From the evening of February 10 to the early morning of tomorrow, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker Players Championship will have two 1/4 final matches. China's strongest post-00s and Masters champion Yan Bingtao against Barry Hawkins, 6-time World Championship champion and players championship 2-time champion "Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan, against "Melbourne Machine" Neil Robertson.
The Players Tournament is a high-profile tournament that only players in the top 16 in the world rankings in a single season can participate in. From last night to the early hours of this morning, there were three matches, including 2 first-round matches and 1 quarter-final. In the first round of 2 matches, the defending champion "Wizard" John Higgins, against single-time limit champion Wafi Ayuri, he blasted a three-shot break to advance 6-2.
Defending champion Higgins advanced strongly, while Brechel, who won the championship against Higgins in the final of the Scottish Open, was in a very sluggish state in the match against Jimmy Robertson, and was swept out by Robertson 1-6. In this campaign, Brechel scored a single shot 88, but the subsequent match felt cold, and was blasted by Jimmy Robertson to make a 5-0 counterattack, 1-6 encounter "round trip".
The first quarter-final in the early hours of this morning, three-time World Champion "Golden Left Hand" Mark Williams, played against Rich Wharton. In this game, Williams blasted a three-shot break (103, 107 points, 102 points) in the first five innings to take a 4-1 lead and win the match point 5-2, before suddenly collapsing, losing four consecutive sets 5-6 and being reversed.
Tonight and tomorrow morning, there will be two quarter-final matches: Yan Bingtao vs Barry Hawkins (tonight 21:00), Ronin Sullivan vs Neil Robertson (03:00 tomorrow morning). In the first round, Yan Bingtao defeated "Potato Brother" David Gilbert 6-4, and in the quarterfinals against Hawkins, who eliminated Zhao Xintong, can Yan Bingtao "avenge" Zhao Xintong?
In the first round, O'Sullivan eliminated the championship favorite Judd Trump 6-3 against Robertson Robertson, the first Grand Slam after the 80s, O'Sullivan still had the advantage!