{"id":919512,"date":"2026-04-26T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T10:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/919512\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T10:27:20","slug":"world-snooker-championship-2026-live-watch-zhao-xintong-judd-trump-ronnie-osullivan-in-round-two-action-stream-scores-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/919512\/","title":{"rendered":"World Snooker Championship 2026 LIVE: Watch Zhao Xintong, Judd Trump, Ronnie O’Sullivan in round two action – stream, scores, results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crucible pressure ’50 times worse than driving test’published at 11:02 BST<\/p>\n

11:02 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Michael Emons<\/strong>
BBC Sport at the Crucible<\/p>\n

\"StanImage source, PA Media<\/p>\n

“There’s so much pressure playing at the Crucible, it can’t be replicated at any other venue.”<\/p>\n

The words of former champion and current world number one Judd Trump show that even experienced players at the top of the game remain daunted at the iconic Sheffield venue.<\/p>\n

The World Snooker Championship is the sport’s ultimate endurance test. Seventeen days of drama, tension and pressure, all with the crowd so close they can touch the players \u2013 or offer them sweets.<\/p>\n

Since 1977, Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre has been the home of snooker. A thousand fans pack into the compact but atmospheric arena, where the careers of some have been launched and the spirits of others have been broken.<\/p>\n

But no matter how good you are, at some point your turn to suffer will come, stuck in the chair, unable to leave or speak, watching helplessly as your opponent shines.<\/p>\n

Former winner Shaun Murphy believed taking his driving test was “the most nerve-racking moment of my life”. That changed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

After his dramatic 10-9 win over Fan Zhengyi, which came after he had been 53-17 down in the decider, the 2005 champion called the experience of sitting, waiting and “praying for one chance” as “50 times worse than my driving test”.<\/p>\n

Read Michael Emons’ feature on the Crucible pressure pit here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crucible pressure ’50 times worse than driving test’published at 11:02 BST 11:02 BST Michael EmonsBBC Sport at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-919512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116470536672549105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919512","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=919512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}