With Ronnie O'Sullivan winning his 38th career title, the 2021 Snooker Grand Prix came to an end, and another event, the Champions League, came back to the flames.
Although the Champions League is an invitation tournament, although the prize money is small and cannot be counted in the rankings, this does not affect the active registration of players, including O'Sullivan, Higgins, Trump, Selby and many other top stars.
Chinese players are also collectively out this time, Yan Bingtao, Liang Wenbo, Xiao Guodong, Zhou Yuelong and others are also on the list, and snooker leader Ding Junhui is also registered for the Champions League again after three years.
The first group showdown in the Champions League brought good news to domestic fans, and in the first group of matches, Chinese snooker veteran Liang Wenbo played well, becoming the first player in the tournament to win the group championship and advance to the winner group first.
The first group of players included Dort, Lissovsky, Ryan Day, Gary Wilson, Zhou Yuelong and many other strong players, Liang Wenbo ranked second in the group round robin to advance to the group final stage, then defeated Ryan Day in the group semi-finals, and then defeated Lisovsky in the final to win the group championship.
Looking back at Liang Wenbo's group duel, it can be said that there is a feeling of dreaming back to the peak, not only bombing out a large number of 136 over 100, but also once reducing his average shot length to less than eighteen seconds, and the fans who witnessed the game also called Liang Wenbo "O'Sullivan possessed".
The main reason why Liang Wenbo won the group championship makes fans so excited and happy is because Liang Wenbo's results in recent years can be described as terrible, not to mention that it is difficult to see him in the final four and eight.
Now 34 years old, Liang Wenbo can be a veteran of China's snooker, and he thinks that he led snooker to a new height in China together with Ding Junhui and Tian Pengfei, and at that time all fans thought that Liang Wenbo had achieved more honors in the arena.
But Liang Wenbo, who has limited talent, is difficult to play his own piece of the world in the field of masters, except for the "cheering" when the fans remember winning the Championship in the English Open, Liang Wenbo rarely has the results to come up with.
The strong performance of this Champions League is also very gratifying to the fans, although it is only the group champion, but it is enough to see that Liang Wenbo has indeed recovered from his previous state, and Liang Wenbo has rarely revealed his heart in the face of interviews after winning the game.
Liang Wenbo said after the game: In the past few years, my results have been very bad, and I lack confidence in the game, and many fans have also disappointed me, but this year I saw Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong win the championship one after another, which also completely awakened my desire to win or lose, and I will do my best in the next game and strive to achieve the promise of winning the championship that year.
It has been exactly five years since Liang Wenbo won the first championship of his career ranking competition, and now it is sad to hear the veteran say these words from the heart as a fan, and hopes that Liang Wenbo will remain in good shape next, as he said, and try his best to play, even if he can't win the championship, at least he can be ashamed.