The 2022 Snooker Players Championship ended the third day of contention this morning.
At 9 o'clock last night, the first two games of the first round were played, the Wizard Higgins against the new singles limited time champion Wafi, and the Belgian bullet Luca against Jimmy Robertson.
Higgins and Wafi have only played each other twice before, and the wizards have won. The start was a bit of a mess, Higgins finally solved the ball wrong, Wafi won; then Wafi went on several occasions and won the second set, 2-0. In the 3rd set, Higgins made a mistake after four sets of red and black, but Waffi lost the red ball in the bianku and missed the opportunity to continue to expand the score, higgins cleared that the blue ball was just over 1 point, and pulled back a set. In the 4th set, Higgins played several times and equalized. After a short break, Higgins's feel finally came up, and the 5th bureau chief struck a hand on the stage, breaking a hundred. In the 6th set, Higgins forced the bag to turn over the bag, did not score a missing ball, Wafi shot 49, completed the super score, 3 draws. In the next two innings, the wizard fired two consecutive shots to break the hundred to the match point. In the 9th set, after Higgins scored 35 points, in the middle of the fight, Higgins seized Waffi's defensive mistake and won the super clear table, eliminating Waffy 6-3. Although Higgins made many mistakes in the first few sets, he attacked fiercely in the second half, and successfully advanced to the 3-shot break.
In another game, Luca, who won the first place in this season's ranking game, won one set first, and then lost six consecutive sets, losing 1-6 to Jimmy Robertson, who is ranked 38th, somewhat unexpectedly.
In the early hours of the morning, there was only one game, with Kim's left hand Mark Williams playing against Walton. Marvel came up with a 3-stroke break to lead 3-1, 5-2 to match point, only to be countered by Walton. Wharton shot two 60+ to save two match points. In the 10th set, after Ma Wei was overdone, only pink and black were left on the table, trying to do snooker, but failed to turn over. In the decider, Ma Wei lost the opportunity to lose the red ball, and Wharton lost the super point powder ball after a 58 points, but forced Ma Wei into a desperate situation. Ma Wei hit the red ball in the side library after getting on the hand, missed the last chance to turn the tables in a single set, and lost 4 consecutive sets to Wharton. Wharton advanced first to the semifinals. This season, Walton is back in the top 16, promising.
Tonight will be two eight-in-four matches, Yan Bingtao and Hawkins appeared at 9 p.m., the two played a record, Yan Bingtao won 1 and lost 3, only the most recent hand-to-hand, short-term Champions League won Master Huo. The Rockets O'Sullivan and Robertson game began at 3 a.m.
Finally, two more words of Zhao Xintong. Zhao Gongzi this season is a bit magical, the current ranking tournament full attendance, not counting the Turkish Open that has entered the main tournament, for Zhao Gongzi, the 11 ranking tournaments that have been completed, 7 round trips, of which 5 stops are 0 ranking bonuses (the other two are not counted as 0, that is, two red packet matches, the World Grand Prix and the Players Championship, please change the rules, the first round of the red packet tournament last season is out, the first round of the prize money is not counted in the ranking bonus, but this season is counted again). Of the remaining four, two of them are basically a little better than a round trip, but Zhao Gongzi has won two championships and taken Mowen in a single season. This ups and downs, like a roller coaster; when there is no state, anyone can lose; if there is a degree of accuracy and a state, it may run to the championship. So now look at the way Zhao Gongzi attacked, it is also Buddhist, into your cow, not in, this is very Zhao Xintong. Just like this round of competition, Zhao Gongzi's 3rd and 7th innings were won by accuracy, but in the 8th round, the difficult pass was attacked, which is also Zhao Gongzi. In short, Zhao Gongzi wants to become a top player, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.