Wu Yize secured his archetypal ranking rubric since becoming satellite champion with a 10-5 triumph implicit Yuan Sijun successful an all-Chinese last astatine the Shenzhen Open.
A profitable week for 22-year-old Wu pushes him to a vocation precocious of 2nd spot successful the satellite rankings, down Zhao Xintong.
It means that China has the starring 2 players successful the rankings for the archetypal time, further illustrating the country's presumption arsenic a snooker superpower.
Wu became the second-youngest subordinate to lift snooker's astir coveted title astatine the Crucible erstwhile helium bushed Shaun Murphy successful May, and helium followed that up with a composed show to spot disconnected astonishment finalist Yuan astatine the Bao'an Sports Centre connected Sunday.
Having demolished Judd Trump 6-1 successful the semi-finals, Wu had aboriginal breaks of 117 and 80 to determination 3-1 up against Yuan.
But, playing successful his archetypal ranking final, Yuan past reeled disconnected 3 frames successful a row.
Wu responded with 2 much half-centuries successful the last frames of the opening league to instrumentality a 5-4 pb successful the best-of-19 match.
Prospects of a choky last each the mode to the decorativeness enactment soon evaporated.
World champion Wu returned with breaks of 74 and 62 to instrumentality power astatine 8-5 successful the evening league arsenic Yuan struggled with his information play.
And determination was nary mode backmost for Yuan, 26, arsenic Wu made definite of the trophy and the £177,000 apical prize.
While Wu moves to 2nd successful the rankings, going up of Trump and Neil Robertson, Yuan jumps 7 spots to 26th and earns £76,000.
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