World Snooker Championship 2024

Jones makes the start that he needed by taking the 1st frame of the day.

At all the critical junctures so far Jones has been found wanting.
Lost the key frames through missing easy balls. Should have won that third session.
At 10-15 down he has a mountain to climb.

(06-05-2024 13:43 )Doddle Wrote:  The mood in the evening seemed to be about his comeback, and yet he only won the session 5-4. He'll need to win 5-3 or 6-2 this afternoon to keep any momentum going.

He didn't.

He's done better than Nigel Bond and Ali Carter, though.

Far too many opportunities to win frames spurned by Jak Jones and it ultimately proved costly. You simply cannot miss that many easy balls and get away with it.
The key frames were the last of sessions two and three.
Jones lost both. Without those who knows what would have transpired?
Kyren Wilson was nowhere near the standard of previous rounds but Jones failed to put him under any pressure when it mattered.

Overall the best player over the seventeen days won the championship.
No complaints.

Congratulations to Kyren! He's had a poor season, but there's no better way to put that behind him, and show he is still a force to be reckoned with in the world of snooker, than by winning the World Championship.

Commiserations to Jak Jones. If Jak was the player who finished his semi-final in the afternoon, and Kyren was the player who finished his semi-final late in the evening, then things might have turned out differently and he might not have got himself so far behind. Having said that, he often threatened to overturn his early deficit but failed to take his chances to actually achieve it. He can be proud of how far he's got, and he's got a top 16 place to show for it.

I hope neither of these of join any breakaway tour

They are the players to inspire the next generation

Congrats to Kyren on his first title

Apart from John Higgins, Kyren had a pretty easy route through to victory. So much for the "magic" of the Crucible.

I do think back to the 2018 Masters, where Mark Allen, having talked himself up, finally won a big one, against an unfancied Kyren Wilson. Although Allen has just had a good season at last, and will deservedly be #1, it was Kyren who kicked on after that final and improved his position. Ultimately, he had more plausibility to become World Champion than Jak Jones. But time will tell next season how both of them fare (Luca Brecel and Si Jiahui didn't entirely follow up their breakthroughs 12 months ago).

(07-05-2024 13:34 )Doddle Wrote:  Although Allen has just had a good season at last,

Allen's good season at last was the 2022/23 season. He was 6th on the 1 year ranking list for this season, which is a good season, but he's World no.1 because you can add to it his performances for last season; a season in which he won 3 ranking titles, including the UK Championship, and he got to the semi-final of the World Championship before losing to Mark Selby.

Two good seasons... ah ah.