Beijing time on April 11 news, the 2022 Snooker World Championship continues. In a focus match in the third round, Fan Zhengyi, the champion of the St. St. Europe Masters and a young player in China after 00, suddenly lost the accuracy in the case of winning match points 5-4, and was reversed by Chris Wakelin 5-6 after losing two consecutive sets.
The Snooker World Championship Qualifier is the prelude to this season's annual Drama World Championships and will determine 16 World Championship seats. Born in 2001, Fan Zhengyi is an extremely strong young player who is ranked 35th in the world. After several seasons on the Pro Tour, the post-00s player finally broke out strongly this season.
The young Fan Zhengyi, in the recent European Masters final, blasted 5 50+ and 2 shots to break the hundred, 10-9 World Championship 6 champions "Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan won the championship, winning his first ranking championship.
In the first two rounds of the world championship qualification round, Fan Zheng had a bye. He made his debut in the third round against world number 62 Chris Wakelin, who defeated Jamie Wilson 6-2 in the second round. Fan Zhengyi and Wakelin have a total of 2 meeting records, with a record of 1-1.
In the first set of the match between Fan Zhengyi and Wakelin, he passed several starts in the opening game to win the first set 90-34 and take a 1-0 lead. In the second set, Wakelin scored a single 73 points, 85-0 clean sheets to equalize the score 1-1. In the third set, Fan Zhengyi played the first personal 50+ (50 points) of the game, winning another set 82-22 and winning the score 2-1.
In the fourth set, Wakelin won 79-48 through piecemeals, tied the score 2-2, and the two sides went to the break. After returning from a brief break in the fifth inning, Fan Zhengyi scored another 65 points to win 68-17 and take another 3-2 lead. In the sixth set, Wecklin won 74-46 and drew again 3-3.
In the next two innings, the two went on to make it 4-4. In the ninth set, Fan Zhengyi won 76-7 and won the match point 5-4. In the desperate situation, In the next two rounds, Wakelin won two consecutive sets 72-0, 85-47, and the aggregate score was 6-5 to reverse the promotion, and Fan Zhengyi unfortunately did not have the opportunity to impact the world championship main match.