On January 17, the 2022 Snooker Champions League began the sixth group competition, in the first day of fierce fighting, after nine years of re-registration of the Chinese snooker brother Ding Junhui and Yan Bingtao staged a Chinese civil war, and finally Ding Junhui lost 1-3, failed to achieve the 2022 opening red, but in the other two group matchups, he won 3-2, with a score of 1 win and 2 losses, temporarily ranked fourth in the group, still expected to advance. Yan Bingtao is temporarily ranked first in the group with 3 wins and 1 loss, and Carter and Gould are ranked second and third respectively. Karen Wilson, a post-90s brother in the world's fifth place, performed poorly, temporarily in fifth place with 1 win and 2 losses, while Serte and Jordan Brown were in the knockout zone.
As a classic invitational tournament, the Champions League attracts many famous players to participate in each season, and since two years ago, it has been divided into a ranking version and an invitational version, making Karen Wilson and David Gilbert two new ranking champions. But the Champions League has not appealed to Ding Junhui for a long time, because since the 2012-2013 season, Ding Junhui has not appeared in the Champions League for nine years. But this year, he signed up to participate, not for anything else, just to increase the chances of participating, to maintain the feel and state, after all, the world ranking has fallen out of the top 16, fell to the world's 29th place, missed a series of high-ranking seed events, need more opportunities to make themselves have a sense of existence.
In the five group competitions that have ended before, the Chinese team performed well, Liang Wenbo and Zhao Xintong won the championships of the first group and the third group respectively, while Dort, Bingham and Donaldson won the championship of the other three groups, and the Chinese player Lu Ning, who can be called the "labor model", reached the fifth group from the second group, although he failed to qualify, but he earned a lot of money by participating in consecutive competitions. In the sixth group competition, in addition to Yan Bingtao and Ding Junhui, there are 5 players such as Karen Wilson, Carter, Gould, Serte, Jordan Brown, etc., of which Serte is the substitute for retired Walton.
In the game of the day, Ding Junhui's first matchup was the Chinese derby, against Yan Bingtao, Ding Junhui showed a good state of 97 points in the first set, but then was beaten by Yan Bingtao, with 138 points, as well as 71 points and 58 points, the total score was 3-1, Ding Junhui regretted that he could not win the debut victory in 2022. However, in the next two games, Ding Junhui won 3-2 in two consecutive games, winning against Serte and Gould respectively. Yan Bingtao defeated Carter and Jordan Brown 3-1 and 3-0 respectively, but lost to Serter 2-3, temporarily ranking first with 3 wins and 1 loss on the first day, the remaining two games will be against Wilson and Gould, while Ding Junhui will play against Wilson, Carter and Brown in the remaining three games, and if you want to advance to the final four, you need to win at least two wins.