Chris Wakelin will get his World Snooker Championship marketing campaign underway towards Liam Pullen on the Crucible this morning
Chris Wakelin on the Halo World Championship media day (Picture: Getty)
Chris Wakelin moved Steve Davis to tears on the Crucible final yr – and now he’s out to construct on the teachings he learnt 12 months in the past. Wakelin moved six-time World Champion Davis to tears with a daring yellow throughout his last-16 victory over Mark Allen.
The 34-year-old put in a tremendous efficiency to beat 2010 World Champion Neil Robertson within the opening spherical of final yr’s competitors earlier than beating Allen 10-6. His run within the competitors ended when the eventual winner, Zhao Xintong, beat him within the quarter-finals and Wakelin admits he was bodily drained by the point he reached the ultimate eight.
“The one factor that stood out for me final yr was how bodily drained I used to be once I bought by to the quarter-finals,” he says.
“He (Zhao Xintong) needed to undergo two extra qualifying matches than I did, and you may inform he was beneath his greatest as now we have performed one another in what we each would have thought of an enormous match, and we each actually struggled, however he simply struggled barely much less.
“I’m now excited to be heading to the Crucible as a seed for the primary time. I’ve had 12 years, and usually when this time of yr comes round, I’m taking part in two, three or 4 qualifying matches to get by to the venue.
“So to already be in that draw is a large achievement. It isn’t simply an in a single day factor; it’s 13 years as a professional after which, previous to that, 15 years taking part in earlier than I took this as a job.”
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