Kyren Wilson became the 20th victim of the Crucible Curse. Top seed Wilson, 33, was the seventh first-time champion to lose in the first round after his dramatic 10-9 defeat to Chinese debutant ...

It meant the so-called “Crucible Curse” continued — no first-time champion has ever gone on to retain the title since the world championship moved to the storied venue in Sheffield, northern England, ...

Since the Witch's curse weakened a person's mind and induced fear, Ciel couldn't maintain his usual composure. Overall, Cloverworks has done a fascinating job of portraying the iconic panels from ...

Kyren Wilson became the latest player to fall to the Curse of the Crucible after losing at the 2025 ... Although not first-time world champions, John Spencer and Ray Reardon’s respective triumphs in ...

Kyren Wilson feels his year as a first time world champion has been up there with the best of them, not just for his success on the table but his work off it. The Warrior landed the World ...

For some people, the Curse could technically be extended to have snared the likes of John Spencer, Ray Reardon and Alex Higgins. But those three icons had already been world champions somewhere ...

Wilson becomes the 20th player to succumb to the so-called curse, with no first-time winner able to retain the world crown since the tournament moved to Sheffield's Crucible Theatre in 1977.

Kyren Wilson is determined to banish the so-called 'Crucible curse' once and for all when he gets the defence of his World Snooker Championship title underway on Saturday morning. Wilson will ...

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George R.R. Martin is catching flak from “Game of Thrones” fans again, nearly a year and a half after admitting he’s struggling to complete his next novel — “The Winds of Winter” — in his “A Song of ...