Reigning world champion Kyren Wilson moves into round two of the UK Championship with a convincing 6-0 victory against former winner Stephen Maguire.
Reigning world champion Kyren Wilson moved into the second round of the UK Championship with a convincing 6-0 victory against former winner Stephen Maguire.
Wilson's victory comes after four of the 16 seeded players were eliminated from the tournament on the opening two days, including top seed and 2023 champion Ronnie O'Sullivan and fifth seed Mark Selby. In the opening frames, Wilson appeared to be struggling and he later revealed he had woken up with a migraine.
For Wilson, this was his first match at a Triple Crown event since his success at the Crucible in May and he admitted being introduced as the world champion and the crowd's reaction gave him "goosebumps". Meanwhile, 43-year-old Scotsman Maguire, ranked 33rd in the world, was left wondering his next moves after the defeat.
In the other match in the afternoon session, Wakelin was 2-0, 3-1 and 4-3 behind, but won the final three frames to defeat a dogged Selt and move into the last 16 for the first time.
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