On January 5, 2022, the third group of the Snooker Champions League was born, China's Zhao Xintong and Xiao Guodong stood out and competed with Selby and Bingham, two world championship champions, to qualify for the promotion, Although Lu Ning failed to achieve another good result, he won the fifth place in the group and decided to join the fourth group to continue the competition, Joe. Perry, Ryan. Dai finished at the bottom with 1 win and 5 losses, and was eventually eliminated.
The Champions League is more special, seven players after six rounds of 5 rounds and 3 wins round robin, competing for the group four places, in the end only one person can advance to the winner group, the other three and the fifth place player joined the next group to continue the game, Ding Junhui, Yan Bingtao appeared in the sixth group, Liang Wenbo won the championship in the first group, Zhou Yuelong was eliminated, and Zhao Xintong, the champion of the Xinke Ying Championship, was expected.
At the end of the sixth round robin round robin in the third group, Zhao Xintong achieved a total winning record, ranking first to advance to the final four, winning consecutively Selby, Bingham, Xiao Guodong and Ryan. Dai, Joe. Perry, finally against Lu Ning, the first set Zhao Xintong played a single shot 58 points into the defense, Lu Ning made a mistake, Zhao Xintong completed the super score 90-0 first, in the second set Lu Ning seized the opportunity, played a single 71 points also in color.
Next, Zhao Xintong played a single shot 79 points to take the lead through the bench, the fourth set Lu Ning played a single shot 46 points to interrupt the attack, Zhao Xintong scored 36 points to turn into the defense, Lu Ning made a mistake to send a big gift, Zhao Xintong once again started to complete the super points to win the game, and finally defeated Lu Ning 3-1, winning six consecutive group games, Xiao Guodong brought the biggest impact to Zhao Xintong, and the two once played a decisive game.
At the same time of the game, Xiao Guodong lost 0-3 to the world's first Selby, only scored 4 points in three sets, Selby's state has rebounded, blasted out a single shot of 131 points, 108 points, 94 points, Xiao Guodong simply could not find any mobile phone meeting, but the result of this game has no impact on both sides, are locked in the top four seats in advance, Selby short-term results are OK, took the runner-up of the single limited time game.
The final results were Zhao Xintong 6 wins, Selby 4 wins and 2 losses, Xiao Guodong 4 wins and 2 losses, Bingham 3 wins and 3 losses, Lu Ning 2 wins and 4 losses, Qiao Guodong. Perry wins 1 win and 5 losses, Ryan. Dai won 1 and lost 5, the semi-final first place Zhao Xintong against the fourth place Bingham, the second place Selby against the third place Xiao Guodong, Lu Ning won the fifth place to join the fourth group, Joe . Perry, Ryan. Dai performed poorly and was eliminated.
In fact, for the four players who advanced to the semi-finals of the group, the previous results are not important, playing until now is to start over, it all depends on the personal on-the-spot play, Zhao Xintong, Xiao Guodong in the face of the world champion can create another good result, let us wait and see.