On February 27, 2022, Beijing time, the World Snooker Association Championship ended the open group final, and China's 19-year-old Si Jiahui played well, defeating Li Stephens 5-0 and successfully winning the championship. Subsequently, the World Snooker Tour officially announced that Scarlett will be awarded another two years of professional qualification from the 2022/23 season, which is of course good news, congratulations to Scarlett.
This season, Chinese players have achieved very good results in the professional snooker arena, Zhao Xintong has won consecutive British Championships and German Masters championships, and the German Masters final is a derby between two Chinese players. In the ongoing European Masters, Fan Zhengyi and Liang Wenbo reached the final four. After the semi-finals, Fan Zhengyi successfully reached the final and created the best record of his career.
It can be said that china's young players have made progress, and O'Sullivan also affirmed the performance of Chinese players in an interview. Nowadays, there are more and more Chinese players competing in the professional snooker competition, and it can be said that more and more Chinese players are participating in the sport, and they are eager to qualify professionally and then show their skills in the professional arena.
A few days ago, another Chinese player regained his professional qualification, he is Si Jiahui. In fact, Scarlett showed a good talent when he debuted, and also won some victories in the professional arena, but unfortunately failed to maintain his professional qualifications and played as an amateur player this season. Because of his relatively high ranking, once the professional players withdraw from the competition, Scarlett often has the opportunity to make up for the competition.
At this season's British Championships, Scarlett qualified and defeated world champion Sean Murphy, who was so angry that after the game, he aimed at amateur players like Scarlett, believing that they should not participate in professional competitions. Sean Murphy's remarks were criticized and he subsequently apologized publicly, and although he apologized to Scarlett, he stood by his point.
At the time, Scarlett did not respond publicly to the incident, and now that Scarlett has qualified professionally through the World Snooker Association Championship, it is a strong response, and he has proved that he deserves to participate in professional competitions. In fact, it is not easy for Scarlett to win the World Snooker Association Championship, because close to 300 players participate in the open group competition, Scarlett passed the level and reached the final, he played a hundred in the final, beat Lee Stephens 5-0, successfully won the championship, thus getting two years of professional qualification, I don't know what Sean Murphy thinks?
I hope that Si Jiahui will cherish such an opportunity and achieve good results in the professional arena, like Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao, Fan Zhengyi and other young players to learn and gain a firm foothold in the professional arena!