World Snooker Championship 2023: John Higgins leads Kyren Wilson 8-0

Scotland's John Higgins won his Crucible crowns successful 1998, 2007, 2009 and 2011

Four-time satellite champion John Higgins produced a vintage show to found an 8-0 pb implicit England's Kyren Wilson successful the World Championship 2nd round.

The satellite fig 11 besides produced breaks of 77, 57 and 80 successful Sheffield.

His show stunned the 31-year-old - who scored conscionable 149 points successful 8 frames - and took Higgins wrong touching region of the past eight.

Higgins, past a Crucible title-winner successful 2011, needs to triumph 5 much frames connected Sunday evening to unafraid a 17th quarter-final berth successful snooker's premier lawsuit with a league to spare.

Higgins started arsenic helium went on, with a 136 interruption which helium followed up with a tally of 131.

He led 4-0 astatine the mid-session interval pursuing breaks of 57 and 77, with Wilson having nary reply to his slick potting.

Further breaks of 134 and 80 saw Higgins adjacent retired the league successful benignant to permission his hostile with a upland to climb.

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