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2026/27 season so far: eight finals, seven champions
Who won each of the eight finals from the Championship League to the Northern Ireland Open: Jak Jones reached three and won two, Wuhan and Shenzhen produced all-Chinese finals, and Wu Yize leads the autumn century count.
Data to 4 November 2026, from WST scores collected on this site. Winners and runners-up cover every completed final since June 2026; centuries and highest breaks cover only the six events from 13 September (358 matches), not the full season. The Shanghai Masters is an invitational and carries no ranking money.
The eight finals
Between June and the end of October this site recorded eight completed finals: seven ranking events plus the invitational Shanghai Masters. Seven different players won them; only Jak Jones won twice.
The scorelines tell a story too. Kyren Wilson’s 9–2 win in the Northern Ireland Open final was the most one-sided of the eight, while the Championship League final went all the way to 3–2.
| Event | Ended | Winner | Score | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship League | 2026-07-15 | Jak Jones | 3–2 | David Gilbert |
| Shanghai Masters (invitational) | 2026-08-02 | Judd Trump | 11–6 | Kyren Wilson |
| China Open | 2026-08-16 | Mark Selby | 10–6 | Noppon Saengkham |
| Wuhan Open | 2026-08-29 | Chang Bingyu | 10–7 | Zhao Xintong |
| British Open | 2026-09-06 | Jak Jones | 10–6 | Mark Selby |
| English Open | 2026-09-13 | Ali Carter | 9–6 | Mark Williams |
| Shenzhen Open | 2026-10-04 | Wu Yize | 10–5 | Yuan Sijun |
| Northern Ireland Open | 2026-10-25 | Kyren Wilson | 9–2 | Jak Jones |
Jak Jones: three finals, two titles
No one reached more finals than Jak Jones. In July he beat David Gilbert 3–2 in the Championship League final; in September he knocked out Judd Trump 6–3 in the British Open semi-finals and beat Mark Selby 10–6 for the title.
At the Northern Ireland Open in October he edged Mark Williams 6–5 to reach a third final, then lost it 2–9 to Wilson. Two wins from three finals is the most consistent record of the season so far.
Wilson and Selby: one title, one runner-up each
Kyren Wilson beat Zhao Xintong 10–8 in the Shanghai Masters semi-finals and lost the final 6–11 to Trump; just over two months later he won the Northern Ireland Open. His standout trait this season is the deciding frame: he has won nine of the ten matches that went the distance, which we look at in a separate article.
Mark Selby beat Stuart Bingham 6–2 in the China Open semi-finals and Noppon Saengkham 10–6 in the final, then reached the British Open final, losing 6–10 to Jak Jones.
Chinese players: two titles and two all-Chinese finals
Both the Wuhan Open and the Shenzhen Open finals were between Chinese players. In Wuhan, Chang Bingyu beat Ronnie O’Sullivan 6–3 in the semi-finals and Zhao Xintong 10–7 in the final; in Shenzhen, Wu Yize beat Trump 6–1 in the semi-finals and Yuan Sijun 10–5 in the final.
Zhao also reached the last four of the Shanghai Masters, losing 8–10 to Wilson. Yuan edged Jimmy Robertson 6–5 in the Shenzhen semi-finals for his only final so far this season.
Autumn statistics: centuries and highest breaks
Since 13 September this site has stored the official statistics for every match. Across those six events and 358 matches, Wu Yize leads with 13 centuries in nine matches. Chang Bingyu made nine in only five matches, 1.8 a match, the highest rate in the table below.
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh made a 147 at the International Championship, where John Higgins and Joe O’Connor both made 146. That event is still running, so these numbers will change.
| Player | Matches | Centuries |
|---|---|---|
| Wu Yize | 9 | 13 |
| Kyren Wilson | 13 | 11 |
| Sam Craigie | 13 | 9 |
| Chang Bingyu | 5 | 9 |
| Liam Davies | 11 | 8 |
| Mark Williams | 10 | 8 |
Our view: depth matters more than dominance
The clearest pattern so far is how widely the titles have been shared. Eight finals have produced seven champions, no one has won two events in a row, and Trump’s only title of this stretch came at the invitational Shanghai Masters. Seeding has offered little protection.
The Chinese players’ results deserve a note. Beyond titles for Chang Bingyu and Wu Yize, Zhao Xintong reached a final and a semi-final and Yuan Sijun reached a final; the International Championship quarter-finals now include Fan Zhengyi, Ding Junhui, Chang and Zhao, plus Marco Fu of Hong Kong, China. Success is no longer resting on one or two names, and that says more about overall strength than any single title.
Jak Jones’s three finals make another point: he does not feature near the top of the century table, yet he keeps reaching the last match. When judging form, how often a player reaches finals is often a better guide than any single statistic.
What comes next
As of 4 November the International Championship quarter-finals are under way: Fan Zhengyi v Hossein Vafaei, Ding Junhui v Wilson, Chang Bingyu v Zhao Xintong and Marco Fu v Higgins.
Next come the Champion of Champions (from 9 November), German Masters qualifiers (16 November), UK Championship qualifiers (21 November) and main event (28 November), the Shoot Out (9 December) and the Scottish Open (14 December).