In the first half of the first round of the Players Championship, which just ended on February 8, 2022, Beijing time, Chinese talented player Zhao Xintong once again faced the world famous Barry Hawkins. In the four innings that have ended, Zhao Xintong and Hawkins staged a very wonderful duel. In the first set, Hawkins took a 1-0 lead with a 63-pointer and then took a 2-0 lead with a shot-91. Immediately after, Zhao Xintong recovered a set with excellent ability to seize opportunities and super accuracy to trail Hawkins 1-2. Before the end of the first half, Hawkins won the next set again enough to temporarily lead Zhao Xintong 3-1.
Hawkins won the first set to take a 1-0 lead over Zhao Xintong
In the first set, Zhao Xintong took the lead in trying to attack the left bottom pocket far red ball and made a mistake, and Hawkins thin scored the leftmost red ball into the left bottom pocket. But after scoring just 11 points, he was forced to choose to hit the red ball defense closest to the bottom of the bottom because of the poor K-ball. In defense, Zhao Xintong once again tried to attack the bottom bag red ball and made a mistake, and Hawkins scored the red ball in the right bottom pocket to get on the mobile phone again. He hit a red ball error in the bottom pocket on the right after scoring 63 points, but the mistake was harmless. In the end, Hawkins won the game 74-0 to lead Zhao Xintong 1-0 to usher in the opening of the game.
Zhao Xintong lost another set to trail Hawkins 0-2
In the second set, Hawkins made a mistake first, and then Zhao Xintong made a mistake when he tried to score a red ball and left Hawkins with an offensive opportunity to attack the red ball in the right bottom pocket. Hawkins made a mistake in trying to attack the red ball in the right bottom pocket, but the best luck allowed the red ball to bounce into the right bottom pocket after hitting the left side of the library, and Hawkins successfully got started. But he was forced to choose defense after scoring 16 points, and Zhao Xintong made a mistake in trying to attack. Hawkins successfully scored the red ball in the top bag on the left side, directly blasted a strong performance of 91 points with a single shot and determined to win the game 107-0 to continue to lead Zhao Xintong 2-0. And widened the point difference between the two of them directly to two sets.
Hawkins took a 3-1 lead over Zhao Xintong
The game came to the third set, Hawkins hit the ball mistake to leave Zhao Xintong with an offensive opportunity in the left bottom pocket. Zhao Xintong successfully won the mobile phone meeting by spelling in the red ball in the left bottom pocket, and made a mistake after scoring 15 points. Hawkins thin into the right side of the pocket red ball to play, after scoring 5 points to attack the bag red ball error. Zhao Xintong scored the red ball again, hitting the ball wrong after scoring 46 points, but at this moment has completed the super point. Although Hawkins still tried to reverse the opponent, Zhao Xintong's accuracy at a key moment helped him win the game 70:5 to leave Hawkins 1-2 behind, thus narrowing the gap between the two sides to a set. In the fourth set, Hawkins made a mistake in hitting the ball to leave Zhao Xintong with the opportunity to play a thin ball on the right side, and Zhao Xintong Bo entered the red ball in the right bottom pocket and successfully played. But he made a mistake after scoring just 34 points and left Hawkins with a great mobile session. Hawkins scored a red ball and won again with a one-shot 94-point win to take a 3-1 lead over Zhao Xintong. Next, it depends on whether Zhao Xintong can counterattack.