Kyren Wilson has booked his place in the 2024 Invitational CLS Winners Group.
Here is how as reported by WST:
Kyren Wilson earned a place in the Winners’ Group of BetVictor Championship League invitational by beating Pang Junxu 3-0 in the Group Six final on Tuesday night.
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Wilson entered the event in Group One back at the beginning of January, and was runner-up to Neil Robertson in Group Four, before finally securing his progress at the sixth time of asking. He goes through to the Winners’ Group which will run on March 12-13, joining Stuart Bingham, Chris Wakelin, Mark Selby, Neil Robertson, John Higgins and the winner of Group Seven.
World number 11 Wilson won four of his six matches in the group phase in Leicester, then edged out Sam Craigie 3-2 in the semi-finals. China’s Pang scored a 3-2 win over Elliot Slessor, but was no match in the final for Wilson, who knocked in breaks of 46, 76 and 89 to take all three frames.
Wilson said: “The dangling carrot that is the Champion of Champions is always there with this event, I was gutted to miss out this season. I will be trying my hardest to win this to make sure I’m in the hat next year.”
Group Seven gets underway on Wednesday as Pang, Craigie and Slessor are joined by Joe O’Connor, Jak Jones, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Jordan Brown.
This season, the event has been “hit” by a serious epidemic of withdrawals. Many expect Ronnie to withdraw as well, but I’m not so sure. Ronnie has often used this event as a good practice opportunity, and withdrawn after one event1, and he might well be there today considering that the Saudi event is coming next week. Of course, he’s already qualified for the 2024 Champion of Champions and may not be interested in playing in the winners group, but then only the winner will go through tomorrow…
- Matchroom has maybe told him that this is not great … which could explain why he chose to enter group 7 this time ↩︎
Ronnie O'Sullivan 