On March 7, the Snooker Turkish Masters will start as scheduled in Antalya, just two days before the start of the tournament, the world's first Selby, the world's fourth Robertson announced his retirement, and his qualifying places were replaced by amateurs Pinky and Blackwell, and the withdrawal was also announced by Shuldi, who had already qualified for the main tournament, and his opponent Runin automatically advanced to the round of 32. Coupled with O'Sullivan, the world's second-placed unencryed, the first Turkish Masters was star-studded. Zhao Xintong led 14 members of the Chinese Legion to fight, and the specific signing table is as follows:
According to the signing table, we can see that without the 3 in the world's top four, the game will become very open, the TOP16 left in the signing table are very unstable, Trump did not break through the top 8 until the Welsh Open, Brechel also seems to have a flash in mind, Murphy and Maguire are even more consecutive defeats, Uncle Ma and Allen are more neurotic, McGill is mediocre, Higgins has declined from the second half of the season, so the lineup is imaginative, Zhao Xintong and 3/ in 1/4 zone Yan Bingtao, Zone 4, is fully capable of impacting the Top 4.
In fact, we can carefully observe the remaining 14-member lineup of the Chinese Legion, Zhao Xintong + Yan Bingtao + Ding Junhui + Liang Wenbo + Fan Zhengyi, 5 ranking champions, this is the first time that the Chinese Legion has all the ranking champions at the same time to advance to the round of 64, almost has sacrificed the strongest lineup, plus Zhou Yuelong + Xiao Guodong + Cao Yupeng + Lu Haotian 4 ranking runners-up, the performance of the Chinese Legion in the first Turkish Masters is worth paying attention to.
According to the schedule, Zhao Xintong's match will be played at 20:30 Beijing time on March 7, Yan Bingtao and Ding Junhui will be played at 16:00 Beijing time on March 8, and the first four rounds of the match will adopt a 9-game 5-win system, the semi-final 11 innings 6 wins, the final 19 innings 10 wins, the champion 100,000 pounds, the runner-up 45,000 pounds.