On February 28, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker European Masters, China's dark horse Fan competed for one by one to the end, 10-9 to kill O'Sullivan for the first time.
After the game, Fan Zhengyi held aloft the championship trophy and said: "I am already very happy to play against O'Sullivan in the final, and I want to play every point well. In this final, I think all I want is not to lose too badly, maybe O'Sullivan didn't play well. The host asked whether the success of Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao inspired you, and Fan Zhengyi said: "I trained with Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, and everyone summed up together." ”
Speaking of Fan Zhengyi, he is also a young and famous player. It is reported that Fan Zhengyi began to learn to play at the age of 5, practiced for 3 months and won the fifth place in the national youth competition participated in by 12-18-year-old players, and played with snooker liang Wenbo when he was a child.
When he was 8 years old, Fan Zhengyi once said: "O'Sullivan is my idol, and in the future I will surpass him and become the real first." Now, impacting his first ranking champion, Fan Zhengyi met O'Sullivan, who finally ushered in a blockbuster opportunity at the age of 21, and successfully seized it, replacing Yan Bingtao as the youngest champion in the history of the ranking competition.
At present, the young generation of China's snooker has risen in an all-round way, Zhao Xintong after 90, Yan Bingtao after 00 is a benchmark, and the momentum of Fan Zhengyi may not be inferior to Yan Bingtao, who is also after 00, And Fan Zhengyi's future is also bright. After winning the first ranking championship, Fan Zhengyi became the representative of the snooker 00 generation like Yan Bingtao.
Nowadays, China's snooker does have the possibility of a full-scale outbreak, because the younger generation of foreign players is not prominent, while the young Chinese players are one after another.