The 2022 Snooker Tour Championship has finally kicked off in anticipation, with eight of the best players of a single season set to decide the winner within a week and pocket £150,000.
In this tour tournament, only Zhao Xintong of the Chinese Snooker Legion got the ticket, and the first place in the single season made him the number one seed of the tournament, but zhao Xintong was once again "online class" by the old predecessor in the opening match against John Higgins.
The Tour Tournament used 19 innings and 10 wins, and in the first stage of the game, Higgins obviously failed to enter the best state in time, while Zhao Xintong changed the cold feel of the previous few stops and blasted out two large over 100 to temporarily lead into the rest time with a score of 5-3.
After returning from the second stage, Zhao Xintong still played steadily after the third shot of the game, Zhao Xintong led by 8-4, just when the fans who stayed up late thought that the game was about to end, Higgins once again showed his unrivaled reversal ability.
In the following game, Higgins seized on Zhao Xintong's mistakes to win five consecutive sets of rebound scores and take the lead to reach the match point, although Zhao Xintong withstood the pressure to drag the game into the decider, but at this time Higgins would no longer let the opportunity slip away, and finally successfully surpassed the score to 10-9 to a historical level reversal.
For the majority of fans who stayed up late to watch the game is undoubtedly a great pity, Zhao Xintong missed too many opportunities in the case of this opportunity to end the game early, in fact, this round of Zhao Xintong's accuracy has picked up compared to before, but the careless relaxation of vigilance after leading eventually led to the reversed ending.
Not only that, Zhao Xintong was reversed by Higgins this time, but also set a humiliating record, this season Zhao Xintong with the first seed in a single season to participate in the tournament was tragically a round of travel into the first person in history, after this outing also announced that no one in the Chinese snooker army can attack the championship again.
And the experience of the veteran Doudou Higgins as the best player in history any loopholes and opportunities will become the key to his reversal of the game, Zhao Xintong also completely paid the price for his youth, after the game Zhao Xintong also published a summary on the personal social platform for the first time.
Zhao Xintong: I learned a lot from being able to play the tiebreaker with the top Higgins, although it was eventually reversed, but this is the snooker game, which is a little sad but very enjoyable. Thank you so many fans for staying up late to support me and I will continue to cheer up next, I hope that the World Championships will let everyone see a better good.
Although the loss of the game but the fans are more pleased, Zhao Xintong did not affect his mentality because of this loss, through the dynamic can feel that he still maintains the confidence of the game and does not accept defeat, which is a good thing for young players, and I hope that Zhao Xintong will adjust in time to look forward to his wonderful performance in the World Championship.