In the second stage of the 2022 Snooker Champions League (ranking version), Group A began, the first match, Ronnie O'Sullivan against Yuan Sijun, in the end, O'Sullivan lost three consecutive sets 0-3, and the first set was a 0-133 fiasco! Breaking out of the big cold door, Yuan Sijun won a big victory and won the opening of the top eight.
In addition to O'Sullivan and Yuan Sijun, this group also includes Ali Carter and another Chinese player, Pang Junxu, no doubt, but from the perspective of personal ability comparison, O'Sullivan is the strongest, taking a step back, even if this is a short-term game, but for O'Sullivan, as long as he plays his normal level, he still has great hope of breaking through.
Yuan Sijun is a post-00s rising star in China, only 22 years old, and his strength and experience are far less than O'Sullivan, but considering that it is a short-term system, Yuan Sijun is not impossible to break out of the big cold.
In the first set, O'Sullivan lost the bench! Yuan Sijun exploded, hitting two 50+ (74 points and 59 points) in a single game, winning 133-0. In the second set, the two played a little glue, O'Sullivan was still in a slump, Yuan Sijun won 59-46, the big score 2-0 lead.
In the third set, O'Sullivan hit a 34-point break, and Yuan Sijun decisively scored a single shot of 64 points, 64-34 and then moved into the defense. After Yuan Sijun took a 66-34 lead, O'Sullivan still shook hands and conceded defeat after a few shots, yuan Sijun won 66-34, and defeated O'Sullivan 3-0.