For most professional snooker players, the most important event of the season is just around the corner, the 2022 World Snooker Championship, which will kick off the qualifying round in early April and the Crucible Main Race on April 16. In addition to the top 16 seeds in the world ranking directly advancing to the main tournament, the remaining professional players, plus some amateur players, will compete in the qualifiers. Recently, regarding the registration for the World Championships, there is the latest news, Fu Jiajun, a famous Player from Hong Kong, China, who has previously won professional competition opportunities, has finally returned to the field and started from the World Championship qualification tournament.
Another famous player, the seven-time champion of the World Championships, the Scottish star Hendry, known as the "Emperor of Billiards", still did not register for the competition at the registration deadline, which also means that Hendry will miss this year's World Championship qualification round. Two years ago, Hendry qualified for a wild card from World Snooker and could have played professionally for two years, and Hendry did not make his comeback debut until the Gibraltar Open at the end of last season, when he lost 4-1 to Serte and suffered a round trip, the only highlight of which was a one-hundred breaker in the game, becoming the 776th in his career.
Hendry's last professional appearance was at last year's British Championships, when he lost 1-6 to Thailand's "fast gunner" Takchaia, and was beaten by his opponent with 5 shots to break the hundred, which was tantamount to being slaughtered. Perhaps it was the continuous setbacks, it was difficult to find the feel of the year, so that Hendry once again withdrew, coupled with his usual competition, as a TV commentator to participate in the game commentary and commentary, let him participate in the event in another way, the same sense of satisfaction. So for Hendry, at the end of the season, he is bound to be relegated again, lose his professional qualifications, and if there is no wild card opportunity, then he can only face the result of retiring again.
And Hong Kong, China's famous Fu Jiajun, the first two years because of the impact of the epidemic, coupled with his personal eye disease and other issues, so he temporarily left the professional arena, and then received a wild card invitation from the world snooker, so that he can return to professional events this season, but due to the continuous instability of the epidemic, Fu Jiajun has not yet appeared in the professional arena, and now, at the end of the season, the World Championships are coming, Fu Jiajun announced that he will participate in a high-profile manner, starting from scratch, as excited as when he first started to compete in professional competitions. On March 22, Fu Jiajun has officially departed from Hong Kong and departed for the United Kingdom to prepare for the World Championships.
In the last week or so, the players have been in an off-season, most of the players are in a state of training and relaxation, and Zhao Xintong, the champion of the Chinese New Science and England Championship, is not idle, and in addition to training, he also participated in a local exhibition match in the United Kingdom, interacting with local fans cordially. During the training, Zhao Xintong also ushered in the guidance of the noble O'Sullivan, just like the previous report, O'Sullivan treated Zhao Xintong as his own student and apprentice, carefully guided, and taught his skills. I believe that with the blessing of such a famous teacher, it will only make Zhao Xintong more mature and progressive, and will create greater achievements and breakthroughs in the future.