Chinese Derby! The second stage: Pang Junxu reversed Zhang Anda 5-0 and entered the round of 16 of the World Championships 10-8

On April 24, Beijing time, the Snooker World Championship came to the second stage of the first round of the Chinese derby, and Zhang Anda led Pang Junxu 5-3 in the first round. The first four games of the second stage ended with the two sides fighting to 2-2, and Zhang Anda took the lead 7-5. After the break, Pang Junxu played better and better, and won the game by surpassing the score 10-7 in 5 consecutive games, and strongly advanced to the top 16 of the World Championships, and will face O'Sullivan in the next round.

As the only first-round derby of the tournament, both players had a chance to break through, with the winner taking home £30,000 in prize money. At the beginning of the second stage, Pang Junxu scored 111 points in a single stroke, and then Zhang Anda scored 65 in a single stroke under pressure, and the scores of the two sides remained 2 points apart, and Zhang Anda led Pang Junxu 7-5. After the break, Pang Junxu took the lead and made a mistake in hitting the red ball after scoring 35 points, which gave Zhang Anda a chance, but Zhang Anda did not seize the opportunity, and Pang Junxu started again after the opportunity, this time he did not lose the opportunity to win the game with 93 points, the score was nearly 6-7, and the pressure was on Zhang Anda's side.

In the key fourteenth game, both of them made mistakes to varying degrees in the opening stage, Zhang Anda missed the opportunity at the critical moment, Pang Junxu continued to chase points, and with 137 points in this game, the total score was also tied at 7-7. In the fifteenth game, Pang Junxu took the lead in kicking off, Zhang Anda made a long billiards error, and there was no good chance for Pang Junxu to continue to defend. Zhang Anda then found a breakthrough, hit the long billiards accurately, and began to clear the table when he got 59 points, and the two continued to compete defensively. Pang Junxu seized the opportunity to get started and finally won this game, and after the break, Pang Junxu chased 3 games in a row, and the score was overtaken 8-7 lead.

Pang Junxu, who won 3 games in a row, felt better and better, and took the lead again in the sixteenth game, but after scoring 23 points, he made a mistake in hitting the red ball, Zhang Anda got the ball again in this game, and this game cannot be lost, but in front of the opportunity, he made a mistake again after scoring 18 points, and the state was not ideal when he came back from the break, and he needed to adjust immediately. Pang Junxu did not miss the opportunity, and won another game to get the match point 9-7. In the seventeenth game, Pang Junxu started again after Zhang Anda scored 40 points, and finally scored 71 points to win and successfully advanced to the top 16 of the World Championships.