Impressive Allen Recovers To Beat Zhang At Crucible

Former world number 1 Mark Allen produced a superb potting show arsenic he fought backmost from 6-4 down to hit China's Zhang Anda 10-6 successful nan first information of nan World Snooker Championship.

Northern Ireland's Allen, a two-time Crucible semi-finalist, had not made a azygous break of 50 successful Saturday's first convention but looked a different subordinate connected Sunday.

The 40-year-old produced a magnificent clearance of 140 successful framework 11 to commencement his recovery, pursuing that pinch a break of 109 successful framework 12.

His 3rd period successful 5 frames came successful framework 15 pinch an effort of 129 to move 1 distant from victory, which he sealed pinch a break of 81 successful nan 16th frame.

Zhang, who has mislaid successful nan first information connected each of his six Crucible appearances, scored only 42 points successful nan past six frames arsenic Allen stormed into nan past 16.

Allen will play either 2024 champion Kyren Wilson aliases 19-year-old Stan Moody successful nan adjacent round.