In the 5th round of the third group of the Snooker Champions League, Xiao Guodong won again, defeating Ryan Dai 3-1, winning 4 in the first five rounds, and advancing to the semi-finals in the first round. Counting Zhao Xintong, who advanced to the top 4 in the 2 rounds in advance, congratulations to the Chinese Snooker Legion: 2 people have advanced to the top 4 of the group in advance!
The seven players in this group are: Selby, Bingham, Zhao Xintong, Lu Ning, Xiao Guodong, Joe Perry and Ryan Day. The group single round robin tournament was played first, and the players in the top four of the single round robin standings were qualified to advance to the semi-finals. Semi-finals, finals, the final group champion to enter the championship group, compete for the final championship. The first two groups, Liang Wenbo and Graembdot, broke through successively. The third group has 2 world champions in Selby and Bingham, and the difficulty of breaking through with 3 Chinese players is still quite large.
The group single round robin is played over two days. On the first day, the Chinese Snooker Legion performed extremely well! Zhao Xintong led the way with 3 wins, Lu Ning and Xiao Guodong were both 2 wins and 1 loss, Selby 2 wins and 2 losses, and Bingham 1 win and 3 losses.
Entering the second day, the Chinese Snooker Army continued the excellent performance of the previous day. Zhao Xintong swept Joe Perry 3-0 to win four consecutive wins in advance to advance to the top 4 of the group. Xiao Guodong won three consecutive sets of big reversals in the first game of today, 3-2 to kill Lu Ning.
Next, in today's second game, Xiao Guodong continued to win, 3-1 Li Rick Ryan Dai, won his fourth personal round robin stage, becoming the second player in the group to advance to the group four.
It is worth mentioning that Xiao Guodong is in a very hot state today, 2 games, 3-1! 3-2！ A total of 4 shots broke the hundred! In the big reversal of Lu Ning's game, Xiao Guodong blasted out 131 points and 117 points respectively; in the match of defeating Ryan Dai, Xiao Guodong hit the single shot again by 113 points and 112 points. Zhao Xintong and Xiao Guodong advanced ahead of schedule, and then, the Chinese players in this group looked at Lu Ning.