Stan Moody is preparing to take on Kyren Wilson today in his World Snooker Championship debut.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old became the first British teenager to qualify for the Crucible since Judd Trump in 2007.<\/p>\n
But Mark Allen, already into the second round, believes the youngster’s potential has not been properly nurtured.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve said it before that I think Stan is a really good kid,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think World Snooker did him any favours for a few years with how much they were promoting him and putting pressure on him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat has sort of tailed off a little, and Stan\u2019s results have started to get better again, which is really good.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a talented boy and a great scorer. He backs himself in the big moments, which I really like.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not scared to go for those shots. That would be a very, very tough match.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stan Moody is preparing to take on Kyren Wilson today in his World Snooker Championship debut. The 19-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[186645,186644,59,42180,186642,172375,65155,173262,94245,101,56,54,55,186641,186643],"class_list":["post-541317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bbc-snooker","tag-crucible-seeds","tag-gb","tag-john-higgins","tag-kyren-wilson","tag-shaun-murphy","tag-snooker","tag-snooker-live","tag-snooker-scores","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-snooker-championship","tag-world-snooker-championship-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541317","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=541317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}