The final of the Snooker Northern Ireland Open came to an end, with Mark Allen playing Zhou Yuelong, and in the end, Allen won his seventh career ranking tournament 9-4.
"Sichuan Ding Junhui", China's post-90s star Zhou Yuelong has reached the final of the ranking tournament twice, but unfortunately failed to win the championship, came to this Northern Ireland Tournament, Zhou Yuelong performed strongly, experienced Lectra World Champion + Grand Slam player Sean Murphy, former TOP16 player David Gilbert, the gold content is still relatively sufficient, semifinals against Anthony McGill, Zhou Yuelong played strong, 6-4 victory, and the whole game Zhou Yuelong played four shots to break 100, once again came to the stage of the ranking final.
Allen is the defending champion, and in the semi-finals against "Melbourne Machine" Neil Robertson, Allen won 6-2 with ease, showing the strength of the defending champion. The two have only met twice before, each with 1 win and 1 loss, which is a good opportunity for Zhou Yuelong to win the championship.
In the first stage, Zhou Yuelong won four games in a row while losing one game first, establishing a 4-1 advantage, in fact, this advantage is already good, but Allen won three consecutive games to chase 4-4, and the two did not divide in the first stage. In the second stage, Allen's state was obviously better, Zhou Yuelong was a little collapsed, and Allen directly won five consecutive games 9-4 and successfully won, completing an "incredible" reversal.
After the game, Allen raised the trophy and raised the 80,000 pound championship prize money, and Chinese snooker suffered a heavy blow: Zhou Yuelong lost eight games in a row after 4-1, which is really helpless.