2 Chinese players broke into the main competition! The 23-year-old won three consecutive wins to advance, and Ding Junhui blasted out a single shot of 137 points. The fourth round of the 2022 World Snooker Championship Qualification Tournament has ended the first eight matches, with three Chinese players playing, including Ding Junhui, Lu Haotian playing in the main tournament, and Zhou Yuelong losing to Maguire 7-10 and missing the World Championship main match.
The 23-year-old Lu Haotian is currently ranked 64th in the world, so he has played from the second round of the world championship qualification round and has encountered civil wars in succession. In the second round, Lü Haotian defeated Xu Si 6-4, and in the third round, he defeated Lu Ning 6-3, and Lü Haotian encountered teammates in two consecutive rounds and won two consecutive derbies to advance to the fourth round. In the fourth round, Lu Haotian's opponent was 50-year-old veteran Dale, who was banned by the World Taiwan Federation because of Liang Wenbo and directly advanced to the decider round. Before this game, Lu Haotian and Dale had met 3 times, and Lu Haotian had the advantage of 2 wins and 1 loss. After the game began, Lu Haotian directly occupied the initiative on the field, playing 81 points, 8 points, 63 points, 56 points, 55 points in a row, taking the lead in the match point with an aggregate score of 9-1, and then Dell played a single 110 point, 94 points, 67 points in a row to win 3 sets, the 14th inning, Lu Haotian once again controlled the situation on the field, locked the win with a single shot of 64 points, and thus won with a total score of 10-4.
This season, Ding Junhui's world ranking not only fell out of the top 16, but also fell out of the top 30 at one point, so he had to participate in the World Championship qualification round. Fortunately, Ding Junhui recently returned to the world's top 30 to start from the third round of the qualifiers and defeat his friend Tian Pengfei 6-4. In the fourth round, Ding Junhui played against 46-year-old veteran David Liri, and after the game began, Ding Junhui blasted a single shot of 137 points in a row, 76 points to win two consecutive sets, but David Liri soon played a single 61 points, 60 points in a row to win two sets. Back at halftime, Ding Junhui and David Liri each won another set, and in the seventh set, David Liri scored 68 and 56 points in a single set, and the total score was 4-3. The two then won another set each, with David Leary leading 5-4. In the second stage, David Liri scored 54 points, 64 points, 71 points in a row, won 2 consecutive sets, extended the lead to 7-4, at the critical moment, Ding Junhui withstood the pressure, played a single shot 76 points, 62 points, 59 points, 56 points in a row of 6 sets, ending the game with a total score of 10-7, so that Ding Junhui participated in the World Championship main tournament for 16 consecutive years. This article is original by Xiao Lizi, please do not copy or port.
Zhou Yuelong against the famous Maguire, before the game the outside world generally believed that Zhou Yuelong is difficult to win, although this season Maguire's state is very general, but Zhou Yuelong is not much better, and from the historical record of the two people, Zhou Yuelong is not dominant, although in the second half, Zhou Yuelong once chased the score to 7-8, but then Maguire won two consecutive sets, to win 10-7 on aggregate, Zhou Yuelong did not qualify for the game.