2022 snooker has unconsciously reached the final stage, only the Gibraltar Open, the Tour Championship and the World Championship have not yet started, of course, the World Championship is undoubtedly the most anticipated event for fans, and this event will also usher in the return of a Chinese player, who is snooker's gentleman representative - Fu Jiajun.
Some fans may have some doubts, Fu Jiajun has not retired in the past few years, how to suddenly come back, in fact, familiar fans are more aware of Fu Jiajun although he has not appeared on the field in recent years, but has not bid farewell to the sport.
After losing to Ding Junhui at the 2020 Welsh Open, Fu Jiajun had no choice but to announce his temporary farewell to the arena due to an aggravated eye disease, and thought that he would return to the field soon, but he never expected that Fu Jiajun would be relegated to a disparaggreement due to a long period of time without a game.
Although last season's snooker tour specially awarded Fu Jiajun a wild card qualification to allow him to participate in professional competitions, Fu Jiajun, who is far away in China, considered the special circumstances encountered in the world in the past two years, and finally chose to accompany his family for safety reasons.
Fu Jiajun is 44 years old, so far in his career has won a total of three ranking championships, 500+ single strokes over 100 also include four full scores of 147, the world's highest ranking sixth and ranking in the top sixteen all year round.
There is no doubt that Fu Jiajun and Ding Junhui are the "meritorious elders" of Chinese snooker, and the two have made the sport prosperous in China with their outstanding performances, and Ding Junhui and Fu Jiajun have successfully met in the final of the 2011 Masters, setting a great record for China's snooker.
Objectively speaking, if Fu Jiajun is not because of eye diseases to plague the achievements of his career, as early as 2017, Fu Jiajun diagnosed that his eye retina is degenerating, and at that time he can be said to be in the final peak stage, helpless due to the continuous aggravation of eye diseases, the ranking has declined all the way to disappear in the professional arena.
However, Fu Jiajun, who bid farewell to the professional arena, did not neglect the training of snooker, and from his daily release of the dynamics, it can be understood that snooker sports have always existed in life, and finally after the eye disease was effectively treated and the foreign situation was alleviated, Fu Jiajun announced his comeback and official return to the field.
Earlier, Fu Jiajun posted on his personal social platform that he had signed up for this season's World Championships, and this news undoubtedly made all domestic snooker fans excited, and the 44-year-old veteran will once again set sail for his dream to hit the highest glory.
After the official announcement of the return, Fu Jiajun also accepted an interview with "Sports Road": many fans think that I have retired, in fact, I have never thought of saying goodbye to snooker in this way in the past two years, I just gave myself the opportunity to rest and spend time with my family, and now that I am full of electricity, it is time to start again.
Of course, although Fu Jiajun has also maintained daily training during the past few years, in the final analysis, he has not officially dueled in the professional arena, and suddenly returning to the professional game will inevitably be a little uncomfortable, which Fu Jiajun is also very clear.
Fu Jiajun said: "Due to the epidemic, I have not trained systematically for a long time, I can only seize the time to do some practice after arriving in the UK, and I don't have much expectation for the results of this return because this is not my best state, but I will still try my best. For me this time it was like playing a professional game in the first place, very much looking forward to it and feeling excited and fresh.
As a fan, although it is clear that Fu Jiajun is difficult to achieve very bright results in the World Championships, for Fu Jiajun, who is already 44 years old, this fighting spirit of returning to continue to chase his dreams is worthy of everyone's admiration.