Jak Jones is through to his first ever World Championships semi-final after a shock 13-9 win over world number two Judd Trump.

The Welshman from Cwmbran was ranked number 44 in the world coming into the tournament, needing to go through qualifying.

Having reached the quarterfinals last year in his first ever world championships appearance he has now gone one better and may face seven-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan in the semi-final.

Over two rounds of qualifying, Jones beat countryman Jamie Clarke and then Zhou Yuelong of China who is ranked 23 places above him in the rankings before reaching the crucible.

Once there, Jones faced Zhang Anda of China, in a low-quality affair, but battled it out to win comfortably 10-4 before facing last year’s semi-finalist Si Jiahui.

Jones labelled his performance in the first evening session of that match as “shocking” and had a high break of 77 in a 13-9 win.

Next up however, was Judd Trump, winner of the world crown in 2019 and a player who showed recent good form winning the World Tour Open in China in March, whilst he also has the most centuries by any player this season.

Trump had looked in great touch at the crucible also, beating Hossein Vafaei 10-5 and Tom Ford 13-7 on his way to their quarterfinal matchup.

Jones would have been frustrated to finish all square on Monday morning after being brought back to 4-4 at the end of the first session but produced a match high 117 break to level things up at eight all.

After winning the first frame on Tuesday, Jones pocketed the white while making screwing back and ultimately lost the frame.

However, Jones reacted the better, finishing strongly with breaks of 87, 61 and 106 to wrap up what former world champion Dennis Taylor on commentary duty for BBC described as Jones’ “best win of his career”.

Trump was notably out of sorts and was outbattled by Jones, with the stats quite convincingly in the Welshman’s favour with better pot success, more points and more balls potted along with two century breaks whilst the world number two only managed one in the opening frame.

Despite the huge win, things don’t get easier for Jones who will next face the winner of Ronnie O’Sullivan against Stuart Bingham with the pair locked at 4-4 over night.

Speaking on BBC Jones said: “I don’t know how I got it done, every shot in the last frame I twitched but luckily they went in,

“He started the game in typical Judd fashion with a century but I felt quite calm, it motivated me.

“I’m hoping they move the whole tour here! The longer formats help me settle, if you can’t get up for the crucible you can’t get up for everything.

“I turned pro at 16, there was only one year tour cards back then and a high finance with no sponsors and my parents struggled by to pay for everything for me and there’s a lot of pressure, especially as a kid.

“I couldn’t deal with it really, maybe that shows in the way I play now where I don’t give up because of the struggles I’ve had

“I know everyone says this but it’s down to my parents, it’s the reason I’ve continued going because they’ve supported me so much.”