After New Year's Day, Snooker also officially entered the 2022 season, and the new year's opening event is one of the three major masters, although this event is not a ranking competition, but the 250,000 pounds of championship prize money and gold content for the sixteen players are self-evident.
As we all know, the Masters only invited the world's top sixteen players to participate, and this time the Chinese snooker army got two tickets, namely Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao (ranked ninth and fifteenth respectively), while the "first brother" Ding Junhui was not selected.
Familiar fans are well aware that Ding Junhui has not won the ranking championship since winning the British Championship two years ago, coupled with frequent rounds of travel, which has officially fallen out of the top 16 after deducting bonus points, and missed the Masters for the first time after 15 years.
For Ding Junhui himself, 2021 can be described as a mixture of sad and happy, the joy is that Ding Junhui has successfully entered the business field and done a good job, and has gained about seven million fans on a short video platform, and various endorsement activities have emerged in an endless stream.
Sadly, Ding Junhui, as the leader of China's snooker, has performed badly this year, and the former domestic snooker first has declined seriously, and now it is not only difficult to win the ranking championship, but even a high-quality competition is difficult to dedicate.
The 34-year-old Ding Junhui is actually far from the peak of the time, to know that the post-80s players Selby and Robertson are still competing for the championship, and both of them are almost 40 years old.
Nowadays, Ding Junhui's worse and worse state has also made many fans heartbroken, and most fans have said that they will never watch Ding Junhui's game again, turn around and open the live broadcast and then sigh helplessly after the game: This can even lose.
Looking back on this year, Ding Junhui has never come forward to refute or explain in the face of the insults of the outside world and fans, and on the occasion of the New Year, Ding Junhui, who has been silent for a long time, finally appeared and gave a domineering response.
On a social platform, Ding Junhui released a short video to review his past in 2021 and summarized his 2021, the most important thing is the passage written by Ding Junhui: I never thought I would always be in a trough, but I believe that I will try to find the best of myself.
Rarely, this is one of the few words that Ding Junhui has made in response to his performance in the past year, and from this passage, it also shows the determination and fighting spirit contained in Ding Junhui's new season, at least he believes that he can find himself again.
Although Ding Junhui cannot participate in many competitions in 2022 due to the gap in rankings, Ding Junhui, who vows to find himself, has signed up for single-time limited time and the Champions League again after many years, which is also very gratifying for fans.
Although Ding Junhui has hurt fans in recent years, I believe that most fans are still waiting for the day when Ding Junhui plays the return of the king, and even more look forward to the day when he reaches the summit of Crucible.