{"id":612,"date":"2024-01-06T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.24hscore.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2024-01-06T12:53:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T12:53:25","slug":"wakelin-victory-against-selby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/other-sports\/wakelin-victory-against-selby\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wakelin secures victory against Mark Selby in Championship League Group 2 at Morningside Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.24hscore.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">24hscore news<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After defeating Mark Selby in the Group 2 championship match on Friday night at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, Chris Wakelin was added to Stuart Bingham&#8217;s Champions&#8217; Group. Selby will now concentrate on the Masters, which begins this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris Wakelin earned a spot in the title League&#8217;s Winners&#8217; Group by defeating Mark Selby 3-2 in the Group 2 title match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Group 2, Selby demonstrated impressive snooker skills, scoring a total of seven hundred. However, Wakelin capitalized on mistakes made by Selby and complemented them with superb table skills to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the first day, Kyren Wilson was in the lead, but Wakelin defeated him 3-1 in the semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To guarantee his spot in the semifinals, Selby needed to win his last group match, which he won 3-1 against Wakelin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that victory, Selby faced Ali Carter in the last four, and he won 3-1 thanks to some incredible snooker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He scored a run of 63, a break of 120 to start the game, and a knock of 132 to close it out 3-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a break of 59, Selby opened the final frame at the Morningside Arena and appeared to be in fine form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wakelin needed snooker, but he located the necessary foul points and knocked in the final four colors to grab the opening. He was in complete control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Selby recovered to win the second, he had another great opportunity in the third but missed a tough red, allowing Wakelin to tie the score at 76 with a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the fourth was a rough match, Selby used some steely safety play to send the match into a decisive frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A brilliant century seals the match and the group for Chris Wakelin!<br><br>What a display <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetVictor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BetVictor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChampionshipLeagueSnooker?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ChampionshipLeagueSnooker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8y4adxJzjP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/8y4adxJzjP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BetVictor Championship League Snooker (@CLSnooker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLSnooker\/status\/1743374771033694646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wakelin clinched victory with a superb break of 110 in the fifth, securing a spot alongside Stuart Bingham in the Winners\u2019 Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reflecting on the match, Wakelin commented, \u201cIt was a tough match against Mark, and I&#8217;d only lost to him about an hour before in the group stage. I am delighted with how I played in the end. When my chance came in the decider, I committed to three or four big pots, and that\u2019s what got me started.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wakelin, acknowledging his improved form, stated, \u201cCompared to where I was 12 months ago, I would not have dreamt of even qualifying, so to get through to the Winners\u2019 Group is a prestigious event. The winner of this gets through to the Champion of Champions. A lot of people will see this as a small event, but silverware is silverware, and winning takes a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the loss, Selby has another chance in Group 3 at the beginning of February, facing tough competition with players like Kyren Wilson, Gary Wilson, Ali Carter, Neil Robertson, Tom Ford, and Barry Hawkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24hscore news After defeating Mark Selby in the Group 2 championship match on Friday night at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, Chris Wakelin was added to Stuart Bingham&#8217;s Champions&#8217; Group. Selby will now concentrate on the Masters, which begins this weekend. Chris Wakelin earned a spot in the title League&#8217;s Winners&#8217; Group by defeating Mark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","rank_math_description":"Chris Wakelin was added to Stuart Bingham's Champions' Group on Friday night at Leicester's Morningside Arena after he defeated Mark Selby .","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[215,214,213,114],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-championship-league","tag-chris-wakelin","tag-snooker-player","tag-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}