On April 11, 2022, the Snooker World Championships continued, ding Junhui played in the third round of qualifying, against another Chinese player, Tian Pengfei, and as a result, Ding Junhui won a big victory, eliminating Tian Pengfei to advance, and then playing against amateur David. Liri, the winner went to Crucible to challenge the seeded players, the two are not a level player at all, Ding Junhui is more optimistic about playing in the main game.
Ding Junhui ranked 29th in the world, he is the only Chinese player who has reached the final of the World Championship, six years ago from the qualification round, and finally lost to Selby to get the runner-up, last year Ding Junhui lost to Bingham, this time the signing is good, the strength of the opponent in the same district, only need to win two consecutive games to advance to the main tournament, just before the Gibraltar Open, Ding Junhui also reached the quarterfinals.
The third round against Tian Pengfei, the latter ranked 68th in the world, Ding Junhui and Tian Pengfei are good friends, once teamed up to win the Asian Games gold medal, the two are currently responsible for China's snooker related work, Tian Pengfei now needs to solve the problem of relegation, but this game he has little chance of winning, the two sides have a career record Ding Junhui advantage, last year's English Open, Ding Junhui eliminated Tian Pengfei 4-1.
In the first set, Ding Junhui took the lead in scoring the red ball, but failed to continue to connect the attack, Tian Pengfei played a single 70 points to take the lead first, the two sides made mistakes in the second set, Ding Junhui played a single 50 points, won the fight at 84-27, in the third set Ding Junhui played a single 55 points into the defense, and then Tian Pengfei defense was not in place, Ding Junhui started again to complete the super points, and then Ding Junhui won another round at 77-16.
After the half-time, the fifth set Ding Junhui took a 32-0 lead, followed by a long defensive battle between the two sides, Ding Junhui made a mistake, Tian Pengfei played a single 68 points to win back a set, this game Tian Pengfei has a stronger ability to score consecutively, the sixth set Ding Junhui played steadily, although he did not complete the single-shot victory, but through high-quality defense to grasp the initiative, played 78-28 also in color.
Next Ding Junhui blasted out a single shot of 134 points, 5-2 to get the match point, which is also Ding Junhui's first shot in this World Championships to break the hundred, the eighth inning Tian Pengfei played a single 58 points, saving a match point, the ninth inning Tian Pengfei played a single 72 points to win another round, bringing more pressure to Ding Junhui, and then Ding Junhui played a single shot of 66 points to end the game, and finally eliminated Tian Pengfei 6-4, and the first game of the World Championships was won.
At the same time the game was played, David. Liri blasted a 115-pointer, 63 points, 59 points, 50 points and 6-1 through Kurt. Ma Fulin, Ding Junhui fights David again. Li Li stormed the main stage seat, and the fourth round of the qualifiers was 19 innings and 10 wins, so we look forward to Ding Junhui's performance.