On February 20, the 2022 World Snooker Tour Welsh Open continued the qualification competition, and on the same day, a number of Chinese team players appeared and staged the Chinese derby. Liang Wenbo followed the Turkish Masters qualifiers and met again with his young master Zhang Jiankang, this time he played a perfect score of 2 shots to break 100, 2 strokes of 70+, and won four consecutive sets 4-0 to advance. And Hong Kong, China's Women's Snooker World Championship champion Wu Anyi played against the young player Wu Yize, played 2 strokes of 80+, and finally won the first victory of this season's professional competition, successfully advanced to the main competition.
In the previous day's qualifying round, China's snooker leader Ding Junhui appeared to face the youngster Gao Yang, and finally won 4-0 easily, successfully advancing to the main tournament. On the final day of qualifying, there were two more Chinese derbys, namely Liang Wenbo and Zhang Jiankang, and Wu Yize and the gender battle with the Hong Kong women's snooker world champion. Regardless of the outcome of the match, the Chinese team will lock in two main event seats in advance.
Liang Wenbo's form has rebounded in the middle of the season, winning the first group of the Champions League, advancing to the winners' group, and finally reaching the final four. In the single-time limited time competition, he also advanced to the final four, but unfortunately lost to Iran's Hussein Wafi, who finally won the championship. Coincidentally, the Welsh Open qualifier and Zhang Jianjian's duel was a continuous encounter between the two after the recent Turkish Masters qualifier, when Liang Wenbo defeated the little master 5-2, this time the two met again, Liang Wenbo was still full of firepower, the first two innings played a hundred, single 105 points and single par 134 points to win, the third set played a single 73 points, the fourth set of 85 points, and finally the next four consecutive sets to complete the sweep.
In another qualifying match, world no. 83 Wu Yize took on Hong Kong's female player Wu Anyi. So far this season, Wu Anyi has not won a game in professional competitions, so she is at the bottom of the world ranking. This battle and Wu Yize's duel, Wu Anyi played a game full of gold, although the first set was lost, but the second set played a single 84 points, equalized the score, and then the two innings with multiple attacks to complete the super score, the first to win the 3-1 match point opportunity, Wu Yize single shot 61 points to win back a set, the sixth set Wu Anyi did not waste another opportunity, single par 82 points directly one shot to win, the big score 4-2, won the first win of the season, strong promotion to the main game.