At the 2023 ** Keying Championships, Zhang Anda successfully advanced to the main draw as the world's top 16, and defeated qualifier Slesser 6-5 in the first round. He then showed his strength with a 6-4 second-round victory over new World Champion Brecel. However, in the third round of the 8-in-4 game, Zhang Anda encountered Iran's top gram master Wafi. In this game, Zhang Anda once led by 4 games, but lost three games in a row in the final stage, and was reversed by Wafei with a score of 4-6, missing the semifinals of the British Championships, which is really a pity!This season, Zhang Anda's performance can be described as remarkable, he not only scored the highest score of his career - 147 in a single stroke, but also won the championship in the ** Croatian National Championships, which was the first title of his career. At the same time, he also ranked in the top 16 in the world for the first time, and directly qualified for the round of 32 of the British Championship as a seeded player. In the main stage of the British Championships, Zhang Anda continued to show excellent performance, defeating Slesser and Brecel in a row, and successfully broke into the quarterfinals.
In particular, defeating the new world champion Brecel in the 1 8 finals in the last round fully demonstrated Zhang Anda's current hot form. At the same time, Iran's top gram master Wafi came out of the qualifying round, defeating world champion Murphy 6-4 in the first round, and easily eliminated Matthew Selt 6-1 in the second round. In the game of defeating Matthew Celte, Wafei hit three shots to break 100 in a single game, and he felt hot. From the perspective of the style of play, Zhang Anda's steadiness contrasts sharply with Wafei's popularity. The all-time head-to-head record shows that Zhang Anda has never beaten Wafei in the past, and the two have ended in defeat in the past two meetings. The 1 4 finals still adopt the system of 11 rounds and 6 wins, divided into two halves. The first four games of the first half were very competitive, the quality of the game was extremely high, Zhang Anda took the lead in scoring a single shot of 97 points, Wafei then responded with a 120-point break, Zhang Anda once again hit a single score of 81 points, and Wafei hit the second shot of the game again in the fourth game to break 100.
The first four games ended in a 2-2 draw, with Zhang Anda leading twice, while Wafei also tied twice, scoring more than 80 points in all four games. At the beginning of the second half, both of them had a reduced offensive touch in the fifth game, and finally Zhang Anda won 75-36, leading again with a total score of 3-2. Wafai won the sixth game 65-1 to continue to tie the total game points. In the seventh game, Zhang Anda scored 68 points in a single stroke and opened the score 4-3 again. However, in the eighth game, Wafi won 72-18 to tie the overall score at 4-4. In the end, in the ninth game, Wafei scored a high score of 100 and won with a score of 106 points. Wafei showed another impressive performance in the 10th game of the match, scoring a high score of 56 points to eventually win 92-0. With a total score of 6-4, Wafei successfully eliminated Zhang Anda and successfully advanced to the semifinals of the British Championship.
The whole game showed the tenacious spirit of Wafei, who was always able to fight fiercely against Zhang Anda when he was down in -4 four positions, and successfully won three games in a row to complete a thrilling reversal.