World Snooker Championship semi-finals live – Stuart Bingham resumes v Jak Jones before Kyren Wilson v David Gilbert

Jak comes to the party by draining a red after a poor break-off from Stuart. A good blue follows, but he then misses a red off the back of the pack to bottom left. Yikes. Stuart exhibits a few nerves too though, missing an easy-ish red to bottom right, and Jak can settle himself down now, his break is at 14 and counting.

Want to know the Rocket’s thoughts on the semi-finals? Of course you do.

Jak doesn’t get the snookers. When he leaves a simple, short red for Stuart he waves the frame off.

Again Stuart leaves himself stuck to a red on a crucial shot, but makes a red to right middle and follows it with frame ball pink. A short break of 14 followed by a safety means Jak returns to the table needing two snookers.

Stuart immediately gets to the brink of a half-ton but leaves himself stuck to a red, forcing him to go for a blue to green pocket rather than the pink. It’s an extravagant miss that follows, and ends his break on 46. It doesn’t look like it’ll get punished though as Jak misses a tough red to bottom right, and he’s left the frame on now for Stuart.

Stuart’s away first, with a red as a shot to nothing to bottom left. A snooker behind the green follows, and Jak gives up four in his attempt to deadweight onto a red on the bottom cushion. He also gives up position, given how short his effort is; Stuart is on an easy starter and there’s a reasonable spread of reds to go at here. Sure enough, Stuart starts to fill his boots.

Rob Walker introduces the players into a rocking Crucible. We’ll have eight frames this morning, with the interval after four.

He likes Sheffield does Jak. In his debut appearance last year he reached the last eight, knocking out Ali Carter and Neil Robertson along the way. This year he’s sorted out Hossein Vafaei, Tom Ford and Judd Trump to reach the last four. It’d be some feat to make the final this year, and he’s now in a best of 17 with Stuart to make it a reality.

When asked what it would mean to be a two-time champion, Stuart was visibly emotional, and with good reason. In the Crucible era the multiple winner plateau is only occupied by Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, John Higgins, Mark Williams, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Selby. To paraphrase Brian Clough talking about the European Cup, win it once and people can say you fluked it; win it twice and it shuts them up.

Morning folks! Here we go with day 15 of the 2024 World Snooker Championship. Today we’ll be sorting out the identity of the two finalists, and we’ll start with the resumption of a match that’s tighter than two coats of paint. It’s Stuart Bingham against Jak Jones, and it’s locked at 8-8.

What a day this should be. The Premier League’s greatest ever player has been enjoying the semi-finals so far too.

Ronnie O’Sullivan provided an insight into competing at the highest level, with it being a balance of playing the opponent and the table.

O’Sullivan is viewed by the majority as the greatest player to pick up a cue, and has seven world titles on his glittering CV.

The World Championship has reached the semi-final stage, with Bingham facing Jak Jones and Kyren Wilson taking on David Gilbert.

The matches are tight, and pressure will ramp up as the winning line approaches.

When asked in the Eurosport studio if you are playing the balls or the opponent, O’Sullivan replied: “A bit of both.

“Some players you know if you play a certain style that you stand up to them it can affect them.”

• Stuart Bingham 8-8 Jak Jones

• Kyren Wilson 14-10 David Gilbert

• Stuart Bingham 8-8 Jak Jones