China's top eight! Snooker World Championships Zhao Xintong won 13-10, and Lei Peifan chased 4 games after 135 in a single stroke

On April 27, Beijing time, the 1/8 finals of the 2025 World Snooker Championship came to the third round of the Chinese derby. In the end, after fierce competition between the two sides, Zhao Xintong fell behind 3-4 at this stage, but the total score came to 13-10 to win, becoming the first player of the Chinese team to advance to the quarterfinals of this World Championships.

At the beginning of the third stage, Zhao Xintong quickly found his state, started smoothly at the beginning, and successfully won the game after scoring 78 points, and the score came to 11-6, with only 2 games left to win the game. In the eighteenth game, Lei Peifan took the lead in kicking off, and in the subsequent defense, Lei Peifan scored the first time to break the deadlock, and he seized the opportunity in this game to clear the table with a single stroke of 135 to recover a game, and the big score was 7-11 behind 4 games. In the nineteenth game, Lei Peifan took the lead, and gave Zhao Xintong the opportunity to get 1 point, Zhao Xintong shot in front of the opportunity, and then Zhao Xintong scored 61 points, his black ball position was not good, Zhao Xintong, who calmed down, chose to defend, Lei Peifan also defended with the opponent, and at the last moment, Zhao Xintong seized the opportunity and successfully won the game to expand the score to 12-7, leaving little time for Lei Peifan.

In the twentieth game, the two players started to compete fiercely, Lei Peifan took the lead, and made a mistake again after scoring 12 points, Zhao Xintong then began to take over the game, and Zhao Xintong's mentality was more stable when he got the match point, he was not in a hurry to find the best hitting feeling, but when he got 41 points, he hit the pink ball too thick and did not succeed, the opportunity was given to Lei Peifan again, and Lei Peifan did not make another mistake when he got the opportunity again, and successfully pulled back a game, and the big score was chased to 8-12, and the two sides entered the break. After the break, in the twenty-first and twenty-second innings, Lei Peifan got the opportunity to attack, and he performed steadily and smoothly to win 2 consecutive games, and successfully chased the score again, and the score came to 10-12 behind 2 games. In the 23rd game, Zhao Xintong took the initiative again in the competition with Lei Peifan, locked the victory with 62 points, and won 13-10 to advance to the top 8.