In the early morning of February 23, the 2022 World Snooker Tour European Masters continued the second round of competition, with a number of famous players and players from the Chinese Legion appearing. In the end, popularity king O'Sullivan beat Chinese teenager Wu Yize 5-1 and successfully advanced, while Higgins was swept 5-0 by Ford, and Trump still lost 3-5 to Ma Fulin after playing a two-shot breaker, and both were out. The Chinese team performed well, Yan Bingtao defeated Joe Perry 5-2, and Fan Zhengyi played a high gold-worthy victory against the world's fifth Karen Wilson, and finally successfully broke 5-4 and once again advanced to the round of 16 of the ranking match.
There were a number of second-round competitions on the same day, Xiao Guodong and Zhou Yuelong, who appeared in the first period, did not perform well, Xiao Guodong lost 0-5 to Jordan Brown, the dark horse champion of last year's Welsh Open; while Zhou Yuelong played against Scottish past champion Dort, leading 4-2, with the match point in hand, was won by the opponent for three consecutive sets, completed a big reversal, and finally got out 4-5. In the next two periods, Wu Yize, Yan Bingtao, and Fan Zhengyi appeared one after another to defend the glory of the Chinese Legion.
Wu Yize lost to Hong Kong women's snooker world champion Wu Anyi in the Welsh Open qualifiers a few days ago, completing a new career breakthrough for the latter. Coming to the Main European Masters, Wu Yize defeated O'Brien 5-3 in the first round, and met the "Rocket" O'Sullivan in the second round, and the result was that the fire teacher who played idlely did not let the Chinese youngster upset, and even staged a small point reversal in many consecutive rounds, and finally the score was fixed at 5-1, Wu Yize regretted that he was out, which was a rare tuition fee again.
Yan Bingtao vs Joe Perry, this game is about his situation of retaining the top eight in a single season, so only winning can continue. Although Yan Bingtao only shot two 70+ in the whole game, he finally won the victory with a 5-2 score and continued to move forward. In the next round of 16-8 competition, Yan Bingtao will compete with Fan for a place in the top 8. Fan Zhengyi's promotion can be called another classic battle, his duel with the world's fifth Wilson, originally thought to be a fierce multi-ji, but in the game, he played steadily, has been biting the score, and even in the fifth set also hit the full score of 147, but unfortunately failed in the lottery stage, single shot fixed at 125 points, in the final decider, he single shot 66 points, completed a 5-4 kill, following the German Masters, the second time in his career to advance to the round of 16 of the ranking tournament.
In other competitions, it was also a cold attack, Higgins dueled against Ford, the result was a downturn, directly by Ford a wave of five consecutive wins, 0-5 fiasco is also quite rare. No. 2 seed Trump faced Maflin, who failed to take away the victory after shooting two hundreds, and finally lost 3-5. In addition, Brechel, who is ranked 16th in the world, and Carter, Gould and other famous players, all folded in the second round and missed the round of 16. At 6 p.m. today, the remaining 4 round-of-16 battles will be played, and Liang Wenbo, Yuan Sijun and Pang Junxu will play hand in hand.