Snooker fans' carnival, the annual single-time limited time tournament kicks off tonight. A single-time limited time tournament, as the name suggests, is a game that requires strength and luck. Why, here's a fact: since the tournament was launched in 2011, no top 16 player has won the championship, and no player outside the world ranking 64 has been able to reach the final.
Of course, there are still some cattle people who are suitable for singles limited time matches. For example, fast baller Tachaia Uno won the 2019 singles limited time competition, and was excited in an interview after the game, admitting that he was very suitable for this game. The assassin Holt, who usually has average results, reached the single-time finals for two consecutive years in 2019 and 2020, winning a championship and a runner-up. Chinese player Xiao Guodong is also very experienced in singles limited time matches, and has reached the final twice.
Single-time limited time has also helped some players realize their professional dreams. Take Thailand's brother Uno, for example, once ranked in the top 16 in the world rankings for many years, but it is difficult to find a crown, and a single time limit will help him realize his dream of ranking championship. Assassin Holt, who has a career of nearly 20 years, is also his only ranking champion in single-time limited time. But the Chinese players seem to have a little bit of bad luck. In the 2020 single limited time match, Chinese players Yan Bingtao, Zhou Yuelong and Lu Haotian reached the semifinals at the same time, and the situation of the original three Heroes against Lü Bu was won by Lü Bu.
In this year's single-time limited time competition, Chinese players poured out of the nest, and 25 people signed up to participate, including Ding Junhui, director of Ding Junhui, who has not been very cold to the single limited time competition. Director Ding's record in the past two years is too poor, the world ranking has slipped to 27th, and it is necessary to compete more to get points. Director Ding also posted on social media, "Rummaging through the boxes and cabinets to find out the training videos from 03-04, and learning from Ding Junhui in those two years."
Practice is not hard, the competition is not active, and the shot is quite casual. Two days ago, there were also good people who summed up Director Ding's record of losing nine times in the past 14 months when he met the top 16 players. Everybody knows it, and doesn't want to show it. Director Ding's two-year career is not to the trough, it should be to the basin. However, it seems that his self-knowledge is OK, and he knows that he is not as good as in the past. I have just participated in the Champions League, which was not in the past, and now I have signed up for the single limited time competition.
I hope that the Chinese players and Director Ding will play a good result in this single limited time competition!