{"id":539282,"date":"2026-04-19T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539282\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:19:10","slug":"world-snooker-championship-2026-live-watch-ding-junhui-john-higgins-xiao-guodong-in-round-one-action-stream-scores-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539282\/","title":{"rendered":"World Snooker Championship 2026 LIVE: Watch Ding Junhui, John Higgins &#038; Xiao Guodong in round one action &#8211; stream, scores, results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing catch-uppublished at 11:53 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:53 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Allen 6-6 Zhang<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5444dbe4-2ded-42c4-8fa0-2450c5542c6d.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Michael Emons<br \/>BBC Sport at the Crucible<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pictures of five snooker players\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6c9455ac-116a-4fe5-9f64-cdd9ded86266.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"4022\" height=\"2262\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Michael Emons<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first session between Mark Allen and Zhang Anda only saw eight completed frames, with time running out for the scheduled ninth one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That meant they were already playing catch-up today, and a 46-minute frame in the opening frame on Sunday added to the time pressures they may be facing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the next three frames were sealed in one main scoring visit to speed things up, firstly Zhang with a break of 74 in frame 10 and then Allen with a delightful 140 clearance, followed by another ton, this time of 109.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is now the 15-minute mid-session interval and either player only needs four frames to win, so it could be over well before the cut-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But if it goes all the way, they may have to come back later on today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The afternoon session starts at 14:30 BST, meaning they will not start any more frames in session one after 14:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If any frames are left over, the pair would then come back after the evening session matches have been completed, going on the first table that comes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playing catch-uppublished at 11:53 BST 11:53 BST Allen 6-6 Zhang Michael EmonsBBC Sport at the Crucible Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-539282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}