Chang Bingyu

I know there's lots to say frankly from the ...

And the, all the results will be there for you on snooker.org, and I know Phil and other, the top reporters have been highlighting the stories, but uh, Kyren Wilson, Chang Bingyu I thought worth, worth a mention.

4-3 for Kyren.

And David Gilbert, who's been in great form, well, he, he, he was beaten by Jamie Clarke.

I mean, even his qualifier before he got to Cheltenham, got Matt Selt, not easy.

Then McGill his first one there.

Chang Bingyu, the man in form.

Um-

And we'll start with the Wuhan Open.

Chang Bingyu defeated his fellow countryman Zhao Yingtong 10-7 with a tremendous clearance, holding his nerve to lift the crown.

He was in tears afterwards.

It was obviously a huge moment for him.

check in on Fantasy

5.

Well, I felt pretty smug when Chang Bingyu won, but then having checked, all three of us, in fact, have him in the team, so not much change there.

You two also have Zhao Jintong, so you've got both of them.

And we will look ahead to that tournament in some detail later.

But first, as you say, to the Wuhan Open and victory for Chang Bingyu, who beat Zhao Zingtong 10-7 in the final.

Well, Chang's first ranking event victory, we thought for some time it was coming, didn't we, with his performances.

It has been quite a journey.

I sang it elsewhere.

His dominance.

I mean, we talk about, rightly, about Xiaoxin Tong, Wu Yizhen, now Chang Bingyu, but Judd's been the dominant force in snooker by and large for a long time.

That was evidenced by his long run.

Maybe the ones coming through after them won't be as good.

I tend to think that's not true, because I think players will be inspired by watching Sitton Tong and Wu Yuzhe and Chang Bingyu and the rest of them.

Number two, the other semi-finalist was Ronnie O'Sullivan, but from what I saw, he wasn't anywhere close to his best.

Will he now just have to accept winning ugly if he wants the eighth? Well, I think more to the point, the question really, Alfa, is can he actually win the eighth playing ugly? His game, from what we've seen so far this season, is not as sharp as it was.

And it was won

by

Chang Bingyu, who came through the pack and proved that he is someone to really watch now in the future.

Now he's won this tournament, you can really see him thriving.

Xiao beat Mark Williams 5-3 guaranteeing an all-Chinese final in Wuhan.

This is after Chang Bingyu stunned Judd Trump 5-1 to claim his first professional win over the former world No. 1 and went on to beat Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-3 to reach the final.

Turning to basketball, China made a flying start to the second round of the FIBA World Cup Asian qualifiers on Thursday, cruising past Qatar 83-57 on the road.

China dominated from start to finish with five players scoring in double figures.

The Asian champion will qualify directly for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, while the top three will earn bets at the 2027 World Championship in the US and Canada.

At the World Snooker Wuhan Open, Chang Bingyu became the first player into the quarterfinals after beating Adi Carter 5-2.

Chang stormed out of the blocks with breaks of 80 and 73 to take the opening two frames.

He stayed in control to complete a convincing victory.

He broke the record for unanswered points.

In fact, we just mentioned how he suffered against Chang Bing Yu on that occasion.

Murphy did a Chang on Matthew Seltz with 607 points without reply.

New record.