Mark Allen held off a decided problem from Zhang Anda to win the Gamers Championship – and transfer nearer to his long-held ambition to be world No 1.
In a tense, at instances scrappy match in Telford, Zhang, who’s having a fantastic season, pushed the Northern Irishman all the way in which however Allen held his nerve to finish a 10-8 win at quarter-hour earlier than midnight on Sunday evening.
Allen is the world No 3 however is closing in on the 2 gamers ranked above him, Ronnie O’Sullivan and Judd Trump. As these two contested the world championship remaining two years in the past, their factors from that occasion will come…