After Judd Trump's brilliant victory at the Coral Players Championship, Richard Mann already has one eye on the World Championship in Sheffield.
Top Trump reigns supreme
It might be a stretch to suggest Judd Trump's current golden run has reached quite the same level of utter dominance over his peers that Stephen Hendry enjoyed through the 1990s, or the sustained period of success that Ronnie O'Sullivan, or even John Higgins, have managed in the last 30 years.
But he's getting there isn't he?
Last week's victory at the Coral Players Championship was his fifth ranking-title success of the campaign, making him only the fifth player after Hendry, Ding Junhui, Mark Selby and O'Sullivan to reach the milestone in a single season, and it would take a brave man to suggest he won't break that record at the forthcoming Tour Championship in Wales.
Along with that quintet of trophies Trump has claimed this term, the 30-year-old has also managed a final appearance at the Champion of Champions and three more quarter-final finishes in a brilliant run of form that has catapulted him to the top of the world rankings.
Trump's new-found maturity and ever-evolving safety game has seen him become a frighteningly tough nut to crack but most impressive in recent weeks has been his shot selection.
