6-4, Fan Zhengyi eliminated the previous champion Dort with strong strength and successfully advanced to the final of the European Masters. It also created his best result in a career ranking competition. Perhaps because of his poor form, the opponent of this fan zhengyi, Dort, actually praised the Chinese players before the game: now that China has emerged about 10 great young people, they will rule the sport in the future. As a result, Fan Zhengyi proved Dort's judgment with an outstanding performance.
In the first semi-final of the European Masters, Fan Zhengyi, a post-00s chinese player, faced Scottish veteran Dortmund. In the previous quarter-finals, Fan Zhengyi eliminated gilbert, who was ranked 19th in the world, while Dort narrowly beat Ryan Day 5-4. The two have only met once before, and in the 2019 International Championship qualifiers, Dort once won 6-2.
According to the rules, the semi-finals of this tournament will be a 6-win system of 11 sets.
In the first half of the game, in the first set, Fan Zhengyi took the lead 90-14; in the second game, Fan Zhengyi won by 131 points, although the third set was pulled back by the opponent by 1 point, but in the third set Fan Zhengyi once again seized the opportunity to end the first half with a 3-1 lead.
At the beginning of the fifth inning in the second half, Fan Zhengyi came up one by one to give a big gift, sending the black ball to the bottom side pocket mouth, Dort smiled. But the Scottish veteran did not take the opportunity, and was overtaken by Fan Zhengyi with a single shot of 58 points. The score came to 4-1.
In the 6th and 7th innings, Dort scored two consecutive runs and scored a single 62. In the crucial 8th set, Fan Zhengyi found his form, single-shot 77 points, stretched the score again, 5-3, and took the lead to get the match point. Although Dort struggled to win back a set and scored a single 52 point, he missed the opportunity again in the 10th set, and Fan Zheng scored the last point with a single 84 points, eliminating the opponent with an aggregate score of 6-4 and advancing to the ranking final for the first time.
In this game, Fan Zhengyi played a personal single-shot high score of 131 points, and had 3 times 50+, it can be said that the win was completely won at the offensive level, and it was reasonable to eliminate the opponent.
With this victory, Fan Zheng has repeatedly set three personal records: 1. He is the first Chinese player to reach the final of this European Masters; 2. He won the first time in his career as the champion of the past world championship; 3, he broke into the final of the ranking competition, creating the best result of his career. There may also be a very important significance for him, the final is very promising to recruit his idol - O'Sullivan.