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Two days after the snooker Welsh Open qualifier, Lu Ning became the first Chinese player to qualify for the main tournament. Today to February 20, Chinese players including Ding Junhui and Zhou Yuelong will all appear on the stage, and the Kuaishou "Star Card Club" will start live broadcasting at 6 o'clock every night, so stay tuned!
At 3 a.m. Beijing time tomorrow, "Snooker Queen" Renee Evans appeared against Iranian amateur Wahedi. Last week, Evans competed in the Women's Snooker World Championship at Ding Junhui Academy, but lost to Belgian player Jans in the quarter-finals.
The final champion belonged to the 22-year-old Thai genius girl Wanghalutai, who overcame a 3-5 disadvantage in a tense final to reverse Youngs 6-5, and the decider was a killer on the last black ball. In the tiebreaker's black battle, Jans once firmly grasped the initiative, but lost the perfect opportunity, And wangharutai immediately started to win with one goal.
The Thai youngster will be runner-up at the 2019 Women's World Championships, when he lost to Evans. As a 12-time women's World Champion, Evans has been well aware of Wanghalutai's potential for years.
"She's always had the potential to be a champion, she has a decent quality. We play differently, the batting options are different, there's room for improvement, but we can all. ”
"She has a great future and it doesn't surprise me that she won the title."
Wangharuthai's single-shot high in the final was 32 points, which is quite far from the women's first 147 she shot in 2019, but Evans believes that the victory shows a different side of her game.
"Anyone can win beautifully, play a beautiful single shot, and the important thing is to fight when you need to give it a go and can't give up. To some extent, it is a fair competition and a never-give-up mentality. She's very young, she just plays her own ball and does what it takes to win. ”
The women's World Championship title earned Wanghalutai a two-year professional qualification, and the Thai youngster will join Evans and Wu Anyi next season as the female representative of the snooker professional arena.
This season has not been easy for either Evans and Wu Anyi, both of whom have yet to win. Evans thinks Wangharutai's career path will also be tough.
"I think she's going to struggle like any newcomer to her career. The professional arena is much tougher than one might think, even in low-ranking areas. ”
"You lose to a certain player and people say 'Who is this?' I haven't heard of it. But they're very good, and as for the top players, they're even better. The top elite players must have something to excel. ”
"Everything has to do with experience, and I hope that Wu Anyi and I can accumulate a lot of experience in the first year." There is good support behind Wangharutai, so I think it will be very good for her. ”
Evans is in the first year of his two-year career qualification, after nearly a year of professional qualification, and the discussions sparked by his ex-boyfriend Allen at the British Open, most of the time has been uneventful. The heat of the atmosphere and the quiet of qualifying when the British Open was just one goal away from beating Allen was naturally heaven and earth, but Evans knew he had to adapt to the day-to-day work of the professional arena.
"It's kind of complicated. When I got the message, I saw those two years as a fresh start and a challenge, and I had two years to play professionally. But then I was a little disappointed with the schedule, if you didn't pass the qualifying rounds in the first few races, you wouldn't have the ball for months. ”
"Then I meet a master at the Championships and then the next time I meet a player who is lower ranked, you think 'I have to win' and you put more pressure on yourself. In my opinion, qualifying should be placed a week before an event, not months ago. The calendar is either full or empty, and hopefully something will change next season. ”
"At the British Open, I played in front of a packed audience in Leicester and a week later I played qualifying in a little dark room behind the curtain, which was a little strange. But these are experiences, part of the learning curve, and I've learned how to better cope with that contrast. ”
"This season may be a bit bland. You also want to prove them wrong to others. I want to win a few games, and once I win the next one, more wins will roll in, but bland may be the way. ”
The failure to show her best in the professional arena certainly disappointed and frustrated Evans, who was eager to prove that she and other female players could compete with the professionals.
"We all have a competitive spirit and that's why we play. Everyone wants to win, even if there is no pressure around you, you will put pressure on yourself, this is a profession, it is a personal glory. No matter who I am, I want to win, whether the opposite is the world first or the world 101st, this is the belligerent heart in my bones. ”
"It's hard, it's tough in the pro world, you need to have a strong mindset."