On the evening of February 19, Beijing time, the 2022 Welsh Open ended another qualifying competition in the United Kingdom, with Chinese youngster zhao Jianbo and Asian U21 snooker champion zhao Jianbo in a match with "painter" David. Grace's contest was high and low, during which he once held multiple match points, and finally the thrilling opponent struggled to grab the main game ticket.
The Welsh Open is a historic local tournament with a prize money of £70,000 and all participating golfers will have to play a qualifying round to receive tickets to the main tournament, which will officially kick off on 28 February.
The Chinese legion has more than 20 people registered in this competition, led by Ding Junhui, a chinese brother.
The schedule entered the fifth matchday, in the previous few match days, the Chinese team had 10 people to attack the first round, including a Chinese derby, the result was only Cao Yupeng and other 4 people qualified for the main competition, while Xiao Guodong, Zhou Yuelong, Lu Haotian unexpectedly fell.
At 18:00, only one member of the Chinese legion appeared, and the former Asian snooker U21 youth champion Zhao Jianbo, 18 years old from Sichuan, challenged British veteran David. Grace.
Zhao Jianbo has qualified for the snooker pro tournament for two years since 2020, but the overall performance is lackluster and there are no bright spots, his provisional world ranking has dropped to 79, if he cannot reach the top 64 before the end of the world championship at the end of the season, then Xiao Zhao will suffer relegation and thus lose the qualification for the World Snooker Tour.
Zhao Jianbo had never fought Grace before, who had made a name for himself by defeating Ding Junhui two years earlier:
At the 2020 British Championships, Ding Junhui was the defending champion of the tournament, and when all Chinese fans were expecting the Chinese brother to take another leap, the result was that the 34-year-old David Junhui was killed in the second round. Grace blocked, the latter in the 3-5 situation, using excellent defensive counterattack kung fu, but tenaciously pulled three consecutive sets to reverse Ding Junhui, making all Ding Junhui fans into a state of mourning.
It is worth mentioning that David. Grace was a talented and skilled painter whose painting Hurricane Higgins's work at the time of his victory at the World Championships impressed the public.
This battle encountered Zhao Jianbo, and David grabbed Xiao Zhao's mistake to play a single shot of 70+ to win the first place 1-0 as soon as he came up.
But in the subsequent game, Zhao Jianbo gradually gained the upper hand, played a single 80+ high score, won three consecutive rounds directly to the match point, and rewrote the score to 3-1, of which in the 3rd and 4th innings for two consecutive sets to let the opponent not score a point.
However, in the face of the upcoming victory fruit, Zhao Jianbo frequently missed the killing opportunity, but was instead dragged the game into the decider by David with a single shot of 50+ consecutive rescue points, and the score became 3-3.
In the game of life and death, Zhao Jianbo was skilled, and in the case of 40+ behind his opponent, he finally shot to the end and killed his opponent with a total score of 4-3 to grab the ticket to the main game.
In addition, at 21:00 Beijing time on February 19, a Chinese brother Ding Junhui will appear to meet the derby, and his opponent is Gao Yang, a 17-year-old compatriot and "little cabbage".