Jak Jones vs Kyren Wilson LIVE: World Snooker Championship final score as Jones attempts stunning comeback
Jak Jones faces Kyren Wilson in the final at the Crucible as both players look to land a first major title
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Kyren Wilson is closing in on his first World Snooker Championship title after resisting a hearty fightback by qualifier Jak Jones at the Crucible Theatre.
Wilson made a flying start on Sunday and showed off his clean cueing to take the first seven frames of the match, before Jones at last got on the board in the final frame of the afternoon session to trail 7-1. Jones fought back in the evening session and reached the last frame of the night only four frames behind, but Wilson managed to snatch a tense final frame to earn an 11-6 overnight lead.
Jones won the first two frames on Monday afternoon to hint at a miraculous comeback, but Wilson kept pace and they ended the penultimate session with the score at 15-10, and with Wilson needing only three more frames to win the 2024 world title.
Follow all the action from the World Snooker Championship below, and get the latest predictions and odds here.
Kyren Wilson 17-14 Jak Jones
Wilson can’t quite make it happen, but he gets another look a few moments later when Jones attempts a bold double and it bounces back off the jaw! Was that his last shot at this championship?
Jones screws up his face in disgust as the missed red rolls perfectly for Wilson to pot.
Kyren Wilson 17-14 Jak Jones
Wilson immediately loses control of the cue ball and the break ends far too quickly, but Jones misses a long red and Wilson is soon back in amongst the balls with another chance to win the world title.
Kyren Wilson 17-14 Jak Jones
The 32nd frame starts with a couple of misses by each player, before Wilson puts Jones in a tricky situation with the cue ball near the baulk cushion and no obvious escape route. Jones makes a couple of fouls before finally finding a red, but the cue ball isn’t safe and Wilson pots a red, followed by a thin blue.
This could be a good chance...
Kyren Wilson 17-14 Jak Jones
Jones cuts in a thin red, then the pink, then pots another delicate red along the rail after a clever positional shot, and he adds the black.
After swatting a fly, he flukes the yellow, pots the green, brown and blue, and that’s the frame!
Goodness me, what are watching? Kyren Wilson was winning 17-11 – it’s now 17-14.
Wilson still needs only one frame to win a first world title, but you sense he is thinking about that fact and it’s weighing on his mind. Jones looks free and relaxed, and now needs four frames in a row to win an astonishing final himself.
Kyren Wilson 17-13 Jak Jones
Jones rolls on to one of the remaining three reds near the black, and the cue ball looks to be safe. But somehow Wilson pulls off an amazing pot down the rail, at speed. Brilliant. “One of the shots of the championship,” says Stephen Hendry.
Wilson can’t turn it into a big break though, and Jones comes back to the table needing to play safe, with two reds remaining, leading 53-22.
Kyren Wilson 17-13 Jak Jones
Wilson escapes from that snooker and avoids leaving anything on, and a few shots later Jones leaves a long red. Wilson pots it, then plays a clever snooker behind the green.
Jones takes a moment to pop out of the auditorium for a break.
Kyren Wilson 17-13 Jak Jones
Jones puts on 47 points before running out of position, and then plays a perfectly judged safety which leaves the cue ball snug behind the green ball near the baulk cushion. Jones’s safety has been the best part of his game throughout the tournament and it continues to be a weapon.
Kyren Wilson 17-13 Jak Jones
Jones escapes, nudging the reds after sending the cue ball around the angles off three cushions, but in doing so he leaves Wilson a red to pot into the left middle. Wilson fires it in and sends the cue spinning around the table and neatly for the blue – a wonderful shot – but a moment later he misses a red to the right middle.
Jones returns to the table trailing 15-6, and immediately pots a brilliant long red. He looks to be relaxed and freed by this dead-man-walking situation.
Kyren Wilson 17-13 Jak Jones
Wilson pots a fantastic long red to match Jones’s similar pot in the last frame. He follows it with the black, but this is not a straightforward situation because the black spot is swarmed by reds and the pink is up by the green pocket.
He opts to play a snooker tight behind the pink, and this is horribly difficult puzzle for Jones to solve.
Kyren Wilson 17-13 Jak Jones
Jones pots the first red of the 31st frame and then plays safe after losing position trying to cannon into the bunch.
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