{"id":143603,"date":"2025-11-16T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143603\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:24:10","slug":"mark-selby-beats-judd-trump-to-win-champion-of-champions-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143603\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Selby beats Judd Trump to win Champion of Champions for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four-time world champion Mark Selby came through a tough safety battle with Judd Trump before racing away to win 10-5 and take the Champion of Champions title for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n

Playing in front of his home crowd at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester, 42-year-old Selby showed his trademark grit to win a scrappy tactical duel before knocking in a 138 break and then accelerating away.<\/p>\n

“This tournament has only got the best players in it, so this is a privilege,” Selby told ITV.<\/p>\n

“I played well today but I knew I had to. Judd is the man to beat.<\/p>\n

“It feels like it’s been a while since I have played to that standard.”<\/p>\n

World number one Trump, 36, made a bright start and led 3-1 with two century breaks but was ground down in his first final of the season by some lengthy, defensive frames.<\/p>\n

Selby’s semi-final win over Neil Robertson included a 63-minute frame decided on the final black.<\/a><\/p>\n

And he again showed his patience and perseverance to see off Trump.<\/p>\n

After a 25-minute battle over the last red in frame 10, the pair swapped 25 shots over one red in the pack a frame later, with the threat of a re-rack eventually leading to Selby taking charge.<\/p>\n

Selby then showed his class with a sparkling 138 and peeled off three centuries in a row to win nine of 11 frames as an out-of-sorts Trump lost the final for a fifth time.<\/p>\n

Trump told ITV: “There are no positives. Mark was the best player all week and he thoroughly deserved to win.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t win with that cue. I am not making excuses, I chose that cue but I just can’t get used to it. I really struggled.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time world champion Mark Selby came through a tough safety battle with Judd Trump before racing away to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-143603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}