In the early morning of December 21, Beijing time, the third round of the first group of the Snooker Champions League, Chinese rising star Zhou Yuelong finally ushered in the first win, after losing the first two games 1-3 in a row, Zhou Yuelong defeated Tomford 3-1, not easy!
In the first two rounds, Zhou Yuelong lost 1-3 to Lissovsky in the first match, and lost 1-3 to Graeme Dort in the second round, suffering two consecutive defeats. In the third round, Zhou Yuelong welcomed Tomford, and in the first two rounds, Tomford also suffered two consecutive defeats, losing 1-3 to Graeme Dort and losing 2-3 to Ryan Day.
In the first set, Zhou Yuelong scored a single 81 points to win! In the second set, Tomford scored 68 points to pull back a city. In the third set, Zhou Yuelong scored another 61 points to win 66-33. In the fourth set, Zhou Yuelong blasted a single shot to break 116 points to win, thus beating Tomford 3-1 by the General Bureau.
It is worth mentioning that in the first two rounds of the game, Zhou Yuelong did not play any single shot 50+, this battle, facing Tomford, Zhou Yuelong was able to get rid of the slump of the previous game, blasting out 3 pars 60+, and one shot to break the hundred, which was not easy!
This Champions League is an invitational tournament, and the group qualifying rule is that only the final first place can directly qualify, because the world champion Graeme Dort of the same group has won 3 consecutive wins in the first three rounds of the group stage, so Zhou Yuelong's group qualifying situation is still extremely grim!
In addition, another Chinese player in this group, Liang Wenbo, has also achieved 2 consecutive wins in the first two rounds of matches he has finished, so Zhou Yuelong's qualifying situation is even more unfavorable!