Kyren Wilson reveals his family's private comments ahead of UK Championship - The Mirror

World Champion Kyren Wilson says his family are confident his fortunes will turn around soon, following an inconsistent start to the season since his Shanghai Masters triumph

Kyren Wilson has admitted that his family remain convinced his luck will change imminently, after a disappointing start to the 2025/26 campaign. Following his Shanghai Masters triumph in August, Wilson's results have been flaky, though his wife's illness and switching cues hasn't aided his table efforts.

The world no.2 managed to reach the Northern Ireland Open quarter-final before succumbing to defeat against Jack Lisowski last month, but that is Wilson's best achievement since his success in Shanghai

Nevertheless, the 33-year-old Kettering native - along with his family - remains optimistic that circumstances will shift soon, mirroring the campaign when he claimed the World Championship despite patchy form preceding his career-defining triumph.

"To be honest, behind the scenes, this is what my family is saying," he told the Metro. "They're saying you've got to keep going through. The tide might turn at the Worlds again.

"I'm very impatient. I don't want to wait for the World Championship, but I've had a couple of really sickening losses this season.

"Jack [Lisowski] played great in Belfast, but he had an awful lot of luck against me in that quarter-final match. If I go on to win that, who knows, could I have been standing in Jack's position?

"I lost a sickener to Zhao Xintong on the black in the Champion of Champions where he fluked a ball at 5-4 down to go on and clear up. If I win that I'm in the semi finals, and then who knows?

"And again, Stephen Maguire did it to me [at the International Championship]. Did the old whack and win, as we call it where he just got down and smashed the balls, one went in, and he cleared up.

"It's little things that people don't see like that that completely change the outcome of a game, but if that goes your way, there's these instances that, I'm not saying I'm going to go on to win them, but you can't say there's no chance. I couldn't have, and then you could be talking about totally different season. But it's swings and roundabouts. Hopefully, it comes at the right time."

Wilson takes to the table next at the UK Championship, launching his bid against Elliot Slessor in York next Tuesday. Victory would pit him against either Barry Hawkins or David Lilley, who clash in their opening round encounter.