John Higgins edged the evening session of a well-matched first-round contest with Jamie Jones at the World Snooker Championship on Wednesday evening. A tight and at times edgy encounter stood in stark contrast to the utter dominance of Ronnie O'Sullivan in roaring into an 8-1 lead over Jackson Page earlier on. Jones could hardly have started the match in a more impressive fashion as he blitzed a break of 118 to immediately stamp his