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Guardian Sport04.05.2026SportUnited Kingdom

Wu Yize beats Shaun Murphy in thrilling final frame to win World Snooker Championship

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Wu claims title 18-17 with decisive break of 85The 22-year-old is the second-youngest champion everAs the decisive pot went in at around 10.30pm on Monday, and Wu Yize punched the Crucible air and etched his name into snookering immortality, it was hard not to imagine that the sport had just changed in front of our eyes for ever.If Zhao Xintong broke through the glass ceiling for Chinese snooker 12 months ago, then the exploits of the newest Crucible king may have just shattered it into a thousand pieces. The boy who came to England as a 16-year-old with his father to pursue his dreams, living in a windowless flat in Sheffield with barely any money to his name, is the champion of the world. Continue reading...

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