Saturday will see the 2024 World Snooker Championship semi-finals attain their conclusions on the Crucible Theatre.
Only some extra frames separate every of the remaining 4 contenders from a spot within the ultimate this yr.
Amongst these, Kyren Wilson is within the strongest place after establishing a 14-10 lead heading into his final session with David Gilbert.
The English pair went toe to toe for the primary couple of classes, buying and selling huge breaks for enjoyable throughout a gap 16 frames that have been evenly shared.
However Wilson managed to drag away in the course of the third bout of play on Friday night, reeling off a pivotal 5 frames in a row to interrupt the again of the match.
Gilbert’s break of 101 within the final body, his fourth ton of the encounter and a tenth on the venue phases in Sheffield total, nearly stored him within the hunt.
However the 42 year-old may have all of it to do if he’s to scramble his manner again into the affair on Saturday afternoon, with Wilson trying very very like the brand new favorite for glory this yr.
The opposite last-four conflict has a bit of bit longer to go having solely reached the halfway level and the scores nonetheless locked at 8-8.
A topsy-turvy showdown between Stuart Bingham and Jak Jones has seen each cueists have moments within the ascendancy.
Two extra classes shall be performed on Saturday morning and night to find out the second finalist in Sheffield.
Bingham, the 2015 world champion, in all probability stays the extra possible participant to advance, however it could be silly for anybody to write down off Jones at this stage.
The Welshman could not boast the attacking prowess of a few of his rivals, however he has made up for it with robust all-round match play and composure throughout his greatest pressurised moments.
Jones, in fact, is that includes within the semi-finals of a World Snooker Championship for the primary time.
In at present’s quiz, let’s take a look at your data on the entire earlier last-four lineups on the Crucible for the reason that event moved to Sheffield in 1977.
The query is, are you able to match the 4 semi-finalists with the right yr?
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2024 World Snooker Championship Draw
Spherical 1 (bo19)
Luca Brecel (1) 9-10 David Gilbert
Robert Milkins (16) 10-9 Pang Junxu
Ali Carter (9) 7-10 Stephen Maguire
Shaun Murphy (8) 10-5 Lyu Haotian
Mark Selby (5) 6-10 Joe O’Connor
Kyren Wilson (12) 10-1 Dominic Dale
John Higgins (13) 10-6 Jamie Jones
Mark Allen (4) 10-6 Robbie Williams
Judd Trump (3) 10-5 Hossein Vafaei
Tom Ford (14) 10-6 Ricky Walden
Zhang Anda (11) 4-10 Jak Jones
Mark Williams (6) 9-10 Si Jiahui
Ding Junhui (7) 9-10 Jack Lisowski
Gary Wilson (10) 5-10 Stuart Bingham
Barry Hawkins (15) 8-10 Ryan Day
Ronnie O’Sullivan (2) 10-1 Jackson Web page
Spherical 2 (bo25)
David Gilbert 13-4 Robert Milkins (16)
Stephen Maguire 13-9 Shaun Murphy (8)
Joe O’Connor 6-13 Kyren Wilson (12)
John Higgins (13) 13-12 Mark Allen (4)
Judd Trump (3) 13-7 Tom Ford (14)
Jak Jones 13-9 Si Jiahui
Jack Lisowski 11-13 Stuart Bingham
Ryan Day 7-13 Ronnie O’Sullivan (2)
Quarter-Finals (bo25)
David Gilbert 13-8 Stephen Maguire
Kyren Wilson (12) 13-8 John Higgins (13)
Judd Trump (3) 9-13 Jak Jones
Stuart Bingham 13-10 Ronnie O’Sullivan (2)
Semi-Finals (bo33)
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David Gilbert vs Kyren Wilson (12)
Jak Jones vs Stuart Bingham
Remaining (bo35)
Gilbert/Wilson vs Jones/Bingham
Featured photograph credit score: WST
