On November 24, the "Belt and Road" Shaanxi 2020 Taiwan Association Cup Snooker Team Tournament entered the knockout stage at the Shaanxi Tennis Center in Xi'an, and after a one-day double match, Lanzhou, which has two experienced players and a talented youngster, defeated Yixing and Chongqing 4-2, 4-0 respectively to lock in the final four.
Zhang Anda
This team competition is the first national snooker event held in China since the epidemic, with a total of 32 representative teams participating, and the winning team has a prize of 150,000 yuan. In the previous group round robin stage, Lanzhou, composed of Mei Xiwen, Zhang Anda and Wu Yize, won three consecutive victories to qualify for the first place in Group A.
Lanzhou's round of 16 was slightly glued, Mei Xiwen won one set first but lost a singles and a doubles in a row, and the next two singles were snatched by two veterans of Lanzhou, and finally Mei Xiwen and Wu Yize's veteran newcomers brushed a single 69 points to lock in the victory.
In the quarter-finals, Lanzhou swept the opponent, still Mei Xiwen's first record, Wu Yize blasted a single shot of 115 points to break the hundred, and partnered Zhang Anda to pick cao jin and Pu Qingsong in 20 minutes to help Lanzhou team get the match point. With 78 points and 125 points innings, Zhang Anda helped the team lock in a place in the final four.
Mehivan
After the game, the Lanzhou team talked about their feelings, and Zhang Anda was straight as soon as he came up, revealing that he had a sharpening gun. "The different feeling is that I have practiced a lot in the past month, I can't live up to my teammates, and the overall process is still relatively smooth." He laughed and said that he would plan to impact the professional competition in the future, "it should be back to the profession, this year is the reason for the family and the epidemic did not go to the United Kingdom to play professional, next year is still planned." ”
Also looking forward to getting a professional qualification for the World Snooker Tour next year is the young general Wu Yize, who said: The epidemic situation over there (in the UK) is more serious, I have not got the professional qualification, I will train myself first, and then rush up next year, Meg and are very good at taking care of me, so that I have learned a lot and gained a lot of experience. ”
Wu Yize
"I am also the first time to play a one-man one-shot (one round of ball rights two people alternately playing) such a team doubles game, which requires a lot of cooperation, before the doubles were one person one ball power can play one shot to the end, with relatively little cooperation."
As the captain, Mei Xiwen focused on the immediate situation, bluntly expressing his desire for the championship, while expressing his satisfaction at the domestic snooker competition: "Winning the championship is our goal, and we will do our best to achieve it." The impression of the national team competition is that it has not been done for ten years, and it has been played before, and in 2010 it should have won the final four results. ”
"This year, due to the impact of the epidemic, we are unable to participate in world-class competitions, there are no events in China, it is not easy to do this time, and the safety measures are also very good, and we all cherish this opportunity to participate."
In addition, he also talked about the Oolong incident in which he was "decommissioned" before. Some media published that Mei Xiwen has retired, in fact, he only based on his personal choice to stay in China and did not participate in professional events held in the United Kingdom, and he himself immediately responded to this matter on his personal social media.
Mei Xiwen said: "That thing must be the reporter's translation here (domestic) or how to write wrong, I even paid the membership fee this season, but because the epidemic over there is too serious, I did not go to the competition, and the situation will definitely go to the better." ”