Kyren Wilson

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Kyren Wilson
Kyren Wilson
birthday 23rd December 1991 (age 28)
place of birth Kettering , Northamptonshire , England
nationality EnglandEngland England
Nickname (s) The warrior
professional 2010/11, since 2013
Prize money £ 1,806,836 as of August 30, 2020
Highest break 147 ( International Championship 2017 , Welsh Open 2020 )
Century Breaks 206 (as of August 30, 2020)
Main tour successes
World championships -
Ranking tournament victories 3
Minor tournament victories -
World rankings
Highest WRL place 7 ( February 2019– )
Current WRL location 6 (as of August 17, 2020)

Kyren Wilson (born December 23, 1991 in Kettering , Northamptonshire ) is an English snooker player .

Career

First year as a professional

Wilson's greatest successes in the junior sector were victories at the U18 Silver Waistcoat Tour in 2005 and 2006. He achieved his first (unofficial) maximum break in 2009.

From 2007/08 to 2009/10 Wilson took part in the Pontin's International Open Series (PIOS), the qualification tournament series for the Snooker Main Tour at the time . After only finishing 57th and 45th in the first two seasons, he won the sixth of the eight tournaments in his third PIOS season (6: 4 against Liam Highfield ), so that in the end he finished fifth in the overall ranking for the Main Tour of the 2010-11 season.

In the absence of good results, however, he lost his professional status immediately after his debut season. He achieved his best results in the 2010/11 PTC series by reaching the round of 32 twice. In full ranking tournaments, he did not get past the round of 64. He did not succeed in direct re-qualification through the Q School .

As an amateur

In the 2011/12 season he took part - again as an amateur - in all 12 tournaments of the PTC series . With victories over the professionals Ben Woollaston , Tian Pengfei , Michael Holt and Joe Perry , he reached the quarter-finals of the Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy 2011 (PTC 7). In the remaining tournaments, however, he never got past the round of 64. In the end, he finished 72nd in the PTC Order of Merit and just missed the Main Tour qualification. In order to qualify for the 2012/13 snooker season , Wilson registered again for the tournaments of the Q School . After his first round win at the first event, he lost in the round of 16 against eventual winner Chen Zhe . At the following two events he lost his opening match.

So again this season he only had the PTC tournaments to compete with the professionals. His best result he achieved again at the Kay Suzanne Memorial Trophy when he reached the round of 16 and beat Stephen Maguire , among others . Twice he also came under the last 32, and five more times he collected points by reaching the main round. Although this time he was only 75th in the Order of Merit , this time he was the seventh best of the players not yet qualified for the Main Tour and thus got the tour ticket, this time for the next two seasons.

Professional time from 2013

In the 2013/14 season he qualified for the main tournament for the first time at the Shanghai Masters . There he defeated two top 16 players with Stuart Bingham and Marco Fu and was only stopped in the quarterfinals by Michael Holt . At the International Championship he defeated Jamie Cope in qualifying , and so he drove to China a second time. There he defeated Stephen Maguire one more time in round 1, before being eliminated in round 2. The third trip to the China Open ended with an opening defeat. In the other world rankings tournaments, he failed in qualifying. He also had minor successes at the Players Tour Championship; he reached a PTC round of 16 for the second time at the Ruhr Open 2013 . The successful end of the season was the World Championship for Wilson ; Among other things, with victories over Rod Lawler and Graeme Dott , he qualified for the first time for the finals in the Crucible , in which he was defeated by Ricky Walden 7:10. At the end of the season he had improved to 70th place in the world rankings .

In the following year he could not quite confirm the good results. He qualified again for the International Championship and China Open , but then lost the opening match. Also at the UK Championship 2014 the end came in the second game. Only at the Indian Open 2015 did he achieve greater success when he made it to the round of 16. He also scored a respectable success at the Snooker Shoot-Out 2015 , an invitation tournament with special rules, in which he reached the semi-finals. Despite an opening defeat at the World Cup , he had collected enough prize money to reach 56th place in the world rankings in the two-year ranking and thus maintain his professional status.

2015/16 season

In the 2015/16 season , he again qualified for the Shanghai Masters . Like two years before, he reached the quarterfinals - including with a victory over Joe Perry - in which he defeated Ding Junhui in the decisive frame on the black ball. It was his first win against a top 5 player. He then defeated Mark Allen 6-1 and played against Judd Trump in the first final of his professional career. Despite the changeable course he kept his nerve and won his first title in the last frame with 10: 9. With the victory, he improved to 22nd place in the world rankings .

The victory at the Shanghai Masters qualified him for the Champion of Champions in November 2015. In this tournament he reached the semifinals after beating Judd Trump and Zhou Yuelong . There he failed with 3: 6 to Mark Allen .

In February he reached the semi-finals again at the German Masters . After two wins in the qualification, he was able to defeat Rory McLeod , Michael Holt and Ryan Day in Berlin with 5: 4. In the first match against McLeod he was already down 4-1, but won 4 frames in a row. In the semifinals against Luca Brecel , after losing the first three frames, he fought his way to 4: 3, but then lost the match 6: 3. After the German Masters, he was ranked 19th in the world, his best position to date.

After the final of the Players Tour Championship , he rose to 18th place in the rankings for a short time until after the China Open 2016 .

For the Snooker World Championship 2016 he was able to qualify for the main round at the Crucible Theater with wins over Jason Weston , Martin O'Donnell and Matthew Stevens . In the first round he was able to prevail in a close game against the seeded Joe Perry . At the beginning of the game Perry took two frames 2-0 and 2-4, and for the rest of the game no player could take more than one frame, Kyren Wilson won 10-9. The round of 16 had a completely different course. Wilson was able to win seven frames in a row at the beginning, his opponent Mark Allen set five frames against it, followed by four frames from Kyren Wilson to 11: 5. Allen also got four frames to 11: 9, then Kyren Wilson ended the game by taking the last two frames for the 13 winning frames required. His opponent in the quarterfinals was world number one Mark Selby . In the first session Wilson lost the first six frames, but was able to improve his result to 6: 2 at the end of the session. In the second session, he and Selby shared the eight played frames so that the score was 10: 6. In the final session, Mark Selby was able to win the first two frames. Kyren Wilson was then able to win two frames at 12: 8, but ultimately had to leave the tournament at 13: 8. In the penultimate frame he scored his highest break to date with 143 points .

Season 2016/17

After failing to compete in the first tournament of the season, Wilson reached the final of a ranked tournament at the Indian Open for the second time in his career. This time he was defeated by the Scot Anthony McGill 2: 5. Then he came regularly under the last 32. Only at the Northern Ireland Open he succeeded again a greater success. He defeated Ronnie O'Sullivan 4: 3 in the round of 16 , although he scored three Centuries in a row, and then Mark Williams and only lost in the semi-finals to eventual winner Mark King . Then he reached his best world ranking position to date with 13th place.

The first round of the UK Championship that followed was a setback, but at the Scottish Open he reached the second round again. He qualified for the Masters for the first time through his ranking position . However, he lost the first game against Ding Junhui . Then Wilson got into a temporary crisis and in four tournaments in a row he was eliminated without a win. It was not until the penultimate tournament of the season, the China Open , that he made his way back into the final round. He defeated world number three Stuart Bingham and took revenge on Ding before Mark Selby stopped his run in the semifinals. At the final World Cup , he met Bingham again in the round of 16 and won 13:10. Although it was then over against the eventual finalist John Higgins , he had confirmed his best World Cup result from the previous year. So the last two results were enough to confirm his 13th place in the ranking at the end of the season.

The Englishman started the 2017/18 season with a round of 16 at the Riga Masters . Although it is one of the smaller tournaments, it has meanwhile moved up to number 11 in the world rankings. At the end of July he took part in the World Games , where he was the top seeded player in the mixed field of men, women, professionals and amateurs. He lived up to his role as a favorite and won the gold medal with a 3-1 win over Ali Carter .

He then missed qualifying for the China Championship and the Indian Open, but started the Paul Hunter Classic 2017 all the more successfully . Three wins without a frame loss brought him back to the round of 16. There he slept through the start of the game and although he was still able to make up a 3-0 deficit, he lost the decisive frame against Ian Burns . At his next tournament, the World Open , he reached a final for the third time in three years. Against Ding Junhui , however, he clearly lost 3:10.

As of 2017

At the Masters 2018 he reached the final after a dramatic semi-final win against Judd Trump , in which he was able to turn a 2-5 deficit into a 6-5 victory. In this he was defeated by Mark Allen , after a balanced course up to 5: 5, with 7:10, whereby his poor performance with the auxiliary cues was probably decisive.

Wilson caused a surprise at the 2018 World Snooker Championship . He could defeat Matthew Stevens and Jamie Jones . In the quarterfinals he retaliated against Mark Allen with 13: 6 for the Masters defeat, which he was for the first time in his career in a World Cup semi-finals. There he lost 13:17 against John Higgins .

He started the 2018/19 season with the quarter-finals at the Riga Masters . At the Paul Hunter Classic he reached a ranking final for the fifth time and after three defeats in the final before he won his second Main Tour title with a 4-2 win over Peter Ebdon . In the subsequent 6-Red World Championship he was also one of the participants and reached the final again. He won his first invitation tournament with 8: 4 against Ding Junhui .

At the following Shanghai Masters he only lost in the semi-finals against eventual winner Ronnie O'Sullivan . After that, however, he canceled participation in the China Championship and achieved some weaker results. He only played successfully again at the Champion of Champions , for which he had qualified by winning the PHC. He defeated the reigning world champion Mark Williams and the leader in the one-year rankings Mark Allen . In the final he lost again to O'Sullivan, albeit only in the decisive frame.

It was followed by a series of changeable results with two opening defeats and a quarter-final at the UK Championship before another high point was due at the beginning of the new year. At the German Masters 2019 he again defeated Williams, this time even 5-0, and reached another final. With a 9: 7 win over David Gilbert , he won the third ranking title of his career.

In 2020, after defeating the defending champion and world number one Judd Trump in the quarter-finals, he reached the final of the 2020 World Cup , but was relatively clearly defeated by Ronnie O'Sullivan 18: 8.

Personal

Wilson lives in Kettering, England .

successes

Ranked tournaments

More tournaments

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Profile of Kyren Wilson on CueTracker (as of August 18, 2018)
  3. ↑ 2009–10 PIOS Rankings . Global snooker. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ PTC Order of Merit (on snooker.org)
  5. ^ Champion Of Champions Groups Announced. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , October 6, 2015, accessed April 27, 2016 .
  6. ↑ 2015 Champions of Champions. In: CueTracker - Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed April 27, 2016 .
  7. ↑ 2016 German Masters. In: CueTracker - Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed April 27, 2016 .
  8. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 350 kB) After The 20116 918.com German Masters. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , February 7, 2016, p. 1 , accessed April 27, 2016 (English).
  9. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 350 kB) After The 20116 Ladbrokes Player Championship. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , p. 1 , accessed April 27, 2016 .
  10. ↑ 2016 World Championship. In: CueTracker - Snooker Results & Statistics Database. Ron Florax, accessed April 27, 2016 .
  11. ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 351 kB) After The 2017 Kaspersky Riga Masters. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , June 26, 2017, accessed July 7, 2017 .
  12. ^ David Caulfield: Kyren Wilson Wins World Games Gold. In: SnookerHQ. July 31, 2017, accessed August 29, 2017 .
  13. ↑ worldsnookerdata.com ( Memento from January 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Kyren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English snooker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Northamptonshire , England