If the law continues, Zhao Xintong will either lead or win the king after the third stage of the 2025 Snooker World Championships

On the 4th local time, the 2025 World Snooker Championship held at the Crucible Theater ended the first day of the finals, and the three-time champion Mark Williams stabilized the situation in the night court, but the Chinese player Zhao Xintong continued to maintain the lead of the game 11-6 with the advantage established by the 7-1 in the first stage.

Zhao Xintong is only seven games away from the 2025 Snooker World Championships, and is expected to be crowned the new king on the evening of the 5th

The 28-year-old Zhao Xintong dominated the first stage of the final, leading 7-1, but as the oldest Crucible finalist, Williams won five of the nine games in the second stage on the 4th local time, including a tense 17th round.

British media said that when the match resumed (for the third stage) on the 5th local time, it gave the 50-year-old Welshman Williams a glimmer of hope, even though no player had previously reversed a deficit of more than four games on the second day of the World Championship final. While Zhao is confident of becoming the first Chinese to win a World Title and the third from outside the UK since 1997, Williams will give it his all to keep himself from regrets.

Regardless of the result of the final, Zhao Xintong is destined to create the history of Chinese snooker and will surely go down in the history of world snooker.

In addition, although Zhao Xintong was unable to maintain the dominance he showed in the first stage of the competition, he was still able to add four more strokes of 50+ in the second stage to the single stroke of 77, 100, 57, 104 and 83 points created at the beginning of the final.

Zhao won the British Championship in 2021 but was subsequently banned for 20 months for being involved in a match-fixing scandal that shook the sport. Along with Terry Griffiths and Shaun Murphy, he hopes to become the first qualifier to win the top prize in snooker since the World Championships moved to South Yorkshire in 1977.

Looking forward to the final battle of the 2025 World Snooker Championship, will we be the oldest champion in history or will we usher in the first world champion from China and even Asia?

The final of the World Snooker Championship adopts a 35-game 18-win system, which is divided into four stages: 8/9/8/10. If Zhao is crowned the new World Championship champion, he will also become the first amateur to win at Sheffield, while the £500,000 prize money will see him move up to 11th in the world rankings when he returns to the main professional tour next season. The third stage of the World Championships finals will be played at 8 p.m. Beijing time on the 5th, a total of 8 rounds will be played in this stage, if Zhao Xintong can replicate the brutal score of 7-1 in the first stage or lose 7 games in a row, he will help Chinese snooker break through the window paper from the runner-up of the World Championships to the champion.