STUART Bingham has suffered semi-final disappointment at the World Snooker Championships, losing 17-12 to Jak Jones at the Crucible.
Bingham had pulled back to 13-11 in the first frame of the evening session, but the match pivoted in the next when Bingham made an inexplicable error attempting to play safe on the green and let the Welshman in to clear up and re-establish a three-frame lead.
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Jones maintained his advantage through more tough frames in a match that drifted towards 12-and-a-half hours, then capitalised on a missed black by Bingham to move one frame from victory with a coolly-taken 70 break.
More errors from Bingham served up the first chance for Jones in the next and he won it in two visits to complete his fairy tale run to the final.
Afterwards, the 32-year-old revealed he has been benefiting from sessions with a hypnotherapist during his run to the final, which comes at the end of a low-key season in which he had just one tour semi-final, at the German Masters, to his name.
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