{"id":689,"date":"2026-05-19T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/?p=689"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:22:59","slug":"wu-yize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wu-yize\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu Yize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2026_World_Snooker_Championship\">2026 World Snooker Championship<\/a>, Wu made his third appearance at the main stage of the tournament, having lost in the first round in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2023_World_Snooker_Championship\">2023<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2025_World_Snooker_Championship\">2025<\/a>. He defeated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Allen_(snooker_player)\">Mark Allen<\/a>\u00a017\u201316 in the semi-finals and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shaun_Murphy\">Shaun Murphy<\/a>\u00a018\u201317 in the final to win his second ranking title and first world title. He became the second World Champion from Asia, following his compatriot\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zhao_Xintong\">Zhao Xintong<\/a>\u00a0the previous year, and the second-youngest winner in professional snooker history, after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Hendry\">Stephen Hendry<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1990_World_Snooker_Championship\">1990<\/a>. Following his World Championship victory, he reached a career high of fourth in the world rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the\u00a02026 World Snooker Championship, Wu made his third appearance at the main stage of the tournament, having lost in the first round in\u00a02023\u00a0and\u00a02025. He defeated\u00a0Mark Allen\u00a017\u201316 in the semi-finals and\u00a0Shaun Murphy\u00a018\u201317 in the final to win his second ranking title and first world title. He became the second World Champion from Asia, following his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","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\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}