The Snooker World Championship cannot go ahead without a crowd, despite the coronavirus hiatus, believes the reigning world champion Judd Trump.
The World Championship has been postponed from its scheduled start date in April, with WST hoping to rearrange the event for either July or August.
Confusion continues to reign during the coronavirus crisis, with no one really knowing when sporting events will be able to start up again.
There has been some suggestion that the World Championship could be played with no crowd, in an attempt to get it completed in a timely fashion, but Trump says the event is one of a very few that absolutely needs a crowd.
‘The Crucible would be one of the exceptions where you need to have a crowd, that’s what makes that so special, having the crowds,’ Trump said on an Instagram Live with Stephen Hendry.
‘You can play so bad there, you can’t play like that anywhere else, you can just collapse at the Crucible.
‘As soon as you lose two frames in a row at the start of the session, you can lose 7-1, 8-0 quite easily, whereas that doesn’t happen anywhere else, you can sort of dig in and get your game back.
‘The Worlds is so special, having the crowd right behind you, the atmosphere is special.’
Trump was the last man to pot a ball on the professional snooker circuit before coronavirus wiped out the calendar, as the world number one won the Gibraltar Open last month.
While no one wants events to be postponed for the foreseeable future, when the World Championship is rearranged it could see a higher standard of play, with players refreshed and raring to go.
The world champion believes it was tailoring his regime last season ahead of the trip to the Crucible that helped him lift the famous trophy for the first time.
‘As soon as Christmas goes really, for me, you start thinking of the Worlds,’ explained the world number one. ‘The first half of the season goes quite slowly then after Christmas it seems to fly by.
‘It’s very busy after Christmas. You get the Masters done then you try and peak for then. Not play or practice too much.
‘What I did last year was go away a couple of weeks before the Worlds and get my freshness back and really enjoy the World Championship.
‘That helped me, in the past I got a bit tired and a bit bored by the World Championship. Having a week off got me excited to be playing again.
‘When I got to the final when I was 21 it didn’t take anything out of me then, it was all so new to me. But now, that 17-day slog you’ve got to be pretty fresh going into it and really want to be there.’
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