Jak Jones was the surprise finalist at the World Snooker Championship this year and the disappointment of losing that match has only grown since. The Welshman arrived at the Crucible as a qualifier and produced a superb run, beating Zhang Anda and Si Jiahui before causing a huge upset against Judd Trump in the quarter-finals.
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He then beat Ronnie O’Sullivan’s conqueror Stuart Bingham before finally being beaten 18-14 in the final by Kyren Wilson. The showpiece was an unusual match as Wilson won the first seven frames before Jones battled back and made it very interesting late on, but ultimately fell short.
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The runner-up finished his semi-final late on the day before the final and says he had literally no sleep before the biggest game of his life. While clearly he is proud of making it to the Crucible final, the disappointment lingers and bothers him now more than it did straight after defeat.
‘Looking back at the World Championship I’m more disappointed now than I was then, having lost the final the way I did,’ said Jones. ‘I didn’t play great there, came close so that gives me confidence as well.’. The 31-year-old says the remarkable experience of a run to the Crucible final was not quite what he expected, but has given him confidence that he can do the same again.
‘When I was watching it on the TV every year it seemed amazing, I was dreaming of being there, but when I was in it it didn’t seem as big as I previously thought it was,’ he said. ‘Obviously it is but you’re kind of in a little bubble there. You don’t realise all the people that are watching.
