[Sports News]The qualifying round of the World Championship kicked off in Sheffield, England on Monday (3rd). Three Hong Kong players, Marco Fu, Andy Lee and Andy Wu, played separately. Among them, Marco, who took the lead, had a bad start. Leng lost to the English player Martin O’Donnell 5:10, and missed the promotion. The world ranking at the end of the year will definitely not return to the top 64. If he wants to keep his professional qualification, he only hopes to be awarded a wild card again by the World Table Tennis Federation. Or get admission tickets through Q School.
According to the competition system, except for the top 16 golfers in the world who will go straight to the main match of the World Championships, other players must play the qualifying round first, and the lower-ranked athletes will start from the first round. Fu Jiajun, ranked 103 in the world, faced amateur player Martin O’Donnell in the first lap. He failed to perform to his due level. He started slowly and lost 3 games in a row. After finishing the first quarter, he fell behind 2:7. Although after a short break, he fought hard to catch up in the second quarter, and once hit a “breaking hundred” (125 degrees) and two 60+ shots, but he still couldn’t escape defeat. He scored 5:10 (7:67, 31:71, 13:69, 92:46, 7:75, 34:82, 2:121, 77:43, 4:84, 6:67, 72:2, 25:65, 126:0, 63:70).
Fu Jiajun missed many ranking matches two years ago due to the epidemic, causing a sharp drop in the world rankings. The year-end ranking will drop out of the top 64, and his qualifications for professional competitions will not be guaranteed. Later, he was awarded a “wild card” by the World Table Tennis Federation to continue his career. However, Marco was still affected by the epidemic in the past two seasons and could only participate in a limited number of competitions. Coupled with the decline in the state of the sparse team, many events stopped in the qualifying rounds or the first round of the main race, and the rankings stagnated. This time he went out at the World Championships The division is unfavorable, and he is sure to lose his seat in the professional competition again. Let’s see if the World Table Association will give this Hong Kong Table Table Icon another “wild card”, otherwise Marco will compete for the Q School ticket.
As for the “Queen of Cue with Four Eyes” Wu Anyi made her debut at 5:00 Hong Kong time today (4th) to challenge Michael Holt, a former professional golfer from England. Li Junwei will compete against Andrew Higginson tomorrow for promotion. The event adopts a 10-win system of 19 rounds and is divided into two sections.
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