The 2022 Snooker Finale World Championship finally ushered in the final round of "Judgment Day" after several days of qualifying matches, and the players will do their best to compete for the final sixteen places to advance to the main tournament.
Ding Junhui, the "first brother of China's snooker", ranked twenty-ninth in the world this season and failed to get a ticket to The Crucible, defeated "deputy director" Tian Pengfei in the third round of the qualifiers to advance to the fourth round just one step away from the main round.
Trial Day's showdown ding junhui ushered in the challenge of David Liri, the 47-year-old veteran has no particularly good results in his career and has not obtained professional qualifications this season, but for Ding Junhui, he can't take it lightly and need to go all out.
At the beginning of the game, Li Li took the lead in kicking off, Ding Junhui made a high-quality defense as soon as he came up, Li Li leaked the opportunity ding Junhui to start scoring continuously and achieved a large number of 137 in the clearance of the taiwan bomb, and the state was hot to win the first set to get the opening red.
In the second set, Li Li scored two consecutive red balls but failed to complete the continuous scoring feel can be said to be cold, while Ding Junhui was in good shape and directly won a 70+ to temporarily lead 2-0 after getting the opportunity.
The pace of the two sets began to slow down, Ding Junhui was pulled back by Li Li's single set reversal in the case of the opportunity to extend the lead, and then in the fourth set, Li Li felt warmer and directly won two consecutive sets to win 2-2 into the half-time break.
After the break, Ding Junhui took the lead in getting the opportunity, although there was a mistake after establishing the lead, but Li Li also gave a big gift, and then Ding Junhui made a snookery solution to miss the opportunity Ding Junhui once again started to complete the super point, and Li Li, who did not give up, also continued to try snooker on stage many times, but in the end, Ding Junhui was a higher score to 3-2.
In the next two innings, he had to sigh at the veteran Lili's defensive skills, and he did not lose the wind in the face of Ding Junhui, who was known for his defense, and staged many wonderful defenses, and in the seventh set, he directly completed the super score to win 4-3.
In the eighth set, Li Li's defense was still airtight, Ding Junhui had not been able to get the mobile phone meeting after the mistake, and under Li Li's tenacious defense, Ding Junhui began to soar into the difficult bench to reach a 4-4 draw. In the last set of the first stage, Li Li reproduced the god-level performance on the offensive end, and did not give Ding Junhui any chance to directly complete the super score to enter the second half with a 5-4 score.
Looking at the performance of David Lili throughout the first stage, many fans were really surprised, the player with no professional ranking played a top level comparable to the top 16 in this round, Ding Junhui can be said to be a normal play with almost no mistakes, but even so still failed to establish a lead. The second stage of the two sides will be officially launched at 24:00, and it remains to be seen whether Ding Junhui can withstand the pressure to achieve promotion.