TALENT obviously helps if you want to get to the top of any sport – yet it is not enough on its own, even for someone as skilful as Ronnie O'Sullivan.

The 40-year-old has won five World Snooker Championships, six Masters titles and five UK Championships but Judd Trump, a UK Championship winner himself, has seen first hand how diligent 'The Rocket' is.

Trump, who will face O'Sullivan in a mouth-watering Eleven 30 Series clash in Bradford on Saturday, September 10, with a £30,000 prize available for the overall winner of the competition, explained: "Ronnie sometimes practises at the same club as me and switches his phone off so that he has no distractions and practises solidly for three or four hours."

The best-of-11-frame exhibition match between two of the sport's greats at the Richard Dunn Sports Centre will bring an element of rock and roll to the green baize and 26-year-old Trump said: "I am all in favour of something like that as it will bring a new and younger element to the sport.

"Obviously, you don't want people shouting out loudly when you are down on a shot, but snooker players are used to playing with background noise anyway as that is what happens when they play at their local club.

"You want spectators to have some interaction with the players – and with music and John Virgo doing live commentary, it should make for a fun evening."

The former world No 1 plays what has been coined "naughty snooker" and explained how the term came about.

Trump said: "A mate of mine and myself were having a laugh before a press conference a few years ago about what I could say and we came up with the idea – but I sometimes wish that we hadn't!"

Trump, who has been a professional for 11 years now, won his first ranking tournament when he beat Mark Selby 10-8 in the China Open final in 2011, the same year in which the Bristolian reached the World Championship final, losing to John Higgins, but Trump later won the UK Championship by defeating Mark Allen 10-8.

The world No 1 ranking followed when Trump clinched the International Open in November 2012 and victories followed in the Australian Goldfields Open and, in 2015, the inaugural World Grand Prix, when O'Sullivan fell 10-7 in the final having led 7-4.

As recently as March, current world No 5 Trump won the China Open, beating Ricky Walden 10-4 in the decider.

O'Sullivan, who turned professional in 1992 and is widely thought to be one of the most gifted to ever play the sport, has won 31 ranking titles, including the Welsh Open in 2015-16, and 29 non-ranking titles, including the Masters last winter.

Trump, who won the opening two legs of the Eleven 30 Series 6-5 in Surrey and 6-4 in Belfast, admits that he prefers to save himself for the major events in the sport, even when he is in form, rather than playing in some of the minor events.

He reckons that the top five tournaments in the sport, in order, are the World Championship, the Masters, the UK Championship, the German Masters and the Shanghai Masters.

Tickets for the MJK Sports promotion on September 10 are available on 07414-960956 or online at www.mjksportsevents.co.uk.

Limited VIP packages are available, in which punters can meet both players before the match in a private drinks reception.