'Phenomenal' - Ronnie O'Sullivan in awe as Jimmy White pulls off Judd Trump's brilliant banana shot

ByAlex Livie

Updated 04/03/2022 at 19:47 GMT

Anything Judd Trump can do, Jimmy White can do better. That will be what White will be telling people this evening after he recreated a Trump special from earlier in the Welsh Open - only to play it even better. It had Ronnie O'Sullivan purring in admiration and rightly so as he produced the perfect banana shot.

You never lose it, as Jimmy White proved when pulling off a replica of Judd Trump’s stunning shot against Si Jiahui at the Welsh Open.

Trump dropped jaws when potting a black with deep screw, bending the white around the pink and developing the yellow on the top cushion.

White built a career on his brilliant cue power and control, and Trump plays a similar game.

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Never one to shirk a challenge, White took up the baton in the presence of Ronnie O’Sullivan and Rachel Casey.

Setting the scene for Eurosport, O’Sullivan said: “The pink is in the way so he’s got to push the white out and bring it back. We call it a banana shot and you have got to get so much action on the white.

“There’s probably only two players who can do this. One is Judd and the other is Jimmy. Jimmy invented the shot years ago.

“This is a hard shot.”

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White struck the cue ball so crisply that he got too much action on it, but at the second time of asking he executed it to perfection to and even dropped perfectly on the yellow.

“Look at that, phenomenal,” said O’Sullivan. “You will probably get one out of 50, Jimmy has done one out of two.”

Clearly pleased with himself, White said: “He (Trump) played it well but he didn’t get on the yellow like I did.”

As we said, you never lose it.

Jimmy White, take a bow.

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