Ding Junhui Advances to Championship with 6-5 Victory, Scoring 124-0 and 114-0; Zhang Anda Narrowly Loses 4-6 to World Champion
At 1:16 AM Beijing time on January 16th, the 2025 Snooker Masters continued. On the last day of the first round, Zhang Anda, the national champion, despite making a century break (141 points) and three 50+ breaks (85 points, 65 points, 83 points), lost 4-6 to the world champion "Brother K" Kyren Wilson. Earlier, Ding Junhui eliminated the three-time world champion "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams with a 6-5 victory.
The Snooker Masters is one of the top three snooker events, highly regarded by all players. Last season, "China's No. 1" Ding Junhui made a maximum single shot of 147 points in the competition but ultimately lost to his old rival O'Sullivan, missing out on the championship.
In the 2025 Masters, three Chinese players participated in the event: "China's No. 1" Ding Junhui, world No. 13 Si Jiahui, and national champion Zhang Anda. Ding Junhui, who played first, reversed the three-time world champion "Golden Left Hand" Williams with a 6-5 victory. Si Jiahui, who followed, lost 2-6 to "Little Cannon" Mark Allen.
In a just-concluded focus match early this morning, national champion Zhang Anda also failed to advance, losing 4-6 to last year's world champion "Brother K" Kyren Wilson.
This match was indeed a narrow loss. Looking at the game process, Zhang Anda won the data, but Wilson won the game. The score ratio between the two was 712-437, with Zhang Anda scoring 375 points more than Wilson.
It should be said that Zhang Anda had an extremely obvious advantage in terms of data, but he lost the game. The data doesn't lie; Zhang Anda had a very good offensive feel in this game, especially his long-range shots were extremely accurate, and he made many successful shots from the long table during the game.
However, he repeatedly made inexplicable mistakes at critical moments, causing Zhang Anda to lose excellent opportunities again and again, ultimately allowing "Brother K" to win the game. In their single-shot performances, Kyren Wilson made two 50+ breaks (69 points, 69 points), while Zhang Anda made a century break (141 points) and three 50+ breaks (85 points, 65 points, 83 points), with a significantly better single-shot performance than Wilson, yet he still lost.