On November 24, Beijing time, the first round of the 2021 snooker Championship officially began. In the early morning of this morning, Ding Junhui's disciple, China's youngster Scarlett Shi Jiahui defeated the famous Shaun Murphy 6-5, who won the world championship and 11 ranking championships, the world ranking has been stable in the top ten for a long time, there is no doubt that there is a clear gap in strength, but the game process is completely unexpected.
Perhaps in the face of a strong enemy, Scarlett has no psychological baggage at all, dares to fight in the opening stage, sees the opportunity without being soft, and once played a 5-1 score, but at the beginning of the seventh inning, Murphy launched a fierce counterattack, continuously playing a single high score, chasing the score to 5-5, but the decider, Scarlett customized pressure, seized Murphy's fatal color ball mistake, successfully started to lock the win, and finally defeated Murphy 6-5 to advance to the second round.
As a first-class player in active service, the British Championship was eliminated by the "no-name player" and suffered a round of travel, it is true that the face is lightless, but Murphy did not show the style of a general after the game, but some incompetent rage, in the interview, he bluntly said: "Amateur players should not be allowed to play in professional competitions, I look like a grumpy old man, but the young man should not participate in this event, this is unfair and wrong." ”
Murphy believes that amateur players like Scarlett play like him for a living, that playing games does not require any ideological baggage, that they can let go, and that having to be cautious is counterproductive, which he believes is unfair. I have to say that the excuse Murphy made is really too clumsy, he really needs to play games to make money to live, but the accumulated bonuses obtained by players of his level do not have to worry about survival at all, saying that he carries ideological baggage in order to make a living is ridiculous.
In addition, snooker in some events to let young amateur players and top professional players compete in the same level of competition, in fact, for young players, it is difficult to find the opportunity to win to accumulate confidence, to say that unfair should also be for them, after all, snooker will not set too many secondary leagues, this game Scarlett does not have any means to win, winning quite beautiful, can only say that if Murphy plays with this mentality, it is not impossible for amateur players to overturn again in the later games.