Beijing time on November 23, 2020, the 2020 Snooker Northern Ireland Open final came to an end. Defending champion Judd Trump beat Ronnie O'Sullivan with a score of 2 over 100 and 5 over 50 to achieve the Northern Ireland Open for three consecutive championships, and this is also Trump’s 19th career ranking. The championship, surpassing Selby and Robertson, became the player with the most titles after the 80s.
It is worth mentioning that Trump defeated O'Sullivan by the same score in the Northern Ireland Open final for three consecutive years. Z2z
had previously played against each other 26 times, each with 13 victories, but the two met 10 times in the finals, and Trump had the advantage with a 7 wins and 3 losses. In the first stage, Trump scored 55, 69 and 128 points in a single shot, ending the first stage with a score of 5-3. At the beginning of the second stage of
, Trump had a vigorous momentum, scoring 89 points and 55 points in a row, pulling the score to a 7-3 lead. O'Sullivan was unwilling to show his weakness and blasted a single shot with 63 points to recover the two games, the score was 5-7 behind. In the 13th inning, Trump scored 115 points on a single stroke to get the match point first. O'Sullivan bottomed out and counterattacked strongly, blasting out 93 and 74 points in a row, chasing the score to 7-8, only one game behind. In the 16th inning, Trum did not give O'Sullivan any more chances, and ended the game with 89 points on a single stroke, winning the championship with a 9-7 victory over O'Sullivan.