At the Snooker European Masters, 21-year-old Chinese player Fan Zhengyi defeated his idol billiards legend Rocket Ronioz sullivan 10:9, won the championship, became famous in one battle, and shocked the world. This big victory has lifted Fan Zhengyi's world ranking from 80th to 31st, playing a chinese brother billiards prodigy Ding Junhui. Become the youngest snooker qualifying champion at this stage.
Fan Zhengyi defeated the Rockets to win the European Masters championship
Fan Zhengyi, a Chinese snooker player, born in Heilongjiang in 2001, is a talented teenager who became famous as a teenager and was named "genius teenager". He started playing at the age of 5. In 2009, he was the most outstanding billiards player under the age of 10 in China, when Ding Junhui's coach Wu Wenzhong watched Fan Zhengyi's superior strength, accepted him as a disciple, and ushered in Fan Zhengyi's bright future.
Five-year-old Fan Zhengyi played seriously and single-mindedly
When Fan Zhengyi was 5 and a half years old, he participated in the national youth competition, and the other players were 12-18 years old, and they won the fifth place, which showed his strength. Once Liang Wenbo returned to Harbin, and Fan Zhengyi played a four-set match, the result was a 2:2 draw, the game was real, there was no suspicion of letting the ball, after the game Liang Wenbo praised, in the future, Xiao Zhengyi will be much stronger than him. Fan Zhengyi's uncle Chen Dawei said: Fan Zhengyi has never learned billiards from others, and he relies entirely on his own understanding to practice. Fan Zhengyi is very famous in the Harbin billiards circle, but Chen Dawei felt that he should still find a famous artist to exercise, so he took Zhengyi to Ding Junhui's father's stadium, and when he arrived at the stadium, Xiao Zhengyi directly said: What about Ding Junhui? Tell him to come out and try it. It made his uncle very embarrassed. At the Ding family stadium, he opened his mouth and said that his idol was O'Sullivan, and someone asked why he didn't like Ding Junhui, and he made a small mouth: he played too boring and made everyone amused. In 2010, he defected to Wu Wenzhong, the godfather of snooker in China, and became Wu Wenzhong's 10th apprentice, the youngest apprentice.
Fan Zhengyi held aloft the trophy
Fan Zhengyi started his career in 2018, and did not perform well at the beginning, but there were many controversies, one of which was to deliberately not break the hundred. He had stopped attacking several times before breaking the hundred. In the second round of the 2021 World Championship Qualification Round, after scoring a single 98 points and calling the last black ball, he turned away, reproducing the scene of refusing to break 100, which puzzled many people. After understanding, the reason is that Fan Zhengyi set a goal for his first break of the hundred, that is, he hopes that his first shot to break the hundred is a full score, do not want to be misunderstood by others, think that he wants to attract everyone's attention by deliberately not breaking the hundred, in fact, as early as the first round of the 2021 World Championships against Shu Erdi's seventh set impact 147, but after completing the 12 red and 12 black K ball errors, stopped 96 points, lost 147 at the same time, but also passively rubbed shoulders with the first shot to break the hundred. In the eyes of some people, Fan Zhengyi's deliberate behavior of not breaking the hundred is disrespectful to the snooker movement and opponents, and as the controversy intensifies, Fan Zhengyi also adjusts his plan. I want to play very comfortably and win in a good mood, I will play a hundred in advance, and finally play against Iran's famous Wafi at the Snooker Scottish Open, first for being late, he was sentenced to lose the first set, and then played the first career breaker, 133 points.
Fan Zhengyi in the game
After a period of silence, Fan Zhengyi finally ushered in his own big explosion. First in the German Masters to reach the quarterfinals, then in the European Masters consecutively beat Wilson, Yan Bingtao, Gilbert and other famous players, in the semi-finals to win the world champions Dort and O'Sullivan division final. The world's only 80th ranked Chinese post-00 player, to defeat the world's second-ranked rocket, it is as difficult as ascending to the sky, facing the seasoned opponent O'Sullivan, his heart is like water, in the case of five degrees of leadership and five times of being equalized, stunned is with tenacity and perseverance and unparalleled skills, with the decisive 92 points in the single shot to subdue his idol O'Sullivan, can be described as a big heart, becoming China's sixth world ranking champion winner, now less than 21 years old.
European Masters with O'Sullivan
Fan Zhengyi's success is of great significance to the Chinese Snooker Legion. The new generation of forces he formed with Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong put an end to the situation in which Ding Junhui fought alone, which not only stimulated the confidence of young Chinese players in the world of war, but also played an inspiring role in the entire Chinese snooker army. This trend is also a good thing for Ding Junhui. Ding Junhui's strength is still there, and after unloading his psychological baggage, he has every reason to continue to charge at a higher goal. This is exactly the case, in the ongoing Shierqi Masters, first 5:4 against Milkins, then 5:3 against Brother Wilson, 5:4 in the quarterfinals against compatriot Scarlett, who also played well, and then 5:1 against Dort to reach the final four, let's wait for the good news of the Chinese legion.
Representative of the new generation of China
It is too early to say that Fan Zhengyi became a first-class player as soon as he defeated O'Sullivan, he is still very young, unstable play is a common disease of young players, he can score any goal, and there will be emotions when encountering difficulties, let us give young players room to grow, I believe that they will become world-class players after experience.
Fan Zhengyi, the future is terrible, the future can be expected!