{"id":549863,"date":"2026-04-25T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549863\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:43:10","slug":"world-snooker-championship-2026-live-watch-kyren-wilson-judd-trump-ronnie-osullivan-v-john-higgins-stream-scores-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549863\/","title":{"rendered":"World Snooker Championship 2026 LIVE: Watch Kyren Wilson, Judd Trump &#038; Ronnie O&#8217;Sullivan v John Higgins &#8211; stream, scores, results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How &#8216;football and bad food&#8217; inspired Allen recoverypublished at 11:40 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:40 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Wilson 9-11 Allen<\/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=\"Mark Allen\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0e6b9293-3490-4a6f-8531-577623aab954.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1149\" height=\"757\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a hard day at work, sometimes you just want to go out with your mates, watch some football and eat some bad food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Well, that&#8217;s what Mark Allen did last Saturday after he suffered a tough opening first session, trailing 5-3 against Zhang Anda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It did the trick as Allen, who had not made a 50 break in session one, looked a new player on Sunday, winning seven of eight frames to seal a 10-6 win, including three centuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was so frustrated &#8211; I&#8217;ve been doing things so well on the practice table, being in the gym and eating well,&#8221; said Allen afterwards. &#8220;I just went out and had a few drinks and a burger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought, &#8216;I can&#8217;t play any worse&#8217;. I was so down on myself, I didn&#8217;t want to talk to anyone. So I went out, had a few bets and watched the football with my mates. A bit of bad food, slept really well and played much better.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How &#8216;football and bad food&#8217; inspired Allen recoverypublished at 11:40 BST 11:40 BST Wilson 9-11 Allen Michael EmonsBBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-549863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549863","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=549863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}