On October 25, 2022, the World Federation of Taiwan Agencies officially announced the snooker title against the signing table, China's Zhao Xintong ushered in a favorable situation, drew Thailand's Wangharutai to lock the quarterfinals in advance, waiting for O'Sullivan to play against Milkins winner, both Chinese players are in the second half, Fan Zhengyi is unlucky, come up to challenge Robertson, the second round is likely to meet Karen. Wilson.
The crown is an invitational tournament with a prize of £150,000 but not counted in the world rankings, with a guaranteed bonus for first-round exits, 15 of whom qualified by winning the title, only Selby qualified by virtue of the rankings, and the defending champion was Trump who won the tournament for the first time with a 10-4 win over Higgins last year, and O'Sullivan, who tends to play at a high level in such competitions.
This year, only Zhao Xintong and Fan Zhengyi qualified for the Chinese players, Zhao Xintong won the British Championship and the German Masters, Fan Zhengyi created a dark horse miracle at the European Masters, and finally defeated O'Sullivan to win the title, Yan Bingtao has not won the championship so far after the Masters, and the world ranking 15th does not meet the standards, Ding Junhui and Zhou Yuelong are in the same situation, it is not easy to have two seats.
The last 16 of the crown is released: Trump v Luca in the first half. Brecel, Mark. Alan vs Joe. Perry, Selby vs Lee. Walker, Higgins vs Hussein. Wafi, bottom half Robertson vs Fan Zhengyi, Karen. Wilson vs Ryan. Dai, Zhao Xintong vs Wangharutai and O'Sullivan vs Milkins, some of the players have limited strength and do not have the strength to eliminate their opponents and advance to the quarterfinals.
Women's World Champion Wangharutai and Veterans World Champion Lee. Walker is relatively the weakest, especially Wangharuthai, basically focus on participation, get a guaranteed bonus, Zhao Xintong drew a female player, the result lost suspense in advance, there is no problem in reaching the quarterfinals, but challenging O'Sullivan, whether he can bring surprises is worth looking forward to, O'Sullivan attaches great importance to this competition and is sure to win the championship.
Fan Zhengyi recently played with Robertson, and at that time he was also quickly defeated, the gap between the two as a whole is very large, Robertson has a clear advantage, but the 7 games and 4 wins format, there is a greater accident, Fan Zhengyi does his best, does not rule out the possibility of upset, the result all depends on the impromptu performance, from the two Chinese players signing table, want to match Ding Junhui's final four results, extremely difficult.
According to the arrangement of the World Taiwan Federation, the recent three competitions have been held consecutively, in order of the English Open Qualifier, the Champion of the Championship, the British Championship, and most importantly, the British Championship, one of the three major tournaments, this year will adopt a new format, how the performance of Chinese players is exciting.