2025 Shanghai Masters
The 2025 Shanghai Masters is a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that is taking place from 28 July to 3 August 2025 at the Luwan Gymnasium in Shanghai, China. Part of the 2025–26 snooker season, it is the 15th edition of the Shanghai Masters since the tournament was first staged in 2007. A total of 24 players—comprising the top 16 players in the world rankings, the four highest-ranked Chinese players outside the top 16, and four Chinese wildcard players—were invited to participate. The world number 10 Mark Allen withdrew and was replaced by the world number 17 Ali Carter. The winner will receive £210,000 from a total prize fund of £825,000. Judd Trump is the defending champion, having defeated Shaun Murphy 11–5 in the 2024 final. Zhang Anda made a maximum break in the sixth frame of his second-round match against Ding Junhui, the fourth of his career, the second of the season, and the 219th official maximum in professional competition. However, Zhang lost the match 5–6.[1] OverviewThe inaugural 2007 Shanghai Masters was won by Dominic Dale, who trailed 2–6 in the final against Ryan Day, only to win eight consecutive frames for a 10–6 victory.[2] Staged as a ranking event from 2007 to 2017, the Shanghai Masters in 2018 became a non-ranking invitational event comprising 24 players. As of the 2025 edition, Ronnie O'Sullivan is the tournament's most successful player, having won the title five times, in 2009, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2023. Judd Trump is the defending champion, having defeated Shaun Murphy 11–5 in the 2024 final to win the title for the first time.[3] ParticipantsThe 2025 edition features the top 16 players in the world rankings, with the exception of the world number 10 Mark Allen, who withdrew from the event for family reasons and was replaced in the draw by the world number 17 Ali Carter.[4] It also features the four highest-ranked Chinese players outside the top 16 (Lei Peifan, Pang Junxu, Wu Yize, and Yuan Sijun), and four Chinese wildcard players. The co-organiser of the tournament, the Chinese Billiards and Snooker Association (CBSA), nominated two top domestically ranked players as wildcards. Another two wildcards were finalists at an open qualifier event held at Shanghai Plaza from 4 to 13 July.[5] During the opening ceremony, the four wildcard players, Han Fuyuan, Qiu Lei, Wang Xinbo, and Zhou Jinhao, were drawn at random against Si Jiahui, Chris Wakelin, Shaun Murphy, and Carter.[6] FormatThe tournament is taking place from 28 July to 3 August 2025 at the Luwan Gymnasium in Shanghai, China.[7] The top eight seeds received byes to the last 16. All remaining players started in the first round. All matches up to and including the quarter-finals are played as the best of 11 frames. The semi-finals are played as the best of 19 frames. The final is the best of 21 frames. BroadcastersThe tournament is being broadcast by TNT Sports and Discovery+ in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is broadcast by Eurosport in mainland Europe; by Discovery+ in Germany, Italy, and Austria; and by HBO Max in other European territories. It is broadcast by Migu, Huya, the CBSA-WPBSA Academy WeChat channel, and CBSA-WPBSA Academy Douyin in mainland China; by Now TV in Hong Kong; by Astro SuperSport in Malaysia; by TrueSports in Thailand; by Sportcast in Taiwan; and by TAP Sports in the Philippines. In all other territories, it is broadcast by WST Play.[8] Prize fundThe total prize fund is £825,000, with the winner receiving £210,000. The breakdown of prize money is shown below:[9]
SummaryFirst roundThe four wildcard players and the four Chinese players ranked outside the top 16 all lost in the first round. Chris Wakelin, competing in the tournament for the first time, made three half-century breaks as he defeated 17-year-old Zhou Jinhao 6–3, while Shaun Murphy made five half-centuries as he whitewashed Han Fuyan.[10] Ali Carter defeated Qiu Lei 6–1, and Si Jiahui advanced with a 6–4 win over Wang Xinbo.[11] Barry Hawkins made his 500th century break in professional competition as he defeated Wu Yize 6–4; he became the 15th player in professional snooker history to reach that milestone.[12] Neil Robertson beat Pang Junxu 6–2, and Zhang Anda defeated Yuan Sijun in a deciding frame.[10] Xiao Guodong made back-to-back centuries of 143 (the highest of the first round) and 120 as he defeated Lei Peifan 6–3.[11][13] Last 16The eighth seed Mark Selby faced two-time runner-up Murphy. In the second frame, with four colours remaining, Murphy missed the brown and hit the black, conceding a free ball.[14] After winning the frame for a 2–0 lead, Selby made breaks of 115, 81, 73, and 137 as he completed a 6–0 whitewash, with Murphy having scored only 52 points in the match.[15][16][17] The match between the third seed Kyren Wilson and Si produced six century breaks—120, 114, and 114 by Wilson and 124, 139, and 127 by Si—which equalled the record for the most centuries in a best-of-11 match set by Neil Robertson and Judd Trump at the 2016 Masters and equalled by Neil Robertson and Selby at the 2020 Champion of Champions.[17] Si led 3–1, 4–3, and 5–4, but Wilson made an 83 break in the 10th frame to force a decider, which he won with a 97 break.[15][18] Wilson missed a pot on the last black of the match that would have set a new record of seven centuries.[17] The seventh seed Ding Junhui won four of the first five frames against Zhang, making two centuries, including his 700th career century.[19] In the sixth frame, Zhang made a maximum break, the fourth of his career, the second of the season, and the 219th official maximum in professional competition.[1] Ding won the seventh frame to lead 5–2, but Zhang then won three consecutive frames, making a second century of 120 in frame nine, as he tied the scores at 5–5. Ding won the deciding frame on the colours.[17] Facing Robertson, the defending champion Trump made back-to-back centuries in the first two frames and went on to secure a 6–2 victory.[17] Carter made a 131 century in the opening frame of his match against the fourth seed Mark Williams, but lost five of the next six frames to trail 2–5. However, Carter then produced breaks of 93, 78, and 87 to force a deciding frame, which he won with a total clearance of 132.[20][21] Xiao made three centuries of 104, 111, and 113 as he came from 0–2 behind to defeat the fifth seed John Higgins 6–4.[22] Main drawThe tournament results for the event are shown below. Numbers in parentheses after the players' names denote their seeding, an "a" indicates amateur status for the four wildcards, and players in bold denote match winners.[11][23]
Century breaksA total of 33 century breaks have been made during the tournament.[24]
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