With Luka Brechel's winning snooker Scottish Open officially coming to an end, and another event, the Snooker World Grand Prix, follows, the players will be on their journey to win the championship again.
The World Grand Prix differs from regular ranking tournaments in that only the top thirty-two players in a single season are eligible to participate, with prize money of up to £100,000 for the champion and £40,000 for runners-up, and a maximum score of £10,000 for a single shot.
A total of three players from the Chinese snooker team were able to participate this time, namely the British Championship champions Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao and Cao Yupeng, and a brother Ding Junhui has fallen to 64 in the single season due to the continuous decline in status and finally failed to participate.
For fans, Zhao Xintong, who has just won the Championship in the British Championship, is undoubtedly the most concerned, with the British Championship champion's 200,000 pounds of bonus points, making Zhao Xintong leap to the top of the single season ranking position, and become the number one seed of this event.
However, although Zhao Xintong continued to fight as the first seed, he could not escape the law that he would be out after winning the championship, and in the first round of the World Grand Prix, Zhao Xintong was upset and defeated the "Glasses Man" Gould.
The whole duel between the two just started did not enter the state in time, through the zero knock to win a round, followed by a round Zhao Xintong blasted out more than 100 counter-scores, but then the wind suddenly changed, Zhao Xintong began to make more mistakes, Gould seized the opportunity to hit three consecutive shots 50 + and finally successfully advanced to 4:2.
In fact, for Zhao Xintong, who just won the championship and suffered a "round trip", it is not a bad thing, through this defeat may make him understand that a long career can not only stay in a championship, but also need to continue to improve to strengthen their own strength to continue to move forward.
Of course, It was not only Zhao Xintong who was unexpectedly out, mark Williams, who ranked fourth in the single season, was reversed by Lisovsky's Jedi in the first place to get the match point, and finally was killed in the first round in the decider.
Karen Wilson, who finished ninth in a single season, was hit by nine upsets, winning three consecutive sets to reach the match point with veteran Hamilton leading 2-0, but then being beaten by his opponent with two consecutive sets.
Another Chinese player, Yan Bingtao, became the most relaxed, in the first round of the match with Mark Jin, Yan Bingtao blasted a large number of over 100 to easily defeat his opponent to advance to the second round, and became the first Chinese player to qualify.
The last Chinese player of this World Grand Prix, Cao Yupeng, will meet the challenge of Mark Allen in the first round, Trump against Wollaston, O'Sullivan against Hicks, and who can break through to succeed We will wait and see.