The world champion loses to the Chinese player! Zhao Xintong's group won the championship, and Xiao Guodong Lu Ning will fight Trump

On January 5, 2022, Beijing time, the snooker Champions League ended the battle in group 3, and the two world champions Selby and Bingham lost to Xiao Guodong and Zhao Xintong in the semifinals. In the end, the British Champion Zhao Xintong narrowly defeated Xiao Guodong 3-2 in the final to win the group championship and enter the winner group, Xiao Guodong and Lu Ning entered the 4th group to meet Trump.

World champion Selby Bingham also lost to The Chinese

Group 3 was fiercely competitive, with three Chinese players, Zhao Xintong, Xiao Guodong and Lu Ning, as well as Mark Selby, Bingham, Joe Perry and Ryan Day.

In particular, Zhao Xintong performed particularly well, in the group stage, Zhao Xintong won all 6 games to advance to the knockout round as the first in the group, during which he was 3-0 Selby, 3-0 Joe Perry, 3-0 Ryan Dai. The first race of the new year, Zhao Xintong can be congratulated.

Similarly, Xiao Guodong also performed well, with 4 wins and 2 and world number 1 Selby both accumulating 4 points to rank 3rd in the group and enter the knockout round. In addition, Stuart Bingham won 3-3 and took the last train into the knockout round to meet Zhao Xintong. In the semifinals of the knockout round, Xiao Guodong advanced to the final with a 3-stroke 70 plus defeat to Selby.

Zhao Xintong continued to have a good hand against Bingham to take a 2-1 lead with 52 points, 136 points and 92 points. In the fourth set, the two fell into a bitter battle and finally Zhao Xintong locked up the final with Xiao Guodong to win 70-22.

In the final, Xiao Guodong gave a big gift to assist Zhao Xintong to advance to the championship group

In the final, the two Chinese staged a derby, starting with Zhao Xintong's single 90-point clean sheet to open the door, and then struggling to win the second set to get the match point. Not to be outdone, Xiao Guodong scored two consecutive clean sheets of 95 and 96 points to drag the game into the decider.

In the 5th set, Xiao Guodong took the lead, but unfortunately, after scoring the red ball, he made an excellent simple mistake in attacking the color ball, and the good situation was handed over to his compatriots. Zhao Xintong seized the opportunity to win the decider with 66 points and successfully advanced to the championship. Xiao Guodong was defeated and did not qualify for the championship group.

Xiao Guodong joined Runin Selby to enter Group 4 of the league

According to the rules of the Champions League, Ryan Day and Joe Perry, who were no. 1 and no. 2 in the group, were eliminated. Xiao Guodong joined With Lu Ning, Selby and Bingham into the 4th Group to continue fighting.

Group 4 also includes World No. 2 Trump, post-90s leader Karen Wilson and Donaldson. There is no doubt that for Xiao Guodong and Lu Ning, two Chinese players, this group of competitions will be more difficult.

In this Champions League, China's Liang Wenbo won the first group in Group 1, and Zhao Xintong won. It is hoped that Xiao Guodong and Lu Ning will maintain their combat effectiveness and achieve good results.