{"id":567223,"date":"2026-05-05T10:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567223\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:19:13","slug":"wu-yize-leaves-mum-in-tears-after-pausing-winning-snooker-final-other-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567223\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu Yize leaves mum in tears after pausing winning snooker final | Other | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wu Yize had to pause his winning speech as he dedicated his World Snooker Championship<\/a> title victory to his parents. When asked by BBC<\/a> host Hazel Irvine<\/a> for a word on his parents, who helped him move into a one-bedroom flat in Sheffield to live out his sporting dream, Wu had to take a moment to compose himself before speaking.<\/p>\n

After taking a long pause, Wu told his parents: “My parents are the true champions.”<\/p>\n

It was at this point that his mother had to wipe tears from her eyes, as the champion continued: “Since I made the decision to drop out of school, my dad has been by my side. My mum has also gone through a lot over the years, they are the source of my strength. I love them so much.”<\/p>\n

On his army of new fans, who had been shouting “Wuuuu!” throughout his matches, the player admitted he initially thought they were booing him.<\/p>\n

He said: “At the beginning I had a misunderstanding, I thought people were booing me. But the staff told me they were cheering me on and I can’t thank you all enough. No matter who you support, I think the love of snooker is mutual.”<\/p>\n

When asked by Irvine how he planned to celebrate, Wu revealed he was looking forward to enjoying a “good sleep”.<\/p>\n

Wu added: “Since the first session I was feeling nerves all the time. So right now I just want to go to bed.”<\/p>\n

“I have been trying to go for the strength for ages. For the past month I have been leading the same life, I am so happy I could get this done today.”<\/p>\n

“I’d like to be the first to congratulate Wu Yize and his family,” the Magician said. “And everyone around him for being a wonderful world champion. I hate being right, I said sometime earlier in the season, we had a great game out in China somewhere, and I managed to win that one.<\/p>\n

“I came out afterwards and said that he would be world champion one day, it\u2019s just a real shame that it was today, but I couldn’t have given it anymore, I couldn’t have tried harder. I played the best shots I could have played and I didn’t get my chance. I couldn’t do any more than that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wu Yize had to pause his winning speech as he dedicated his World Snooker Championship title victory to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,172375,65155,173261,51,47,52,48,186641,194279,194278,194280,194281],"class_list":["post-567223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-shaun-murphy","tag-snooker","tag-snooker-final","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-snooker-championship","tag-world-snooker-championship-final","tag-wu-yize","tag-wu-yize-mum","tag-wu-yize-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567223","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=567223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}