Summary

  • England's Kyren Wilson beats Jak Jones 18-14 to win world title

  • Welsh qualifier Jones trailed 7-0 and 17-11

  • First Crucible triumph for beaten 2020 finalist Wilson

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  1. Postpublished at 21:59 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Feel like I've typed this umpteen times now - but this is the chance for Kyren Wilson.

  2. Postpublished at 21:59 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Jak Jones curses the snooker gods after going for a double on a red, missing it and leaving the only red he could leave - the one he played.

  3. Get Involvedpublished at 21:58 British Summer Time 6 May

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    Tom Beasley: Snooker is such a brilliant sport. Every second of this is utterly gripping.

  4. Postpublished at 21:57 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Jak Jones knocks in a nice red to start but it was a shot-to-nothing, making subsequent positional efforts tough and he breaks down on just four, missing a tricky red to middle but leaving little.

  5. Get Involvedpublished at 21:56 British Summer Time 6 May

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    Alan C Smith: This is like Andy Murray trying to win that last game against Djokovic in 2013..

  6. 'Winning line fever'published at 21:55 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Stephen Hendry
    Seven-time world champion on BBC Two

    He can't get over the winning line. He's seeing it but he just can't get anywhere near it.

    He's been scoring so freely but tonight he's had a 37 and a 44.

  7. Postpublished at 21:54 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Jak Jones so close to a long red but it wobbles and stays out, and leaves Kyren Wilson yet another chance to clinch the world title.

    Again it goes wrong straight away, falling out of ideal position on the first colour. And an attempt on the green with the rest misses!

    Goodness me, the tension.

  8. 'Biggest day of his snooker life'published at 21:53 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Dennis Taylor
    1985 world champion on BBC Two

    He's definitely struggling out there and it's understandable - it's the biggest day of his snooker life.

  9. Postpublished at 21:52 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    But Wilson falters almost at the first hurdle!

    Runs out of position in potting the black and has to play safe after a break of only 14.

    He's 28-0 ahead.

  10. 'Chance he's been waiting for'published at 21:51 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Stephen Hendry
    Seven-time world champion on BBC Two

    This is the chance he's been waiting for.

    No reason, other than pressure of becoming world champion, that he shouldn't make a frame-winning break here.

  11. Postpublished at 21:50 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Jak Jones clips a red thin but leaves it for Kyren Wilson.

    The 'Warrior' pots it but can't get to the black over the pocket because the pack of reds are in the way - so he cuts in an excellent blue instead.

  12. Postpublished at 21:49 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Kyren Wilson has Jak Jones in trouble behind baulk colours.

    Jones has fouled twice already. He has to hit it this time I think - yep, he gets the warning. Three fouls in succession loses a frame if you can see a red full ball - which Jones can.

  13. Postpublished at 21:46 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Steve Sutcliffe
    BBC Sport at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

    If Jak Jones were to nick this, the last time anything like this to happen on the second day of a Crucible final was when Stephen Hendry came from 14-8 down to beat Jimmy White in 1992.

  14. Postpublished at 21:45 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Jak Jones and Kyren WilsonImage source, PA

    Is Jak Jones being too aggressive now? Goes for a plant when an easy safety was on.

    But once again Kyren Wilson cannot punish him, missing an admittedly not-straightforward red with the white on the cush.

  15. Postpublished at 21:43 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Stephen Hendry
    Seven-time world champion on BBC Two

    Jak Jones jumped out of his seat.

    He has to like this - seeing his opponent struggle to get over the winning line.

  16. Postpublished at 21:43 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Dennis Taylor
    1985 world champion on BBC Two

    The tension, the pressure mounting on Kyren Wilson to get that one frame he needs to be world champion.

  17. Postpublished at 21:42 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    But he gets too close to the black, has to play it with the rest, a very delicate shot - and it stays in the jaws!

    Only four points scored.

  18. Postpublished at 21:41 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    A wonderful positional shot on the yellow back down to the reds follows and this is the chance Wilson will have been sitting in his chair waiting for...

  19. Postpublished at 21:41 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Is that all-out attacking philosophy John Parrott mentioned going to be Jak Jones' downfall in frame 32?

    He takes on a very tricky, acute red to middle and it catches the knuckle, leaving Kyren Wilson the same red to corner, which he gets.

  20. Can't keep up with the Jonespublished at 21:40 British Summer Time 6 May

    Wilson 17-14 Jones

    Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Jak Jones' fairytale run to the World Championship final is that the world number 44 has come through every round relatively comfortably.

    The underdog has had to play two more matches than Kyren Wilson to get to this stage, having had to come through qualifiers where he breezed past two tough cookies in Jamie Clarke and Zhou Yuelong.

    He walloped Zhang Anda in round one and beat Si Jiahui in the last 16 before adding the scalps of two former world champions - Judd Trump and Stuart Bingham - to his increasingly impressive resume.

    Jak Jones' route to the final