On the evening of February 23, Beijing time, the Snooker 2022 European Masters in Milton, England. Keynes ended another round of 16 battle, and the runner-up of the 2020 tournament, Zhou Yuelong, held multiple match points in a duel with "Pocket Bomb" and 2006 World Championship champion Dortmund, and finally suffered a tragic reversal by his opponent and missed the round of 16.
Sichuan youngster Zhou Yuelong in the early days of his career with Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong and called "Yan Zhou Zhao", is China's snooker future new "three big Kong", but many years later, Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong in 2021 has won the Masters, the British Championship champion, and now Zhou Yuelong still has nothing, the only thing that can be held is to hold 2 strokes and 147 full points, which Yan and Zhao do not have.
Although he and "China's first brother" Ding Junhui went out of the same door, but even so, the former's achievements are far from being comparable to the latter.
The 24-year-old Zhou Yuelong's best career result so far happened to be reaching the final of the 2020 European Masters, but he encountered the powerful Robertson in the final and eventually missed the championship 0-9.
At 18:00 in the evening, the round of 16 of the European Masters officially began, and the Chinese legion had two people appear at the same time during the time, namely:
Xiao Guodong vs Jordan. Brown, Zhou Yuelong vs Graeme. Dot.
The first game to end was a contest between Xiao Guodong and Brown, Jordan. Since winning the Welsh Open in 2020 and achieving his first professional title, Brown's level of competition has risen, which is not, in the first round of this tournament, he will be the defending champion Mark Mark with an aggregate score of 5-3. Selby slashed under his horse and directly poured a basin of cold water on Master Sai's desire to defend his title.
This campaign against Xiao Guodong, Jordan. Brown still maintained the best feel of the previous round, and successively played a single two-shot 50+ high score, beating Xiao Guodong 5-0 on aggregate to advance to the round of 16.
Zhou Yuelong has played against Scotland's Dortmund seven times, with the latter having the absolute upper hand, winning 6 of them, and Zhou Yuelong has recently suffered three consecutive defeats.
In this matchup, Zhou Yuelong took a 3-1 lead in the first four innings, and after the break, Dort scored a single shot of 75 points to chase the score to 2-3, but in the following game, Zhou Yuelong efficiently seized the opponent's mistake and took the lead at 77:55 to grab the match point 4-2.
However, Dort successfully dragged the match into the decider 4-4 in the tiebreaker on two consecutive 50+ shots in the ensuing match.
In the end, the 2006 World Championship champion was even better in the decider, defeating Zhou Yuelong 5-4 on aggregate to reach the round of 16, and the next round will be with Jordan. Brown competes for a place in the quarter-finals.
In addition, at 22:30 on the evening of February 23, Beijing time, the "first-year freshman", an 18-year-old Lanzhou boy, will appear to challenge the championship favorite Ronnie. O'sullivan.