Beijing time on November 4 news, the 2022 snooker championship will continue. In the semifinals of the second group, British Championship + German Masters champion Zhao Xintong defeated women's world champion Nucharut Wangharutai 4-2. Start the journey to the championship strongly. In the other group semifinal, European Masters champion Fan Zhengyi defeated Neil Robertson 4-3.
The championship was founded in 2013, and this competition, world No. 8 Zhao Xintong is looking forward to winning the championship. Last season, he exploded strongly, first winning the British Championship, one of the three major tournaments in snooker, and then winning the German Masters, ranking in the top 10 in the world for a long time.
Zhao Xintong also won the opportunity to participate in the championship tournament with the status of the British Championship champion, and had the opportunity to launch a championship prize of 150,000 (about 1.25 million yuan) pounds.
Nucharut-Wangharutai is currently ranked 107th in the world and she has no record of confrontation with Zhao Xintong. In the first game of the game, Zhao Xintong came up and won the first game 77-33 through several layups to take a 1-0 lead. In the second set, Wangharutai scored a 60-29 game through piecemeal to tie the score 1-1.
In the third game, Zhao Xintong won 51-36 through a few more layups and led again 2-1. In the fourth game, Zhao Xintong found a hot offensive feel and used the attack to suppress Wangharutai. He blasted a one-shot 132 to keep a clean sheet at Wangharutai 132-0 to extend his lead 3-1 and win match points.
In the fifth game, Wangharutai fought back tenaciously, and in a stalemate, he saved a match point 64-50 through several layups to make it 2-3.
In the sixth game, Wangharutai still played very tenaciously, Zhao Xintong withstood the opponent's counterattack, 68-62 six points narrowly victory, 4-2 on aggregate, and strongly advanced to the group final.