The highly anticipated 2022 Snooker Turkish Masters finally ushered in the final battle, and the Chinese snooker army played abnormally in the quarterfinals Yan Bingtao and Zhou Yuelong were out one after another, leaving only Ding Junhui to reach the semifinals.
After two years of silence, Ding Junhui finally ushered in an outbreak at the Turkish Masters, and there is no doubt that Ding Junhui has improved visible to the naked eye in terms of both the status of the game and the competitive strength.
Only this Turkish Masters Ding Junhui has blasted out seven strokes over 100, although entering the competition is still a bit slow and hot, but finally there is a thrilling breakthrough success, this time to reach the semi-final also created Ding Junhui's personal best performance of the season.
Ding Junhui semi-final against Matthew Serte, the two current world rankings are comparable to the historical record of the two sides are also equally divided into two victories, for Ding Junhui to be good at attacking, Serte must get rid of the attribute of slow heat, as soon as possible to find the feel so as not to be pulled apart in the short-term game.
The game began Ding Junhui took the lead in kicking off, Serte tried to attack the top bag red ball unsuccessfully Ding Junhui began to score continuously, but there was a mistake, Sert seized the opportunity to score 1:0 to get the opening red, the second set is still Sert first overdweight Ding Junhui failed to make snooker to temporarily trail 0:2.
In the third set, the two launched a long tug-of-war, after Serte established the lead, Ding Junhui got the opportunity through defense but made a mistake in the key red ball, and Serte failed to score on the super yellow ball, although Ding Junhui qingtai forced to the stage of fighting for the black ball, but a failed defense completely buried the innings to fall behind with a 0:3 score.
In the crucial fourth inning, Serter made a mistake in the face of the opportunity to continue to extend the lead, Ding Junhui hit the middle bag to start scoring continuously, and did not give the opponent another chance to blast a single 90+ to enter the intermission with a 1:3 score.
Ding Junhui, who came back from the break and habitually slowed down, can be regarded as entering his own state, first completing a single stroke 50+ to win back a set again, followed by the sixth set, Serte took the lead to establish a lead Ding Junhui started and then staged a single-game reversal to blast out a single shot 90+ to equalize the score.
Then the two sides of you and I each won the next game to 4:4 draw, the key ninth game, Ding Junhui sunk the bottom defense leaked out of the long platform Serte directly scored to complete 50+, Ding Junhui came on stage to try to reverse but failed to score the key red ball Serte took the lead to reach the match point first.
After Serte reached the match point in the tenth game, Ding Junhui also completely let go, and at the beginning of the game, he flew into the longstand and won 5:5 to drag the game into the final decider. In the last set, Ding Junhui took the lead but made a mistake in hitting the powder ball, and Serte failed to win the two sides into the defense with one shot, but unfortunately, Ding Junhui then solved the ball mistake, Serte laughed at the gift to complete the super point and finally defeated Ding Junhui 6-5 to enter the final.
Throughout the game, Ding Junhui was still a little too slow to heat up, although the second half of the state picked up and chased several innings, but the score gap in the first half was pulled open, which caused Sert to reach the match point first, thus losing the semi-final of the game.
However, objectively speaking, Ding Junhui can be said to be defeated, the recent hot state has undoubtedly announced that the king is on the way back, although the next tour championship qualification can not be obtained, but there is no doubt that the final world championship this season is Ding Junhui's main goal, and I hope that Ding Junhui will continue to maintain training fans look forward to the day when you reach the top of Crucible.