page_title: 2020 World Snooker Championship
section_title: Final
hierarchical_section_title: 2020 World Snooker Championship / Tournament summary / Final
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bild aufgenommen in Berlin während des German Masters im Snooker 2013. Marcel Eckardt. English: Picture taken in Berlin during the Snooker German Masters in 2013. Marcel Eckardt.
context_page_description: The 2020 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 31 July to 16 August 2020 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 44th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship was held at the Crucible, and it was the final ranking event of the 2019–20 snooker season. The tournament was originally scheduled to take place from 18 April to 4 May 2020, but both the qualifying stage and the main rounds were postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was one of the first to allow live audiences since the outbreak of the pandemic, but on the first day it was announced that the event would be played behind closed doors for subsequent days; however, a limited number of spectators were later allowed in for the final two days of the championship.
  The tournament was organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association and the World Snooker Tour, and was broadcast by the BBC, Eurosport and Matchroom Sport. The event had a total prize fund of £2,395,000, with the winner receiving £500,000.
context_section_description: The final was played on 15 and 16 August as a best-of-35-frames match, held over four sessions. German referee Marcel Eckardt took charge of his first world championship final. The final was held between five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan and first-time finalist Kyren Wilson. O'Sullivan had won four of the six previous meetings between the two players, however Wilson had won their latest encounter in the semi-finals of the 2020 Welsh Open. O'Sullivan took a 3–1 lead in the first session after misses by Wilson. He then left the pink ball over the pocket in frame five to allow Wilson to win, and get back to within a single frame. O'Sullivan won the next three frames, including the first century break of the match in frame six to lead 6–2 after the first session. BBC pundit Stephen Hendry commented "I tend to think the match is over. I hope I'm wrong, but I think 6–2 is too far for Kyren to come back from".
  Wilson made a break of 53 in frame nine, but made a tactical error to lose the frame, before O'Sullivan won the next frame to lead 8–2. Trailing by six, Wilson won three frames with breaks of 92, 50 and 58. In frame 15, Wilson went into the pack, but inadvertently pocketed a red ball, allowing O'Sullivan to win the frame. Wilson made a century break in the next frame, but missed a red in the final frame of the session to trail 7–10 overnight. The 1997 winner Ken Doherty commented that the missed red was a missed opportunity for Wilson, whilst O'Sullivan would be "over the moon", to only lose five frames in the session. Six-time champion Steve Davis commented that his body language during the session suggested that O'Sullivan was "struggling", and "deteriorating".
  Wilson made a long pot in frame 18, and made a break of 73. O'Sullivan then responded by winning the next seven frames in a row to lead 17–8 going into the final session. The final session lasted only 11 minutes and featured a single frame, as O'Sullivan won the match 18–8 with a break of 96. The win was O'Sullivan's sixth and his 37th ranking event victory. O'Sullivan suggested that he did not think his form was good enough to win the event: "There was a part of me that decided that I didn't play enough – and I still probably don't play enough – to justify winning a tournament of this stature".
caption: German referee Marcel Eckardt officiated his first World Championship final.
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