On March 3, Beijing time, the third round of the 2022 Snooker Welsh Open, the showdown between O'Sullivan and Ding Junhui came again, and as a result, Ding Junhui lost 3 consecutive sets and lost 2-4 in the face of O'Sullivan.
Ding Junhui last beat O'Sullivan back in 2019 and hasn't won since. In this confrontation, Ding Junhui was still very quick to get started, and the first set of 72 points won the lead. But soon, O'Sullivan scored 85 points to tie the score. Ding Junhui performed well in the third set, playing a good performance in 2 starts, scoring 58 points and 59 points in a single shot.
After entering the fourth set, Ding Junhui began to miss good opportunities, failing to score 57 points in one shot, and O'Sullivan tied the score 71-58. Then in the fifth set, Ding Junhui did not score a single 53 points, and O'Sullivan took the lead 77-61 to get the match point. In the sixth set, O'Sullivan actually did not feel very good, but Ding Junhui failed to seize the opportunity, several long stages were lost, and finally in the case that O'Sullivan had just locked up the win, he couldn't wait to choose to concede defeat and bowed his head and left the field.
In this way, Ding Junhui swallowed 7 consecutive defeats in the face of O'Sullivan, and the championship famine continued. Now Ding Junhui, the world ranking has fallen out of the top 30, when China's young generation of snooker players collectively rise, the former stable Chinese snooker brother, now ranked only sixth among Chinese players, has completely bid farewell to the top stage.
When Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong, and even Fan Zhengyi all began to make huge breakthroughs, Ding Junhui regressed significantly, and he lost his fighting spirit a little, and he did not know when Ding Junhui would be able to find himself.