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Jak Jones feels beaten opponents are looking for excuses (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jak Jones is tired of hearing \u2018pathetic excuses\u2019 from his beaten opponents after claims that he knocks players out of their rhythm with slow play.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old is into the World Snooker Championship final where he will take on Kyren Wilson in the most unexpected of Crucible showpieces.<\/p>\n

The world number 44 did make the quarter-finals on debut last year, but was not being touted as someone who could go further this time around after a forgettable season on tour.<\/p>\n

However, he has beaten Zhang Anda, Si Jiahui, Judd Trump and Stuart Bingham to make it to the final, clearly the better player in each match as all four opponents struggled against him.<\/p>\n

Both Trump and Bingham said they found it hard to hit rhythm against him, with the Welshman one of the slower players on tour, which has proved very difficult for his opponents at the Crucible.<\/p>\n

Speaking after a 17-12 defeat, Bingham said: \u2018He second guesses everything. It\u2019s tough to play, you can\u2019t get any rhythm against him. He sort of looks at every different angle and then plays something completely different. It\u2019s tough to get in any rhythm.<\/p>\n

\u2018He\u2019s very astute round the balls. Plays a lot of negative safety shots. You leave him a long ball and he floats it in. He\u2019s just hard to work out. Judd struggled and I\u2019ve struggled too for three days. It\u2019s just tough.<\/p>\n

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Stuart Bingham cut a frustrated figure against Jak Jones (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018He does play right shots and is pretty attacking in certain parts, but there were a few times when I tried to take the bull by the horns where he would have been happy to play nothing safety shots. I needed to change it up but I came off second. That\u2019s the way it goes sometimes.\u2019<\/p>\n

Trump also felt he had no fluency against Jones in a 13-9 loss, saying: \u2018It was a little bit slower than I would have liked. I couldn\u2019t get rhythm. Every time I came to the table, it felt like I had been ages and I wasn\u2019t able to get into that flow. It was like starting again every single time I came to the table.<\/p>\n

\u2018A lot of the frames were quite slow. It\u2019s something I should know by now, to control the speed of the game. I got bogged down.<\/p>\n

\u2018His pace definitely affected me. But that\u2019s not his fault. I just needed to get in and clear up every time. I didn\u2019t do that. If you are potting balls then it doesn\u2019t matter how quick your opponent is playing.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Judd Trump was nowhere near his best against the Welshman (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jones has no time for what he considers an excuse from his opponents, feeling that they create the pace of a game as much as he does.<\/p>\n

\u2018I think they\u2019ll probably use that excuse forever,\u2019 he said after beating Bingham. \u2018It seems like a common excuse that these players use against me. They\u2019re supposed to be the best players in the world and yet they\u2019re moaning about getting knocked out of their rhythm. It\u2019s strange to me.<\/p>\n

\u2018It don\u2019t bother me. I do think that the players I\u2019ve played\u2026like when I played Judd, he started off typical Judd in the first frame with a century. Then I came back at him, went 3-1 up and I noticed a complete change in his body language. He seemed to take forever on every shot for what Judd usually does. It\u2019s easy to blame what I\u2019m doing, but it\u2019s working so I\u2019ll take it.<\/p>\n

\u2018I have been slow in the past. My natural game is quite fast, I think. But I don\u2019t think 28 seconds a shot is that slow for my first semi-final. Not to say names but other players in the top 16 I see regularly going down to the late 20s. <\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t know what it is, but they always have to say that [they\u2019ve been knocked out of rhythm] after they lose against me. The worst thing is that I\u2019ve noticed when I\u2019m playing out there, I feel like they want to play that game. It\u2019s just an excuse.<\/p>\n

\u2018They can\u2019t accept it [losing]. It\u2019s pathetic really. Just accept it.\u2019<\/p>\n

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29.7s vs Stuart Bingham
28.7s vs Judd Trump
30.0s vs Si Jiahui
29.3s vs Zhang Anda<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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