Three century breaks helped Wilson build a 6–2 afternoon lead before he won three successive evening frames to claim his second title at the event in three years.
Kyren Wilson beat Jak Jones 9–2 at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall to win the Northern Ireland Open for the second time in three years.
The victory gave world number nine Wilson his 11th ranking title and his first since the 2025 Players Championship. The final reunited the opponents from the 2024 World Championship final, which Wilson also won.
Wilson opened with a break of 101 points to win the first frame, snooker’s term for an individual game. A break is the points a player scores in one visit to the table; a century break reaches at least 100.
Jones took the second frame, but Wilson won the next three, helped by breaks of 60 and 135. Jones answered with a 130 break in the sixth frame before Wilson took the final two frames of the afternoon session.
Three century breaks helped Wilson reach the interval 6–2 ahead, needing three more frames for the title. He won the opening three frames when play resumed in the evening, completing the victory without Jones adding to his afternoon total.
BBC Sport reports that the Belfast snooker results set up Wilson–Craigie and Williams–Jones semi-finals.
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