Snooker champion Neil Robertson has revealed Chelsea captain John Terry sent him a message of support during his Betway UK Championship triumph.

Robertson fired a history-making maximum break en route to defeating China's Liang Wenbo 10-5 to notch his second UK Championship title in the past three years.

The Australian revealed Terry had been motivating him throughout the tournament.

"JT texted me after I made the max and said, 'Just keep concentrating and bring the trophy on Wednesday'," Blues fan Robertson told the Press Association.

"He's maybe asked me to do that to motivate the boys, so I'll definitely take the trophy to Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, that's the next thing I'm excited about.

"That's not going too well at the moment and it's been quite hard to concentrate on snooker."