In the early morning of January 5, Beijing time, the snooker Champions League (Invitational) ended the group 3 competition, China's Zhao Xintong performed well, won all 6 games in the round robin stage, and won the next group semi-finals and finals, with 8 full victories to advance to the championship group, world champions Selby and Bingham, as well as China's Xiao Guodong and Lu Ning, 4 people postponed to the 4th group of competition, the 4th group Hawkins withdrew from the Donaldson substitute, in addition to Trump and Karen Wilson added a new appearance.
List of champions: Liang Wenbo, Dort, Zhao Xintong
Group 4 list: Selby, Trump, K. Wilson, Bingham, Xiao Guodong, Lu Ning, Donaldson
This is the second event that Zhao Xintong has participated in since winning the Championship, the first round of the World Grand Prix, the Champions League once again showed the championship style, 6 round-robin games won all and set a strong performance of 14 net wins, in the semi-finals 3-1 again Li Kebingham, in the 3rd group three kills the world champion, and in the match with Ryan Day blasted 2 strokes to break the hundred, to achieve the 100th career achievement, Zhao Xintong also became China's 9th, the world's 75th professional player to achieve this achievement, At present, Zhao Xintong's total number of broken hundreds has reached 101.
On the other side, Xiao Guodong defeated Selby 3-1, contributing to the first "Chinese derby" in the history of the Champions League group final, the two fought until the decider in the final to divide the victory and defeat, and finally Zhao Xintong completed the kill with a shot of 66 points in the decider, and the first battle was set to break through the champion group master Liang Wenbo, which is also the first time in the history of the Champions League that there are 2 or more Chinese players in the championship group, and then Xiao Guodong and Lu Ning have not been eliminated, Ding Junhui and Yan Bingtao have not yet appeared, whether the Chinese players in the championship group can still reach a new high, Let's wait and see.