In the early morning of November 29, Beijing time, the snooker Championship ended the second round of competition. As a result, the Chinese legion suffered heavy losses, with 12 men fighting and 7 out. According to the current momentum, it is difficult to see the Chinese players in the final final.
Ding Junhui and Yan Bingtao
In the first round of the British Championship, a total of 26 Chinese players played and 12 advanced. However, with the strengthening of opponents in the second round, the Chinese players ushered in a real challenge, and in the end, only Xiao Guodong, Zhou Yuelong, Zhao Xintong, Cao Yupeng and Wu Yize broke through, and the other 7 were eliminated. Among them, Ding Junhui and Yan Bingtao, who had high hopes, lost in a surprisingly similar process, both lost to third-rate players who ranked 50 away, and the final score was 3-6.
Yan Bingtao lost 3-6 to Wollaston
Yan Bingtao, known as the "strongest post-00s", won the championship by pressing Higgins at the Masters last year, and his strength is obvious to all. However, after 6-0 clean sheets in the first round of this British Championship, Wu Anyi was in no state in the second round. Facing Wollaston, ranked 53rd in the world, Yan Bingtao lost the star of the far platform and repeatedly failed to give his opponents a chance. As a result, Wollaston played Yan Bingtao a 3-1 in the first half. After returning from rest, Yan Bingtao was stunned in the fifth set in the case of 62-31 super points, the yellow ball did not score, was chased by Wollaston to 62 draws, and then lost in the black race, losing another set 62-69, and the big score was 1-4 behind. After that, although Yan Bingtao won two sets, he finally handed over the game 3-6.
Coincidentally. After Yan Bingtao was out, the eldest brother Ding Junhui copied Yan Bingtao's trajectory. Ding Junhui's opponent in the second round is Craig, who is ranked 55th in the world. But after watching the actual combat performance, I felt that Ding Junhui was ranked 50 meters away, and the opponent was the top sixteen seeded players. Whether it is the accuracy of the cosmodrome platform or the quality of the defense, the opponent is better, and Ding Junhui's simple mistakes are much higher than the opponent. As a result, Ding Junhui fell behind 1-3 in the first half. Returning from intermission, although Ding Junhui equalized in two consecutive sets, the match was taken over by Cregie, who won three consecutive sets to end the game 6-3, two of which Ding Junhui scored zero.
Also lost to the third-rate players outside the 50, also lost 3-6, the strongest two of the Chinese legion bid farewell to the Asian Championship in a similar way, which is really regrettable.