On the evening of January 5, Beijing time, the fourth group of the snooker Champions League, Lu Ning lost 1-3 to the world's 5th Karen Wilson, and the first game of the group round robin was lost, encountering a black opening.
Lu Ning fell from the previous group, before, in the third group game, Lu Ning group round robin began with 2 consecutive wins, successively 3-2 killed Joe Perry, 3-0 swept Ryan Dai, but after that, Lu Ning began to lose streak, 1-3 Selby, 2-3 Xiao Guodong, 2-3 Bingham, 1-3 Zhao Xintong, 4 consecutive defeats, the total record of 2 wins and 4 losses did not qualify for the group, fortunately, Lu Ning did not finish at the bottom of the third group, so Lu Ning extended to the fourth group, there is still a theoretical hope of reaching the championship group.
The fourth group is called the death group, and 3 of the world's top five are in this group: the world's first Selby, the world's second Trump, and the world's fifth Karen Wilson. In addition, this group also includes world champion Bingham and Xiao Guodong, who reached the third group final. In terms of overall strength on paper, this group, Ronin is only a little stronger than Donaldson.
In the group's opening game, Ronin challenged the world's fifth-placed Karen Wilson. In the first set, Karen Wilson scored 70 points to win. In the second set, Karen Wilson blasted a single shot to break 102 points. In the third set, Ronin finally returned the favor with a single shot of 88 points. In the fourth inning, Karen Wilson scored another 53 points to make it 84-71 and the general manager finished the game 3-1. In this campaign, Karen Wilson was in a brave state, 3 shots of 50+ in a row, including a break of 100, Ronin could not match the opponent in offensive firepower, and the rhythm of the game was completely controlled by Karen Wilson, and It was reasonable for Ronin to lose.
From the third group to the fourth group, Lu Ning went from 2 consecutive wins to 5 consecutive defeats, and the post-90s Chinese celebrity who had reached the final four of the British Championship had a big slide. From the reality, the strength of this group of players is indeed too strong, and Lu Ning's goal should be to avoid being directly eliminated at the bottom.