The 32-year-old suffered an embarrassing defeat after deciding to proceed
The Welshman crashed out towards Mark Selby (Picture: Getty)
Jak Jones has revealed he “wished to stroll out” of his match towards Mark Selby after struggling an “embarrassing” 10-2 thrashing. The Welsh snooker star discovered himself 7-2 down after the opening session of their first spherical encounter.
Selby wrapped up the remaining three frames on Wednesday night to seal his spot within the final 16 towards Wu Yize. Jones confessed he had felt assured forward of the match however left the world feeling humiliated. He instructed the BBC: “I felt fairly good coming right here. I did not really feel a lot stress this morning, I wasn’t nervous in any respect, or not too nervous.
“I missed a number of simple balls early on, which you’ll’t do towards the likes of Mark and it actually obtained on prime of me. It was a little bit of an embarrassing efficiency. I simply wished to stroll out of right here.”
Highlighting his opponent’s show, Jones added: “I do not suppose Mark performed his regular normal, even. I feel Mark struggled a little bit bit. He gave me fairly a number of probabilities this morning, which in all probability made it worse.
The Englishman then turned his consideration to his upcoming conflict towards Yize, including: “The largest factor for me is I’ve come right here assured, which is all the pieces on this sport and all the pieces in life.
“Successful the UK was large for me, not solely successful it however the way in which I gained it as effectively. I did not simply scrape by, I performed some great things.”
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