Keynsham potter Judd Trump is hoping to claim a second successive wild card entry for the Masters tournament at Wembley by winning the qualifying tournament this week.

Trump, 20, begins his bid to qualify for the televised stages of the competition with a second qualifying round clash tomorrow morning at Pontins in Prestatyn against either world No 43 Andrew Higginson or Noppadol Sangnil.

The world No 30 claimed a wild card for last season's event with an impressive qualifying competition victory, where he overcame Matthew Couch, Dave Harold, Jamie Cope, Jin Long, former world champion Ken Doherty and Mark Joyce to lift the trophy and claim his first professional title.

Trump said: "I played really well throughout the week and had a couple of good wins. Beating Ken was a fantastic victory and the match with Dave Harold was tough. I was pleased with my performance.

"I'm feeling very confident, I haven't had a great start to the season but I've been practising hard at the Academy for the last two weeks, so hopefully I can produce the goods again."

That victory earned Trump his wild card to the game's most prestigious invitational event, where he faced Northern Ireland's Mark Allen in the opening round.

Trump racked up his first televised century against the world No 16 – but eventually lost the match 6-4.

"I really enjoyed it," Trump said. "I had good support up there and it was quite a big crowd so it would be nice to go back.

"It was completely different to any other venue I've played at. It's massive. It was nice to be there but it would be nice to get back this year as I didn't really do what I expected to.

"I've struggled on TV the last couple of seasons but this year I've played in the Premier League and that's helped me quite a lot so far. Hopefully, I can get on to the TV stages of the BBC tournaments and perform well."