On the evening of January 15th, Beijing time, the first round of the 2025 Snooker Masters featured a match between Zhang Anda and Kyren Wilson. In this game, although Zhang Anda had a high success rate in long-range shots, he still lost 4-6 to Wilson, failing to reach the quarter-finals. Wilson became the seventh player to advance to the quarter-finals, and with Zhang Anda's elimination, only Ding Junhui remains from the Chinese team, as Si Jiahui was previously eliminated.
Both players are post-90s stars who have won ranking event titles, especially Wilson, who is ranked second in the world and has won the World Championship title, which is quite an achievement for a post-90s player. World champion "Jester" Wilson has solid fundamentals, particularly excelling in cueing technique, easily securing his place in the Masters. Zhang Anda once won the National Championship title, which propelled him into the top 16, a ranking he has maintained since. The two have not faced each other many times before, with Zhang Anda even having the upper hand in their previous encounters.
In the first half of this match, Wilson was in better form, taking a 3-1 lead. After the mid-game break, Zhang Anda caught up to 3-3! They then both made a break of over 50 and a century break, leveling the score at 4-4. Wilson then won two consecutive games to defeat Zhang Anda 6-4. Throughout the match, Wilson made two breaks over 50 (69, 69), while Zhang Anda made one century break (141) and three breaks over 50 (85, 65, 83). Zhang Anda won the statistics but lost the game.
As of now, Neil Robertson, Shaun Murphy, Ding Junhui, Mark Selby, Judd Trump, Mark Allen, and Kyren Wilson have advanced to the quarter-finals.
