On 23 December, the Champions League, one of the world's snooker tours, concluded the second group competition, and in the final final, Scotland's Dort defeated China's Snooker's Ronin 3-1 to win the championship of this group and successfully advanced to the champions group final next February. In this group, there are two Chinese players, Xiao Guodong and Lu Ning, who after the group round robin, Lu Ning ranked second to advance to the semi-finals, and after a 3-2 victory over Perry, advanced to the final against Dort. Xiao Guodong ranked fifth, unfortunately did not have the opportunity to advance. During the match between Ronin and Perry, there was a moment of controversy, which led to the two speaking in and out of each other's matches.
The Champions League is a permanent event on the Snooker Tour, which has been increased to two times since last season, with the ranking version at the beginning of the season and the invitational tournament in the season. This season's ranking version of the Champions League finally fulfilled David Gilbert's ranking championship zero breakthrough. The invitational version of the Champions League is more like a red envelope event, because every time you win a game, every time you play a hundred, there will be a prize money. However, because there are no points, many high-level players are not interested in this, but give many middle and lower ranking players the opportunity to earn more bonuses and make a living.
In the first group competition that ended a few days ago, China's Liang Wenbo performed well and finally won the championship, becoming the first champion to advance to the final group, but another Chinese player, Zhou Yuelong, was unfortunately eliminated. In the second group, Ronin and Xiao Guodong joined forces, and there were 5 opponents in the same group, including Dort, Ryan Day, Lisowski, Joe Perry, gary Wilson and so on. After the group round robin, Ryan Dai and Lu Ning were both 4 wins and 2 losses, but due to the win-loss relationship between each other, Ryan Dai became the first, and Xiao Guodong ranked fifth with 3 wins and 3 losses, and unfortunately fell into the third group. In the semi-finals, Rouning and Dort both won 3-2, defeating Perry and Ryan Day respectively, and in the final, Dort defeated Ronin 3-1 to win the championship and successfully advanced to the final group.
In the semi-final between Ronin and Perry, there was a controversial moment, the fourth set of the two matches, After a defense of Lunin, lunin did not immediately return to his seat, but appeared in the field of view of Perry's bat, who immediately complained to the referee, Andruni could only walk back to his seat, but stomped the ground with his club and made a noise. However, Perry was not disturbed, scoring an extremely difficult bag-flipping ball.
And when Perry equalized and dragged it into the decider, Ronin also used the club to throw the white ball off the table, which was too indecent. However, in the end, Lu ning won 3-2 and successfully advanced to the final. Just after the game, when the two packed up their things and left the field, Perry was still chattering, looking for Lu ning's theory, but Lu Ning did not respond to him, turned around and left. Perry still looked for the referee to theorize about what had happened in the game. Regarding the questions that arose between the two in the game, especially Lu Ning, whether to pursue responsibility, still needs to be answered by the official, from the video footage, it should be that Lu Ning's behavior interfered with Perry's batting.