Snooker Dec 07, 2025

World Snooker Championship 2025 - full results from The Crucible as Zhao Xintong becomes first Chinese winner

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World Snooker Championship 2025 - full results from The Crucible as Zhao Xintong becomes first Chinese winner

Zhao Xintong became the first Chinese winner of the World Snooker Championship when he defeated three-time champion Mark Williams 18-12 in the 2025 final.

Zhao - who beat seven-time Crucible winner Ronnie O'Sullivan in the semi-finals - is just the third qualifier to triumph at the Sheffield venue, after Terry Griffiths in 1979 and Shaun Murphy in 2005.

As the 28-year-old - labelled snooker's "new superstar" by runner-up Williams - , check out the full results from the World Championship below.

Final

Semi-finals

Zhao Xintong 17-7 Ronnie O'Sullivan (5)
Mark Williams (6) 17-14 Judd Trump (2)

Quarter-finals

John Higgins (3) 12-13 Mark Williams (6)
Chris Wakelin (20) 5-13 Zhao Xintong
Luca Brecel (7) 8-13 Judd Trump (2)
Ronnie O'Sullivan (5)
13-9 Si Jiahui (13)

Second round

Mark Allen (8) 6-13 Chris Wakelin
Mark Williams (6) 13
-10 Hossein Vafaei
John Higgins (3) 13-12 Xiao Guodong
Lei Peifan (39) 10-13 Zhao Xintong
Shaun Murphy (15) 10-13 Judd Trump (2)
Si Jiahui (13) 13
-10 Ben Woollaston
Ronnie O'Sullivan (5) 13-4 Pang Junxu
Luca Brecel (7) 13-4 Ding Junhui (10)

First round

Kyren Wilson (1) 9-10 Lei Peifan
Xiao Guodong (14) 10
-4 Matthew Selt
Mark Williams (6) 10-8 Wu Yize
Barry Hawkins (11) 9-10 Hossein Vafaei
Neil Robertson (9) 8-10 Chris Wakelin
Jak Jones (16) 4-10 Zhao Xintong
Mark Allen (8) 10
-6 Fan Zhengyi
John Higgins (3) 10-7 Joe O'Connor
Ding Junhui (10) 10-7 Zak Surety
Si Jiahui (13) 10-6 David Gilbert
Shaun Murphy (15) 10-4 Daniel Wells
Zhang Anda (12) 7-10 Pang Junxu
Ronnie O'Sullivan (5) 10
-4 Ali Carter
Judd Trump (2) 10-4 Zhou Yuelong
Luca Brecel (7) 10-7 Ryan Day
Mark Selby (4) 8-10 Ben Woollaston

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