April 1 is the 35th birthday of Ding Junhui, a leading figure in China's snooker. In previous years, during the snooker China Open, Ding Junhui spent this sacred day with Chinese fans and shared the joy of birthday together. But since the beginning of the epidemic, The Chinese tournament has been suspended, and Ding Junhui's birthday has not been able to spend in China, and this year, he will spend a special birthday with everyone online.
At the same time, these two days world snooker announced the most important ranking world championship qualifier at the end of the season, since entering the top 16 of the world ranking in 2006, Ding Junhui will usher in the second world championship qualification test of his career, because this season, his world ranking has fallen sharply, not only fell out of the top 16, and even fell out of the top 32. Fortunately, he is back in the top 32 before the settlement day and will only have to endure two rounds of qualifying. Ding Junhui's last trip to the World Championship qualifying round was in 2016, when he won all the way from the qualifiers to a historic final, and finally lost to Selby and was relegated to the second place.
Judging from the signing table, Ding Junhui is on the line, he is in the line, the first round of the qualification is likely to usher in a civil war with his old friend Tian Pengfei, if successfully won, the last round of the qualification, to a large extent, with the Norwegian player Ma Fulin, before the two career encounters, Ding Junhui has won the victory, so the world championship signing table, Ding Junhui promotion is not very difficult. The first three rounds of the qualifiers will use an 6-win system of 11 sets, while the last round will use the 19-inning 10-win system in the first two rounds of the World Championships to test the players' long-term ability.
Just recently officially released the World Championship qualification poster, Ding Junhui and two British celebrities at the same time on the list, illness occupies the absolute C position, the other two are "Taiwan Evergreen Tree", with the name of the uncrowned king Jimmy White, the other is Maguire, when Ding Junhui won the 2019 British Championship, the opponent who won the decisive victory. It is the glory of Ding Junhui to be able to appear in the same frame as White, after all, White is the king of the six asian championships at the World Championships, creating a rare record. Maguire also experienced a big decline in rankings before the World Championships, because he also fell out of the top 16 and even fell to 40 places. As a quasi-top 16 seeded player, it is expected that Ding Junhui, Maguire and others can pass the test of the qualification round and enter the main competition.