The two semi-finals of the 2025 World Snooker Championship are wonderful, and Zhao Xintong, who is full of firepower, is expected to make history

On the 1st local time, the 2025 World Snooker Championship came to the semi-finals stage, and the two semi-finals were strong dialogues. World No. 1 Trump faced "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams, who scored twice in the bag. On the other front, Chinese player Zhao Xintong against O'Sullivan was so irritated that even the bag was broken.

"Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams temporarily trailed in the first quarter of the semifinals

Trump and Mark Williams had a wonderful fight in the first game, Mark Williams lost the red ball with a 77:4 lead, although there were still up to 67 points left on the table (5 red balls and color balls), but Trump did not give up, he scored 4 red balls and began to do snooker, the result made Mark Williams twice penalty 4 points, rekindling the hope of winning this game.

In the tail section, Trump put the white ball on the lower left side of the table near the table, and the red ball was just at the other end, but it was successfully dismantled by Mark Williams, who accurately hit the side of the red ball with the white ball, causing it to bounce to the right side of the table, and then bounced off and slowly flowed into the lower left tail pocket, and finally took the lead.

After that, the two kept biting, and the number of games was 3:3, and they still fought in the 7th game until the end of the game. When Mark Williams hit the green ball, the white ball was obviously blocked by the coffee ball, but Mark Williams regarded it as nothing, and directly tied the white ball around the coffee ball and hit the green ball smoothly with a slight curve.

However, this game was still won by Trump in the end, and he hit the 105th time of the season in the 8th game to pass 100 in one stroke, continuing to break this record, temporarily leading the semifinals of the 33 rounds of 17 wins with 5:3.

As for the other semi-final match by Chinese player Zhao Xintong against "Rocket" O'Sullivan, the number of games played by the two in the first stage came to 4:4, but an interesting scene occurred in the 8th game. At that time, Zhao Xintong was "clearing the stage", and had hit the red ball and black ball into the lower right ball bag several times, when he hit the last red ball and then hit the black ball, the lower right ball bag was suspected of not being able to bear the weight and fell so that the red ball fell to the ground and scattered, and the live broadcast screen made the ball bag sway in mid-air, making the audience laugh.

Zhao Xintong vs. O'Sullivan, a scene of breaking the ball bag

However, the referee thought that the game was about to end, so there was no need to rush to repair the bag, so Zhao Xintong played as usual, and once helped pick up the red ball that fell on the ground. When he finally hit the pink and black balls, both balls hit the ground directly, which is a veritable "sound on the ground". On the evening of the 2nd, Beijing time, the second phase of the game between Zhao Xintong and O'Sullivan ended. At this stage, Zhao Xintong was full of firepower, and after winning 8 games in a row, he led the "Rocket" 12:4, only 5 games away from reaching the finals. If Zhao Xintong advances, he will become the second Chinese player to reach the final of the World Championships after Ding Junhui, and will also become the first player in history to reach the final as an amateur.