{"id":541317,"date":"2026-04-20T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541317\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:32:09","slug":"snooker-scores-live-moody-upsetting-wilson-as-higgins-put-in-trouble-other-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541317\/","title":{"rendered":"Snooker scores LIVE: Moody upsetting Wilson as Higgins put in trouble | Other | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Moody is preparing to take on Kyren Wilson today in his World Snooker Championship debut.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old became the first British teenager to qualify for the Crucible since Judd Trump in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>But Mark Allen, already into the second round, believes the youngster&#8217;s potential has not been properly nurtured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said it before that I think Stan is a really good kid,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\u201cThat has sort of tailed off a little, and Stan\u2019s results have started to get better again, which is really good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a talented boy and a great scorer. He backs himself in the big moments, which I really like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not scared to go for those shots. That would be a very, very tough match.&#8221;<\/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&hellip;\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":{"0":"post-541317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bbc-snooker","9":"tag-crucible-seeds","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-john-higgins","12":"tag-kyren-wilson","13":"tag-shaun-murphy","14":"tag-snooker","15":"tag-snooker-live","16":"tag-snooker-scores","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom","21":"tag-world-snooker-championship","22":"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}]}}