Chang Bingyu defeated Ryan Thomerson 6-1 to win the 2025 Asia-Pacific Snooker Championship and earn a two-year World Snooker Tour (WST) tour card.
The 22-year-old, who first joined the skilled ranks in 2019 and reached a high rating of 69th, will return to the WST after a two-year absence following his success in Australia this week.
The annual competitors was organised by the Asia-Pacific Snooker & Billiards Federation (APSBF) and was staged on the Business Membership in Albury, Australia with 57 cueists competing for the title and a WST tour card.
Chang was in sturdy type all week as he compiled twelve centuries, together with a high break of 138, and dropped simply 4 frames throughout 9 matches within the competitors.
A clear sweep of whitewash wins within the group stage noticed the cueist from China comfortably into the knockout levels the place he then beat Sahil Prasad 3-0 to achieve the final 16.
Lomnaw Ayuttaya turned the primary participant to take a body off Chang, however nonetheless succumbed to a 4-1 defeat, earlier than additional victories over Wan Nansen Sin Man (4-2) and Chau Hon Man (5-0) noticed the 22-year-old e book his place within the title match.
Australia’s Thomerson was the opponent within the ultimate after he got here by a grueling all-Australian semi-final contest in opposition to Vinnie Calabrese in a deciding body.
Chang remained the dominant pressure on the Business Membership, nevertheless, as he ran out a snug 6-1 victor to win the title and safe a return to the skilled ranks.
