In the early morning of March 8, Beijing time, the second round of the Snooker Turkish Masters, Chinese amateur youngster Scarlett upset No.12 McGill, and the big score was 5-2 to eliminate the top 16 master McGill.
This season, Scarlett is still playing professional snooker as an amateur, and although he won the previous World Snooker Federation (WSF) Open Championship, he qualified for the next season and the next season for professional snooker. In this campaign, as an amateur player, Scarlett broke out a crazy big cold, facing McGill, who ranked 12th in the world, Scarlett Came out of the unfavorable situation of losing a set first, and blasted a single shot to break 106 points, completely reversing the situation, and finally winning McGill for four consecutive sets in the unfavorable situation of 1-2 behind, and reversing the promotion 5-2.
At present, Scarlett is only 19 years old, and he has been playing world professional snooker for only 2 years, but in his current short career, Scarlett has left a deep impression on everyone. On March 2, 2021, at the Snooker Gibraltar Open, Scarlett eliminated Ding Junhui 4-2, which can be said to be a famous match, breaking out one of the biggest cold spots in the tournament at that time. On November 24, 2021, Scarlett eliminated Grand Slam winner Murphy at the British Championship, one of Snooker's three majors.
At that time, after Murphy was out, he also mocked Scarlett: amateur players are not eligible for professional competitions, which is not fair. Therefore, Scarlett's elimination of Murphy also caused some controversy. But in the end, public opinion basically sided with Scarlett, and Murphy could only apologize. Now, in the first snooker Turkish Masters, Scarlett has created a big cold, knocking out no.12 McGill, it can be seen that it is no accident that Scarlett does have talent!