Righto, Aaron Bower’s match report is here……so that’s it from me.Thanks for all your company and comments; if anyone’s any ideas what we might do tomorrow, do share.But otherwise, peace out.Not bad for 22, that, and we’re going to be watching Wu lift trophies for a very long time.His long-potting is just so good, it overrides other aspects of his game which are of lesser standard – and that’s not a criticism, it’s an excitation.

He’s going to learn and improve quickly,Wu takes a medal, is draped in the China flag, and lifts the trophy … to about shoulder-height,He kisses the silver lady, poses for photos with his parents, and he’s the champion of the world!And his plans tonight?“I just want to have a good sleep,Since the second session of the match, I was feeling nerves all the time, so now I just want to go to bed,”Good luck with dropping off, old mate.

“How much do you like the Wuuuus!” Haze asks next, “that the crowd love Wu Yize?”“At the beginning, I had a misunderstanding, I thought people were booing me,” he says.“But then the staff told me they were cheering me up, so I can’t thank you enough, no matter who you support, the love for snooker is mutual.”What a lovely boy, no wonder his parents are shepping naches.Gosh, this is, erm super-emosh, the crowd cheering intensifying Wu’s mum’s situation.“Since i made the decision to drop out of school,” he continues, “my dad has been by my side and my mum has gone through a lot over the years, they are the source of my strengths; I love them so much.

”“Wuuuuuuuu!” chant the crowd; the man of the moment looks pretty chill.“I’ve been trying to go for the strength for ages,” he says.“For the past months, I’ve been living the same life, and I’m delighted I could pull it off.”Hazel then lays it on the line, asking him about the sacrifice, doing his parents and so on.They’ve got some rare old smiles on, and his mum waves to the camera – it’s a great moment.

“My parents are the true champions,” he says very beautifully; “Aaaah!” respond the crowd, as his mum wipes her eye.1-0!Shaun tells Hazel he’s proud of his run and there’ve been a lot of good performances; he’s also had a lot of laughs, and was really close.He’s the first to congratulate Wu, his family and everyone around him on being a great champion.“I hate being right,” he says, telling us that after he’d snaffled a win against Wu earlier in the season, he said “He will be world champion one day.It’s just a real shame it was today!”He couldn’t have given any more or tried any harder, he played the shots as well as he could play them, given where the balls landed – which suggests, perhaps, he thinks the run went against him – and didn’t get his chance, presumably in the final frame.

“Peter seems to think there’s more to come,” he says, “but I don’t think there’s much left now.” He then jokes that his fiance had said if it goes badly, we’ll sneak a couple of weeks’ holiday, he ought to have lost in the first round and ended up treating her to a fortnight in Sheffield.”I fear he may struggle to sleep tonight, but what a final he’s helped to give us.Will Hazel be able to elicit any tears? Here we go….This will not be the last time Wu Yize wins this trophy, I’m certain of that.

What’s amazing about him is the scope he has to improve, technically and mentally – and yet, the first time you see him play, you know he’s special.He and Zhao Xintong could be sport’s next huge rivalry.Wu, just 22, is the youngest to win the trophy since Shaun Murphy in 2005, and Shaun is generous in his embrace.He doesn’t know when he’ll be back here, but he knows genius when he sees it, and he’s seen it here, all right.An amazing break, an amazing player, an amazing match.

Shaun Murphy 17-17 Wu Yize (8-54) Tidy stuff from Wu, a pink sent down, BUT IT RETURNS IN THE WAY OF HIS SELECTED RED! wu takes a moment, lays a hand on the table, bows his head, shakes it … and decides he’s taking on a thin cut with the rest,Again, he’s laying it all on the line, backing himself with an attacking option – another lesson to people much older than he – AND IT’S THERE! More pots, then PANIC! Is the pink going back on the black spot, or down the table? The match is here … and it’s the former! WU YIZE IS GOING TO BE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD! Shaun bows his head, he knows…Shaun Murphy 17-17 Wu Yize (8-21) You’ve got to laugh,Shaun pikes his way out of trouble, and might this be the final dilemma? On the one hand, Wu won’t want to refuse a pot to middle but, on the other, if he misses, it’s curtains,This is the match, right here, and it’s disguzting! Wu walks about the table, looks, vomits internally,He’s going to take it on … of course he is … AND THAT IS THE GREATEST SHOT OF HIS LIFE! But can he put that life out of his mind while he picks through the chance of a lifetime, of his lifetime? A pink to middle keeps him going, he’s got plenty of loose balls, but he’s not yet in full control of the break.

Shaun Murphy 17-17 Wu Yize (8-0) Wu dangles a tempter … and Shaun clips a work of art into right corner, but an infelicitous kiss on the brown means it’s a snuggle up to the green.It’s not difficult to hit a red, of course, but without leaving a pot? Good luck, old mate.Sure enough, he hits well … but can’t prevent a pretty friendly starter to middle.This is Shaun’s second chance to win it, but just as he’s settling, he cannons black off red – his first sign of nerves, I think – so plays safe off the green.Naturally, Wu then takes on an improbable starter, even for him, and though he doesn’t get that near, he somehow keeps everything safe.

Oh, and have an absolute look! A couple of shots later, the pack deliberately opened by Shaun, Wu measures a magnificent snooker, in behind the green which is behind the yellow … and the escape is terrific.Gosh, the young man is in trouble now, and looks to have left the white short … except it rolls in front of the yellow, which is in front of the green! This game! This game! I’ve not a clue how Shaun gets decent enough purchase on the cue-ball to be certain of not leaving something.Shaun Murphy 17-17 Wu Yize Both men leave the arena, and which commentator will be the first to say “In a final-frame decider, you just want one chance?” It’s John Parrott, back come our players, they shake hands, and it’s eyes down for some of the greatest gear known to mankind.Shaun Murphy 17-17 Wu Yize That clearance, though.What was amazing wasn’t the array of shots or anything like that, more that Shaun took it off the set as though it were a fait accompli, which verily it was not.

He must have the resting pulse-rate of a lamppost.Shaun Murphy 17-17 Wu Yize And Shaun clears the table! After 17 days, it’s coming down to the final frame, and I can barely type; these lads have got to pot balls!Shaun Murphy 16-17 Wu Yize (60-43) Brown to leave Wu needing a snooker…Shaun Murphy 16-17 Wu Yize (55-43) The sense at the start was that these two are extremely well-matched, so it’s no surprise that we’re leaning forward, forehead jutting, trying to force ourselves inside our tellies.Shaun’s high on the black, a minging shot at the best of times, never mind with the world title on the line … and it’s there! more pots follows, and what a break this is, one that’ll go down in the annals of the game if he wins … along with Wu’s missed black off its spot.Shaun Murphy 16-17 Wu Yize (38-43) Shaun negotiates the early stages of the run very nicely indeed, but there’s a red not far off the side and another, the one he’s on now, not far off black cush.This isn’t a gimme, but he slots it well,.

Shaun Murphy 16-17 Wu Yize (7-43) A decision to make on the black: does he play for a plant or go into the pac ….TWITCH! OH MY COMPLETE AND UTTER EVERLOVING DAYS! Wu misses the pot, Shaun sends his plant to left corner, and the dish is on … but any miss means curtains! Are we going all the way?Shaun Murphy 16-17 Wu Yize (0-21) I said earlier that Wu is my favoruite player, but I didn’t think he was ready to win over the stretch – I’ve seen him tie up too many times when things get tight.But after a massive wobble this afternoon, he’s somehow righted himself tonight, and when Shaun dangles a tempter to left corner you know he’ll take it on … and he blazes is into the bag.He’s absolutely flying now, every hour of practise, mile flown, Yuan spent, comes down to this, reds open, black available to both corners.His parents look calm and so does their son; he knows how good he is, which is why he can play as he does.

This is his moment, this is all our moment,Shaun Murphy 16-17 Wu Yize “Wuuuuuuuuuuuu!” cheer the crowd, the genius from Lanzhou is a frame away from winning the world title! The skill and stones he’s shown tonight are absolutely obscene,Shaun Murphy 16-16 Wu Yize (45-78) …and he plays it fairly well,He bounces off the rail a little more than he’d have have liked, is also pretty close to the object-ball, and needs the rest … will he take it on? If he misses, he loses the frame, if he doesn’t, it’s his,this is the most important shot of his life … AND IT’S THERE! WU YIZE IS SENSATIONAL! Pink and black for the frame…Shaun Murphy 16-16 Wu Yize (45-59) Wu picks off reds, and if he can get on and off the yellow, just above the baulk cushion, he’ll surely go a frame away.

It won’t, though be easy, a test of ludicrous skill under ridiculous pressure…Shaun Murphy 16-16 Wu Yize (45-14) A long red to right corner … will Wu take it on? Only joking, of course he will, and he strokes it home, then sets about the rest of the table, quickly clearing a route for the black to both corners.He’ll have fantasised about these moments since he was a child, but not until this day did he know how they’d feel; can he keep himself level as they settle in as part of him?Shaun Murphy 16-16 Wu Yize (45-0) Gosh, a disgusting pink to middle … is there then, after a blue, another mid-range red to left corner … is missed! So Wu returns to the table to take on a cut across it, one you expect him to sink … and he doesn’t.Suddenly, after a session of rare standard, emotion is intervening and, with a safety exchange unfolding, we’ve more from playing on instinct to playing on intellect.Shaun Murphy 16-16 Wu Yize (32-0) At this stage, the contest is Wu’s long potting versus Shaun’s cue-ball control, with Shaun better at Wu’s strength than Wu is at his.And we see it right here, El Mago slipping a fine starter to right corner from way down in baulk, before dropping a pink into middle, dead weight.

He’s absolutely loving this, the centre of attention and receiving due reward for his decades of endeavour, but all it takes is one moment of over-confidence to ruin everything, four red-blacks in…Elsewhere, there’ve been some developments at Everton…Shaun Murphy 16-16 Wu Yize You bet he can, a clearance of 131 with the final black potted off the side cushion, meaning we’ve a best-of-three to decide the champion of the world.This is so , so good.Shaun Murphy 15-16 Wu Yize (64-1) The last time we got to 16-all in a world final was in 2005, when Matthew Stevens was beaten by … Shaun Murphy.This is amazing, amazing stuff, the performance of fine-motor skills with your life’s work on the line like wiring a plug with boxing gloves on.Can Shaun underline the point with a century?Shaun Murphy 15-16 Wu Yize (44-1) A long red just about disappears, then it’s into the pack of the black, the angle unfavourable … brilliant shot.

The level these two are producing, under pressure of this ilk, is absolutely astounding, Shaun doing superbly to avoid choking on his own gizzard when a ball hits the far jaw of middle before, somehow and improbably, dropping.Shaun Murphy 15-16 Wu Yize (21-1) Wu leaves the white in the D and we know that that means: Shaun will take on a starter, and he slides in nicely.Though, as a lover of snooker more than anything else, he’ll appreciate Wu’s long game, he won’t like the implicit insult that it’s better than his, and will fancy there’s no better stage to showcase it than this one.He’s in, the black passing to both corners, but the pack will soon demand his attention.Shaun Murphy 15-16 Wu Yize (0-1) This game! Wu goes another longun, to left corner, misses, zips into the pack … and bangs one into right! We might say his bravery earned that, we might say his naiveté almost cost him, and, not on a colour, he plays safe by the black, Shaun sending the white back to baulk.

Shaun Murphy 15-16 Wu Yize A brave and brilliant frame from The Geezer, who refuses to compromise his attacking instinct – a lesson in life for us all – and he’s two away from paradise.Shaun Murphy 15-15 Wu Yize (0-58) Running out of position, Wu plays safe, 67 points left on the table, and both men miss reds … then Wu clips another beauty into right corner, after which he knocks the black safe, the lead 58 with 59 left.We may be here a while longer, but this frame is over.