Judd Trump crashes out of 2012 World Snooker Championship against Ali Carter
Winner of the 2011 UK Championship and one of the top contenders to clinch the world title, England’s Judd Trump has crashed out of the 2012 World Snooker Championship after losing at the hands of the former World Snooker Championship runner-up, compatriot
Ali Carter by a close score line of 13-12 in the second round clash at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
The Carter-Trump encounter was one of the most thrilling contests of the Championship so far that went according to expectations. The spectators saw a tremendous comeback of the Captain who eventually clinched the game by the score of 13-12. The 2011 World
Snooker Championship runner-up, Trump cruised into the lead with outstanding game play but was not able to win the match.
The match up was a tussling competition between the two as both went neck-to-neck in the first two sessions. At the end of third session, the Bristolian potter, Trump was leading the game by the score line of 9-12 and needed only one frame to book his place
in the quarters. But the Essex cueman, Carter bounced back brilliantly into the match and hit four consecutive frame victories to ensure his win by 13-12.
While speaking to World Snooker after his win, Carter said, “I knew I was hitting the ball well, at 12-9 I thought just get to 12-10 and he knows I'm there. I played some solid match snooker at 12-11 and that's all it takes. Judd just pots them from everywhere
but there's more to this game than just potting them from everywhere believe me, and I've proved that today.”
The 32-year-old added, “It's easy for me to say now because I've come out the winner but I'm just delighted with myself because I've been on too many wrong ends of matches like that.”
Carter had a miserable second half of the recent snooker season because of Crohn’s disease but still the 32-year-old managed to stay in the Top 16. Carter did not win any major or minor ranking snooker events in the recent snooker season. He even decided
to retire from World Snooker due to his health issues but then he decided to get back into the game with a new spark in his cue stick.
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