On February 23, 2022, Beijing time, the Snooker European Masters entered the third matchday. In the second round of the main tournament, Zhou Yuelong suffered a tragic reversal with a 3-0 lead, losing 4-5 to former world champion Graeme Dort and missing the round of 16. Another famous Chinese player, Xiao Guodong, did not play well and made many mistakes, and he actually lost 5 consecutive sets to lose 0-5 to Jordan Brown. The winning Jordan Brown will compete with Graeme Dort for a place in the quarterfinals.
In the first round of the main competition, Chinese players performed well, and 8 people successfully advanced to the round of 32. In the second round of the regular match, Xiao Guodong took the lead, and his opponent was Jordan Brown, who knocked out Selby in a cold and hot state. In the game, Xiao Guodong had a good mobile phone meeting in every game, but he could not score consecutively, either the mother ball was not in an ideal position, or there was a low-level mistake, and there was no performance of more than 50 points in the whole game.
Jordan Brown played at a normal level, scoring 51 points and 73 points in succession, beating Xiao Guodong easily 5-0 to advance to the round of 16. Last season, Jordan Brown beat O'Sullivan to win his first ranking title of his career. Although the results were mediocre this season, the morale was greatly improved by beating Selby at the European Masters and then sweeping Xiao Guodong.
The winning Jordan Brown will compete with Graeme Dort for a place in the quarterfinals, and Graeme Dort played nine innings to fall behind 0-3, 2-4, but he regained his touch in the second half of the game, playing a four-shot 50+ to reverse Zhou Yuelong 5-4 to advance to the round of 16. In the whole game, Zhou Yuelong made many mistakes, and like Xiao Guodong, he could not score consecutively, and only scored a single 65 points in the first set.
Last season, Zhou Yuelong once saw the hope of ranking among the world's top 16, but this season's performance is too sluggish, take this game, after 3-0 play is too bad, offensive and defensive ends of the big loss of standards, in fact, Graeme Dort is also in general condition, but Zhou Yuelong still missed a great opportunity. Two Chinese players have been out, which is disappointing.
In the rest of the game, Ryan Day lost two consecutive sets with a 4-2 lead, but he scored a single 117 point in the decider to beat Ashley Carty 5-4 to advance to the round of 16. Ryan Day will face Thailand's Son Shawar in the next round, who completed a comeback after falling behind 0-2 to eliminate seeded Luka Brecher 5-4. In fact, Luka Brechel not only started 2-0, but also took the lead 4-3 to get the match point, but there were too many mistakes in the last moment, and he was eliminated after losing two sets in a row, which was also a big cold goal!