On 2 February 2022, the seventh group of the Snooker Champions League continued, with the first matchday Ding Junhui winning 2-1 against Martin. Gould, Captain Carter, lost three straight sets to Karen. Wilson, tentatively fourth in the group, is expected to advance to the semi-finals, impacting the winner's seat, and the world's second O'Sullivan is at the bottom of the rankings, playing one more round only to beat Richie. Walton, he had to win the last two games.
Ding Junhui's opponent in the fourth round is Higgins, the two have played each other many times in their careers, Ding Junhui has a slight advantage, once defeated Higgins to win the British Championship, but now the competitive state of China's famous players has seriously declined, even up to more than a year, did not win the world's top sixteen players, he fell to the 30th place, last year's crown Champion Higgins eliminated Ding Junhui 4-3 to advance.
Higgins did well this season, and although he did not win the championship, he reached the final several times and lost to Mark. Alan, Trump, Robertson, Karen. Wilson finished runners-up, and after the three rounds of group matches, Higgins' record was the same as Ding Junhui's, he defeated O'Sullivan, Richie. Walton, losing to Captain Carter, the short-term system is accidental, and the contestants should try to avoid slow heat.
In the first set, Ding Junhui's defense was not in place, directly missed the ball to send out the opportunity, Higgins started to blast out a single shot 112 points to take the lead first, the second set of the two sides made mistakes with each other, Ding Junhui stabilized his position, and won the fight 88-35 many times, and in the third set Ding Junhui blasted out a single shot 131 points to directly clear the stage, and then won a game to get the lead, Ding Junhui and Higgins were still very experienced, and both of them had broken hundreds.
In the fourth set, Ding Junhui only scored 6 points to interrupt the attack, Higgins played a single shot 41 points to turn into the defense, then Ding Junhui made a mistake, Higgins again started to equalize 78-10, the decider Higgins took a 45-5 lead, Ding Junhui had no intention of fighting, Higgins played a single shot 65 points to end the game, and finally won 3-2 against Ding Junhui, Higgins was too stable, and won three consecutive victories in the recent confrontation between the two sides.
Through this competition, it can be seen that the current Ding Junhui, from the peak period is still a big gap, in the face of the master want to win once is really difficult, Higgins state is not the best, but Ding Junhui himself simple mistakes too much, on the mobile phone will not be able to do a single shot to win, so he wants to fight for the group four seats, the last two games must be won, otherwise 3 wins and 3 losses depend on luck.
In the same time, Captain Carter defeated Spectacle Man Martin 3-1. Gould, Carter scored just one red ball in the first inning, Martin. Gould won 62-1, then Carter scored a single 62 points to return the color, Carter won 70-47 on multiple starts in the third set, and Carter scored a single 61 points in the fourth set to end the game. Gould is at the bottom of the group and has little hope of advancing.