{"id":708,"date":"2026-05-19T11:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/?p=708"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:56:28","slug":"chris-wakelin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/chris-wakelin\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wakelin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wakelin reached the last 16 of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2024_UK_Championship\">2024 UK Championship<\/a>\u00a0where he was defeated 2\u200d\u2013\u200d6 by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kyren_Wilson\">Kyren Wilson<\/a>.\u00a0He made his first-ever appearance in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masters_(snooker)\">Masters<\/a>\u00a0tournament in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2025_Masters_(snooker)\">2025<\/a>\u00a0but lost in the first round 3\u200d\u2013\u200d6 to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luca_Brecel\">Luca Brecel<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Wakelin#cite_note-44\">[44]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ranked World No.20,\u00a0Wakelin qualified for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2025_World_Snooker_Championship\">2025 World Championship<\/a>, having failed to qualify for the main tournament for the previous two years.\u00a0He beat ninth seed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Robertson\">Neil Robertson<\/a>\u00a010\u200d\u2013\u200d8 in the first round for his first ever Crucible match victory.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Wakelin#cite_note-WST_20Apr2025-46\">[<\/a><\/sup>He then defeated eighth seed Mark Allen 13\u200d\u2013\u200d6 in the\u00a0last 16, after developing a 10\u200d\u2013\u200d2 lead in the second session, but was then knocked out of the competition at the quarter-final stage, 5\u200d\u2013\u200d13, by amateur Chinese player\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zhao_Xintong\">Zhao Xintong<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wakelin won his second career ranking title after defeating&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chang_Bingyu\">Chang Bingyu<\/a>&nbsp;9\u200d\u2013\u200d2 in the final of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2025_Scottish_Open_(snooker)\">2025 Scottish Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wakelin reached the last 16 of the\u00a02024 UK Championship\u00a0where he was defeated 2\u200d\u2013\u200d6 by\u00a0Kyren Wilson.\u00a0He made his first-ever appearance in the\u00a0Masters\u00a0tournament in\u00a02025\u00a0but lost in the first round 3\u200d\u2013\u200d6 to\u00a0Luca Brecel.[44] Ranked World No.20,\u00a0Wakelin qualified for the\u00a02025 World Championship, having failed to qualify for the main tournament for the previous two years.\u00a0He beat ninth seed\u00a0Neil Robertson\u00a010\u200d\u2013\u200d8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","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\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/snooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}