It was a compelling ending to the primary day of a match which additionally started in thrilling vogue.
Wilson, 32, obtained underneath means in nice model changing into the primary participant to knock in a century break within the opening body of a Crucible ultimate since Stephen Hendry made 136 towards Jimmy White in 1993.
The Englishman then raced by way of the gears as he constructed on his break of 129, with runs of 52, 66, 62, 125 and 90 to vogue a 7-0 lead – delivering one other first, with that scoreline final occuring in a ultimate when John Parrott led Jimmy White by that margin in 1991.
Welsh qualifier Jones, who’s enjoying in his first rating ultimate, struggled to settle however arrested that sequence with 65 within the ultimate body of the afternoon.
And the world quantity 44 seemed remodeled when play resumed within the night, together with his confidence visibly rising as he produced breaks of 75 and 52 to get again to 7-3.
Whereas Wilson twice reclaimed his six-frame benefit, a break of 90 noticed Jones shut the hole to 10-6 and he seemed favorite to win the seventeenth body and cut back his deficit to simply 10-7.
Nevertheless, after a composed 66 took him 29 factors forward with 27 left on the desk, he missed the yellow to the highest left nook and Wilson obtained the snooker required earlier than taking the body on the black.