On the evening of March 28, Beijing time, the Snooker 2022 Tour Championship officially kicked off in Landdino, England, and Zhao Xintong, a popular young student who won the championship and was popular in snooker, was in a fight with scottish wizard John Lee. Higgins performed well in the opener, during which he staged a hundred good plays, and finally led Higgins 5-3 on aggregate to complete the first stage.
The Tour Championship is a high-threshold A-ranked tournament that is limited to the top 8 players in a single season, and the prize money is very generous, even if the first round is out of the 20,000 pounds, and reaching the top 4 doubles the prize money.
Mainland fast gunner Zhao Xintong has won the British Championship and the German Masters championship this season and ranked first in a single season.
As the top seeded player, Zhao Xintong's opponent in the opener was the last seeded player, 47-year-old Scottish wizard John. Higgins.
It is worth mentioning that Zhao Xintong stepped on Higgins' shoulders to take off his first professional crown in the British Championship.
The Tour Championship has a special format, from the first round to the final, it adopts a 10-win system of 19 innings, which is played in two stages, the first stage requires 8 rounds.
In the first set of this campaign, Zhao Xintong took the lead in the game, first grabbing Higgins to attack the red ball of the bag mouth to steal more than 30 points, and then forced to stop due to a position error.
Higgins then appeared in the defensive battle to return the ball is not of high quality, was beaten into the middle platform by Zhao Xintong, and then played a single 50+ to take the top 1-0.
In the second set, Zhao Xintong attacked the far platform but was seriously inaccurate, Higgins took over the table and launched a cautious ball, playing a single 63 points after the offensive route misjudgment, the target ball powder ball was lost.
Faced with the opportunity to reverse, Zhao Xintong did not seize it, but lost the coffee ball in the difficult attack, and Higgins hit the super score to make the score 1-1.
In the 3rd set, Higgins came up and attacked the long platform, but was unsuccessful, and missed the middle and far platform, Zhao Xintong hit the target ball and scored 41 points in a row, but the next shot lost the difficult point black ball and left it in the bag.
However, dramatically, Higgins was busy for half a day, facing the upcoming round, but made a fatal mistake when playing black school yellow, and even deflected the target ball, and Zhao Xintong left a polite and glorious ball to win the round 2-1.
The key 4th innings of the two sides, Zhao Xintong faced the far platform bag mouth ball, but played a lack of standards, but Higgins took the initiative to attack the far platform at a critical moment and shot, and the mother ball also successfully liberated the black ball at the point, the situation was suddenly cheerful, directly blasted out a single 69 points super point, Zhao Xintong used the last red ball to do snooker to chase points and lost the innings, and the two sides took the 2-2 score into the set to rest.
After the break, Zhao Xintong's offensive accuracy has rebounded, seized higgins' offensive side library red ball error, directly blasted out a single shot to break the hundred to complete the clearance, and finally showed a shot, the mother ball ran left and right, jumped up and down, and successfully called the black ball through the seven libraries and received full applause, and the score became 3-2.
In the 6th set, Higgins has two major mistakes in attacking the color ball, Zhao Xintong did not catch it, but Zhao Xintong did not give up easily, in the color ball battle, Higgins' safety ball played a mistake continuously, Zhao Xintong decisively attacked the coffee top bag hit, and then completed the clearance to make the advantage 4-2.
In the following game, Higgins hit the "toxic powder ball" and made an active mistake again, and Zhao Xintong caught the opportunity again, and then exploded a single shot to expand the score to 5-2!
In the end, Zhao Xintong temporarily led the way with an aggregate score of 5-3 to end the first stage of the competition.
The last phase between the two sides will continue at 3:00 a.m. Beijing time.