The 2021 Snooker World Grand Prix is in full swing, with three members of the Chinese Legion competing in the World Grand Prix, two of whom were eliminated in the first round, including the top seed of the tournament, The Chinese player Zhao Xintong, who recently won the British Championship, zhao Xintong, with the "huge prize money" of the 2021 British Championship champion, became the player with the most money so far this season, and he became the number one seed of the Snooker World Grand Prix. However, it is regrettable that in the first round of the match with the "glasses man" Gould, Zhao Xintong played poorly, he unbelievably lost three consecutive sets in the case of a 2:1 lead, and finally lost the total score of 2:4 to the opponent, and was eliminated in the first round of the game. Martin Gould is not the top player in the world, he qualified for the World Grand Prix because he reached the round of 16 at the Scottish Open. For such players, many fans began to worry about Zhao Xintong, and winning the British Championship championship would not be a "flash in the pan" of Zhao Xintong's career.
In fact, it is not unreasonable for fans to have this worry, and we must admit that the overall level of Chinese snooker is not high, compared with the Players of the British Isles, the Chinese Legion is not a lot of people now, but it is difficult to say whether ding Junhui can replace Ding Junhui as the new leader of China's snooker. Although Ding Junhui has been in poor shape in recent years, his achievements are difficult for Chinese players to surpass in the short term, and at this stage, there will be no "talented players" like Ding Junhui in China, which is the current situation of China's snooker. Zhao Xintong, as one of the many outstanding players of China's snooker, has a considerable strength, but he is still quite far from the world's first-class players. Although he is the number one seed in the tournament, in fact, he is not the favorite to win the championship, and the strength of the "glasses man" Gould is not much different, although the game lost, but it is not a "upset", but he just won the British Championship championship, the first round of the Grand Prix was eliminated slightly "dazzling".
Now snooker competition is very fierce, is one of the most fiercely competitive sports in contemporary sports, the gap between players is not large, it is difficult to have a player can monopolize the championship of large and small games, "Rocket" O'Sullivan also won one or two ranking championships every season, last season he won five consecutive runners-up, it can be seen how close the level between players is, it is difficult for players to be unique. In recent years, in order to promote snooker and let more players participate in snooker, most of the matches are in the short-term format before the championship and runner-up finals, which greatly increases the contingency of the game, many ranking matches will break out of the big cold, Trump in the past two seasons of the big package situation is difficult to appear again. Of course, as a world second-rate player, Zhao Xintong is actually the beneficiary of this rule, and he has the opportunity to defeat other world top masters in future competitions.
Whether Zhao Xintong will be a "flash in the pan" is still difficult to say, but one thing is certain, in the field of snooker where masters gather, it is very difficult to get a ranking championship, and many famous players have won two or three ranking championships in their careers. Liang Wenbo, who was on a par with Ding Junhui in the early years, has so far won a ranking championship, and Yan Bingtao, who is known as Ding Junhui's "successor", has actually won a ranking championship, and he successfully reached the top at the 2019 Lijia Masters. Xiao Guodong, Cao Yupeng, Zhou Yuelong and others who have not yet won the ranking championship, and the world famous Lisovsky has not won a ranking championship so far, if only measured by the number of champions, Zhao Xintong's victory in the British Championship is only a "flash in the pan" is not impossible. Zhao Xintong was once favored by O'Sullivan, especially Zhao Xintong's attack has a considerable strength, but his defensive and goal skills need to be further improved, the offensive ability of professional snooker players is very strong, any large loophole will basically become an opportunity for the opponent to win, Zhao Xintong wants to become the world's top player, he also needs to comprehensively improve himself.