Welshman battles past former champion Stuart Bingham 17-12Wilson beats David Gilbert 17-11 to reach a second Crucible finalJak Jones sealed his status as one of the unlikeliest of World Snooker Championship finalists after completing an attritional 17-12 triumph over former champion Stuart Bingham at the Crucible.The world No 44, who has never previously reached a ranking final, will face Kyren Wilson in the two-day final starting on Sunday after Wilson overcame David Gilbert 17-11. Continue...
Jak Jones battled back but eventually fell short as Kyren Wilson won the final at the Crucible and claimed his first world title
Only remaining seed holds 14-10 advantageStuart Bingham and Jak Jones level at 8-8Kyren Wilson needs three more frames to reach a second World Snooker Championship final after opening up a 14-10 lead over David Gilbert. The pair were tied at 8-8 after the morning session but Wilson, the only seed left, won six of the eight frames in the evening to take a commanding lead.It would have been virtually game over had Gilbert not won the final frame with a break of 101, but he goes into Saturday’s...
Jak Jones loses first seven frames in maiden finalWelshman battles back to edge evening sessionNothing is ever decided on day one of the World Snooker Championship final. Far from it, in fact. But if it is Kyren Wilson, who leads 11-6, lifting snooker’s most prestigious prize on Monday evening instead of the courageous Welshman Jak Jones there is no doubting the three hours of chaos on Sunday afternoon will have been the difference.Jones deserves immense credit for rallying in Sunday’s evening...
The 32-year-old reached his second world final in the space of four years with an emphatic 17-11 semi-final win over David Gilbert on Saturday. The match had been nip and tuck throughout the first half, and at one point the players were tied at 9-9. But 12th seed Wilson then produced a superb run of snooker to win eight out of the next 10 frames and seal a brilliant victory and leave him just one way away from becoming world champion, and taking home the £500,000 top prize. Wilson will be hot...
Wilson swept David Gilbert aside in his semi-final, while Jones battled past Stuart Bingham
Wilson holds an 11-6 lead after the opening day of the final at the Crucible
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Kyren Wilson celebrated in tearful scenes with his wife Sophie and his two sons. Wilson became the 23rd man to lift the World Championship title at the Crucible. The 32-year-old was overjoyed to get over the line against a gritty rival in Jones
Kyren Wilson shone in the Crucible spotlight and is more than halfway to winning a maiden World Snooker Championship title after a commanding first day against underdog Jak Jones.
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