In the early morning of January 21, Beijing time, the first round of the 2022 snooker single limited time tournament continued. In the competition that has ended on the first matchday, Liang Wenbo, Cao Yupeng and Gao Yang, three Chinese players, advanced to the second round. Among them, Liang Wenbo beat Jamie O'Neal 46-40, Cao Yupeng defeated Pang Junxu 39-20, and 17-year-old Gao Yang beat Jamie Wilson 64-35.
Born in 2004, 17-year-old Chinese teenager Gao Yang is a promising rising star who is currently ranked 75th in the world. Not long ago, in the first round of the snooker German Masters qualifiers, in a match with his idol 7-time World Championship champion "Billiards Emperor" Stephen Hendry, he shot 2 shots of 50+, 5-2 to win the opponent.
In the first round of the 2022 single-time limited time tournament, Gao Yang's opponent is Jamie Wilson, who is one year older than himself and ranks 94th in the world. The two young players have no record of meeting, this game is an encounter, and whoever wins will set the tone for future matches - "I won you" in the first meeting between the two.
In this campaign, the younger Gao Yang played even better, winning the first meeting between the two youngsters in a 64-35 victory to win the opening of the single-time limited time game.
The so-called single limited time game, as the name suggests, is a game of decisive victory or defeat. On the first match day, a total of 12 Chinese players, including Liang Wenbo, Lu Ning and Li Xing, competed, and in the already concluded match, in addition to Gao Yang's victory over Jamie Wilson. Liang Wenbo, ranked 34th in the world, defeated Jamie O'Neal, who is ranked 115th in the world, 46-40.
In the derby between veteran Cao Yupeng and post-00s young player Pang Junxu, 31-year-old Cao Yupeng defeated 21-year-old Pang Junxu 39-20, and he also won the first victory of this competition for the Chinese snooker army.
In the next game, it is expected that the Chinese snooker army can bring more victories, and it is expected that Ding Junhui, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, who will appear later, can play well.