Jak Jones earned a surprise win against Judd Trump at the British Open and will face Mark Selby in the final.<\/p>\n
Jones produced breaks of 95 and 68 on the way to a 3-1 lead before Trump levelled the match at 3-3.<\/p>\n
However, Jones knocked in a 59 and a 52 to go 5-3 in front and, after England’s Trump missed a green on the colours in a lengthy ninth frame, the Welshman secured victory.<\/p>\n
“I started off quite well before the interval and then after that I started missing a few, didn’t I?” Jones, beaten finalist in the 2024 World Championship, told Channel 5.<\/p>\n
“I can’t say I’m in this position a lot so it’s a bit different for me compared to Judd.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Selby came through a hard-fought win against fellow Englishman Liam Highfield, who was playing in his first ranking event semi-final.<\/p>\n
Highfield took the opening frame before Selby levelled with an 85 and moved into a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n
A 56 helped Highfield level at 3-3, but Selby took three frames in a row to secure a 6-3 victory and a place in his 40th ranking event final.<\/p>\n
“It was a tough match, Liam didn’t make it easy for me at all,” said Selby, who can climb from fourth to second in the rankings if he wins the title.<\/p>\n
“His safety was incredible. I can’t remember him playing a poor safety shot all the way through the match.”<\/p>\n
He added: “To think, when I was starting out, a 16-year-old kid in 1999, if somebody had said I’d get to 40 ranking finals, I’d have said ‘no chance’. I’d have been happy to get to just one or two.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jak Jones earned a surprise win against Judd Trump at the British Open and will face Mark Selby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-615955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}