Judd Trump is comfortably one of the best snooker players on the planet and he’s won pretty much everything there is to win in the game.
After losing in the quarter-final of the World Snooker Championship back in May, the Bristolian has started this season on a mission.
He romped to glory in the Shanghai Masters, defeating Mark Williams, Si Jiahui, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Shaun Murphy to claim the title.
Selt has admitted, however, there must be something that really grinds his gears somewhat being one of the game’s top players.
Matt Selt shares what must really bore Judd Trump
The 36-year-old is still young when it comes to being a top snooker player and there is a sense he can smash a number of records.
He has won 28 ranking titles and a further 10 non-ranking titles, including the Masters on two occasions.
Furthermore, Trump has knocked in 990 centuries and he’s hot on the tail of Ronnie O’Sullivan who has 1265 to his name.
Selt has confessed, however, that he thinks there must be one aspect of the World Snooker Tour that must be hard for Trump.
He told The Snooker Club podcast: “You try winning with that level of euphoria and then playing in Leicester in front of nobody every time. It’s tough.
“I watched Judd play against Antoni Kowalski the other day. I actually went out there and watched it, and he looked bored to death by it, it must be so hard.”
Trump is the master of shorter-format snooker
Trump might look bored at the events that require qualifying at venues like the one in Leicester where supporters aren’t permitted but it clearly doesn’t bother him.
No player has won more Home Nations events on the current tour than Trump who has collected six titles from the 32 events that have been played.
Mark Selby, Neil Robertson, Mark Allen, Gary Wilson and Stuart Bingham have all won more than one.
These events are usually contested over a best-of-seven format, with a best of nine in the quarters and semi-finals before a best of 17 final.
Trump seems to be incredibly difficult to beat when the Home Nations take place and in any shorter format tournament he’s a complete menace.
The player has claimed before that he wouldn’t swap winning five titles to win one World Snooker Championship at the end of the season.
That’s an intriguing take and could explain why he’s only actually got one world title to his name at the moment.
Nonetheless, Trump is the world number two for a reason and his form in the shorter format events is certainly one factor for that.