At 18:00 Beijing time on March 1, the Snooker Welsh Open continued. Among the Chinese players, Ding Junhui played the style of the rocket, 4-1 light holt, and the young player Yuan Sijun narrowly won the promotion. In addition, Liang Wenbo, who broke into the final four of the European Masters, made a round trip, and Cao Yupeng was eliminated.
Ding
Ding Junhui's opponent in the first round was second-rate player Michael. Holt. In terms of hard power, Ding Junhui is much higher than his opponents. But considering that Ding Junhui has been in poor shape for the past two years, many people are not optimistic about this game. Sure enough, after the game started, Holt took the lead 88-0. But then, the game was taken over by Ding Junhui. Xiao Ding first scored a 111-point clean sheet in the second set to tie the score 1-1. After a tangled fight in the third set, Ding Junhui won 67-48, and the score was 2-1.
In the next two sets, Ding Junhui did not give Holt another chance, and played 103 points and 138 points in a row, ending the game with a wave of four whips. Judging from the actual combat situation, Ding Junhui's state has rebounded significantly, he is very confident, the attack is decisive, the shot is rapid, the average shot time is less than 20 seconds, which is quite O'Sullivan's style. With four wins to shoot a three-stroke breaker, Ding Junhui should be able to go further in the Welsh Open.
Liang Wenbo
Compared with Ding Junhui's high-light performance, Liang Wenbo's performance was mediocre. In the matchup with Wollaston, although the opponent opened the scoring with 139 points in the first set, he was still the first to win the match point 3-2 by Wollaston. In the sixth set, it was Wollaston who started first, but after scoring 61 points, the attack was interrupted, and Liang Wenbo won 65:61 with multiple mobile games and excellent luck, dragging the game into the decider. Otherwise, Liang Wenbo would lose 2-4. The crucial tiebreaker, luck no longer patronized Liang Wenbo, Wollaston won 68-6, thus ending the game 4-3, giving Liang Wenbo a round trip.
Yuan Sijun, who came on the stage earlier, narrowly defeated McLeod 4-3 and struggled to advance to the round of 32. Cao Yupeng, who played after Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo, was eliminated by Perry 3-4 after 7 rounds of hard fighting.