Judd Trump insisted he wanted to be judged on his own merit after dispatching of Ronnie O’Sullivan in an entertaining last-eight showdown at the BGC Masters.

The young Bristolian threatened to whitewash the three-time world champion and four-time Masters winner when racing into a 4-0 lead, which included a 140 break, going into the mid-session interval.

O’Sullivan refused to go quietly and came back with a 141 break of his own but Trump held his nerve to close out a 6-2 win and set-up a last-four showdown against Neil Robertson or Mark Williams.

Trump said he was delighted to take the prize scalp of O’Sullivan, who he also beat on his way to winning the UK Championship last month, and heaped praise on the Essex cue man. People looking at snooker bets markets will know Trump seems to be the man to beat.

The 22-year-old said: “Ronnie has done everything he wanted to do in the game. He’s enjoyed himself on and off the table, he has entertained the crowd for 20 years now and everyone still loves him. For however long he plays the game he will be the fans’ favourite.”

On suggestions that the two are like-for-like style-wise, Trump added: “I just want to go my own way and do things a little bit different to people in the past, I want my own identity. I don’t want to be seen as the next Ronnie O’Sullivan, I want to be seen as Judd Trump, not the person who copied Ronnie O’Sullivan.”

Two-time Major winner Trump has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame and has become box office gold because of his all-out-attack-approach, but insisted he was no one-hit wonder and was ready to stay the distance with the game’s elite.

He told worldsnooker.com: “I’ve still only won two tournaments. It’s been a good year but it took me a long time to come through. Ding (Junhui) and a few others have already won four or five tournaments so I need to keep practising and let my snooker do the talking on the table. Off the table I can enjoy myself and I do some crazy things.”