{"id":29,"date":"2022-03-10T14:11:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/snooker\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:28:36","slug":"kyren-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/kyren-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyren Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyren Wilson<\/strong>&nbsp;is an English professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player from&nbsp;Kettering&nbsp;and a four-time ranking event winner. He has been a runner-up at two of the three&nbsp;Triple Crown&nbsp;events, having reached the final at both the&nbsp;2018 Masters&nbsp;and the&nbsp;2020 World Snooker Championship. Wilson reached his highest&nbsp;world ranking&nbsp;of fourth in 2020. A prolific breakbuilder, Wilson has made over 300&nbsp;century breaks&nbsp;and a&nbsp;maximum break&nbsp;on three occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilson turned professional in 2010 after finishing fifth in the 2009\u20132010&nbsp;International Open Series&nbsp;rankings. After failing to retain his spot on the&nbsp;World Snooker Tour&nbsp;in 2011, he regained his tour card in 2013 and has been a professional ever since. Wilson won his first ranking title at the&nbsp;2015 Shanghai Masters&nbsp;when ranked 54th in the world; he defeated&nbsp;Judd Trump&nbsp;10\u20139 in the final. Wilson has won an additional three ranking events: at the&nbsp;2018 Paul Hunter Classic, defeating&nbsp;Peter Ebdon&nbsp;4\u20132; at the&nbsp;2019 German Masters, defeating&nbsp;David Gilbert&nbsp;9\u20137; and in 2020 at the&nbsp;Championship League, again defeating Trump, this time by a score of 3\u20131.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyren Wilson&nbsp;is an English professional&nbsp;snooker&nbsp;player from&nbsp;Kettering&nbsp;and a four-time ranking event winner. He has been a runner-up at two of the three&nbsp;Triple Crown&nbsp;events, having reached the final at both the&nbsp;2018 Masters&nbsp;and the&nbsp;2020 World Snooker Championship. Wilson reached his highest&nbsp;world ranking&nbsp;of fourth in 2020. A prolific breakbuilder, Wilson has made over 300&nbsp;century breaks&nbsp;and a&nbsp;maximum break&nbsp;on three occasions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rankings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}