From the evening of January 3 to the early morning of January 4, Beijing time, the 3rd group of the snooker Champions League, NO.1 Selby, was in a slump, the first game was 0-3 defeated by Zhao Xintong, the second game was killed by Ryan Dai 2-3, and suffered 2 consecutive defeats in the 2022 New Year! China's snooker legion is a triumphant song, the first 5 games of the group stage to maintain a full victory, of which, Zhao Xintong played crazy, winning 2 world champions Selby and Bingham, Xiao Guodong also defeated Bingham 3-2 in the first round, And Lu Ning and Zhao Xintong also won 2 consecutive wins in the first two rounds.
At the end of 2021, Liang Wenbo and Graembdot became the champions of Group 1 and Group 2 respectively, breaking through from group to championship group. The 3rd group, Selby, Bingham, Zhao Xintong, Lu Ning, Xiao Guodong, Ryan Dai, Joe Perry 7 people, of which Selby is now the world's first, Bingham and Selby are world champions, 3 Chinese players face a lot of pressure, it seems that the Chinese players are very difficult to qualify.
However, the group opener broke out in the big cold, Zhao Xintong 3-0 zero sheet Selby! In the first set, Zhao Xintong took the lead in scoring a single 63 points, winning the first set. In the second set, Selby scored 58 points in return, but Zhao Xintong narrowly won 68-65. In the third set, Zhao Xintong scored 52 points, 106-0 clean sheets, and the General Bureau score also won 3-0 Selby.
Also in the first round of the group stage, Xiao Guodong also sent a good news, killing another world champion in this group, Bingham, with the General Bureau 3-2. In the first set, Xiao Guodong 78-8 went to the next city first. In the second set, Bingham scored 55 points to pull back a city 77-6. In the third set, Bingham won 98-12. In the fourth set, Xiao Guodong scored 68 points and won 90-4. In the decider, Xiao Guodong won 65-35.
In another group first-round match, Ronin beat Joe Perry 3-2 with a 5-set score (Ronin in front): 100 (par 74 points), 19, 37-66, 35-86 (par 79), 64-48, 69-36. It is worth mentioning that in the previous game, Lu Ning had an unpleasant encounter with Joe Perry, and after the end of this game, Lu Ning shook hands with Joe Perry to release the previous suspicions!
The second round of the game broke out again! Following the first round of the first round 3-0 sweep of the world's first Selby, Zhao Xintong welcomed another world champion in this group, Bingham! In the first set, Zhao Xintong won 71-24; in the second set, Bingham scored 100 points to equalize the general bureau points; in the third set, Zhao Xintong won 89-1; in the fourth set, Zhao Xintong scored 73 points, 74-28 win, and the general bureau scored 3-1 Rick Bingham, overturning the world championship for 2 consecutive rounds, a bit crazy feeling!
Not only Zhao Xintong, Xiao Guodong and Lu Ning's performance is also very competitive, as of Lu Ning's 3-0 defeat of Ryan Dai in the second round, China Snooker has won all 5 games in this group + 2 consecutive world champions.
Originally the most optimistic Selby and Bingham but in the first two rounds of the group stage lost, of which the current snooker NO.1 Selby is temporarily at the bottom of the group with a score disadvantage, both are world champions, Selby is still the current world number one, such a result is indeed a big cold, very surprising.