On April 12, 2022, Beijing time, the Snooker World Championship entered the 9th day of the qualifying round, and 8 regular seats will be decided, and China's Ding Junhui, Zhou Yuelong and Lu Haotian will join forces to attack the main seats. Ding Junhui against veteran World Champion David Leary, Lu Haotian against veteran Dominic Dale, the two have great hopes of advancing to the main tournament. Zhou Yuelong challenged Stephen Maguire and was bound to fall into a bitter battle.
The fourth round of the qualifiers uses a 19-game, 10-win system, and each match will be divided into two time periods, which are 18:00 and 0:00 Beijing time, which is a relatively tight game, which is obviously a big challenge for some players with slower paces.
On the 9th matchday, 8 matches were arranged, that is, 8 regular seats were decided, and the most concerned was undoubtedly the match of Chinese players. Ding Junhui, Zhou Yuelong, Lu Haotian and other 3 aces took the lead, Ding Junhui's opponent is David Lili, Lu Haotian's opponent is Dominique Dale, the opponent strength is average, and they are all veterans, as long as Ding Junhui and Lu Haotian play normally, the hope of advancing to the main tournament is very great.
Comparatively speaking, Zhou Yuelong's opponent is stronger, after all, Stephen Maguire has been a seeded player in the past, and he was deducted a huge number of points before the World Championships to lose the seed seat. However, Stephen Maguire's play is also not very stable, the state is up and down, for Zhou Yuelong, he only needs to find his own rhythm, minimize mistakes, and hope to laugh to the end.
In addition to the three games for the Chinese players, the other five games are: Alan Taylor against Scott Donaldson, Michael White against Jordan Brown, Matthew Serte against Tarchaia, Tom Ford against Jamie Jones, and Joe O'Connor against Ashley Hegel.
It is worth mentioning that eight matches were played at the same time, and the official arrangement for Zhuozi caused controversy, the first table was arranged for The Matthew Serlt and Tachaia, and the second table was arranged for michael White and Jordan Brown.
Obviously, the official arrangement is based on the ranking, which seems reasonable. But judging from the attention of the game, Ding Junhui's matches against David Leary and Stephen Maguire against Zhou Yuelong were more attractive, but the two games were arranged at table three and table four. Many experts believe that these two matches should be more at the first and second tables, and the official arrangement should be more flexible.
Since the Chinese players have not been able to climb to the top two tables, they should play their own games with peace of mind and strive for a quick decision!