Masters: Kyren Wilson edges past Zhang Anda in hard-fought contest

China’s Zhang, 33, was making solely his second look on the Masters and has exited within the first spherical on each events.

Nonetheless, the world quantity 10 will head away from the event questioning simply how he contrived to lose in opposition to Wilson.

Other than the match rating, nearly each key statistic round security play, desk time and potting was in his favour.

Nonetheless, Zhang additionally managed seven unforced errors to Wilson’s three, and so they in the end proved extraordinarily expensive.

Given a number of the alternatives that got here his means, he may and maybe ought to have been the participant heading into the interval with a wholesome lead.

And whereas he did struggle again, the moments of misfortune and carelessness saved coming.

Within the seventh body he went in off a purple, having potted a purple into the identical proper center pocket, and within the ninth he missed a black, when it appeared he may steal the body from Wilson to go forward for the primary time within the match.

“Kyren is a really robust opponent. I wanted a really robust efficiency and I used to be slightly bit unfortunate,” Zhang added.