Kyren Wilson v Jak Jones: World Snooker Championship 2024 final – live | World Snooker Championship

Wilson 17-14 Jones (frame score: 51-4) Another red rolled down the middle and now Wilson is stunning in the brown. His arm will weigh a ton, but the finish line is in sight…

Wilson 17-14 Jones (frame score: 46-4) Wilson knocks on the red and gets the next one perfectly off the yellow. A little nudge in the group and it’s a chance to win the frame, the match and the championship – but he’s out of position and leaves a solid pink in the middle. But he takes his time and lets it go!

Wilson 17-14 Jones (frame score: 29-4) Wilson takes a solid long red and hits it full tilt, shaking it into the top two pockets. Jones goes for a reverse double up the middle – Higgins – but misses it and leaves it on. He raises his hand in frustration. Did he just present the trophy to Kieron Wilson?

Wilson 17-14 Jones (frame score: 29-4) It’s now 90 minutes since Wilson won a frame and he will have to sit and wait again as Jones hammers the red and green. He takes a tricky red to the middle and hits a near jaw – but nothing comes easy for his opponent.

Wilson 17-14 Jones (frame score: 29-0) Now, though, it’s all so hard work for Wilson, and he runs into blue at his first red. He takes green with the rest and rattles it in his jaws. He’s starting to look a little run down.

Wilson 17-14 Jones (frame score: 28-0) Wilson has to play it safe out of the group but hits the yellow and is lucky to see the cue ball roll to the cushion. Jones takes the pot and is so close, but it shakes and it’s another opportunity for Wilson.

Wilson 17-14 Jones (frame score: 28-0) Wilson gets it in but doesn’t get on the black – the rub on the green has left him – but he’s on the blue, which cuts into the middle pocket. The next red clears the way for black, he nails it – but loses control of the white and it’s back to nothing again!

Wilson 17-14 Jones (frame score: 14-0) And now – Jones has missed twice when there are reds he can clearly hit; so another miss here would give Wilson a frame, a match and a world title. He doesn’t get the trophy so easily, Jones takes a more direct shot this time – but leaves a red over the pocket.

Wilson 17-14 Jones (frame score: 14-0) Wilson troubles Jones with his next forehand and he misses twice, grabbing the pink on his second attempt. A bit of admin for Paul Collier, the referee overseeing his last game before retirement here tonight.

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Wilson 17-14 Jones (frame score: 4-0) Jones faces an ambitious attack in the middle and misses. Wilson has a pot that can get in the middle…and misses. Jones plays it safe with Black blocking the pocket in the lower right corner.

Wilson 17-14 Jones (frame score: 4-0) Kieron Wilson is one frame away from winning his sport’s biggest prize – but who among us would trade places with him now? Still, Jones suggests he try a long red to calm his nerves – and he accepts. Can he finally create a match-winning chance? No – uncomfortable black with the rest jingle in the jaws!

Jones wins the frame! Wilson 17-14 Jones The pink leaves Wilson needing a snooker and Jones makes sure by rolling the last red on the cushion. “Are we going to see anything special?” asks Dennis Taylor. He’s still three frames behind, but Kyren Wilson might be starting to sweat. He got to watch Jones lie the yellow and blue in demonstrative style, to boot. Shots Scored: 22-80

Wilson 17-13 Jones (Frame score: 22-54) Wilson gets a long red, misses it from some distance and leaves an awkward chance for Jones. With the lead he has, he surely will – and it goes in! Apart from a fly that invaded the table, there are no obstacles to a third consecutive frame for the qualifier.

Wilson 17-13 Jones (frame score: 22-53) He chooses not to accept it – he may not have had the right angle. Instead, it is sent to the table, with the other red covered by the black.

Wilson 17-13 Jones (frame score: 22-53) Both players returned and Jones ran out of snooker but left a strong red by the cushion. Wilson takes it on – and drains it! Nerves of steel and he’s on the blue – but once he turns it on, he’s only on one more very difficult part…

Wilson 17-13 Jones (frame score: 16-53) Wilson is out of color, so he decides to release the yellow and place the cue ball behind the green. And Jones asked for a comfortable rest – Wilson decided that he would also leave the arena. Tensions are rising…

Wilson 17-13 Jones (frame score: 16-53) Wilson got away quite nicely, winding up to the red and leaving everything safe. Jones returns the cue ball back to the safety cushion, but allows Wilson to split the Reds with his next safety shot. He does so, but then knocks on the yellow safe. Jones, however, leaves him with a chance for nothing at long red – and Wilson wins it!

Wilson 17-13 Jones (frame score: 15-53) Jack Jones sends an awkward pink into right middle, but still needs to break the clutch of four reds around the black – and he’s looking a bit straight at the pink to do it. He tries a putt with power and topspin but misses the reds – end of the break but plays admirably safely behind the green.

Wilson 17-13 Jones (frame score: 15-20) And now Jack Jones is punishing those mistakes – he scores a long red and is back among the balls, albeit with black still out of commission…

Wilson 17-13 Jones (frame score: 15-6) Jones escaped the snooker but left a red in the middle and Wilson pounced. It’s his turn to try to break the pack, but he only leaves one red to the middle. It’s close, but it just slips out of the unforgiving pocket. Another half-chance slips away from the champion-elect…

Wilson 17-13 Jones (frame score: 9-6) Wilson throws a long red but has to take the black even though it’s tied after returning to his seat. It puts a subtle red in the middle, but ends up behind the pink, near the cushion. A very delicate touch later, avoiding the error, and he had Jones completely snookered.

Wilson 17-13 Jones (Frame Score: 0-6) Jones has a chance to break the pack from the blue, but instead rattles into the pink. End of the break and we are in a battle for safety.

Wilson 17-13 Jones (frame score: 0-1) Jones looks a far more relaxed player now, perhaps understandably, and he gets another opening in frame 31 when Wilson misses a long red.

Jones wins the frame! Wilson 17-13 Jones Jones misses his effort past the side cushion, missing what would have been a very strange maximum. He started off with a great miss, got a bit lucky and has now reduced the cap to four. Frame score: 0-96

Wilson 17-12 Jones (Frame Score: 0-96) There’s still a lot of work to do, with most of the remaining reds near the right middle – and he misses one chance to free red from the cushion. He has left a mid-range red that knocks out and gets to that uncomfortable red from the black…

Wilson 17-12 Jones (Frame Score: 0-73) The first order of business for Jones is to make the frame safe, and he puts ninth black to leave the frame red, which will claim the rest. It’s in and now he can dream…

Wilson 17-12 Jones (frame score: 0-49) That won’t be at the forefront of his mind, but Jones is still maxed out here after racking up six reds and six blacks. A seventh red is played in the middle and he is back on black, albeit with a slight difficulty.

Wilson 17-12 Jones (frame score: 0-32) As Stephen Hendry points out, the balls are in place here as a training program – but can Jack Jones navigate them? He chooses a difficult shot in the corner with easier reds, but succeeds and follows it with blacks.

Wilson 17-12 Jones (frame score: 0-8) Wilson is forced to play it safe and leaves Jones with only a tricky long red – which he drains and cannons into position on black! Now he’s the man between the balls with a chance to build a lead…

Wilson 17-12 Jones (frame score: 0-0) Wilson misses a hesitant shot from long range, leaving Jones with a red. He has to turn it on to get into position, but he doesn’t come close, rattling into the pack…but somehow not leaving a single red on.

The players are back. Can Kyren Wilson immediately get the frame he needs or does this final have another twist?

Ryan Day won the pole bending shot championship shot against Barry Hawkins. Fair play to him, but to me it had to be that John Higgins doubled to save victory from the jaws of defeat against Mark Allen.

“It’s quite intriguing to watch this finale … mainly because it’s so bad,” writes Andrew Harper. “This has to be one of the worst finishes in Crucible history. Ridiculous amount of unprovoked mistakes from both players throughout the game.”

True, although that’s perhaps to be expected when you have a favorite trying to win his first title against an underdog who has never been in a match of this magnitude. And as previous years have shown, even the best players can melt into the pitiful, pub-level puddle of this arena.

Interval in the middle of the session: Kyren Wilson is in his dressing room, eating fruit, drinking coffee and talking to a man who looks like he came dressed as David Brent. Time for some music; we’ll be back soon to see if and when Wilson can get the job done.