Gao Yang beat Brian Cini 5-3 to seize the 2025 WSF Championship title on Saturday in Morocco.
By rising with essentially the most prestigious title on supply by the World Snooker Federation, Gao will obtain a two-year card to compete on the skilled essential tour.
The 20 year-old from China additionally turns into the primary participant to do the WSF double, having beforehand received the junior crown in 2020.
After struggling disappointment in final 12 months’s WSF Championship closing the place he was thrashed 5-0 by Cheung Ka Wai, Gao went one higher on this event.
He will get a second crack on the World Snooker Tour, which he’ll be capable to take part on through the upcoming 2025/26 and 2026/27 campaigns.
Gao loved skilled standing between 2020 and 2022 on the again of his victory on the WSF Junior Open.
Nonetheless solely a youngster on the time, optimistic outcomes have been troublesome to return by and he shortly dropped off the tour.
However he will likely be higher outfitted to deal with the challenges this time with extra expertise and one other prestigious worldwide beginner trophy in his locker.
Gao reached the knockout phases of the 2025 WSF Championship with an ideal file of 4 wins from 4 video games within the preliminary round-robin part.
A few 4-0 victories then helped him by to the final 16 the place he beat Patrick Whelan 4-1.
Gao compiled a terrific 140 century break in his subsequent 4-2 success over Stuart Watson and repeated that scoreline in a semi-final defeat of Fergal Quinn.
Within the closing, he trailed Maltese opponent Cini 2-1 however managed to win 4 out of the next 5 frames to seal success within the event.
Along with gaining promotion to the World Snooker Tour, Gao can even be invited to compete on this 12 months’s World Championship qualifiers in Sheffield.
Eire’s Leone Crowley received the WSF Junior Championship final week whereas Mink Nutcharut triumphed within the WSF Girls’s Championship.
2025 WSF Championship
Chosen Outcomes
Final 16
Brian Cini 4-2 Daniel Womersley
Umut Dikme 4-3 Fung Kwok Wai
Mateusz Baranowski 4-3 Kevin Hanssens
Barry Pinches 4-3 Ashley Hugill
Stuart Watson 4-1 Ian Martin
Gao Yang 4-1 Patrick Whelan
Fergal Quinn 4-3 Ong Jia Jun Jaden
Florian Nuessle 4-1 Zhou Jinhao
Quarter-Finals
Brian Cini 4-0 Umut Dikme
Mateusz Baranowski 4-0 Barry Pinches
Gao Yang 4-2 Stuart Watson
Fergal Quinn 4-3 Florian Nuessle
Semi-Finals
Brian Cini 4-0 Mateusz Baranowski
Gao Yang 4-2 Fergal Quinn
Closing
Gao Yang 5-3 Brian Cini
Featured photograph credit score: WSF
