2025 Shanghai Masters
Updated: 12/11/2025, 12:17:40 PM Wikipedia source
The 2025 Shanghai Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place from 28 July to 3 August 2025 at the Luwan Gymnasium in Shanghai, China. Part of the 2025–26 snooker season, it was the 16th edition of the Shanghai Masters since the tournament was first staged in 2007 and the fifth edition since the tournament became an invitational event in 2018. The tournament was broadcast by local channels in Asia; by Eurosport, Discovery+, and HBO Max in Europe; by TNT Sports and Discovery+ in the United Kingdom and Ireland; and by WST Play in all other territories. The winner received £210,000 from a total prize fund of £825,000. 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. Judd Trump was the defending champion, having defeated Shaun Murphy 11–5 in the 2024 final, but he lost 4–6 to Mark Selby in the quarter-finals. Kyren Wilson won the tournament, beating Carter 11–9 in the final to claim his second Shanghai Masters title, following his previous win at the 2015 event. He became the third player to win the tournament multiple times, after Ding Junhui and Ronnie O'Sullivan. The tournament produced 56 century breaks, of which the highest was a maximum break by Zhang Anda, the fourth of his career, in his second-round match against Ding. It was the second maximum of the season and the 219th official maximum in professional snooker history. The second-round match between Wilson and Si Jiahui produced six century breaks, three by each player, which equalled the record for the most centuries in a best-of-11 match. Ding made the 700th century break of his professional career during the tournament, and Barry Hawkins made his 500th career century.
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Tables
| Final: Best of 21 frames. Referee: Zheng WeiliLuwan Gymnasium in Shanghai, China, 3 August 2025 | ||
| Ali Carter England | 9–11 | Kyren Wilson (3) England |
| Afternoon: 103–7, 7–129 (129), 7–109, 87–0, 90–0, 31–65, 1–82, 0–78, 69–15, 66–1Evening: 27–70, 0–105 (105), 76–0, 63–0, 14–83, 0–122 (122), 140–0 (140), 90–0, 7–126, 56–57 | ||
| (frame 17) 140 | Highest break | 129 (frame 2) |
| 1 | Century breaks | 3 |
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