{"id":39809,"date":"2018-05-05T00:25:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T22:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/05\/john-higgins-and-barry-hawkins-stay-ahead-in-world-championship-semis\/"},"modified":"2018-05-05T00:25:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T22:25:33","slug":"john-higgins-and-barry-hawkins-stay-ahead-in-world-championship-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=39809","title":{"rendered":"John Higgins and Barry Hawkins stay ahead in world championship semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Higgins holds 13-11 lead over Kyren Wilson in race to 17\u2022 Hawkins fights back against resurgent Mark Williams to lead 9-7John Higgins maintained his two-frame World Championship semi-final advantage over Kyren Wilson after an intriguing evening session at the Crucible. Higgins opened up a 12-9 lead but Wilson responded with breaks of 106 and then 93 to get to within a frame of the Scot.But Higgins rallied and a run of 91 saw him take a 13-11 lead into Saturday, where he needs only four frames to advance to the final. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/may\/04\/john-higgins-barry-hawkins-leads-world-championship-snooker-crucible\" target=\"_blank\">John Higgins and Barry Hawkins stay ahead in world championship semis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Higgins holds 13-11 lead over Kyren Wilson in race to 17\u2022 Hawkins fights back against resurgent Mark Williams to lead 9-7John Higgins maintained his two-frame World Championship semi-final advantage over Kyren Wilson after an intriguing evening session at the Crucible. Higgins opened up a 12-9 lead but Wilson responded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}