On January 3, 2022, the third group of the Snooker Champions League began, and the Chinese genius Zhao Xintong opened the opening round against the world's no. 1 Mark. Selby, Zhao Xintong won three consecutive sets and won the group stage, giving the world's first defeat.
The Champions League requires seven groups to decide to advance to the winner's bracket and compete for the final championship, with Chinese star Liang Wenbo and past champion Graeme. Dot stood out and won the first place in the group, and now plays in the third group, Selby, Zhao Xintong, Bingham, Xiao Guodong, Lu Ning, Ryan. Dai, Joe. Perry began to compete, and the world's number one Selby was the biggest hit.
The three groups of these seven players have strong strength, of which five have won the championship, Selby, Bingham is the world champion, Xiao Guodong, Lu Ning also had a good performance, Zhao Xintong won the British Championship last year, creating a new history, becoming the second Chinese player to reach the top of the British Championship after Ding Junhui, and then he will play in the Masters, which is expected to achieve another good result.
It is worth mentioning that Zhao Xintong was originally a member of the second group, and later he chose to give up his qualifications, and Xiao Guodong was shortlisted as a substitute, and the result was Mark. Williams temporarily announced his retirement, Zhao Xintong changed his mind, applied to participate in this competition, obtained the consent of the World Taiwan Federation, and finally three Chinese players competed in the same group, depending on who could seize the opportunity to come to the short-term system to see their personal on-the-spot performance.
The world's first Selby has won the World Championship four times, is the best post-80s player in the competition, only one British Championship champion away from the three laps of the Grand Slam, but this season his competitive state has seriously declined, especially the stability is very poor, often there are all kinds of inexplicable mistakes, key ball opportunities can not be grasped, as he grows older, it is becoming more and more difficult to concentrate.
Zhao Xintong is 24 years old, ranked 9th in the world, just last year's British Championships, he also finally made a breakthrough, won the first ranking championship of his career, and is a British Championship with a high gold content, he is currently the highest ranked Chinese player, and is expected by everyone.
Group stage 5 innings 3 wins, the first set Selby defense is not in place, Zhao Xintong played a single shot 63 points to interrupt the attack, Selby repeatedly started to chase points, but still Zhao Xintong to 72-42 to complete the super score, the first to pull out the head to bring pressure to Selby, in the second set Selby played a single shot 58 points There was a major mistake, Zhao Xintong got 33 points to turn into defense, Selby gave gifts many times, Zhao Xintong cleared the platform 68-65 narrowly.
Next, Zhao Xintong did not carelessly, steadily played to take a 54-0 lead, Selby defense once again had problems, Zhao Xintong seized the opportunity to end the game, and finally swept Selby 3-0 to win the world first.