Kyren Wilson is the new World Snooker Champion and 2010 winner Neil Robertson has now delivered reacted following the final.
For Wilson, years of blood, sweat and tears ended with the 32-year-old winning his maiden world crown last night.
Despite a spirited fightback from Jak Jones, Wilson won the famous trophy following an 18-14 win inside The Crucible Theatre.
Wilson raced into a 7-1 lead after the first session and that broke the back of the match from the outset.
Jones did manage to make a game of it but the emotion oozed out of Wilson as he potted frame ball in frame 32.
After the famous win for the Kettering-born potter, Robertson reacted on social media.
Neil Robertson reacts as Kyren Wilson wins World Snooker Championship
This will go down as the defining moment in the career of Wilson and he’s won a triple crown event for the first time.
It’s a case of third-time lucky for Wilson when it comes to the major events. He lost in the final of The Masters in 2018 to Mark Allen and Ronnie O’Sullivan beat him in the final of the World Championship in 2022.
Lots of people within the world of snooker have reacted and now Robertson has posted on social media about the player.
He said on X: “Well done to Kyren Wilson. He played great all tournament and commiserations to Jak Jones who showed a lot of character to come back. Kyren will be a great world champion for the game, I’m sure.”
Who is new World Snooker Champion Kyren Wilson?
Wilson has now won six titles and winning one of the game’s big ones has been a long time in coming for the player.
With one of the best cue actions in the game, it was always anticipated that he’d go and win the game’s biggest prizes at one point.
Wilson earned a place on the World Snooker Tour through the Q-School system in 2011 and won his first title when he beat Judd Trump in the final of the Shanghai Masters in 2015.
Wilson has also won the Paul Hunter Classic, the German Masters, the Championship League and the European Masters during his career.
The World Championship crown will now sit pride and place on his mantlepiece and at 32, there is time for Wilson to claim many more big titles.
Wilson was never going to get better chance to become World Champion
Nothing against the quality of the opposition that he came up against but this was clearly Wilson’s time to shine.
In the opening days of the tournament, Wilson saw Mark Williams and Mark Selby dumped out from his half of the draw and that opened the door somewhat.
Okay, Wilson will point to the fact that he had to face John Higgins in the quarter-final but he’s not had the best of years by his own admission.
The technique and all-around matchplay that Wilson possesses had seen experts predict him to win a big title at some point and this year he duly obliged.
Wilson finally has the monkey off his back now and it will be fascinating to see what this does for the career of the new world number four.