The third round of the 2021-2022 Snooker World Championship Qualification Tournament was all over, the Chinese legion performed poorly, and four of the six people who played in the last six were eliminated, only the young players Yuan Sijun and Lei Peifan defeated the famous players Ryan Dai and Ussenbach respectively to advance to the decider round, while Xiao Guodong, Pang Junxu, Gao Yang and Cao Yupeng lost to Grace, Graeme Dort, Carter and Milkins respectively, so that the third round of the World Championship qualification round was all over, and only five of the 15 members of the Chinese legion advanced to the final round. They are: Ding Junhui, Zhou Yuelong, Lü Haotian, Lei Peifan and Yuan Sijun, of which only Lei Peifan and Yuan Sijun are the only ones who win in the "foreign war". The ten players who were out of the third round of the game were: Tian Pengfei, Fan Zhengyi, Li Xing, Zhang Jiankang, Zhang Anda, Lu Ning, Pang Junxu, Cao Yupeng, Gao Yang and Xiao Guodong, compared with the second round of the game, the performance of the Chinese legion in the third round was quite bad, and it can also be seen from this that the overall level of Chinese snooker needs to be further improved.
Yuan Sijun, ranked 86th in the world, faced Ryan Dai, who was ranked 22nd in the world, who had a more brilliant career, Yuan Sijun eliminated Ross Muir and Halworth 6:3 in the first two rounds of matches, which was in good shape, but facing Ryan Dai was a big challenge for Yuan Sijun, after all, the latter ranked much higher than himself. In the first game, Yuan Sijun also had offensive opportunities but did not form a continuous score, Ryan Dai single shot 69 points and then won 90:24 to win the first city to win the first place, and in the second game Yuan Sijun gradually took the initiative when the situation was anxious and won back a city at 59:13. After the equalizer, Yuan Sijun gradually broke out, he played a single shot of 106 points, 126 points, 120 points after three consecutive sets of clean sheets and won a 4:1 lead, in the sixth game Yuan Sijun repeatedly attacked the score to 63:30 and then won a big score of 5:1 to get the match point, the seventh game Yuan Sijun did not give the opponent too many opportunities, won 85:13 after multiple offensive rights, the total score was 6:1 upset victory over Ryan Dai, strong promotion to the World Championship qualifier decider.
The famous Cao Yupeng's third-round opponent is Milkins, who recently won the first ranking championship of his career and is in quite good shape, cao Yupeng won the third round with a big victory over his opponent in the last round. In the first set, the two sides competed fiercely, Milkins won 40:38 in the last moment, Cao Yupeng in the second set was defeated by Milkins in a 59:50 reversal in the situation, the third game Cao Yupeng was still in poor shape, and Milkins was more and more courageous, playing a single shot 65 points and then winning a big game with a 3:0 lead, and in the fourth game, Milkins was not reduced in firepower, and after a 4:0 lead after a single shot of 69 points, he ended the first half.
At the beginning of the second half, Cao Yupeng launched a crazy counterattack, in the fifth game Cao Yupeng played a single 64 points and then won a set back at 103:16, in the sixth game Cao Yupeng continued to play 80 points and then chased another set, in the seventh game Cao Yupeng single shot 52 points and narrowed the score to 3:4, Milkins took the initiative in the next two sets, although he did not play a single high score, but still won two consecutive sets to end the battle, the total score was 6:3 to beat Cao Yupeng, a strong promotion.
The famous Xiao Guodong faced Grace, and Xiao Guodong, who played from the third round of the game, was ranked higher than Grace in the world, but grace was in a state of explosion in this game, and finally defeated Xiao Guodong. In the first game, Grace entered the state quickly, scoring 88 points and then taking the next city at 107:32, Xiao Guodong did not want to be weak in the second game and then played a single 63 points to win back a city, in the third game Grace single shot 55 points to win, in the fourth game Grace won another round at 75:24, the big score was 3:1 to lead, the fifth game Grace was still hot, single shot 65 points after winning 74:31, the big score of 4:1 lead, the trailing Xiao Guodong then launched a counterattack Although he only scored a high score of 70 points, he still firmly occupied the initiative in the next three sets, he won three consecutive sets to pull the score to a 4:4 draw, but unfortunately, xiao Guodong failed to continue the momentum of chasing points in the next two sets, and in the ninth game Grace stopped loss in time, won after a single shot of 66 points and won the match point, in the tenth game Grace blasted a single shot of 80 points and took away the victory, the total score was 6:4 to win Xiao Guodong, strongly advanced to the fourth round.
Youngster Gao Yang to meet the former world runner-up Carter, objectively speaking, there is a certain gap in the strength of the two sides, the game began with continuous attacks, he has played a single shot of 82 points, 137 points after winning three consecutive sets to lead 3:0, the fourth game Gao Yang repeatedly attacked and won a set of 63:21, the fifth game Carter played a single shot 53 points after winning again to widen the point difference to three sets, behind Gao Yang played a single shot 100 points after chasing back a set, the seventh game Carter won 66:7 and 5:2 to get the match point, Gao Yang, who was behind, played a single shot of 85 points and chased two consecutive innings, and in the tenth game, Carter scored 54 points to win, and defeated Gao Yang 6:4 on aggregate, and strongly advanced to the decider round. In the two matches that ended earlier in the day, Pang Junxu faced world champion Graeme Dort, although he tried his best, but still lost 1:6, and the latter also blasted a single shot of 147 points. The 18-year-old Repefan surprised us with a 6-3 victory over Ussenbach to advance to the fourth round.