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In the early morning of March 14, Beijing time, the final of the 2022 Snooker Turkish Masters was over. The no. 2 seed, judd Trump, now the world's third-placed Judd Trump, won his 23rd ranking title and £100,000 prize money with a 10-4 victory over Matthew Selter with a 3-stroke breaker and a 6-shot 50+.
It is worth mentioning that Little played his career 6th par of 147 in the tenth inning, winning a single-high score bonus of £5,000. The 147 led Trump to tie Shaun Murphy and Ding Junhui to tie for fifth place in history with a 6, with O'Sullivan (15), Higgins (12), Hendry (11) and Bingham (8).
At the same time, Xiaote still maintains the record of the youngest player to blast 147 points. In 2004, at just 15 years old, Trump scored a single-shot 147 points in an official match, breaking the record for the youngest person set by Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Speaking of Xiao Te, I will definitely think of Ding Junhui. Belonging to the 80s, Xiao Ding is only 2 years older than Xiao Te, and they are all young and famous, Ding Junhui won his 13th large ranking championship in the year of his standing, and Xiao Te won the 10th ranking championship of his career at the age of 29. Both of them also won the British Championship and the Masters, and only one World Championship champion is missing from the grand slam of their careers.
So far, there are only a few players who can combine the British Championship, Masters and World Championship championships, only Hendry, Steve Davis, 75 Sanjie, Selby, Robertson, Murphy and other 8 people have completed the Grand Slam feat, and Ding Junhui has repeatedly attacked the World Championship championship and failed. Similarly, Xiao Te is only one step away from achieving a Grand Slam.
Just when Ding Junhui repeatedly rubbed shoulders with the world champion and was grumpy, Xiao Te took the lead in completing the Grand Slam feat. On May 6, 2019, in the final of the 2019 Snooker World Championship, Trump defeated veteran Higgins 18-9 on aggregate to win the World Championship for the first time, which was also the 11th ranking title of his career and completed the grand slam feat.
If in the NBA Xiaosi is Yao Ming's lifelong enemy, then in the snooker world, Ding Junhui's lifelong enemy is destined to be Xiaote. The two met and fought in the narrow road many times at the World Championships, and the result was a lose-lose situation. In the semi-finals of the 2011 World Snooker Championships, Ding Junhui led 15-14, but was beaten by Trump for three consecutive sets, and finally lost 15-17.
In the quarter-finals of the 2015 World Championships, Xiaoding lost to Xiaote. In the 2016 World Championships, the eight-place place was successfully won by Ding Xiao, but lost to Selby in the final, once again falling just one step away from the Grand Slam.
From 2019 to 2020, Trump's career broke out, winning 12 titles such as the Snooker Masters, the World Snooker Championship, and the Snooker Players Championship. This season can become a small special year, but his state is exceptionally good, and the accurate Nagato attack is played to the fullest, or it is called "Nagato Precision King" and "Perverted Quasi".
On December 9, 2019, at the Snooker Championship, Ding Junhui defeated Scotland's Maguire 10-6 with a 4-stroke break, winning the third crown of the British Championship after 10 years after 2009, breaking the 806-day championship drought and winning the 14th crown of the career ranking competition. However, Xiao Ding's road to the championship ended abruptly here.
At that time, Xiao Ding was no longer young, and Xiao Te had gone straight to the age of 33. But the vicissitudes of the years have made Xiaote more and more mature, and the self-discipline and hard training of his usual life are well known. For more than 2 years, Xiao Ding is still standing still in place, struggling on the 14 crowns, and often falls on the "one round tour". Xiao Te, who was originally backward, rose to catch up, and now has 23 crowns in his hands, far exceeding Xiao Ding's 14 crowns.
What makes Xiao Ding even more frustrated is that he has missed the dream of the World Championship and grand slam that has not yet been realized, and on May 6 this year, Xiao Te completed the third anniversary of this feat.
Today's XiaoTe, I don't know how many streets have been dumped.