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Kyren Wilson defeated Pang Junxu 3-0 in the Group 6 championship match in Leicester on Tuesday, securing his place in the Championship League’s final group round. Wilson has been playing well lately.
With breaks of 76 and 89, the world No. 11 defeated Pang, a former World Snooker Tour Classic finalist, 3-2. In the semi-finals, he overcame Sam Craigie, 3-2, rallying from a 2-0 deficit to prevail.
In the other semi-final, Pang defeated Slessor 3-2, coming back from a 2-1 deficit to end with breaks of 55 and 70.
Snooker makes a comeback to China for the Shanghai Masters following a four-year hiatus. The competition has been postponed since the global coronavirus pandemic and was last contested in 2019. Now that the tournament is officially back on the schedule, David Hendon examines the implications of its reintroduction for the sport on a local and international level. Watch live snooker action, including the 2024 Shanghai Masters, on Discovery+.
This week’s start of the main tournament action in China, a nation that already has a sizable professional game and is still crucial to the sport’s future, represents a huge advancement for snooker.
Up to five profitable tournaments were hosted in China each season prior to the Covid epidemic in 2019, when Judd Trump’s victory at the World Open in November of that year marked the final World Snooker Tour event to take place on Chinese territory.
