At 18:00 Beijing time on April 12, the snooker World Championship qualification match, Ding Junhui's final round of competition finally began, facing 47-year-old veteran David Lili. In the first set, Ding Junhui showed a good state, and completed a shot to break the hundred at the beginning!
Because of the low world ranking, David Liri started from the first round of the qualifiers and eliminated Stedman, Robbie Williams and Maflin. Ding Junhui started from the third round of the qualifiers and eliminated his old friend Tian Pengfei. This round of qualifying is a 19-game, 10-win format and is divided into two periods.
David Leary is a respectable snooker veteran who has only qualified for the professional tournament since 2019 and has always been an amateur player before, that is, it is not easy to officially become a professional snooker player at the age of 44.
It is worth mentioning that in the local series, David Lili once defeated Ding Junhui, and in the first round of the 2019 Northern Ireland Open, David Lili defeated Ding Junhui 4-2.
In the first set, Ding Junhui took the lead in getting started, simplifying the situation through a K ball, and then, through another K ball, completely opened the situation, broke 137 points with a single shot, completed the clearance, Ding Junhui felt hot!
This is Ding Junhui's 29th 100 this season and the 587th 100 in his career, just one point away from the season's highest (138 points per shot).
After defeating Tian Pengfei in the last round, Ding Junhui also admitted that he could feel that his state was getting better and better, at the same time, Ding Junhui also said that playing qualifiers was not a bad thing, he could cultivate his own feel, and it was also helpful for him to play the World Championships next.
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