Kyren Wilson makes six centuries as he crushes Ding Junhui to reach Tour Championship final

Kyren Wilson delivered a performance out of the top drawer to sink Ding Junhui 10-5 and power into the final of the Tour Championship. The European Masters winner’s form has been trending in the right direction in recent weeks, and he followed his run to the semi-finals of the Players Championship last month by going at least one step further in Hull. Ad Ding arrived on the back of his win at the Six Red World Championship, but had no answer to the sensational play of his opponent.

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Snooker World Championship top 16 seeds confirmed Selby withstands Day charge to set up clash with Murphy in semi-finals On occasions, Wilson has been guilty of over-thinking things but he was at 17 seconds a shot in the afternoon and that pace of play continued. See ball, hit ball appeared to be the tactical approach. Ding had the weathered look of a man walking into a storm.

Wilson made it 325 unanswered points when making it six centuries for the match with a break of 118 to extend the lead to six frames. In fairness to Ding, he had not done a lot wrong in the opening 10 frames. He showed the quality he possesses when making a brilliant 113 to stop the rot.