With the 48-year-old veteran Joe Perry winning the second title of his career, the snooker Welsh Open has also come to an end, but the players have not been given the slightest time to relax, as another tournament has been officially launched.
The much-anticipated 2022 Snooker Turkish Open will be held in Antalya from March 7 to March 13, and the Turkish Open, a new ranking event of the season, has received a lot of attention, with a total of 128 players competing for the championship, and the total prize money of the tournament is as high as 500,000 pounds.
However, it is a little regrettable that Mark Selby, Ronnie O'Sullivan and Neil Robertson in the world's top four have not been able to compete for their own reasons, and Judd Trump has once again gone out to compete for the championship, and the Chinese snooker Legion has a total of fifteen people this time, led by Ding Junhui, Yan Bingtao, Zhao Xintong and others.
I have to say that this season China's snooker is experiencing the best moment in recent years, and the new generation of young players have also emerged, so far, the Chinese snooker army has won a total of three races and a runner-up in this season (British Championship, German Masters, European Masters)
These outstanding results were all won by three Young Chinese players, first Zhao Xintong won the first career title in the three Major British Championships, then in the German Masters and Yan Bingtao staged the Chinese derby to win the championship and runner-up, followed by Fan Zhengyi defeated the best player O'Sullivan to win the European Masters championship.
The rise of their three new generation young players to win the championship has undoubtedly created a new history, and under the pressure that Ding Junhui is about to fall out of the top 32 as his age continues to decline, they have not been soft to carry the banner of Chinese snooker, and inspired more young players to stand up.
Interestingly, Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao, and Fan Zhengyi have arrived in Turkey together, and judging from the dynamics posted by Zhao Xintong and Fan Zheng on the social platform, they have already made a walk-and-go trip in romantic Turkey before the official start of the competition.
I have to say that from the picture, the three of them sitting together are like the benchmark of the new era of China's snooker today, as full of hope as the "75 Three Jie" and "80 Three Giants", although the three of them are still far behind the 75 Three Jie, but we have every reason to believe that the three "Chinese Tigers" will create their own many records in the future.
Many netizens laughed when they saw the photo that the three of them forgot their girlfriends to take the lead in a romantic tour, and said that they were "China's snooker three giants", "China's snooker three musketeers", "snooker three fierce generals" (and careful netizens joked that Zhao Xintong's gesture was telling Yan Bingtao and Fan Zhengyi that they had two ranking championships. ）
In any case, I still hope that the Chinese snooker legion that has gone to Turkey to compete can pay attention to safety and health, and then calm down and confidently impact the final championship trophy.