On May 6, Beijing time, the final of the Snooker World Championship ended, and finally Zhao Xintong defeated Mark Williams 18-12, won 9 games in a row and successfully lifted the championship trophy, completing an incredible dream journey, so that the latest world rankings were updated, 80 Five Tigers Trump ranked first, Kyren Wilson second, Mark Williams killed third, Ding Junhui sixth, Zhao Xintong climbed sharply to 11th!
Zhao Xintong started from the qualifying round, staged a Danish fairy tale, continued to play wonderful games, unstoppable to reach the final, facing Mark Williams, Zhao Xintong relied on the advantages established in the first and third stages, and got the match point 17-8, although the fourth stageMark Williams made some strong counterattacks, chasing four games in a row, but Zhao Xintong had an obvious advantage, and still won the victory smoothly, winning the championship with a big score of 18-12, creating a new history, which is also the first World Championship championship in Chinese history, breaking through the embarrassment of 0, so that Zhao Xintong received a bonus of 500,000 pounds, plus a British Championship bonus of 10,000 pounds, Zhao Xintong climbed to 11th place with 510,000 pounds!
Mark Williams also played very well in this event, reaching the World Championships final again, and at the age of 50, but in his sixth World Championship final journey, he lost to Zhao Xintong by a score and finally won the runner-up, but it is also very good, you must know that the runner-up prize is not low, that is, 200,000 pounds, so that Mark Williams surpassed Higgins in the world ranking to the third place in the world!
After Zhao Xintong won the championship, we added another person to the top 16, and China has now won 5 seats, of which the highest ranking is Ding Junhui in the sixth, Zhao Xintong in the 11th, Zhang Anda in the 12th, Xiao Guodong in the 13th, and Si Jiahui in the 15th, this result also shows that China's snooker results are getting better and better, and it is expected to win more championships in the future!
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