On April 23, 2022, the snooker World Championship continued the second round of competition, China's famous Zhao Xintong lost to Maguire 9-13, and was finally eliminated from the round of 16, after the game, Zhao Xintong accepted an interview with the World Taiwan Federation to respond, summed up his performance, with less than four words to evaluate, many fans have left messages, hoping that he will continue to cheer and achieve good results in the new season.
This is Zhao Xintong's first time to participate in the World Championships as a seeded player, with the British Championship and the German Masters champion, his world ranking is high in the sixth place, and the first round is a 10-2 sweep of qualifier Jamie. Clark, showed a strong competitiveness, but then against the experienced Maguire, Zhao Xintong experienced a hard battle, and finally lost the game, Maguire's performance was indeed better.
First of all, Zhao Xintong is inexperienced, he has not played 25 innings and 13 wins before, secondly, his competitive state is unstable, his adjustment ability is poor, he relies too much on the scene, and finally there is the problem of technical tactics, whether it is the quality of defense, or the handling of the chaos, there is a need to improve, looking back at the whole game, Zhao Xintong performed best in the third stage, but unfortunately he fell behind too much in front of him and lost the opportunity to reverse.
After the game, Zhao Xintong praised Maguire, saying that the opponent is a very talented player, the experience of the competition is very rich, the first two stages of his own can not find any opportunities, this time in the training with Yan Bingtao, feel that his defensive quality is higher, have the confidence to defeat Selby, while the offensive and continuous scoring ability is also very strong, optimistic about Yan Bingtao to win the game, this year he has a great chance to win the championship.
Maguire introduced that after learning that his opponent was Zhao Xintong, he had a plan from the beginning, that is, to do a good job of defense as much as possible and not to give Zhao Xintong too much space to play, and Zhao Xintong was the first time to participate in the 25-inning game, so it was normal not to be able to continue to move forward.
Although stopping in the round of 16, in the eyes of many fans have some regrets, but Zhao Xintong has always maintained an optimistic attitude, he updated the dynamics on social media, said that from beginning to end there are some surprises, this season broke the bottleneck, won two ranking championships, but also has the second round of the World Championships of the abnormality, through this game, feel that they are still a lot worse, to continue to cheer, can not let everyone down.
At the same time, Zhao Xintong is also aware of the current problem, he stressed that the next step is to learn to win the game when the feel is all right, in the high-quality duel to continuously make a beautiful snooker, and finally he used the fly in the ointment to evaluate his performance this season, Zhao Xintong said, please believe that I will work harder in the future, will get up immediately after the fall, and prove myself again.