World Snooker Championship 2024

The term Crucible Curse is applied broadly to include every player who has failed to retain the World Championship at the Crucible since 1979 after winning it for the first time. Every player who has won it at the Crucible for the first time has been a victim of the curse.

Within the limit of which players fell victim to the curse from the opening match, Griffiths was one of those. There are 7 in total, Dott and Bingham being the other 2 players not already mentioned. On the other end of the spectrum, there were 2 players who managed to shake the curse until the final, Joe Johnson and Ken Doherty. But even they eventually fell victim to the curse.

The silent assassin Jak Jones is slowly taking out Zhang Anda, leading him 8-3 at the interval. They've come back from the interval in the ahem all Leicester derby, and O'Connor has just made a 122 break to take a 3-2 lead over Selby.