Halifax snooker star Stan Moody reaches World Championships at the Crucible
Halifax’s Stan Moody has reached the World Snooker Championships after winning his fourth round qualifying match.
Moody went 2-0 down in the match to China’s Juang Jun, and then trailed 3-1 before winning four consecutive frames to take the score to 5-3.
Jun, a previous Scottish Open and Welsh Open quarter-finalist, then won three frames on the spin to lead 6-5, and then Moody won the next three to lead 8-6.
Jun got back to 8-8 and then a break of 127, the highest of the match, saw Moody go 9-8 up before Jun won the next frame to set-up a one-frame shoot-out, which Moody won with a break of 104 to reach the World Championships for the first time.
Moody will find out his opponent in the draw on Thursday.