The 2022 British Snooker Championship 32-16 match is in full swing, with eight places in the round of 16 already born, and the prize money for this British Championship has reached an unprecedented £250,000, and it has changed to a new format, which is getting closer and closer to the World Championship. All the players have also put in a lot of effort, go all out, treat them with real people, and in the first round, let's see what the players say about their performance:
Sam Craigie 6-2 Zhao Xintong
Craigie: "It was a good game, the audience was incredible, I've never felt like that. At the beginning, everyone was supporting Zhao Xintong, and the situation began to turn around halfway through the race. I don't know why, but I'm not complaining. Getting the first set calmed me down and if I hadn't taken the start lead quickly, he might have easily eliminated me 6-0. ”
"I'm going straight home now. I've been staying in the hotel for a week now and need to go back and wash all my clothes! ”
It has to be said that Sam Craigie is a proper giant killer who has played the upset maker before, and this time his victory over defending champion Zhao Xintong is indeed very surprising, but the young player did play very well, the whole game is not impatient, full of confidence.
Mark Allen 6-4 Jordan Brown
Allen: "It wasn't a game I was expecting. Even as I tried to shield and do the right thing, I was acutely aware that one of my best friends was in the seat opposite. We met when we were 12 years old, so this game didn't bring the slightest thrill like usual. I think he [Brown] handled it better than I did in the first half of the game, but then I played a little bit more focused than he did. ”
"Let's hope we're going to wait another four and a half years for the next game because I'm a big supporter of Jordan [Brown] and wants him to play well. I know his family and know how much they have contributed to his snooker career. I'm an avid fan and supporter of him and he does the same for me, so it's disappointing that we met early in the event. If only I could play him in the final one day. ”
Mark Allen's weight loss was effective, and his results were getting better and better, and he just won the Northern Ireland championship. The small steel cannon was full of fire, and he was very much looking forward to his performance later.
Ryan Day 6-2 Jimmy White
Ryan Day: "Jimmy (White) was my favorite player as a kid, my hero. It was a privilege to play with him, and I was so excited when he entered. I was full of adrenaline and nervous in the first few innings, but then I calmed down and played well. ”
Jimmy White: "I had two or three chances in the first inning, and I should have taken one chance to calm myself down. In the second inning I was frustrated and had some mistakes in the selection of balls. You can't make players like Ryan (Day) fight more and more in the game. ”
Ryan Day recently won the 2022 British Open, proving that he still has the quality of a top player; And Jimmy White, as the oldest player in the field, although his early strength was extraordinary, but the years have made him more and more difficult, and now it is not easy to enter the main game at the age of 60.
Kyren Wilson 6-3 Matthew Selter
Kyren Wilson: "After I was 5-0 up, he (Sert) made a lot of trouble. It's great to be able to win the game with a high score. It's a huge event, and this year it's even more grand because of the layout of the arena. The stadium and the fan interaction area were fantastic, and the event looked classy, which is what the British Championship should look like. I'm in good form, I need to play well against Mark Allen and we're all going to want to seal our throats. ”
"Playing in the arena at the same time as Jimmy (White), I know the atmosphere will be very different tonight and he deserves every moment like this. Jimmy is the godfather of snooker, and his career is extraordinary. ”
Kyren Wilson is known as the first person in the post-90s generation, and is also affectionately known as "Brother Ji" by Chinese fans, who was previously worried that the Hong Kong Masters did not let him be used as a substitute, and it seems that this time he is full of strength to play well.
Joe Perry 6-2 Neil Robertson
Joe Perry: "I can see that Neil [Robertson] is not 100% in shape, but that probably made my task a little more difficult. Not in the game itself, but to deal with that emotion, and I really have to try to play focused. I always like to play with Neil because he's a great player, well-behaved and inspires you to play your best. ”
"I always feel relaxed around him because we've spent so much time together in the last 20 years. He knew what I was capable of, so I would never feel the need to prove anything to him. ”
In addition, it is worth mentioning that Neil and Perry often play against each other in training together, and Perry is often annoyed by Robertson's late behavior, and this time he won the game, Perry also calculated that he was "bad".
Luca Brecel 6-4 Lu Haotian
Luca Bressel: "I'm very happy to win like this, reaching the final last year prepared me for this year, and I also had some good results and a couple of great wins. I seem to be a different player than before, and every time I come to an event I want to 'win the championship', before I probably focused more on reaching the quarter-finals or semi-finals. ”
"I'm not very excited, but today I was very excited because I saw the set-up and the enthusiastic fans. The table is also very comfortable to play, so everything is perfect like a dream. It feels a little bit like Cruzburg, you can feel it's an important event and it's great to still be part of it. ”
Luca is indeed a difficult fighter, he is known as the "Belgian bullet"; When Lu Haotian lost the competition this time, it can also be seen that in terms of mentality and confidence, the difference between other foreign players, most Chinese players still lack that kind of confidence and big heart.
Tom Forde 6-4 John Higgins
Tom Forde: "The first five or six innings of the game were humbling, my hands were going to freeze, and I felt more comfortable with a pack of hand warmers. I deliberately picked things up and found some form, and I'm very proud to be able to play very focused, because sometimes I get discouraged and blame myself. I'll carry it tonight. ”
John Higgins: "I pulled Tom (Forde) down to my own level and I was lucky enough to draw 4-4 with him for the first four innings. The game got a little faster after the break, but Tom did a really good job of sealing the win. ”
Ding Junhui 6-3 Barry Hawkins
Ding Junhui: "My safety before halftime was not very good. It's nice to hit some one-shot highs, but you can't forget that you need to play well to create chances. From being 3-1 down, I struggled to stay in control and make the right choices and it worked. I was lucky enough to be the seventh man [to shoot 600 and break 100], and one day I was training thinking that if I were going to hit 1,000, I would need to shoot 40 a season for another 10 years. Barry [Hawkins] should have played better after that, but obviously I improved my performance on the ball and defensively after the break. It's true that games often change a little bit after that [half-time], and I did. ”
Ding Junhui started from the qualifying round this time and walked steadily to the main competition, which was very difficult. Originally met Hawkins, everyone thought that the fierceness was not enough, after all, Hawkins had a comprehensive advantage in the record of the match with Ding Junhui, but Ding Junhui as the British Championship triple champion, the strength is naturally not to be underestimated, this time he did perform well, and in this game played his career 600th hundred to break the hundred. In the second round, Ding Junhui will face the winner between Mark Williams and Jamie Clark.
In this competition, seeded players were frequently eliminated, which fully shows that the advantage from the qualifying round is still very obvious, after the Doron battle, to reach the round of 32, than the first 16 quietly waiting players are more adapted to the game, feel better. At present, players such as Zhao Xintong, Higgins, and Robertson, who are currently ranked high, have all been out.