Emotional Kyren Wilson reveals his mum postponed breast cancer operation to watch him in World Snooker at the Crucible

EMOTIONAL Kyren Wilson has revealed his mum postponed an cognition linked to her bosom crab attraction truthful she could ticker him astatine the Crucible.

Weeks earlier helium lifted the World Snooker Championship for the archetypal time, Wilson’s household were rocked by the “horrible news” that his “hero” Sonya had been diagnosed with the illness.

What was not known publically until aft helium won the Northern Ireland Open connected Sunday nighttime was that his parents had made a hard determination portion helium was focusing connected winning successful Sheffield.

It was astir the clip helium faced David Gilbert successful a three-day semi-final that she told doctors to defer country truthful she could enactment her lad arsenic helium chased the £500,000 apical cookware and a spot successful the past books.

Thankfully, she is connected the mend and connected September 7, Wilson announced connected Instagram that his mum had been fixed the all-clear, which household and friends celebrated with a “cheeky curry”.

Wilson, 32, said: “It was astir 2 weeks earlier the World Championship. We had conscionable got backmost from vacation successful Portugal.

“She knew beforehand but waited to archer america until we got home.

“Snooker comes 2nd successful those situations. Your wellness is your wealth.

“She really postponed an cognition to person a tumour removed. It was really owed astir the semi-final for her to person the operation.

“She didn’t privation to miss my match. That’s wherefore I deliberation you got an over-emotional Kyren Wilson astatine the extremity of the World Championship.

“I ramped the unit up connected myself. You bash commencement reasoning silly things. You think: ‘What if? What if she doesn’t spot maine triumph it?’

“I knew I had to marque that 1 count. Who knows what would person happened to maine if I didn’t marque that 1 count?

“It’s large I wasn’t successful that presumption and we managed to celebrate.”

Wilson has bounced backmost from that stunning Crucible occurrence by winning 2 titles already this play – the Xi’an Grand Prix successful China and past the NI Open, which has a trophy named aft Alex Higgins.

The satellite No.2 is battling with Judd Trump – whom helium smashed 9-3 successful the last successful Belfast – for the fig 1 spot.

His mum spent astir of the week with Kyren and member and manager Taylor, cooking them nutrient and celebrating the £100,000 triumph with her grandkids.

At immoderate constituent implicit the coming weeks, Sonya has a day successful the diary astatine her section tattoo parlour to people the milestone of her lad becoming the 23rd antithetic Crucible satellite champion.

Wilson – who is adjacent successful enactment connected Sunday astatine the International Championship successful Nanjing – explained: “We each person tattoos of the satellite title. She has that 1 coming up.

“I volition spell determination with her and ticker her suffer!

“I person got a large thorax portion – I sat determination for 8 hours having my 1 done. It was agony.

“I’m not definite wherever she is having hers. We program to each person a sword going done a crown and it says ‘World Champion 2024’.”