Wu Yize overcame Shaun Murphy in a dramatic 18-17 final-frame decider to claim the World Snooker Championship title on Monday evening.<\/strong> The thrilling conclusion saw Wu maintain his composure to seal a memorable victory.<\/p>\n During his victory speech, Wu Yize had to pause mid-sentence as he paid a heartfelt tribute to his parents. When BBC presenter Hazel Irvine invited him to speak about his mum and dad, who supported his move into a one-bedroom flat in Sheffield to pursue his sporting ambitions, Wu needed a moment to gather himself before responding.<\/p>\n At just 22 years old, Wu becomes the second-youngest player in history to claim the trophy, a feat surpassed only by Stephen Hendry. This also marks the second consecutive year a Chinese champion has emerged, following Zhao Xintong’s success 12 months prior.<\/p>\n After a lengthy pause, Wu emotionally declared to his parents: “My parents are the true champions.”<\/strong><\/p>\n It was at this poignant moment that his mother was seen wiping tears from her eyes. Wu continued, “Since I made the decision to drop out of school, my dad has been by my side. My mum has also gone through a lot over the years, they are the source of my strength. I love them so much.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Addressing his legion of new supporters, who had been chanting “Wuuuu!” throughout his matches, the player confessed he initially misunderstood their cheers. “At the beginning I had a misunderstanding, I thought people were booing me,”<\/strong> he explained. “But the staff told me they were cheering me on and I can’t thank you all enough. No matter who you support, I think the love of snooker is mutual.”<\/strong><\/p>\n When quizzed by Irvine on his celebration plans, Wu revealed he was simply looking forward to a “good sleep.” He added, “Since the first session I was feeling nerves all the time. So right now I just want to go to bed. I have been trying to go for the strength for ages. For the past month I have been leading the same life, I am so happy I could get this done today.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Shaun Murphy, who was chasing his second title after his 2005 triumph, was equally magnanimous in his runner-up speech. “I’d like to be the first to congratulate Wu Yize and his family,”<\/strong> the ‘Magician’ said. “And everyone around him for being a wonderful world champion. I hate being right, I said sometime earlier in the season, we had a great game out in China somewhere, and I managed to win that one. I came out afterwards and said that he would be world champion one day, it’s just a real shame that it was today, but I couldn’t have given it anymore, I couldn’t have tried harder. I played the best shots I could have played and I didn’t get my chance. I couldn’t do any more than that.”<\/strong><\/p>\n #WuYize #WorldSnookerChampionship #Snooker #ShaunMurphy #SportsNews #Champion #EmotionalMoment #ChineseSnooker #CueSports #VictorySpeech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wu Yize Claims World Snooker Championship Title in Dramatic Fashion Wu Yize overcame Shaun Murphy in a dramatic 18-17 final-frame decider to claim the World Snooker Championship title on Monday evening. The thrilling conclusion saw Wu maintain his composure to seal a memorable victory. During his victory speech, Wu Yize had to pause mid-sentence as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}