Wilson, who beat Judd Trump in the 2024 final in Belfast, made an emphatic start to the final in Belfast with a 101 break in the first frame to lay down an early marker.<\/p>\n
Jones claimed the second, but Wilson won the next three frames with the help of breaks of 60 and 135.<\/p>\n
The Welshman responded in style and registered a run of 130 in the sixth frame to at least keep himself in contention.<\/p>\n
However, Wilson regained his control of the match and won the final two frames of the session to move to within three of victory.<\/p>\n
The former world champion continued to dominate in the evening and kept his cool to win the opening three frames and lift the Alex Higgins Trophy.<\/p>\n
Wilson won the Masters – arguably second only in prestige to the World Championship but a non-ranking event – at the start of the year.<\/p>\n
His form since had been a mixed bag, so to land the Belfast title again and carry off the trophy memorialising Northern Ireland snooker great Higgins meant a lot.<\/p>\n
“Obviously the trophy has got an absolute legend of our sport’s name on it in, so I am very grateful that I can take this trophy home for a second time,” Wilson said.<\/p>\n
“I think the fans in Belfast quite like to see positive snooker. They like to see players going for their shots and maybe just trying to do something a little bit different every now and again when frames are over, and that’s what I’m all about.<\/p>\n
“I’m about trying to entertain people and also trying to get the win at the same time, which is not an easy balance sometimes. I am very glad I managed to do that this week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilson, who beat Judd Trump in the 2024 final in Belfast, made an emphatic start to the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-665453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665453","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=665453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}