The 6th Chinese Billiards World Championships closed, and Zhao Ruliang Tang Chunxiao won the first championship.

On December 16th, the 6th CBSA Chinese Billiards World Championship of China Jiangxi Shangrao Yushan ended successfully in Yushan Sports Center. Chinese billiards is a billiards sport independently innovated by China, which has as many as 80 million fans in China. In 2015, with the vigorous promotion of China Billiards Association, Yushan County Government and Star Brand Company, the first Chinese Billiards World Championships was successfully held in Yushan, Shangrao, Jiangxi.

In 2023, 496 players from 41 countries and regions participated in the 6th CBSA Chinese Billiards World Championship, and the number of participating countries and participants reached a new high. At present, it is the largest Chinese billiards competition in the world, which not only promotes the global promotion of Chinese billiards, but also becomes a platform for billiards people all over the world to communicate with each other and enhance friendship, and promotes friendly exchanges between China and other countries around the world.

Compared with previous years, the 6th Chinese Billiards World Championships, which was restarted this year, was upgraded in an all-round way, with the total prize money increased to 10.43 million RMB, making it the highest Chinese billiards tournament in the world, with the prize money of 3 million for men’s team and 1 million for women’s team respectively.

In the end, Zhao Ruliang, a teenager born after 00, defeated Shen Shenyi 41-28 to dominate the men’s team, while Xu Tianwei and john young won the men’s team’s third place and the first place respectively. Tang Chunxiao, the favourite to win the championship, showed her strength and beat Liu Xiazhi 19-9. In the women’s group, Zhang Muyan and He Xinru won the third place and the first place. Among them, Zhao Ruliang and Tang Chunxiao both won the World Championship for the first time.

The men’s team of this World Chinese Billiards Championship is strong, and none of the top 16 professional men of China Billiards Association is absent. Four former champions, Eipl, Shi Hanqing, john young and Zheng Yubo, all appeared in Yushan, and they fought fiercely for the glory of the world champion and the prize money of 3 million.

As the last runner-up, Zhao Ruliang was recognized as one of the favourites to win the championship before the competition. In the double-losing stage, Zhao Ruliang won Grain Rain Peng, Suniri and Lei Yiwei in a row, and the winner advanced to the top 32. In the stage of single defeat, Zhao Ruliang stood out from the death zone where experts gathered, and eliminated Dai Yong, Chu Bingjie, Xu Xiaoying and john young with convincing performance, and entered the final.

Shen Shenyi, born in 2004, has risen rapidly in Chinese billiards in recent years, and entered the tournament directly as a seed player. In the double-lose stage, Shen Shenyi defeated Liu Yiqi, Mi Le and Bo Junjie successively, and qualified from the winning department. In the single defeat, Shen Shenyi beat Eipl, the first champion, narrowly beat American star Zhang Ronglin, beat Niu Zhuang in the quarter-final, and beat dark horse Xu Tianwei in the semi-final, and reached the final of the World Championships for the first time in his career.

The final of men’s team adopts the system of 41 wins in 81 games, which is divided into four stages. In the first stage, Zhao Ruliang won three games in a row after 8-7, leading by 11-7. In the second stage, Zhao Ruliang once extended the difference to eight innings, and Shen Shenyi launched a counterattack at the end, with a score of 21 to 17. In the third stage, the two sides entered the seesaw stage. However, Zhao Ruliang, who was more experienced in the contest, made a small climax at the last minute and entered the fourth stage with a lead of 32-24.

At the opening of the fourth stage, Zhao Ruliang quickly entered the state, winning four games in a row, further expanding his advantage by 36 to 24. At this time, the game lost its suspense, and Zhao Ruliang scored a climax again, winning the match point at 40-26, then taking the game away with a shot in the third match point, and finally winning at 41-28, winning 3 million championship prizes; The runner-up Shen Shenyi got 1.2 million yuan.

In the third and fourth finals, Xu Tianwei broke out in the second stage, defeating john young 21-15 and winning the third place.

In the women’s final, which ended first on the afternoon of December 15th, the famous Tang Chunxiao beat Liu Xiazhi 19-9, winning the women’s championship of Chinese billiards World Championships for the first time in her career.

As a favourite to win the championship before the competition, Tang Chunxiao’s promotion process was not smooth sailing. She was dragged into the deciding game by Zhang Muyan in the first stage of the promotion round. In the quarter-finals, she faced Fu Xiaofang, the champion of the 2017 tournament, and Tang Chunxiao won three games in a row after falling behind 8-10. Meet Zhang Muyan again in the semi-final, and Tang Chunxiao won 13-9, welcoming his first World Championship final.

Liu Xiazhi didn’t encounter too much trouble in the double defeat stage against Chen Yihan and Xia Yuying. After entering the single defeat stage, she beat Russian player Pimenova in the quarter-final, eliminated defending champion Chen Siming 11-9 in the quarter-final, and completely defeated "Dark Horse" He Xinru in the semi-final, and also entered the final stage of the World Championships for the first time.

The final of women’s team adopts the system of 19 wins in 37 games, which is divided into two stages. In the first stage, Tang Chunxiao made a dream start of 12-0 and took a huge lead of 14-4 after the end of 18 games. At the opening of the second stage, Liu Xiazhi chased two games in a row, while Tang Chunxiao grabbed the 21st game to stabilize his position after some chaos, then won two more games, expanding his advantage by 17-6, and finally sealed the victory by 19-9, and won the first prize of 1 million.

At the awarding ceremony, besides the athletes who won good results in the competition, the organizing committee of the competition also awarded other awards.