{"id":907172,"date":"2026-04-20T16:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/907172\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:58:20","slug":"snooker-scores-live-moody-upsetting-wilson-as-higgins-relieved-other-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/907172\/","title":{"rendered":"Snooker scores LIVE: Moody upsetting Wilson as Higgins relieved | Other | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Moody is preparing to take on Kyren Wilson today in his World Snooker Championship debut.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old became the first British teenager to qualify for the Crucible since Judd Trump in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>But Mark Allen, already into the second round, believes the youngster&#8217;s potential has not been properly nurtured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said it before that I think Stan is a really good kid,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think World Snooker did him any favours for a few years with how much they were promoting him and putting pressure on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat has sort of tailed off a little, and Stan\u2019s results have started to get better again, which is really good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a talented boy and a great scorer. He backs himself in the big moments, which I really like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not scared to go for those shots. That would be a very, very tough match.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stan Moody is preparing to take on Kyren Wilson today in his World Snooker Championship debut. The 19-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[255096,255095,25950,20143,169553,10380,28098,22042,79,16,15,18411,255094],"class_list":["post-907172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bbc-snooker","tag-crucible-seeds","tag-john-higgins","tag-kyren-wilson","tag-shaun-murphy","tag-snooker","tag-snooker-live","tag-snooker-scores","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-snooker-championship","tag-world-snooker-championship-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116438100173122312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907172","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=907172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}