BRISTOL snooker ace Judd Trump is brimming with confidence ahead of the new Bahrain Championship.

The Keynsham potter registered his best-ever performance at a ranking event by reaching the semi-finals of last month's BBC-televised Glasgow Grand Prix.

A stunning victory against world champion and world No 1 Ronnie O'Sullivan got tongues wagging.

And the 19-year-old also beat former World Championship semi-finalist Joe Perry and came within a whisker of beating eventual champion John Higgins after a spirited comeback.

"I don't fear anyone at the moment, I'm playing really well," revealed Trump. "I know that if I take that form into any match then I'm capable of winning.

"I've been on the professional tour for a few seasons now and I've been disappointed that I've not really done anything, that was until Glasgow.

"I've qualified for big tournaments, but for some reason I froze under the television cameras. It's been a hard learning curve for me, but I have learnt so much in the last couple of seasons."

Trump remains the youngest player ever to make a maximum 147 break when, in March 2004, he achieved the feat aged 14 years and 208 days.

And the teenager's phoenix-like rise up the rankings sees him now sitting pretty at provisional No 28.

He faces top 16 star Mark Allen, another of snooker's rising stars, tomorrow (Tuesday) in the first round of the Bahrain tournament, the fourth ranking event of the season.

"I've won seven out of seven matches in the qualifiers at Prestatyn this season and I've made it to four venues, which is all great experience for me," he added.

"I'm starting to get used to playing at the venues and in front of TV cameras and to show some of the form I've found at the qualifiers.

"Mark (Allen) plays a similar sort of attacking game to me so it should be a good match.

"I've already been to Shanghai this season and now it's Bahrain, it's exciting to go around the world to play snooker in different venues."

Irishman Allen has made a stuttering start to the new season, but is understandably looking forward to playing Trump, a player he knew well from the pair's junior days.

"Judd's a great player, I think he's been threatening to play that well for a while. It didn't come as a surprise to me," said Allen.

"I think a lot of people expected him to make his mark at a big ranking tournament, and that's what he did.

"I'm really looking forward to the match. We're both young players and we both go for our shots, it's going to be a good test for both of us."