3 weeks ago
Kyren Wilson completed a 10-1 first-round thrashing of Dominic Dale but missed retired connected making his 2nd maximum 147 break astatine nan Crucible.
Wilson, nan 2020 runner-up, held an 8-1 lead aft nan first convention against 52-year-old Welshman Dale - nan oldest subordinate astatine this year's World Snooker Championship.
The Englishman made a break of 65 to move 1 framework distant and past potted 11 reds and 11 blacks arsenic he aimed to make only nan 15th maximum astatine nan Sheffield venue since it started hosting nan tourney successful 1977.
But he missed a reddish arsenic his break ended astatine 88.
If he had completed it, it would person been Wilson's 2nd 147 successful successive years astatine nan Crucible aft he made 1 successful a 10-5 first-round triumph complete Ryan Day successful 2023.
There is simply a prize cookware of £40,000 for a 147 astatine this year's main tie event, pinch nan money to beryllium shared if much than 1 subordinate makes a maximum.
That is connected apical of a stock of £15,000 for nan highest break successful nan full tournament, pinch that money presently destined for Thailand's Noppon Saengkham, who made a 147 successful his 3rd qualifying information triumph complete Andy Hicks.
Speaking astir nan 147 chance to BBC Two, Wilson, nan 12th seed, said: "It's nary disrespect to Dom, but it's not often you find yourself successful that position wherever you tin conscionable person a free changeable astatine it.
"My family - my woman and my kids - came up for this convention truthful I thought it mightiness beryllium nice. They watched my past 147 astatine schoolhouse successful this tourney past twelvemonth truthful I thought it mightiness beryllium bully to effort to do 1 for them live.
"Last twelvemonth I was successful position until nan very extremity pinch nan past 2 reds - but this one, I was perpetually fighting and each clip a shot went in, nan crowd sewage much and much excited which past sewage nan adrenaline going and I felt much nether unit to effort to do it for nan kids live. It's ever typical present but it's bully to play pinch freedom."
Six seeded players person already been eliminated from nan title and Wilson felt he had a bully chance of becoming world champion if he could support this form.
He said: "A large portion of my crippled is dense scoring and location are decidedly players that are suited to this arena and I would for illustration to judge I'm 1 of those.
"If I play for illustration that it will return immoderate capacity successful immoderate information for immoderate subordinate to extremity me."
