Two-time Crucible finalist Ali Carter became the first seeded player to be knocked out of this year’s Cazoo World Championship as debutant Jak Jones beat him 10-6 with one of the best performances of his career.
Welshman Jones knocked another former finalist, Barry Hawkins, in the final qualifying round to earn a place in the televised stages for the first time, and the 29-year-old showed his talent and composure again tonight as he pulled away from 7-6 to take the last three frames and end the hopes of 11th seed Carter. His reward is a second round tie with Neil Robertson, which starts on Friday morning.
World number 52 Jones was a semi-finalist at the Gibraltar Open last year, but to reach the last 16 of snooker’s biggest tournament is undoubtedly the best achievement of a pro career which started in 2010.
Carter has had an excellent season, highlighted by victory at the German Masters and a run to the final of the Players Championship, but showed only patches of that form at the Crucible, where he was runner-up in 2008 and 2012. It’s his second consecutive first round defeat at the Theatre of Dreams as he lost to Jack Lisowski on his previous appearance in 2021.
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