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Si Jiahui vs Gary Wilson: Why Si Has Won All Five Meetings

Published 2026-10-07

Gary Wilson has won three ranking titles, made six maximum breaks and been as high as 10th in the world. Against Si Jiahui he has never won a match. They have met five times since February 2022 and Si has won all five, most recently 5–3 in the last 32 of the Shenzhen Open on 30 September.

On paper it should be closer. Since June 2025, in matches against everyone else among the players we track, Wilson has won 44 of 78 and Si 33 of 67. Wilson is the heavier scorer too. In those other matches he made a century every 9.6 frames. Si made one every 16.

Put them on the same table and those numbers turn upside down.

Five meetings, five wins

The first was a 4–3 win for Si in the last 64 of the 2022 Welsh Open, before our frame data starts. The other four:

Across those four, Si leads 19 frames to 7 and 1,862 points to 881. He made seven centuries in the 26 frames: 138 and 110 in the 6–0, 137 and 106 in the Championship League, 102 at the World Grand Prix, then 127 and 119 in Shenzhen. Wilson made one, a 100 in the opening frame of the World Grand Prix match.

Wilson starts, Si finishes

The last two meetings followed the same pattern. Wilson started the better of the two and Si took over.

At the World Grand Prix in February, Wilson opened with that century and was level at 2–2 after a 59 in the fourth frame. Si won the last three, 67–24, 75–9 and 102–0.

In Shenzhen, Si won a scrappy first frame 63–50. Wilson then made 82, won a tight third 63–44 and made 66 to lead 3–1. He scored 25 points in the rest of the match. Si won the last four frames 127–0, 70–21, 119–0 and 83–4.

Put those two finishes together and Si won seven frames to none, 643 points to 58.

What changes in this match-up

Two things stand out in the frame data.

The first is Wilson's scoring. Against everyone else since June 2025 he made a break of 50 or more in 42% of the frames he played (202 breaks in 482 frames). Against Si it is 6 in 26, or 23%. Wilson's game is built on heavy scoring, and against this opponent the big breaks mostly stop coming.

The second is what Si does with his chances. Usually about one in five of his 50-plus breaks turns into a century (26 of 138 against other players). Against Wilson it is seven of ten. When Si gets in, Wilson rarely gets back to the table with the frame still alive.

Si wins the frames without big breaks too. Nine of his 19 frame wins in these four matches came without a break of 50. At the World Grand Prix, Si won four frames without one, and Wilson scored 68 points across those four. That is a safety battle, and Si won it.

Si as the closer

This is not the Si Jiahui many fans first saw. His Crucible debut in 2023 ended in a semi-final against Luca Brecel in which he led 14–5. Brecel won 11 frames in a row and took the match 17–15, the first player to win a match at the Crucible after trailing by nine frames.

Against Wilson, Si has been the one coming from behind and the one who finishes. In Shenzhen he trailed 3–1, and Wilson scored only 25 more points.

The view from the ratings

Our Form Rating, which weights every result by the strength of the opponent, has Si 15th and Wilson 23rd today. On form alone you would call that a close match. The head-to-head is the part that doesn't fit, and the frame data says why: Wilson's scoring drops by about half against Si, and Si's breaks get bigger.

Next chance for Wilson

Both are in the draw for the Northern Ireland Open at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, 18–25 October. Si is seeded 16th and opens against Wang Xinbo. Wilson is seeded 24th and plays Mateusz Baranowski. They are in the same half of the draw, so a sixth meeting could come before the final.

The full record, with every frame tally, is on the Si Jiahui v Gary Wilson head-to-head page. For the rest of that day in Shenzhen, see the deciders that knocked out Zhao, Higgins, Williams and Ding.