On February 19, 2022, the Snooker Welsh Open continued, and China's Ding Junhui played in the qualifiers against 17-year-old rising star Gao Yang, Ding Junhui was in average condition, and made simple mistakes many times, but still won four consecutive sets and successfully passed the pass, and kept a clean sheet Gao Yang to advance.
This is the first time that Ding Junhui and Gao Yang have played each other in their careers, Ding Junhui occupies an absolute advantage, first of all, in the civil war, he maintains a very high winning rate, and secondly, Gao Yang's strength is limited, after getting professional qualifications, it is often the first round out, the number of wins is not much, and finally the two have a gap in comprehensive strength, not players of the same level, so as long as Ding Junhui plays a normal level, the result is no suspense.
Ding Junhui once defeated Selby and won the Welsh Open championship, but in recent years he has focused on participation, the performance in the local series is not ideal, the best result this season is the round of 16, the world ranking has slipped to 31st, this year's World Championship he can basically be sure, to start from the qualifiers, the last time there was such a situation, or eight years ago, when he got the runner-up.
Although it is easy to break out of the cold in 7 sets and 4 wins, but if you want to win the game, you still need to have strong personal ability, in the face of ding Junhui such a famous player, Gao Yang lack of confidence, was comprehensively suppressed, resulting in the result of losing suspense in advance, the first set Ding Junhui only scored 7 points to interrupt the attack, Gao Yang played a single 31 points and made a mistake, Ding Junhui started again, played a single 59 points to take the lead.
In the second set, Gao Yang scored a red ball, but could not continue to connect the attack, Ding Junhui's state was average, he scored 23 points to turn into defense, Gao Yang took a 41-27 lead, there were 35 points on the table, Gao Yang defense was not in place to directly miss the ball, Ding Junhui narrowly won 50-41, although Gao Yang had many mobile phone meetings, but he could not do a single shot to win, resulting in a very limited impact on Ding Junhui.
Next, the two sides made mistakes with each other, Ding Junhui did not feel good, fortunately Gao Yang's ability was limited, he only got 31 points on the two hands, and soon handed over the ball, Ding Junhui seized the opportunity to win the fight 55-31, 3-0 to get the match point, the fourth set Gao Yang had no intention of fighting, Ding Junhui blasted out a single shot 134 points to complete the clearance, and finally won four consecutive sets, 4-0 swept Gao Yang into the main game, this result was already expected.
Looking back at the whole game process, Ding Junhui performed generally, and then he still needs to adjust, after all, Gao Yang's strength is limited, if he faces a master, the other party can often complete a single shot to win, Ding Junhui can't have so many opportunities to get started, more importantly, the previous problems have not been solved, there are more simple mistakes, and the success rate of the long platform is not high, which is the problem he needs to pay attention to next.