On February 17, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker Welsh Open Qualifiers continued. Today's focus battle broke out of the cold, this season's British Championship runner-up, Scottish Open champion "Belgian Bullet" Brechel lost 2-4 to the world's 82nd place to give the player Roy McLeod, the upset out of the game, becoming the first qualifier to be eliminated in the world's top sixteen players. It is worth mentioning that this is the fourth consecutive loss to McLeod by Brechel, who has been beaten a 0-4! 0 wins and 4 losses, Brechel really met the career nemesis.
This season's "Belgian Bullet" Brechel was very strong in the first half of the season, first reaching the final of the British Championship in three major competitions, and finally losing 5-10 to the equally unusual Chinese genius Zhao Xintong to get runner-up. In the Scottish Open, Brechel reached the final again, and in the final, he won the championship with a 9-5 victory over the wizard Higgins, one of the 75 three masters. In the ranking tournament, he won 1 championship and 1 sub-championship in the finals, and Brechel's world ranking also soared to 16th in the world, and the single-season ranking was firmly in the top three. Coming to the Welsh Open qualifiers, he is played against Roy McLeod, who is ranked 82nd in the world.
The match is played in a 4-of-7 format. In the first set, Brechel scored a single 60 points that had been a sure victory, but then there were many low-level mistakes, mcLeod seized the opportunity to multi-stroke 69-65 to win the first set, 1-0 to win the opening. In the second set, Brechel took the initiative firmly, pulling back a set 91-6 several times to make the score 1-1. In the third set, McLeod scored a single 54 points to establish an advantage and win another set 66-34 to lead again at 2-1. In the fourth set, McLeod took advantage of the chase to win again 66-44 and won two match points first 3-1.
In the fifth set, Brechel let go of a shot, and McLeod's hand slipped, and many mistakes sent out opportunities. Brechel scored a solid score and pulled back a set 72-46. In the sixth set, the two were caught in a tug-of-war, played very carefully, in the deadlock, McGill got the opportunity to attack and locked up the victory 68-54, and finally the whole game, the world's 16th-placed Brechel was out of the cold 2-4, after the first round of the players' championship, Brechel traveled again, has been two consecutive games and a round trip, the state has been greatly reduced.
The Welsh Open is full of stars, O'Sullivan and Neil Robertson have signed up for this competition, the Chinese players, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao's twin star combination is fully attacked, and the Chinese brother Ding Junhui, who has reached the welsh Open final twice, will also appear later. This season, Zhao Xintong soared into the sky, successively winning the British Championship and the German Masters two ranking championships, and Neil Robertson, this station, Zhao Xintong will attack the third crown of the season ranking competition. And Ding Junhui hopes to bottom out and rebound, in the final of 12 years, he once defeated Selby to win the championship, after ten years, whether Ding Junhui can win the cup again, we all very much hope to see!