On the evening of January 27 and the next morning, Beijing time, the second matchday of the Snooker German Masters ended. Three mainland players broke into the second round, namely Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong and Fan Zhengyi, all three players from the CBSA World Snooker Academy. Zhao Xintong shot a 3-stroke 50+ in a match against rival Tom Ford, and will play against the strong opponent Trump in the next match.
Zhao Xintong is a post-90s player who won the British Championship this season, so he entered the top 16 ranks, so he also got more opportunities to hone himself. His opponent in this tournament was Tom Ford. In the first set of the game, Tom Ford did not find the feel, Zhao Xintong scored 68 points through several starts, and took a 1-0 lead, but soon in the second set, Tom Ford showed amazing explosiveness, directly taking a single shot 102 points under the situation that Zhao Xintong led by 31 points, equalizing the score, and such a high explosive force also brought some pressure to Zhao Xintong.
Immediately in the third set, the two sides began to enter the temptation, you come and go, no one has a good chance to score consecutively, after several rounds of attack and defense Zhao Xintong led by a slight advantage, 64-55 won another set, 2-1 lead. After the third game, Zhao Xintong seemed to have found the rhythm and adapted to Tom Ford's attack. In the fourth set, Zhao Xintong scored 94 points in a single shot after getting started, winning the game and pulling the score to 3-1.
After a short break, the fifth set ushered in, Zhao Xintong's hand was still online, starting with a single shot of 80 points, winning the opening red for the second half, the score came to 4-1, Zhao Xintong led 3 sets into the match point. The game was even more exciting in the fourth inning, with Tom Ford taking the lead in organizing the attack, the ball shape on the court was very simple, Tom Ford played very smoothly, but after scoring 40 points, there was a simple mistake, which was undoubtedly fatal to him. Zhao Xintong did not give his opponents the opportunity to struggle after starting to play, and ended the game with 92 points to advance to the next round 5-1.
In other matches, Karen Wilson 5-4 Kleke Stedman, Kurt Maflin 4-5 Sean Murphy, Lu Haotian 1-5 lost to Mark Allen. World No. 1 Selby and world No. 2 Judd Trump both beat Barry Pinches and Zhou Yuelong to advance to the next round with a 5-0 record.