{"id":34696,"date":"2025-04-20T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T04:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34696\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T04:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T04:40:09","slug":"world-snooker-championship-2025-live-results-champ-kyren-wilson-crashes-out-in-first-round-osullivan-waits-for-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/34696\/","title":{"rendered":"World Snooker Championship 2025 LIVE RESULTS: Champ Kyren Wilson CRASHES OUT in first round, O’Sullivan waits for opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Lei stunned the world<\/p>\n

Lei Peifan enjoyed an outstanding and dominant seven-frame spell in which he barely missed a ball as he defeated Kyren Wilson, writes ROB MAUL.<\/p>\n

He hit six successive half-century breaks \u2013 50, 60, 75, 89, 69 and 92 \u2013 while, in contrast, Wilson\u2019s highest break was only 45.<\/p>\n

\"Lei<\/a>Lei rallied again at the end for a famous winCredit: Alamy<\/p>\n

Wilson, 33, made it 9-7 with a peerless 106 and then somehow survived the error of missing the black off its spot in frame 17.<\/p>\n

In frame 18, Wilson came from 40-10 down to force the decider but then Lei\u2019s aggressive approach paid off as he won the 19th frame with the entire auditorium watching in silence.<\/p>\n

In the 10am morning session, Scottish Open champion Lei could not have had a worse start to proceedings \u2013 his opening shot was a FOUL as the blue went down a pocket from the BREAK-OFF.<\/p>\n

Wilson, the world No.2, hit a 136 break in frame eight and only needed to keep his composure on Saturday night to secure easy passage.<\/p>\n

The Curse started to tighten its grip in frame 11 and Wilson was left shaking his head when he fouled as a stray red rolled into the pocket after he sunk a blue.<\/p>\n

Before arriving here, Wilson tried to mock his predicament in a social media clip \u2013 this involved him breaking a mirror, letting a black cat walk in front of him and opening an umbrella indoors.<\/p>\n

It was an attempt to make light of what he was about to face, a defiance if you like to the much-mentioned \u2018Snooker Gods\u2019, but his luck eventually ran out in sensational fashion.<\/p>\n

Wilson had mentioned his desire to break the Curse in the hours after he won the \u00a3500,000 jackpot last May but he was outpotted by the tremendous Lei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Lei stunned the world Lei Peifan enjoyed an outstanding and dominant seven-frame spell in which he barely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20143,1921,18515,18514,10380,1922,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-34696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-kyren-wilson","9":"tag-live-blogs","10":"tag-ronnie-osullivan","11":"tag-section-sportsnooker","12":"tag-snooker","13":"tag-sport-live-blogs","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114368454545728243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}