The 2022 Snooker Welsh Open is in full swing, and this event can be described as a bright star, with top stars such as O'Sullivan, Selby, Trump and so on, and the Chinese Snooker Legion is also a collective of 20 players who have signed up to participate.
The Welsh Open Chinese legion can be said to be determined to rush the championship, Ding Junhui, Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong and other powerful generals to fight, in the previous first few matches, Lu Ning, Yuan Sijun has taken the lead in advancing to the next round.
Coming to the fifth matchday, there were five Chinese players playing Zhou Yuelong, Xiao Guodong, Si Jiahui, Cao Yupeng and Fan Zhengyi, although the number of participants was large, but the result of the match was not satisfactory, and only two of the five were able to qualify.
Zhou Yuelong can be described as ill-fated this season, at the beginning of the season, due to personal reasons, he missed several large ranking tournaments and lost many bonus points, which directly led to a sharp decline in the ranking to the twentieth place in the world, getting farther and farther away from the top 16.
And the state after the comeback is also a continuous downturn in succession to encounter a round of travel can be described as an embarrassing responsibility, this Welsh Open Zhou Yuelong in the 0:2 lead was tragically reversed by opponent Jimmy Jones, and finally lost the first round 4:3, the decisive game of successive fouls is even more confusing to fans.
The situation of another player, Xiao Guodong, explains what is called the creation of people, in the match against Little White, the game began for a long time and still did not see Xiao Guodong's entry figure, and finally the referee decided to lose two sets according to the rules, resulting in a 0:2 situation at the beginning.
Xiao Guodong, who returned late, was also in poor form and had no morale, and little White certainly did not miss the opportunity to quickly end the game, and finally took only half an hour to eliminate Xiao Guodong with a score of 4:0 to easily advance.
After the race, Xiao Guodong also made an explanation for the first time, and the reason for the late arrival was also due to the fact that the United Kingdom was currently suffering from the damage of the "Younis" storm, resulting in water on the road, and Xiao Guodong suffered an accident in the road section of the race and missed the official start of the race.
Another duel is the Battle of the Chinese Derby, Cao Yupeng, who returned from the suspension, played against the young player Fan Zhengyi, and the two sides fought the whole game to the decider, and in the end, Cao Yupeng won the decisive game and blasted a single 80+ one-shot victory to defeat Fan Zhengyi to advance to a thrilling promotion.
The only off-field victory of the fifth matchday was presented by the youngster Scarlett, who started with a 1:3 trail and was led to match point by his opponents, and then Scarlett launched a Jedi counterattack to win three consecutive sets and finally advanced to the next round with a 4:3 reversal.
The performance of the Chinese snooker army can be described as mixed, especially the young player Zhou Yuelong, this season's state and last season are almost like two people, if you can not find yourself in time not only impact the top sixteen hopeless, I am afraid it will continue to decline.