Hong Kong resident Judd Trump to headline local snooker tournament in June
Exhibition event at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium will also include two Chinese players as well as local veteran Ivan Chan Kwok-ming
Snooker world No 1 Judd Trump will headline an exhibition tournament in Hong Kong next month.
The local resident will be joined by fellow British player Jack Lisowski, Thailand’s Thepchaiya Un-nooh, Chinese pair Zhang Anda, the world No 12, and rising star Chen Qien.
Also playing will be Hong Kong’s two-time Asian Games gold medallist Ivan Chan Kwok-ming, who claimed the men’s team title alongside Marco Fu and Chan Wai-tat in Bangkok in 1998, and Fu and Fung Kwok-wai in Busan four years later.
The Greater Bay Area Snooker Culture Challenge – Ming Snooker Cup, which runs at Queen Elizabeth Stadium from June 10 to 11, will mark the first snooker tournament in the city since the World Grand Prix at Kai Tak Arena in March.
The city’s snooker chief, Vincent Law Wing-chung, welcomed the tournament, and while the local governing body was not directly involved in organising it, said he expected others would follow suit.