Kyren Wilson Beats John Higgins 10-8 to Win International Championship

Kyren Wilson beat John Higgins 10-8 to win the International Championship in Nanjing, China. It is the first time Wilson has lifted this title, and his 12th ranking title overall. Ranking titles count towards a player's place in the world rankings, which decide the seedings for the sport's biggest events.

The match was played over frames, which are single games. The first player to win more frames than half the total takes the match, so this final needed 10 frames. Higgins, who is 51, led 5-4 after the afternoon session. Wilson then moved ahead, taking a 9-7 lead with breaks of 80, 52 and 101. A break is a run of pots in a single visit to the table, and 101 is a century, which means 100 or more points in one visit.

Higgins took one more frame, but Wilson closed out the final at 10-8. Wilson had also won the Northern Ireland Open two weeks earlier. That made him the 16th player to win back-to-back ranking events, meaning two in a row. World Snooker headlined its match report "Warrior Downs The Wizard In Nanjing", a nod to Wilson's nickname and Higgins's famous "Wizard of Wishaw" label.

Wilson's prize for the win was £175,000, according to The Sun.

For fans, the result adds to a busy autumn of events in China. Ranking events held there now form a large part of the tour calendar, and the International Championship is one of the tournaments that has moved between cities in recent years. Wilson's win means that his name now sits near the top of the season's list of champions, and he goes into the next event with the momentum of two wins in a row.