On January 15, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker Masters 8 into 4 knockouts, the world's 1st Selby lost 1-6 to his friend Hawkins, after the game, Selby criticized himself on social media, "Playing too badly, never do it again!" ”
As the world's No. 1, Selby is a big hit after O'Sullivan, Higgins and other famous players are out. Now in the quarterfinals, his opponent is Hawkins, and the past two have played each other 20 times, and Selby has the upper hand with 12 wins and 8 losses. But in the Masters, Hawkins beat Selby 6-3, and that was in 2017.
In this campaign, Selby only won the third set, did not have a single high score, was in mediocre form, and could only grind with his opponent. Hawkins was significantly more efficient, and in the end, Selby lost 6-1!
After the game, Selby updated his social media, "If I had to do it all over again, I would never have played as badly as this one!" Good luck to opponent Hawkins and hope you win the championship! ”
The last time Selby won the Masters was in 2013, nine years have passed.
As for Barry Hawkins, his last final was in 2016, but he was swept 10-1 by O'Sullivan, a one-sided one-sided one. Barry Hawkins is in excellent form, his semi-final opponent is the world's 2nd Trump, whose last title was in 2019, when Trump beat O'Sullivan 10-4 to win the title.
In addition, in this competition, the Chinese players did not perform well, the defending champion Yan Bingtao and the Asian Championship champion Zhao Xintong are the first round of travel, I have to say that Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong are very young and very strong, but compared with other experienced opponents, there is still a gap. Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong's performance is not stable enough, as for the former world number one Ding Junhui, the state is even worse, because the ranking is not enough to directly miss this competition. Ding Junhui is only 34 years old, and he deserves to have a better state and performance.
In the world ranking, Zhao Xintong is 9th, Yan Bingtao is 15th, and Ding Junhui is only 29th!
Currently, the top 5 in the world are Selby, Trump, O'Sullivan, Neil Robertson and Karen Wilson.