The 2022 Snooker Turkey Masters staged a highly anticipated showdown for domestic fans in the round of 32, with China's snooker leader Ding Junhui facing the "post-90s bearer" Karen Wilson.
Before the start of this match, two Chinese youngsters had already taken the lead in ending the round of 32, the new Keying Championship champion Zhao Xintong was eliminated by Matthew Serte in a stateless state, and amateur youngster Scarlett performed heroically to beat Tom Ford to advance to the round of 16.
And Ding Junhui and Wilson have played each other ten times in their careers, but in recent years, Ding Junhui is difficult to win, although the ranking champion Ding Junhui is a big score ahead, but if you look at it according to today's competitive state, Wilson is definitely in the upper hand.
And for Ding Junhui, who has previously faced the top 16 embarrassment and gained 14 consecutive defeats, this time against Wilson is also the best opportunity for him to end the losing streak, and it is also a key battle to ensure that he does not fall out of the top 32.
The game began because it was the morning of Turkish time, so both of them could not enter the state in time, after a defensive situation is more and more complicated, after the tug-of-war Ding Junhui finally got the mobile phone will, and in the case of black balls, pink balls can not attack around the blue ball to achieve a super points to achieve a 1:0 opening red.
In the second set back Ding Junhui had a mistake in the case of this opportunity to win, Wilson started to make a precise snooker and Ding Junhui was a little competitive with himself at this time, continuously selected a line to solve the ball was given 32 points, after the solution, Wilson started to complete the super point again, Ding Junhui tried snooker fruitless score to 1:1 draw.
Probably due to the impact of the previous innings being hit by consecutive penalties Ding Junhui's mentality in the next two sets has obviously changed, and he did not continue to score in the case of Wilson's mistakes, while Wilson did not give up and then opened the score 3:1 in the next two sets.
Then the two slow and hot Ding Junhui finally gradually found his best game state, not only the defensive succession of the hand forced Wilson to miss the opportunity, even the long stage was hot and staged a performance of more than 100 consecutive wins in two sets to equalize 3:3. Ding Junhui then played more and more smoothly, while Wilson frequently made low-level mistakes and interrupted the attack in the case of taking the lead in the seventh set, and Ding Junhui did not hesitate to clear the stage again 4:3 to the match point.
In the eighth game, the two began a tug-of-war Ding Junhui made a low-level mistake and did not post a coffee ball when defending, but at this time, Wilson's mentality completely changed, the simple attack not only did not score but also solved the ball and was continuously punished, and then Ding Junhui flew into the long platform in the defensive battle to complete the super points and win four consecutive sets of 5:3 to advance strongly.
Throughout the whole game, Ding Junhui is still in the past slow and hot state, the first few innings have not been able to enter the rhythm of the game by Wilson to seize the opportunity, but as the game progressed, Ding Junhui gradually recovered and began to fight back and blasted out of the hundred, and Wilson was suddenly revived by Ding Junhui, the last few rounds obviously collapsed, and finally Ding Junhui once again completed a big reversal to promote strongly.
This game for Ding Junhui is not only as simple as advancing to the round of 16, but also ending two humiliating records, ending a 15-month defeat against the top 16 and ending his 14-game losing streak against the top 16. Ding Junhui, who defeated the heart demon to advance to the round of 16, is expected to go further and impact the championship trophy that has been absent for a long time.