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Kyren Wilson holds off Jak Jones to win his first World Snooker Championship
- Wilson beats qualifier 18-14 after nervy wait for final frame
- Englishman claims title four years after being runner-up
Snooker has a new grandmaster of the baize – but unlike so many of his predecessors, the story of Kyren Wilson has been far from straightforward.
As the ticker tape rained down over the 32-year-old on Monday evening, and he fulfilled his childhood dream by becoming snooker’s newest world champion, Wilson could have been forgiven for thinking back to the bumps in the road which brought him to this point. The boy who was convinced to take up snooker as a six-year-old by Peter Ebdon has not done it the easy way.
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