The 2021 to 2022 season of the snooker professional league continues, Beijing time on November 15, 2021, snooker professional league ushered in the championship event showdown, Yan Bingtao and Ding Junhui of the Chinese legion strive to rush the championship, this championship has a total of four groups, each group of four players, Selby wants to win the first crown of the season is still difficult, the past eight years of the championship journey, Selby's best result is only to stay in the top four, Selby did not have a final experience, This competition Selby broke through the first round to usher in the test!
Selby is a four-time World Championship champion, before the last time to win the championship or last season's World Championship, this season Selby won the momentum of the decline, this season no grain, single season ranking point of view, Selby is not full of competitiveness, Selby this game and Yan Bingtao, Murphy, Gilbert in a group, this season Selby is only against Murphy to win the experience, Selby once won the British Open this season, the Northern Ireland Open faced Gilbert out, The English Open once faced Yan Bingtao was killed by the black ball of the Chinese lad, Selby's dominance is not as good as before, this season's grinding control play has been resisted, there are many influences on the rhythm of Selby's shot, always want to delay the time through tactical snooker, Selby has been warned by the referee many times this season, but also makes Selby's rhythm unstable, but also Selby's play!
Selby did not have much advantage over Gilbert in the first round, Selby had previously won 8 wins and 4 losses against Gilbert, but this season's confrontation, Selby did not have much advantage, and now The Potato Brother Gilbert is not what he used to be, getting the first crown of his career, breaking the curse of 0 crowns, confidence has increased greatly, Gilbert's worst result this season is only the round of 16, Gilbert is the most stable player of the season, after winning the Champions League, Gilbert ended 4 consecutive Asian, Gilbert, who is already 41 years old this year, continues to attack the second championship of his career, and Gilbert is quite confident to come to the championship stage for the first time as a champion!
Gilbert is obviously better than Selby, although there is no advantage in previous historical confrontations, gilbert attacks more decisively and more confidently, Selby's grinding control play is obviously difficult to stop Gilbert's progress, Gilbert has previously suffered in the 2019 Inge Open final, gilbert lost 1-9 to the opponent, and now Gilbert is still grumpy about the loss of the year, the world championship this long-set showdown, Selby is more advantageous, but the short game, Gilbert advantage is more obvious, Gilbert is capable of beating Selby and moving towards the second title of his career, and Gilbert is eager to be the dark horse of this competition again!