Judd Trump is £100,000 richer after compiling his 100th century break of the season at the 2025 World Snooker Championship on Sunday.
The world number one made a break of 132 in the 15th frame of his second-round clash with Shaun Murphy at the Crucible Theatre.
For the first time this season, WST put up a jackpot prize as an incentive for the game’s heaviest scorers to produce more ton breaks.
The first player during the 2024/25 campaign who could compile a century of century breaks would land the handsome £100,000 sum.
Trump was always going to be one of the most likely candidates to reach the target first, and so it has proved.
The Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters champion compiled his first century break of the 2024/25 term during a 6-2 victory over Mark Williams at the Shanghai Masters in July – an event he’d go on to win.
Two months later at the British Open in Cheltenham, Trump’s run of 102 during a quarter-final defeat to Mark Allen took his career tally of century breaks to 1,000.
At the time, the 35 year-old became only the second player in history after Ronnie O’Sullivan to reach the milestone, although John Higgins has since also joined the exclusive club.
Trump compiled 11 century breaks en route to his second UK Championship success and entered the new year with 51 from the season in total.
A 23-ton burst at the invitational version of Championship League Snooker subsequently aided the Bristol potter’s cause further.
Trump entered this edition of the World Snooker Championship on 93 and needing seven more to achieve the three-figure mark.
A superb five-ton performance in his 10-4 victory over Zhou Yuelong in the opening round brought him to within the brink.
“The money (for the 100 centuries) doesn’t really come into it,” Judd Trump told the World Snooker Tour after the Zhou clash.
“We are competitive animals, and I just want to make century after century, even if there was no prize.”
“There would be no better place to do it than here. Hopefully I can get it out of the way early in my next match.
“The standard seems to be going up. The pockets aren’t playing big, they are a good size, but it shows how high the skill level is.”
Trump was ultimately able to get it out of the way in his next match.
He added number 99 with a break of 106 against Murphy before completing the century of century breaks in the next frame, sparking exuberant celebrations from the Crucible crowd.
To put the 2019 world champion’s scoring prowess into context, Mark Selby is the next most prolific break builder from this season with 73 centuries while Kyren Wilson – four times a ranking event winner this term – ended on 62.
Century breaks: 2024/25 snooker season
(Sunday, April 27th)
Judd Trump = 100
Mark Selby = 73
Kyren Wilson = 62
Shaun Murphy = 57
Jak Jones = 56
Xiao Guodong = 54
Mark Allen = 47
Wu Yize = 44
John Higgins = 43
Neil Robertson = 43
Jack Lisowski = 43
It’s the third time in snooker history that a player has managed to accomplish the century of century breaks goal.
Neil Robertson became the first, memorably compiling his 100th of the 2013/14 season during a quarter-final World Championship triumph over Trump.
The latter wasn’t happy with the magnitude of Robertson’s celebrations at the time, but Trump himself then became the next player to achieve a hundred centuries during the 2019/20 campaign.
On that occasion, the Englishman’s final tally of 102 tons fell just one shy of the record of 103 that Robertson had set six seasons earlier.
The longer Trump stays in the running at the 2025 World Snooker Championship, the more likely it is that he’ll eclipse that target this time.
He leads Murphy 10-6 heading into their third and final session in the last 16.
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Shaun Murphy was certainly a lot more gracious in his reaction to the achievement than Trump’s dismissiveness of Robertson reaching the milestone in 2014.
Trump has completed the feat in fewer matches than his previous century or Robertson’s landmark.