{"id":8326,"date":"2026-04-28T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:02:10","slug":"mark-allen-names-crucible-failing-he-has-fixed-in-this-world-championship-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=8326","title":{"rendered":"Mark Allen names Crucible failing he has fixed in this World Championship campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can Mark Allen finally reach a World Championship final? (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mark Allen is looking to improve on a disappointing World Snooker Championship record and feels he has improved on one Crucible failing he has suffered from in the past.<\/p>\n

The Pistol has been consistently one of the best players on the planet since a breakthrough season in 2008\/09 when he made the semi-finals of the World Championship.<\/p>\n

He followed that with back-to-back quarter-finals and the Northern Irishman looked like he was a Crucible champion in the making.<\/p>\n

However, since that run to the last eight in 2011, he has made just one semi-final and one quarter-final among 12 exits in the first or second rounds.<\/p>\n

During this time he has won the UK Championship and Masters, taken his ranking event tally to 12 and reached the world number one spot, so it is a strangely bad run in Sheffield over the last decade and a half.<\/p>\n

With his most recent semi-final run coming in 2023 and now back in the quarter-finals against Barry Hawkins this year, there are signs that the 40-year-old is solving the Crucible puzzle.<\/p>\n

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After a second round win over Kyren Wilson, he offered his thoughts on how he is learning to handle his Sheffield campaigns better.<\/p>\n

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Allen has come through two tough games against Zhang Anda and Kyren Wilson (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t think you can ever work this place out, to be honest,\u2019 said Allen. \u2018But I think, it\u2019s trying to get the most out of your bad sessions. <\/p>\n

\u2018In particular the Zhang Anda match [in round one], for me to get out of that first session only 5-3 down, that\u2019s probably a session a few years back I\u2019d have lost 7-1 and then you\u2019re out of the match.<\/p>\n

\u2018Even Kyren, the 4-4 session in the middle, that\u2019s probably a session I could have lost 6-2 before and you\u2019re up against it.<\/p>\n

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