Beijing time on March 29 news, snooker Tour Championship opener, the number one seed Zhao Xintong and world champion Higgins played 19 innings, 7 hours of bitter battle, Zhao Xintong was finally 9-10 by Higgins killed, Higgins fell behind from 4-8 to 10-9, completed a super big reversal, the first to enter the top 4!
The first eight of the single season can participate, the Tour Championship brings together the 8 players who have performed the best this season, according to the single season ranking, the first place Zhao Xintong and the eighth Higgins met in the first round to compete for the first place in the final four, and the remaining three groups were: Trump Brechel, O'Sullivan Mark Williams, Neil Robertson Mark Allen, of which Neil Robertson was the defending champion.
Competing as the top seed, Zhao Xintong and the old and strong Higgins dueled. In the first set, Zhao Xintong scored a single shot of 53 points, 76-0, the first to take the lead. In the second set, Higgins scored a single 63-pointer to equalize the score at 71-1. In the third set, Higgins scored another 57 points, but Zhao Xintong completed the reversal 68-57. In the fourth set, Higgins scored 69 points to make it 70-23 and equalize again.
In the fifth set, Zhao Xintong broke 124 points to win. In the sixth set, 65-54, Zhao Xintong won another set. In the seventh set, Zhao Xintong scored another 108 points to win! In the general bureau, Zhao Xintong led 5-2, with obvious advantages. In the eighth set, Higgins pulled back a city 64-26, and in the first half, he trailed Zhao Xintong 3-5 with the general bureau.
In the second stage, Higgins quickly chased another set 66-56, bringing the General Office closer to 4-5. Zhao Xintong won the tenth set 92-36. After that, Zhao Xintong scored another shot to break 128 points! In the twelfth set, Zhao Xintong scored 71 points to win. At this time, Zhao Xintong led sharply with the General Bureau of 8-4.
However, after the second phase of the break, Zhao Xintong fell into a slump, the accuracy has been completely gone, Higgins seized the opportunity to 65-8, 84-7, 88 (single 56 points) -39, 89 (single 83 points) -1, 73 (single 59 points) -27 to win 5 consecutive games, Higgins big score 9-8 lead to take the first match point!
In the 18th set, Zhao Xintong scored 64-20 on the table by 1 point, and then, Higgins did not miss a ball defense, but Zhao Xintong scored a difficult thin ball from the far stage and entered the decider!
In the decider, the ball type was very chaotic, Zhao Xintong did not score in the bottom bag of the red ball from mid-range, and Higgins established a slight lead. After that, Zhao Xintong failed to score on the long platform, and also missed the ball, Higgins started again, 43-5 to expand the advantage, but the red ball bottom bag was lost, Zhao Xintong got started! However, Zhao Xintong only scored 9 points and made a mistake! Higgins continued to do defense, Zhao Xintong missed the ball again, and Higgins scored a far red ball to continue to expand his advantage. In the end, Higgins laughed to the end, and defeated Zhao Xintong 10-9 by the General Bureau, becoming the first player to advance to the top 4 of this tour championship.
The first phase took 3 hours from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. last night, and the second phase took 4 hours from 2:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. today. Total time, 7 hours, a bitter battle!