Wu Anyi and Evans
On the final day of the 2022 Snooker Welsh Open qualifiers, four Chinese players staged two derbys. Liang Wenbo won 4-0 against Zhang Jiankang, while the result of another derby was surprising. Three-time women's snooker world champion and Hong Kong Women's Anyi Wu defeated Wu Yize 4-2!
After Wu Lost the First Set, Wu Played a Single 84 in the Second Set and Then Won the Fragmented Third Set. In the 4th set, Wu Anyi led 3-1 by two strokes 30+. After Wu Yize recovered a set, in the 6th set, Wu Anyi scored another 82 points to advance to the main game 4-2. In the qualifying ranking match, Wu Anyi is the second female player in snooker history to score in the main game. The first was 12-time women's World Championship champion Renee Evans. Evans advanced to the main tournament by beating Taichaia 5-4 in the 2013 Wuxi Classic Qualifiers. However, Evans was an amateur at the time (Evans played as a professional player for one season in 2010/11, but did not win a game), so Wu Anyi can be said to be the first female player to enter the main game in her professional status. The first female player to win in the professional arena (the first victory over the male player) was "Duchess of Doom" Alison Fisher, who defeated Sukhbir Grewal 5-4 in the second round of the Dubai Classic Qualifying Round, the first ranking tournament of the 1991/92 season. At that time, WPBSA World Snooker opened the professional threshold, with more than 500 players playing professional matches.
Congratulations again to Wu Anyi, Xi Ti's first career victory. Fu Jiajun also congratulated Wu Anyi and welcomed more victories.
With the promotion of Liang Wenbo and Wu Anyi, a total of 9 players from China, including Ding Junhui, have advanced to the main tournament during the qualifying stage of this Welsh Open.