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British Snooker Championship: defending champion Zhao Xintong suffers a round
China News Agency, Beijing, November 13th. On the morning of the 13th, Beijing time, the first day of the 2022 British Snooker Championship ended. The defending champion and Chinese player Zhao Xintong suffered a round trip and became the only one out on the first day of the main game. Seed players.
The 2022 British Snooker Championship ended the qualifying round on the 11th Beijing time. The 16 players determined following 4 qualifying rounds will have a direct dialogue with the 16 seeded players during the main match. A total of 24 players from the Chinese Legion, including 3 players from Hong Kong, China, participated in the qualifying round. Among them, Ding Junhui, Xiao Guodong, Lu Haotian, Zhou Yuelong, and Xu Si advanced to the main match, plus Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, who were waiting for vacant positions in the main match as seed players , 7 Chinese players will appear during the race.
The champion of the last British Championship and Chinese star Zhao Xintong started the opening match as the No. 1 seed of this event. Unexpectedly, the game that Zhao Xintong was expected to win easily turned out to be his Waterloo.
Facing England’s Sam Craigie, ranked No. 47 in the world, the defending champion, ranked No. 8 in the world, continued his decline this season and lost 0:1 in the first game. Since then, although Zhao Xintong won 2 games in a row and once led 2:1, he failed to stop his opponent in the next game. After losing 5 games in a row, he was eliminated 2:6, becoming the only player on the first day of the tournament. A seeded player who missed the round of 16.
A total of 4 1/16 finals were held that day. Except for Zhao Xintong, the other 3 seeded players all advanced smoothly. Among them, “Small Steel Cannon” Mark Allen defeated Jordan Brown 6:4 in the “Northern Ireland Derby”; this year’s British Open champion and Welsh star Ryan Day won the World Championships with a 6:2 victory The runner-up England 60-year-old veteran Jimmy White; in an “England Derby”, “the strongest post-90s” Karen Wilson eliminated Matthew Selter 6:3.
On the second day of the British Championship, there will be another 4 1/16 finals. Ding Junhui, the “No. 1 brother” of Chinese billiards who has received much attention, will challenge the No. 10 seed and England star Barry Hawkins. Another Chinese player, Lu Haotian, will face Belgium’s “No. 1 brother” Brechel. The two world champions “Melbourne Machine” Neil Robertson and “Wizard” Higgins will also make their debut on the same day, competing with their respective opponents for the top 16 seats.