On the evening of January 10, Beijing time, the Snooker 2022 Masters settled another 1/8 final in London, England, and Zhao Xintong, a Chinese rising star and The British Championship Novelty Champion, performed poorly in the duel with the wizard, and finally was swept out of the first round by the opponent, so far, the Chinese Legion was completely destroyed.
This is a high-profile focus battle, all because at the British Championship a month ago, Zhao Xintong, the 10th seed of this Masters, stepped on the Scottish wizard John. Higgins' shoulder cross will win his first professional ranking tournament and the first three major tournaments.
The two sides have played each other 7 times before, Zhao Xintong has the upper hand to win 4 of them, but also won 3 consecutive wins, the last move between the two was in the third round of the British Championship a month ago, Higgins once grabbed the match point 5-3, the result was Zhao Xintong crazy counterattack, and finally successfully overturned by the latter with an aggregate score of 5-6.
This battle met again, Higgins attached great importance to it, seized Zhao Xintong to push away the red ball mistake, and directly blasted out a single shot to break the hundred to win the first place 1-0.
However, Zhao Xintong soon returned to color in the 2nd inning.
Higgins was jealous of Zhao Xintong's accuracy, when doing active defense, the mother ball was almost close to the top library, winning a round of applause, Zhao Xintong pondered after the strong attack on the far platform edge library difficult red ball hit fierce applause, after starting to hit the four single shot skills shocked four 128 points to break the hundred, the score was pulled to a 1-1 draw.
Once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of well rope. Higgins repeatedly used a rigorous safety ball in the 3rd set to defend himself and successfully curbed Zhao Xintong's attack to win the round 2-1.
In the 4th set, Higgins took the initiative to attack, with a combo to run into the far platform to get a start, through multi-shot intensive cultivation to play to the super point, Zhao Xintong tried to counterattack without success, helpless to end the first half 1-3.
After the innings, Zhao Xintong frequently showed flaws in the offensive and defensive ends, and was bombarded by Higgins to close the match point to 4-1 in two consecutive sets.
Although Zhao Gongzi won the 6th set of the fight, he was ultimately unable to return to the sky, and was swept out of the first round with an aggregate score of 2-6.
At this point, the Chinese legion was completely destroyed, and all of them staged a round of travel.
Comments:
After Higgins suffered a big loss in the British Championship, it is not difficult to see that the wizard attaches great importance to this game, and adopts appropriate tactics to curb Zhao Gongzi's attack with strict defense, which is the key to this game, and it is obviously a loss for the accuracy type player.
People are afraid of being famous pigs are afraid of strong, and in the future, targeted tactics will stare at Zhao Xintong's opponents, hoping that Xiao Zhao will maintain a normal heart and strive to do a good job of himself, and the journey to win the championship will only become more and more spacious.