Judd Trump completes the great escape at World Championship

Judd Trump produced a great escape to keep alive his hopes of a first World Championship snooker title.

At the tournament he regards as being “10 times bigger” than any other, Trump was in deep first-round trouble when he dropped the opening frame of the day to slide 7-3 behind against Liang Wenbo.

The 26-year-old had been off his game on Wednesday and it called for a champion’s response to clamber out of danger. Trump, who reached the 2011 Crucible final and was a semi-finalist last year, was up to the challenge and took seven of the next eight frames to win 10-8.