Sheffield, United Kingdom: Zhao Xintong is about to become the first Chinese player to win the world snooker championship after the qualification stormed an advance of 17-8 against Mark Williams in the final on Monday, May 5.
Zhao must earn one more executive in the evening session to win his historical title in the best of 35 years in the sheffield's crucible Theater.
The 28 -year -old had built a 11-6 advance on Sunday And, with the title in sight, he lit the screw on Williams during the session on Monday afternoon.
Zhao won four of the first five images to move 15-7 in advance, increasing the prospect of finishing the final with a session to lose.
The Chinese sensation, which was left unused in its semi-final of 17-7 of the seventh time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan, could not achieve this feat this time while Williams briefly stopped rot.
But Williams' attempt to become the oldest world snooker champion by lifting the trophy for a fourth time seems to end with failure.
The 50 -year -old Welshman was not up to the dynamic manufacturing of Zhao and the incessant rupture construction while the Chinese star swept the edge of the snooker's immortality.
Zhao is only the second finalist of the Chinese world championship, imitating the Ding Junhui race in the centerpiece of 2016.
But while Ding has been beaten by Mark Selby in recent years nine years ago, Zhao has produced a nervous display to move to a touching distance to become the first world champion of Asia.
Zhao would be one of the most unexpected winners in the tournament.
He plays as an amateur as he continues his return after a 20 -month ban for participation in a Paris scandal in 2023.
Zhao, who won the UK 2021 championship, accepted accusations of being a party to another player setting two games and bets on matches himself.
The controversy has led 10 Chinese players punished, with life prohibitions for Liang Wenbo and Li Hang.
Zhao's applied amateur status meant that he had to fight four qualification rounds just to reach the main draw of the world championship at the crucible, which is at the distance of his sheffield at home.
