7 Chinese players have already qualified! Ding Junhui returned strongly, playing a single shot of 134 points to sweep the opponent. The 2022 Snooker Welsh Open Qualifiers continued, with China's Ding Junhui scoring a single shot of 134 points to sweep his compatriot Gao Yang 4-0 and qualify for the main tournament, while so far seven Chinese players have won tickets to the main tournament. On the final day of qualifying, there will also be two Chinese derbys, namely Liang Wenbo against Zhang Jiankang and Wu Yize against Wu Anyi.
In recent years, Ding Junhui's competitive state has declined very seriously, the world ranking has fallen out of the top 30, but in recent times, Ding Junhui has shown a recovery momentum, in the previous Champions League group six and seven groups of the game, Ding Junhui reached the group semi-finals and finals respectively, only one step can be promoted to the winner group, and from the perspective of the game, Ding Junhui played a single shot over 100 times has also increased significantly, at the Turkish Masters qualifier at the beginning of this month, Ding Junhui against Andrew Pajit, It blasted out 138 and 134 points in a row. The 17-year-old Gao Yang has not played professionally for a long time, and the results are generally stopped in the first round, so before the game, the outside world is optimistic about Ding Junhui winning. After the game began, Ding Junhui scored a single 59 points to win the first set. In the next two sets, Ding Junhui won 50-41, 55-31, and the aggregate score was 3-0 to get the match point. In the fourth set, Ding Junhui directly blasted a single shot of 134 points, defeating Gao Yang 4-0 and advancing to the main game.
In addition to Ding Junhui, there are 6 Chinese players who have also entered the main game, namely Li Xing, Zhao Jianbo, Cao Yupeng, Si Jiahui, Yuan Sijun, Lu Ning, and there are also a number of Chinese players who have not been able to play the main game, Zhou Yuelong, Xiao Guodong, Tian Pengfei, Xu Si, Lu Haotian, Chang Bingyu, Lei Peifan have all been out, of which Xiao Guodong has been out of the game because of a serious traffic jam, resulting in failure to arrive at the scene of the game within the specified time, and was directly fined two sets, and finally Xiao Guodong lost 0-4 and stopped the qualification round.
On the last day of the qualifying round, there will be two Chinese derbys, namely Liang Wenbo against Zhang Jiankang and Wu Yize against Wu Anyi. There are also a number of strong duels, such as Thachaia vs. Robert Milkins, Martin Gould vs. Wollaston, and so on. Since Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao are both ranked in the top 16 in the world, the qualification match for the two of them will be postponed to the main stage. After the welsh open qualifiers, the European Masters will follow, Zhao Xintong and Ding Junhui have no chance to participate, and Yan Bingtao will lead the Chinese players to compete.