On the evening of February 22, Beijing time, the 2022 European Masters ended another first round of competition in Milton, England, after losing to Hong Kong female player Wu Anyi two days ago due to a light enemy, Lanzhou youngster Wu Yize regained his strength in this round, and performed well in the competition with British veteran O'Brien, during which he twice staged a hundred good plays, and finally defeated his opponent to reach the round of 32.
This is the first season of the 18-year-old Lanzhou boy Wu Yize to compete in the professional competition, in 2018, Wu Yize, who was under 15 years old, won the IBSF World Youth Championship, and in 2019, the then 16-year-old Wu Yize used his wild card to fight with wizard Higgins in the postponement of the national championship qualifying round for 11 rounds, but finally lost 5-6.
Last year, Wu Yize qualified for the professional competition with the domestic selection competition, and the best result this season was to reach the top 32 of the 2021 British Championship.
Wu Yize's long platform attack is sharp, and the shot is not slow, often breaking hundreds of battles, quite Zhao Xintong's style, but the latter can continuously attack a variety of tricky angles, which Wu Yize can not have at present.
Moreover, Wu Yize's mother ball walking ability is relatively weak, especially the defensive ability needs to be strengthened.
If Wu Yize lost to Hong Kong actress Wu Anyi in the Welsh Open qualifiers two days ago, then this round of confrontation with British veteran O'Brien is to prepare "ammunition" in advance.
In this campaign, facing the 49-year-old British veteran, Wu Yize came up with full firepower, and fired 54 points, 100 points and 112 points in a row, and did a wave of 3-0 in three consecutive sets.
In the following game, O'Brien stabilized in time and pulled two consecutive sets in the middle of a tangled game to bring the score to 2-3.
Subsequently, Wu Yize played another 50+ to turn the score into 4-2 to grab the match point.
Although O'Brien struggled to save a match point in the 7th set to chase the score to 3-4, Wu Yize never gave him a chance after that, and finally made it 5-3 on aggregate to reach the round of 32.
It is worth mentioning that Wu Yize is likely to play against O'Sullivan in the next round, whose opponent in the first round is Guangdong veteran "Zhang Kechang", which will be at 22:30 Beijing time on February 22.
As of press time, the other matches are as follows:
Veteran Liang Wenbo scored unjustly and was narrowly beaten by Duane after scoring 120, 140 and 95 points in a row to win the match point 4-2 on aggregate. Jones flipped the game and finally killed him 6-5 thrillingly; Yuan Sijun 3-3 Carrington; Xu Si 4-4 Pang Junxu.