On the morning of January 18, Beijing time, the sixth group of the 2021-2022 World Snooker Champions League ended the first day of competition, and the mainland star Ding Junhui had a record of 2 wins and 1 loss, temporarily ranking 4th, and Yan Bingtao led the standings with 3 wins and 1 loss.
Ding Junhui is a member of the Snooker 80s Tigers, who has won a total of 14 major ranking championships, including 3 British Championship trophies, and also won the Masters in 2011, known as the first person in the history of Asian snooker. However, due to the failure to play the true level of the last two seasons, coupled with the deduction of bonus points at the 2019 British Championship, Ding Junhui lost the long-occupied TOP16 position, and the world ranking slipped to 29th.
Nowadays, the professional snooker field is extremely competitive. 75 Sanjie Bao dao is not old, standing side by side in the world's top 10, Selby, Trump, Robertson, Murphy, Allen and other post-80s generation gradually began to play the role of mainstay, Karen Wilson, Zhao Xintong, Brechel and other post-90s players and post-00s Yan Bingtao has also shown a good impact... Therefore, for Ding Junhui, on the road to reviving the oriental ball king, it is necessary to start from a little bit, although the difficulty can be imagined, but we believe in his heritage.
In addition to Ding Junhui, the other six players in the sixth Champions League are Yan Bingtao, Carter, Gould, Karen Wilson, Matthew Celt and Jordan Brown. Ding Junhui played against Yan Bingtao in the first game, ding Junhui exploded a single shot 97 points to get a starter in the first set; in the second set, Yan Bingtao scored 138 points in response; in the third set, Ding Junhui scored 63 points, but Yan Bingtao performed better, with a single shot of 71 points to lock in the win; in the fourth set, Yan Bingtao single shot 58 fixed the score to 3-1.
Despite his unfavorable appearance, Ding Junhui quickly adjusted himself, facing World No. 26 Matthew Sert in the second game, who scored a single 67 and 84 points in the second and third sets to win - after a 2-2 draw, Ding Junhui output a single shot of 54 points of firepower, and won the first victory.
In the third game against the world's 19th-ranked spectacled man Gould, Ding Junhui once again tangled with his opponent until the decider, and at the last moment, with a single-shot 58-point attack, he once again narrowly won 3-2. It is worth mentioning that in this game, Ding Junhui also played a single 50+ attack in the first and third sets, and overall calculated that he played a total of 8 strokes of 50+ on the first three games, and the offensive feel was obviously much better than when he just returned to England this season.
Yan Bingtao played a total of four games on the first day, in addition to playing with Ding Junhui, his other three games were 3-1 against Carter, 2-3 to Matthew Sert, and 3-0 clean sheets to Jordan Brown. In the standings, Yan Bingtao temporarily led with 3 wins and 1 loss, Captain Carter ranked second with 2 wins and 2 losses, Gould and Ding Junhui were both 2 wins and 1 loss, the glasses man small score rule prevailed, temporarily ranked 3rd, and Ding Junhui ranked 4th. Lugo, Selter and Brown ranked 5 to 7th.