On February 1, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, China's snooker leader Ding Junhui will compete in the invitational version of the Champions League, competing in the seventh and final group competition. Also in the group are O'Sullivan, Higgins, Karen Wilson, Carter, Wharton, Gould and other famous players, which is a veritable death group. Previously, Ding Junhui had signed up for a single limited time competition, but just after arriving at the arena, there was a cold and fever, and he took the initiative to withdraw from the game to isolate and observe at home in order not to affect everyone. Playing in the Champions League again this time is his planned game, after reaching the final four in the sixth group, but unfortunately lost to Gould in the semi-finals and failed to win the group title.
The Champions League is a special invitational tournament with a unique format, with a total of 7 group stages, with the group winner going to the winner's group and then the overall winner. All players who sign up to participate in the competition will receive the corresponding prize money after winning the next game, a game, playing a hundred and advancing to the final four. From the first group, the second to fifth place will continue to qualify for the next group competition, so many players will continue to win the group championship if they are not able to win the group championship, but as long as they are in the top five every time, they will always get the opportunity to brush the prize money in the competition. This year, China's Lu Ning started from the second group, played four group stages, and earned 8800 pounds in prize money.
Ding Junhui signed up for the Champions League, which is also a relatively rare situation, he has not participated for many years before, but considering that after this season's British Championships, Ding Junhui's world ranking has dropped significantly, and has now fallen to 30th, losing many major competition qualifications, so it is urgent to increase the chances of competition through low-threshold invitational tournaments. Ding Junhui, who registered for the sixth group, faced the world's top 16 opponents, including Yan Bingtao and Karen Wilson, he failed to win, although he reached the top 4, but lost to Gould in the semi-finals, regrettably stopped. Entering the seventh group, it was originally O'Sullivan, Higgins and Robertson, but Robertson withdrew from the competition and was replaced by Walton, who had recently been in good form.
On the occasion of the Spring Festival, Ding Junhui also released the annual summary and the New Year blessing video on his personal social platform, all of which mentioned the arrangements for his new year, so that fans look forward to the return of Ding Junhui. According to the schedule, on February 1, Ding Junhui will face Gould, Wilson and Carter successively to repeat the sixth group competition; on February 2, Ding Junhui will continue to face Higgins, Walton and the last group game, and dialogue with O'Sullivan. Quite a challenging group stage, look forward to Ding Junhui to be able to play excellent results. If you can win the group championship, you will continue to participate in the next two days of championship competition and compete for the championship.