On January 3, 2022, the Snooker Champions League entered the third group competition, and three Chinese players Zhao Xintong, Xiao Guodong and Lu Ning played, and won the first round with a total victory, giving it to Selby, Bingham, Joe. Perry loses for the first time in the New Year, and Ronin fights Joe again. Perry received a lot of fan attention, And Ronin won the game with a steady play, and the two have met three times in a row in recent times, and it is Ronin who has won.
Just after his 28th birthday, Ronin is ranked 31st in the world and his career best is the Final Four of the British Championships, against Joe. Perry, 47, ranked 33rd, had won the title once, and recently won consecutive games against Ronin, and for a long time, Joe Berry won all of them. Perry didn't have any good results, often focusing on participation, and both had opportunities in short-term formats, but Ronin's stability was better.
Just in the second group game, Ronin defeated Joe. Perry advanced to the final, eventually losing to world champion Graeme. Dort didn't qualify when Ronin and Joe. Perry produced some small episodes, triggering controversy among outside fans, and afterwards Lu Ning explained the matter, publicly apologizing and mentioning that he was indeed too impulsive at the time to control his emotions, and then he would pay more attention to avoid problems.
In the first set, Ronin felt good, playing a single shot of 74 points to take the lead, Joe. Perry had too many defensive problems, the accuracy slipped badly, he tried to attack the bench and failed to score, and in the second set Ronin scored 22 points to turn into the defense, Joe. Perry had a great chance but failed to win with a single shot, taking a 57-30 lead to interrupt the attack, with 35 points left on the table, Ronin making a mistake, Joe. Perry completed the score to equalize 66-37.
In the third inning, Ronin scored 35 points to move into the defense, Joe. Perry seized the opportunity to play a single 79 points to win another set, 2-1 to win the match point, in the fourth set Ronin took a 50-0 lead, followed by 64-48 to complete the super score to win the set, the decider two mistakes continued, Ronin withstood the pressure, ended the game 69-36, and finally beat Joe 3-2. Perry, with a three-game winning streak.
At the same time, the world's first Selby suffered a losing streak, losing 3-0 to Zhao Xintong in the second round after losing 3-0 to Ryan in the second round. Day, in the first four innings Selby blasted out a single shot of 100 points, 62 points, Ryan. Dai blasted out a single shot of 113 points, winning two sets each to tie the tie, and the decider Ryan. Day scored a single 61 points and then made a high-quality snooker, Selby was freed to 16 points, and there were 75 points on the table.
Unexpectedly, Selby was over 2 points to choose to directly shake hands and concede defeat, in fact, not good at playing short games is on the one hand, Selby is in a very poor state in the near future, his playing style needs to be highly concentrated, but as he grows older, it is more and more difficult to do, and Xiao Guodong, a post-80s celebrity, narrowly defeated world champion Bingham 3-2 to achieve his first victory this year, and is expected to achieve good results next.