From the evening of November 26 to the morning of November 27, Beijing time, the 2022 World Snooker German Masters qualification tournament was contested on the last day. The mainland players played a high overall winning percentage, with 5 wins advancing to the round of 32, of which Li Xing defeated Barry Hawkins 5-2, and Fan Zhengyi eliminated Shaun Murphy 5-2. By the end of the qualifying round, the Chinese Legion had received a total of 12 tickets to the main event.
According to the official arrangement of the German Masters, the players will first compete in the qualifying stage in the United Kingdom, and the players who have passed two levels in a row will receive a place in the main stage. The Chinese Legion showed a collective outbreak, with a total of 7 players, including Zhao Xintong, breaking into the main match in the first four days of the match; And Peng Yijie beat Selby 5-4, and Zhao Jianbo swept Mark Allen 5-0, and the upset level was even more impressive.
The showdown between Li Xing and Hawkins began at 3 a.m. today. Master Huo had a good hand in the first game, and shot a single 95-point victory to get the opener; However, it was his only 50+ offense of the game. The match then went into tug-of-war mode, with Li Xing winning the second and third games 63-44, 89-33. In the fourth game, Hawkins won 73-31 to equalize the overall score. In the fifth and sixth innings, Li Xing turned on the attack mode and scored 70 and 92 points to win. In the seventh game, Li Xing firmly controlled the initiative in the closing stage, sealing the victory 78-50 and winning 5-2.
Pang Junxu's game with Gary Wilson was a turbulent one, with Pang Jr. leading 3-1 in the first half, but Wilson went back to chase two games after the break to make it 3-3. In the seventh game, Pang Junxu later took a one-shot 84-point victory to take out the match point. In the eighth inning, Wilson narrowly won 55-51, and the game entered a tiebreaker. In the ninth game, Pang Junxu returned with a sense of hand, and with a one-shot 70 performance, he froze the overall score at 5-4.
Cao Yupeng completely subdued Scottish rising star Donaldson with attack. In the first game, Cao Yupeng scored 60, 77-54 to take the lead. Donaldson scored a one-shot 55 in the second and 51 innings in the third innings to overcome. From the fourth to the sixth inning, Cao Yupeng used a three-shot streak of 72, 69 and 74 points to set the game. In the seventh inning, Donaldson won 99-24. Cao Yupeng soon scored another 50 in the eighth innings to defeat Donaldson 5-3 on aggregate to reach the round of 32.
Fan Zhengyi, Si Jiahui and Ding Junhui all appeared in the first quarter of the final game day. Xiao Fan put out three 50+ firepower on the offensive end, defeating the mediocre Shaun Murphy 5-2; Scarlet and Andy Hicks were entangled in each game, and Scarlet won them all, winning 5-0.
Ding Junhui played 9 games with Matthew Stevens, due to the unsatisfactory performance in the first half, Ding Junhui fell into a passive situation of 1-4 behind, after which he hit two consecutive 50+ and one shot over 100 to bring the game back to the dawn; However, Stevens took the lead in the tiebreaker and held the initiative until the end, and Ding Junhui lost 4-5.