{"id":19922,"date":"2026-02-08T15:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=19922"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:04:47","slug":"world-grand-prix-zhao-xintong-beats-zhang-anda-in-all-chinese-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=19922","title":{"rendered":"World Grand Prix: Zhao Xintong beats Zhang Anda in all-Chinese final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zhao had struggled in ranking events this season, failing to go past the second round in nine of the 11 tournaments he entered.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he had been successful in non-ranking events, winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/cm2vnkzl355o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Riyadh Season Championship in November<\/a> and making the last four of the Shanghai Masters and Champion of Champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He hit successive breaks of 145 and 130 in the opening session but 34-year-old Zhang, chasing a second ranking title in his fourth final, knocked in four breaks of more than 50 as the first session was shared 4-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zhao raised his levels further in the evening session, scoring heavily to take three of the next four frames, opening a 7-5 lead with a break of 111.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number 23 Zhang was on for a maximum 147 break in the 13th frame after potting 10 reds and nine blacks, but he broke down on 73.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zhao restored his two-frame advantage with a 134 break and hit 65 to move within one of victory before sealing the win and \u00a3180,000 winner&#8217;s prize with a 131 clearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It proved a fitting finish to what has been a landmark tournament for Chinese snooker, producing the first all-Chinese semi-finals at a ranking event, while nine of the last 16 in Hong Kong hailed from the nation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/snooker\/articles\/crl4rkplkn8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhao had struggled in ranking &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}