Northern Ireland Open where he suffered an 8‍–‍9 defeat against Lisowski. Trump also finished runner-up at the Champion of Champions where he was beaten 5‍–‍10 by Selby. He entered the UK Championship as defending champion, and he progressed to the final before finishing runner-up against Selby. His 8‍–‍10 defeat meant he finished the calendar year without a trophy for the first time since 2013. At the 2026 Masters, Trump lost his semi-final match against Higgins in a deciding frame. In February, Trump won his first ranking event in 15 months after he defeated Murphy 10‍–‍4 in the final of the German Masters to win the event for a fourth time.