Kieran Wilson Completed one of the most impressive inaugural seasons in U.S. history World Snooker Championship In the final he took a 7-1 lead over the qualifiers like jones But crucible,
jones had to wait till the end of the session to get on the scoreboard and avoid becoming the first player since Dennis Taylor in 1985 to lose the first eight frames of the final.
The Welshman, who fought through a Brutal semi-final win He punched the air when he took a frame-ball red over Stuart Bingham on Saturday night, but will face a huge challenge to make up for that deficit when he returns later on Sunday.
Wilson was in tremendous form from the start and scored two centuries, including a break of 129 in the opening frame, and four more half-centuries.
But the 32-year-old, in his first final Lost to Ronnie O’Sullivan In 2020, it was far from perfect, with Blue missing the third straight frame giving his opponent a golden opportunity which he failed to convert.
It was the story of the season for Jones, only the ninth qualifier to reach the Crucible final, who was ruthlessly punished for turning down further opportunities and was left looking ill at ease in his chair.
And the six-time world champion criticized the Welshman steve davis – who gave Taylor an eight-frame lead – for not heading straight to the practice table at the interval.
“He sat in his chair for four frames,” Davis told the BBC. “Why won’t you go to the practice table? I don’t understand why not.
“He hasn’t come out of the blocks at all, and he’s expecting to hit hard shots. Getting on the practice table is an easy task for me.
Apart from Taylor’s poor start against Davis, the only time a player had lost the first seven frames of a Crucible final was in 1991, when Jimmy White went 7–0 down against John Parrott.
And Jones may take some solace from the fact that Taylor brought his deficit back to within one in the next nine frames, before completing his famous black ball victory the following night.
Earlier, Jones, who had fought two rounds of qualifying, had accused some of his opponents of making excuses for his defeat. Blame his aggressive style of play.
Both Judd Trump and Stuart Bingham, whom Jones defeated in the quarter-finals and last four respectively, said it was difficult to find his rhythm against the second-slowest player in this year’s Crucible main draw.
“It seems like this is a common excuse these players use against me,” Jones said. “They are considered the best players in the world but they are groaning because they are out of rhythm.
“They just can’t accept it. It’s really pathetic, isn’t it? It doesn’t bother me. It’s easy to blame what I’m doing but it’s working so I’ll take it.
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