On March 9, the 2022 Snooker Turkish Masters took the lead in four second-round competitions, determining four round-16 spots. Zhao Xintong and Si Jiahui of the Chinese Legion played hand in hand, and in the end, Zhao Xintong performed poorly, losing 2-5 to England's Serte and missing the round of 16; while Si Jiahui, who played as an amateur, continued the role of "dark horse", defeated Tom Ford 5-1, and advanced to the third round of 16, equaling the best record of his career. Today, the rest of the second round will be in full swing, and the Chinese legion will have seven more players to play, including a brother Ding Junhui, who will challenge the world's fifth-ranked Karen Wilson.
This season, the Chinese legion has achieved many breakthroughs, especially the young generation of players have made major breakthroughs, Zhao Xintong has won the British Championship and the German Masters Championship, and Fan Zhengyi has won the European Masters Championship. Coupled with Yan Bingtao's continuous and stable state, the three people have supported the new generation banner of China's snooker. Although a brother Ding Junhui is in poor shape, the world ranking is the first time in 16 years that it has fallen out of the top 16 and has now fallen to about 32nd place. However, with the emergence of the scale effect, the Chinese legions encourage and encourage each other, you catch up with me, continue to create good results, the Turkish Masters 9 people advanced to the top 32, creating a long-lost group advantage.
A little regret, Zhao Xintong after winning the British Championship and the German Masters championship in succession, the state has declined, the Players Championship, the Welsh Open are all out of the round, the Turkish Masters stumbled into the round of 32, but the state of ups and downs, but also for his follow-up games left a foreshadowing. In the second round of the showdown with Serte, Zhao Xintong was almost stateless, the offensive end of the hand was abnormal, and the defensive end continued to slump, resulting in a final 2-5 defeat and no chance to advance to the round of 16.
Born in 2002 as a 19-year-old, Scarlett has performed well this season, and although he has participated in various races as an amateur, he has played a series of unpopular plays. Including Murphy, Stevens, Dale, Bond, McGill and other famous players, he has been defeated. Coupled with his victory at the WSF World Snooker Open and his re-qualification for the next two seasons, he has enhanced his self-confidence and morale. In the Turkish Masters, he defeated Dale 5-2 in the qualifiers, and also defeated the top 16 seeds McGill 5-2 in the first round to advance to the round of 32. In the second round against Forde, Scarlett maintained an excellent hand, played 5 strokes 50+, and finally won easily 5-1, advancing to the round of 16, equalizing the best of his career, and the third round will be against the winner between Ding Junhui and Karen Wilson.
After experiencing the first round of the reverse horror, Ding Junhui will have a hard battle in the second round against karen Wilson, who is ranked fifth in the world. If you put it two or three years ago, ding junhui and Wilson who won and who lost is not easy to say, but in these two years, especially in the past year, Ding Junhui's state has continued to decline, facing the world's top 16 seed opponents, he has suffered 14 consecutive defeats in a period of 14 months. And the showdown against Wilson, starting from the 2018 China Open, the past 5 encounters, Ding Junhui is a five-game losing streak, so this time Turkey meets again, Ding Junhui's chances of winning are still difficult to say, whether it can break the spell and boost morale, is quite important.