On November 23, the World Snooker Tour British Championship will be in full swing, as one of the three most important ranking competitions of the season, the British Championship has become a classic event for all professional players to strive for results. Defending champion Robertson leads the race, ding Junhui, who won the British Championship for the third time in 2019, will also embark on another journey to the championship, and this is a very crucial competition, because after this year's British Championship, Ding Junhui's 200,000 winning points two years ago will be deducted, if he can't achieve good enough results in this year's competition, then his world ranking will fall out of the top 16 again, missing the seeding place in subsequent competitions.
In fact, in recent seasons, as a brother of China's snooker, Ding Junhui, the overall performance is dismal, if it were not for the strong victory in the British Championship two years ago, he would have fallen behind long ago, away from the ranks of the world's top 16, after all, in addition to the British Championship, he has no good performance in other competitions, and even the best result is only the top eight. Therefore, many fans have ridiculed that Ding Junhui relied on a British Championship champion to enjoy the seed welfare treatment of the top 16 in the world ranking for two seasons. Now, with the arrival of the two-year cycle node, about to deduct the championship points, Ding Junhui's ranking crisis has officially arrived, whether he can keep the top 16, or completely fall out, all depends on his performance in the next half month.
So far in the new season, Ding Junhui has only participated in three races, the overall results are dismal, the German Masters qualifier round trip, the English Open in the fourth round was blocked by Higgins, followed by the first round of the group stage of the invitation to the championship, and Ding Junhui achieved a big reversal in the case of falling behind. Interestingly, in this British Championship, Ding Junhui and Higgins are narrow, both of them are divided into 3/4 zones, if the two successfully advance, they will meet in the fourth round to compete for a place in the top 8. But the premise is that Ding Junhui needs to go through the first three rounds of testing, the first round he will start a civil war with Zhang Anda, coincidentally, in the first round of the Scottish Open in December, Ding Junhui will also start a civil war with Zhang Anda.
For Ding Junhui's performance and encounters in these seasons, many Chinese fans, especially the hardcore fans who have long supported him, have broken their hearts. Everyone hopes that their idols can always maintain a super high level of performance and achievements, and the occasional troughs and ups and downs are acceptable, as long as they always maintain an enterprising spirit and competitive spirit. But with the passage of time, Ding Junhui's performance and speech in various competitions make people feel that the domineering Chinese Ding has ceased to exist, and his time and energy are no longer all devoted to the snooker cause he once fought for. Too much of the on-the-spot affairs occupy the original training game time, it is conceivable that it needs to pay a price, and even the talented genius also needs the continuous efforts of the day after tomorrow, otherwise it is an injury to Zhongyong.
To borrow a sentence from a certain Ding Junhui fan to summarize the attitude of many fans to their former idols. "Ding junhui is getting farther and farther away, because Ding Junhui likes snooker, and because Ding Junhui hates snooker, he is now particularly rejecting Ding's game." I hope that such a situation is only a temporary illusion, after all, only if you love deeply, there will be a cry from the bottom of your heart. If one day, mourning is greater than heart death, I am afraid that it is a sad moment when an idol is truly forgotten.