Kyren Wilson reveals advice from former world champions on life as Crucible king

Kyren Wilson has had immoderate words of proposal from erstwhile satellite champions connected dealing with beingness arsenic the Crucible king, being told that his ‘game is people going to suffer.’

The Warrior won the World Championship rubric successful May for the archetypal time, downing astonishment finalist Jak Jones successful the last successful Sheffield.

It has been a bully commencement to beingness arsenic the satellite champ arsenic Wilson won the Xi’an Grand Prix successful August, beating Ronnie O’Sullivan and Judd Trump connected his mode to the title.

There are plentifulness much challenges to come, though, and erstwhile Crucible champions Peter Ebdon and Stuart Bingham person had immoderate adjuvant words for the 32-year-old.

‘I’ve had successful peculiar two,’ Wilson told Metro connected proposal from erstwhile satellite champs. ‘Stuart Bingham and Peter Ebdon, who are bully friends of mine.

‘Peter said that astatine immoderate constituent you person to accidental nary to a fewer things, beryllium a spot selfish and enactment your snooker first.

‘Stuart said your crippled is people going to endure a spot due to the fact that of the request and you conscionable can’t perpetrate to everything arsenic overmuch arsenic you’d similar to and you person to judge that.

‘That’s wherefore it’s truthful pleasing I’ve won aboriginal due to the fact that it takes distant a batch of the pressure. Then things dice down a bit, it’s not arsenic hectic present arsenic it was consecutive aft winning. I enjoyed that though, you’ve got a work to beryllium a bully ambassador and relation exemplary arsenic satellite champion and I’m trying my champion to bash that.’

Wilson’s instrumentality to Sheffield is inactive months away, but helium says his defence of the World Championship and an effort to interruption the Crucible Curse is already connected his mind. In fact, helium was reasoning astir it earlier helium adjacent reached this year’s final.

‘I’m already reasoning astir it, I was already reasoning astir it successful the semi-finals of the World Championship, to beryllium honest,’ helium said. ‘That’s conscionable however affirmative I effort to be.

‘I consciousness similar I’ve done it truthful galore years present and had specified a good, accordant grounds that I cognize however to woody with each script there. I’ve had intelligence matches that person gone my mode and that haven’t gone my way. I’ve had things going connected disconnected the table, down closed doors, truthful I consciousness I tin negociate immoderate concern that comes up.

‘I’ll tackle it with each I person and I consciousness similar I’ve got a bully accidental of doing it.’

Wilson won the top prize successful the spot successful Sheffield, but his triumph successful Xi’an further cemented his spot among snooker’s elite.

It whitethorn beryllium a marque caller lawsuit connected the calendar, but beating O’Sullivan and Trump connected his mode to the £177,000 apical prize meant a immense magnitude to the satellite champ.

‘100 per cent, I felt precisely similar that,’ Wilson said erstwhile asked if the Xi’an triumph truly showed wherever helium stands. ‘Beating astir apt the champion 2 players successful the satellite implicit caller years, Ronnie and Judd, and not conscionable beating them I played good successful beating them both. Really pleased with that.

‘In hindsight, I went connected vacation to Dubai with the household and took my ft disconnected the state aft that earlier Saudi. I got connected the pina coladas alternatively of the signifier array and possibly I shouldn’t have. But it felt amazing, I was truly pleased with that.’

Wilson looks to adhd different rubric to his postulation adjacent week astatine the Northern Ireland Open wherever helium takes connected David Grace successful his opening contention connected Tuesday.

‘I conscionable privation to triumph much titles now,’ helium said. ‘You get a existent hunger for it.’

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