World Snooker Championship 2023 results: Gary Wilson holds off Elliot Slessor fightback to progress

Gary Wilson was a semi-finalist astatine the Crucible successful 2019

Gary Wilson withstood a fightback from signifier spouse Elliot Slessor to triumph 10-8 and determination into the 2nd circular of the World Championship successful Sheffield.

A 14th framework lasting much than an hr went Wilson's mode but Slessor won the adjacent 3 to summation the tension.

However, Wilson held his nervus to constitute a superb 109 interruption and debar a final-frame decider.

He volition present volition look either four-time champion Mark Selby oregon Matthew Selt.

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Perry and Lisowski surge ahead

Joe Perry built a handsome 7-2 vantage implicit chap Englishman Robert Milkins successful their rearranged archetypal league aft protesters disrupted 2 matches connected Monday evening.

Perry, appearing astatine snooker's blue-riband lawsuit for the archetypal clip since 2019 and 15 years connected from reaching the past four, crafted 2 half-century breaks to surge into a 5-0 pb implicit the misfiring Milkins, earlier rounded disconnected his evening with an 83 - the highest interruption of the match.

Earlier connected Tuesday, England's Jack Lisowski opened up a 6-3 pb implicit Thailand's Noppon Saengkham.

Lisowski began with a period and made 3 much half-centuries to instrumentality power against Saengkham successful an attacking contention that saw lone 2 frames past longer than 15 minutes.

The satellite fig 13, who is yet to triumph a ranking event, enjoyed his champion ever tally astatine the Crucible past twelvemonth erstwhile helium reached the quarter-finals.

But if helium is capable to spot disconnected Saengkham erstwhile they resume connected Wednesday (10:00 BST) it volition permission him with the tantalising imaginable of a imaginable second-round brushwood with his bully person Judd Trump.

Reigning Masters champion Trump presently trails Scotland's Anthony McGill 6-3 aft their archetypal session.

Wilson scrapes past pal Slessor

Wilson, who won the Scottish Open successful December and has been seeded for the archetypal clip astatine the Crucible looked astatine his fluent champion arsenic helium made breaks of 61, 50, 62, 95, 92 and a superb 131, connected his mode to reeling disconnected six frames successful a enactment and a 7-1 lead.

World fig 60 Slessor crucially took the last framework of the archetypal league and past went into onslaught mode arsenic helium reduced his deficit.

With Wilson uncovering it progressively much hard against an hostile who has large familiarity with his game, the power of erstwhile satellite rubric victor Peter Ebdon was evident successful respective lengthy tactical exchanges, wherever Slessor refused pots.

A missed achromatic into the bottommost country from Wilson gave Slessor the accidental to pinch the 15th framework and an improbable comeback gathered much gait erstwhile helium knocked successful a 76 and 69 to determination wrong a frame.

However, Wilson yet enactment the lucifer to furniture with a century.

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