In the early morning of March 3, Beijing time, the Snooker 2022 Welsh Open ended another first-round focus battle in Newport, England, and the British Championship new champion Zhao Xintong was in a match with British veteran Jack. Jones was blocked in the duel and was eventually killed by his opponent and missed the round of 32.
The 24-year-old Zhao Xintong transferred to the professional competition in 2016, and after 5 years of dormancy, he soared into the sky, and won the first ranking championship of his career in the British Championships last year.
A month later, Zhao Xintong played in the Champions League as a temporary substitute, and the result was remarkable, winning the group championship in eight games and reaching the finals.
20 days later, Zhao Xintong worked hard at the German Masters, defeating Jin Left Hand Xiaote in succession, meeting with Yan Bingtao in the final, and winning the second ranking championship trophy in the final with a 9-0 disparity, so that the world ranking soared to 7th in the world and ranked first in a single season.
"Zhao Gongzi" was in the limelight for a while.
Zhao Xintong had a good firepower in the qualifier round of this Welsh Open, successively firing 2 shots to break 100 and 1 shot 50+ high scores, and defeated Little Lanes 4-1 on aggregate to advance to the main tournament.
In the first round of this campaign, Zhao Xintong's opponent in the first round was the 28-year-old British player Jack. Jones, who is now ranked 51st in the world.
At the beginning, Zhao Xintong grabbed two mistakes from his opponent and played a single 50+ opening record of 1-0.
Unexpectedly, in the 2nd set, Jack seized the opportunity to hit a single 70+ to make the score 1-1.
But in the 3rd set, Zhao Xintong made a simple offensive mistake and lost the blue ball, resulting in Jack not seizing the opportunity, but was played by Zhao Xintong with a wave of defensive counterattack, in the case of falling behind by more than 60 points, taking advantage of An Global's success to reverse the disadvantage, with a narrow victory of 69:63, the score became 2-1.
Jones, who suffered a big loss in the previous set, was cautious on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and used a rigorous safety ball to get multiple opportunities to grab points, and then forced the score to a 2-2 draw at 74:1.
In the 5th set that followed, the two sides were deadlocked, and at the critical moment, Zhao Xintong opened the situation with precision and won the match point 3-2 at 70:22.
In the 6th set, however, Jones worked hard to drag the game into a 3-3 tiebreaker 83-0.
Jones excelled in the decider, successively gaining the upper hand with three wonderful long-distance shots, and finally one shot to the end, with an aggregate score of 4-3 thrilling Zhao Xintong to advance to the round of 32, the next round will be Iran a govafi.
Other sessions:
Yan Bingtao lost four straight sets to beat compatriot Zhao Jianbo, Selby 2-2 Highfield, and Master Huo 4-1 Kati.