The 2025 Worldwide Championship remaining is on Sunday with John Higgins taking over Wu Yize on the SNC Nationwide Health Middle in Nanjing.
One of many brightest younger abilities within the recreation will problem an all-time nice for the season’s eighth rating title and a prime prize value £175,000.
Wu, chasing a maiden trophy as an expert, first emerged from his semi-final encounter with Zhao Xintong on Friday.
The 22 year-old produced one other sturdy show in per week stuffed with them to confidently dispatch the world champion with a 9-6 scoreline.
On Saturday, Higgins was in spectacular type as he triumphed from his all-Scottish tie in opposition to Stephen Maguire with a powerful 9-2 win.
The Wizard of Wishaw is on track to land a second Worldwide Championship crown having beforehand received the match a decade in the past in 2015.
Success would additionally characterize his third of the calendar yr and a thirty fourth profession piece of silverware at rating stage in what continues to be a exceptional profession.
Higgins, like his contemporaries Ronnie O’Sullivan and Mark Williams, continues to defy Father Time and can start this showdown for glory because the favorite.
The present world quantity six can have seemingly watched Williams declare victory on the Xi’an Grand Prix when the gamers final travelled to China and mirrored that if the Welshman can obtain success at 50, so can he.
Higgins, who received the World Open and the Tour Championship on the finish of final season, will naturally have all of the expertise on his aspect heading into this battle.
However Wu has very a lot been enjoying like somebody who is able to make that anticipated breakthrough into the big-time.
Final yr’s English Open and Scottish Open runner-up has been in scintillating scoring type since coming back from the mid-session interval of his last-16 tie in opposition to Judd Trump 4-0 down.
Wu has contributed 18 breaks above 50 since then, a relentless streak that has included 4 century breaks and a flurry of different single-scoring visits.
Following Jack Lisowski’s current victory on the Northern Eire Open, a triumph for Wu would characterize one other constructive story for the sport amid the confirmed arrival of a fledgling star.
Wu has confronted Higgins as soon as earlier than in a rating occasion, paradoxically on the Worldwide Championship itself manner again in 2019 when he participated as an beginner wildcard.
The then-teenager ran the veteran shut earlier than finally succumbing to a dramatic 6-5 defeat in what was a round-of-128 fixture.
Six years on and he’ll contest the Worldwide Championship remaining over 19 frames in opposition to the identical esteemed opponent and with rather more on the road.
2025 Worldwide Championship
Spherical of 16
Shaun Murphy 6-2 Ding Junhui
John Higgins 6-5 Scott Donaldson
Zak Surety 6-3 Neil Robertson
Stephen Maguire 6-4 Jiang Jun
Wu Yize 6-4 Judd Trump
Barry Hawkins 6-4 Jack Lisowski
Mark Selby 6-1 Anthony McGill
Zhao Xintong 6-1 Si Jiahui
Quarter-Finals
John Higgins 6-2 Shaun Murphy
Stephen Maguire 6-1 Zak Surety
Wu Yize 6-0 Barry Hawkins
Zhao Xintong 6-5 Mark Selby
Semi-Finals
John Higgins 9-2 Stephen Maguire
Wu Yize 9-6 Zhao Xintong
Remaining (bo19)
John Higgins vs Wu Yize
Sunday, 6am and 11:30am UTC (GMT)
Featured photograph credit score: WST
