Jak Jones vs Kyren Wilson LIVE: World Snooker Championship final score and result as Wilson wins first title
Jak Jones battled back but eventually fell short as Kyren Wilson won the final at the Crucible and claimed his first world title
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Your support makes all the difference.Kyren Wilson survived a stirring fightback from qualifier Jak Jones to win the world snooker title for the first time at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
Wilson struggled to contain his emotions as he wrapped up an 18-14 triumph over Jones, who fought valiantly after losing the first seven frames of the final, and reeled off three frames in a row from 17-11 to give himself some hope of an improbable revival.
Victory sealed a timely return to form for Wilson, who had arrived for his 10th tilt at the title on the back of his worst campaign in a decade, a solitary semi-final at the German Masters put into perspective by illness and injury afflicting his young family.
But he was made to work overtime by Jones, who looked down and out after losing the first seven frames, but staged a remarkable comeback and even threatened a maximum in the 30th frame before running aground after potting the first 12 reds and blacks.
Jones said at the presentation ceremony: “Congratulations to Kyren and his family, they deserve it. If anyone deserves it he does, so congratulations to them.
“It’s been an unbelievable tournament for me. About a month ago I was in my first qualifying match. It’s been a long month but I’m happy with it.
“I wouldn’t say (I came in) with a lot of hope. I just thought if I try my best, basically, see what happens. But when you’re playing someone as solid as Kyren, with such a good all-round game, it’s going to be hard to come back from a deficit like that so it wasn’t to be.”
Kyren Wilson 16-11 Jak Jones
Well this is remarkable! Wilson manages to roll the cue ball right up against the brown while trying to leave himself on the yellow, and he’s snookered. He escapes off one cushion, but now Jones is back at the table.
Jones takes on a tricky yellow, sending it most of the distance across the table, and it bounces off the jaws of the pocket and back out.
Kyren Wilson 16-11 Jak Jones
Jones gathers 46 points before missing the most simple of reds! He was trying too hard to force position on the black. That’s just a horrendous mistake.
Wilson comes to the table with the final four reds invitingly spread, and he quickly overtakes Jones on the scoreboard as he clears them...
Kyren Wilson 16-11 Jak Jones
Oh, what a mistake! Wilson – with 37 points amassed – clips the pink while trying to sneak past to pot a red, and that’s a foul and big chance now for Jones to hit back.
Kyren Wilson 16-11 Jak Jones
Jak Jones takes on a long, tough red with the white up against the baulk cushion, and he doesn’t get very close. Wilson takes his chance – a long red to the opposite corner – and now he’s off building a potentially frame-winning break...
Kyren Wilson 16-11 Jak Jones
Jones wins it with a century! A beautiful break to get one on the board this evening, and that’s 16-11.
Kyren Wilson 16-10 Jak Jones
This is better by Jones, who looks a little more relaxed and free in his cueing arm, perhaps as a result of the situation with this final almost lost. He’s put 50 points on the board and only needs a couple more reds to seal the frame...
Kyren Wilson 16-10 Jak Jones
Wilson pots red, green, red before missing a tough blue to the green pocket, and he leaves Jones a good chance to reply with the balls nicely spread.
Kyren Wilson 16-10 Jak Jones
So, Jak Jones now needs to win eight of the remaining nine frames.
He breaks off, and immediately Kyren Wilson gets lucky when a missed red ricochets into the middle pocket. Tough luck for Jones. Wilson now has an early chance to score.
Kyren Wilson 16-10 Jak Jones
Wilson wins the battle, as Jones’s swerve shot around the baulk colours bumps the red against the jaw of the left middle pocket and it bounces out. So close!
Wilson pots the red and clears the baulk colours to clinch the frame. He’s only two away from the title.
Kyren Wilson 15-10 Jak Jones
Wilson finishes off almost all of the reds but the last one is tricky, up against the side cushion. He flicks it off after potting the penultimate red, but it bounces all the way across the table to rest on the opposite cushion, and the break is over.
Wilson plays safe, leading 49-35, and Jones returns to the table.
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