Wilson holds off Highfield to win PIOS
Kyren Wilson bagged his first PIOS win wth a 6-4 win over series leader Liam Highfield
Kettering's Kyren Wilson went one better than his final appearance in Event 4, by winning Event 6 and propelling himself up to third in the Order of Merit.
At the end of the season the Top 8 players are eligible for nomination for a place on the 2010-11 World Snooker Main Tour and bar some extreme mathematics Wilson is all but safe.
Highfield opened a 3-1 lead in the final but Wilson then snatched a crucial fifth frame. Trailing by 60 points after an opening 61 from Highfield, Wilson doggedly clawed his way back into the frame and pinched it by a point on the black.
The next two frames were shared before Wilson ran in 53, his best effort of the match to level the scores and thereafter he dominated the next tow frames to secure victory.
Jack Lisowski, beaten by Highfield in the semi final, is third on the ranking list and he's followed by Jamie Jones and Anthony McGill, both of whom lost their opening matches this time round.
Jamie O'Neill, Paul Davison and sixteen year old Jak Jones complete the top eight after six events.
Hard on their heels are Robbie Williams, Neil Jones and Kurt Maflin.
Remarkably Maflin managed to win one match in Event Six despite playing with a broken collar bone sustained in a car smash last week. A shame faced Maflin admitted that "Londoners can't drive on Norweigan ice."
