On April 9, the third round of the 2022 Snooker World Championship qualification tournament began, the Chinese legion 6 people took the lead, the result in two civil wars, Zhou Yuelong and Lu Haotian defeated Zhang Anda and Lu Ning respectively, successfully advanced to the decisive round, and in the two foreign battles, Li Xing and Zhang Jiankang were defeated and did not qualify. The biggest underdog of the day was Walton, the top seed in the qualifiers and no. 17 in the world, who lost 4-6 to Alain Taylor and missed the tiebreaker round, and thus missed the main tournament of this year's World Championship.
In the last four matches of the second round held in the morning of the same day, the four young players of the Chinese Legion played hand in hand, and finally won 2 wins and 2 losses, Pang Junxu scored a single shot of 144 points, refreshing the highest single score of the current position, and Lei Peifan scored 3 strokes to break the hundred, and the feel was explosive. At this point, a total of 15 members of the Chinese legion have joined hands to play in the third round and impact the decisive round of the fourth round, of course, including three Chinese derby civil wars, and the duel between Ding Junhui and Tian Pengfei has become the focus of everyone's attention.
In the 7 third rounds of matches that have ended, the Chinese legion has 6 players, including Zhou Yuelong against Zhang Anda, Lu Haotian against Lu Ning, Li Xing against Donaldson, and Zhang Jiankang against Maguire. This season Lu Ning is in good shape, the world ranking has been stable at about 30, so the qualifiers start from the third round, his opponent Lu Haotian experienced the second round of the test to advance, the first six sets of the game were divided equally, Lu Haotian played 1 shot to break the hundred, Lu Ning played 2 par 80+, but after 3-3 draws, Lu Haotian won three consecutive sets, 6-3 victory.
Zhang Anda and Zhou Yuelong's duel, from the perspective of game data, Zhang Anda played better, played 2 shots to break the hundred, 3 shots 50+, but in the game Zhou Yuelong was better at grasping the key points, although in the case of a 5-4 lead, he was dragged into the decider by Zhang Anda, but in the end Zhou Yuelong won with one shot, completed the kill, successfully advanced, and will meet Maguire in the decider round, who defeated Zhang Jiankang 6-3, and the Scottish star scored a 2-stroke breaker in the game. In addition, Li Xing suffered a reversal, and he was won by Donaldson for three consecutive sets with a 5-3 lead, losing 5-6.
The biggest underdog of the day came from Walton, who, as the world number 17, played as the top seed against Alain Taylor. In the game, Walton won four consecutive sets in the case of 0-2 behind, achieving a 4-2 rebound, but then he suddenly dropped the line, lost four consecutive sets, and was directly completed by the opponent 6-4 to complete the counterattack, regrettably stopped, did not qualify for the decider round, and impacted the qualification for the main game. You know, before the World Championships, Wharton originally had a good chance to hit the top 16 in the world rankings and directly enter the World Championships as a seed, but at the Gibraltar Open, he failed to advance to the final, resulting in a series of honors and opportunities for himself. Now, the World Championship qualifiers are out of the cold, and can only bring regrets to the new season.