The 2022 Snooker Players Championship is in full swing, and the top event, which only the top sixteen players in a single season can compete in, has received a lot of attention from fans.
In the first matchday of the opening match, Neil Robertson defeated Karen Wilson with full firepower, Mark Williams defeated Gary Wilson without old age, and the second matchday was more intense, yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong officially played.
1. Zhao Xintong vs Barry Hawkins
Zhao Xintong, who ranked first in the world in a single season, entered the Players' Championship for the first time in his career, and this season's Victories in the British Championship and the German Masters made him the most anticipated new generation of young players, but zhao Xintong suffered a round of travel in waterloo's poor form.
Zhao Xintong failed to take the initiative in the entire duel between the two sides, Hawkins continued to blast high scores in the first half to lead 3:1, and returned in the second half, although Zhao Xintong pulled back two sets to bite the score 3:4, but frequent mistakes allowed Hawkins to seize the opportunity to complete two consecutive 50+ to successfully advance to 6:3.
Hawkins also greatly appreciated Zhao Xintong after winning the game, bluntly saying that he is already a top snooker player, for Zhao Xintong, the loss is a part of his career that must be experienced, I hope he will not be disturbed by the outside world's doubts, and continue to create his own honor with confidence.
2. Yan Bingtao vs David Gilbert
Compared with Zhao Xintong's exit, Yan Bingtao's difficult victory is to give domestic fans some comfort, although Zhao Xintong is one of the most outstanding players this season, but on the stability has to say that Yan Bingtao is better.
In this group of duels, Yan Bingtao took the lead in taking the lead in blasting out more than 100 in the first half to take a 3:1 lead, and in the second half, Yan Bingtao came back and blasted two more than 100 shots to reach the match point first, and then Gilbert began to play a continuous three-set approaching score, but fortunately, Yan Bingtao withstood the pressure to complete the single 50+ and then won the victory without danger.
Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Judd Trump
At the beginning of the Players Championship, O'Sullivan rose to the second place in the world by surpassing Trump in the points, and the first round of the encounter between the two was also full of highlights, after all, O'Sullivan has been difficult to win in Trump in the past two years, and the record is also a rare lag.
The two sides of this group also presented a wonderful confrontation for the fans, but the serious O'Sullivan did not give Trump too many opportunities in the whole game, and with an average of about 16 seconds of shooting time, he blasted a shot over 100, a three-shot 80+, and a two-shot 50+ victory over Trump 6:3.
Trump's poor performance this season is also bluntly said by many fans that he has peaked and will no longer fall off the altar, perhaps it is the big defeat and loss that caused the mood to be bad Trump refused to be interviewed after the game, and O'Sullivan, who took revenge, said after the game: No one wants to be eliminated in the first round, I am very happy that I can qualify successfully, the audience atmosphere is very good, happy to be able to participate in this event.
O'Sullivan will meet Inal Eight after the promotion of Neil Robertson, the two sides have met in the recent World Grand Prix, when O'Sullivan won the final and broke his one-and-a-half-year-long championship drought, for Robertson this duel is not only a battle of promotion, but also a battle of revenge, who can break through and succeed we wait and see.