On September 30, Beijing time, the 2023 Snooker British Open continued, and Ding Junhui made his debut in the ranking tournament of the new season, stopping in the round of 16 after giving world number two and new world champion Luca Bressell. In the end, Fan Zhengyi, He Guoqiang and Xiao Guodong advanced to the quarterfinals to set their best results of the season, and only Lu Haotian had reached the quarterfinals of the European Masters before. It is worth mentioning that in addition to O'Sullivan, who withdrew from the competition, only 3 people in the TOP16 advanced to the quarterfinals. Among them, Fan Zhengyi also reached the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters (Invitational), which is the most earned this season! He Guoqiang reached the quarterfinals in just three months after turning professional, and it is the end of the 12-game winning streak of Barry Hawkins, the winner of the ST European Masters and the world's 13th Barry, and it is even more valuable to win the tiebreaker!
1/4 Final (Grab 5)
He Guoqiang 2-5 Wafi
He Guoqiang shot a one-shot 96 to take a 2-0 lead. Wafi then played two consecutive games to tie the score and go 2-2 into the intermission. Returning from the break, Wafi shot 134 and 125 to defeat He Guoqiang 5-2 to advance to the semifinals.
Mark Williams 5-1 Fan Zheng 1
Mark Williams shot a one-shot 138 in the first inning, setting a new tournament all-high score at the time, and played 60+ in the second inning to take a 2-0 lead. In the third inning, Fan shot a one-shot 80 and also scored color. Mark Williams then scored two consecutive single 60+ to take the first match point, and in the winning game, Mark Williams took the lead again, but accidentally missed the red ball. Mark Williams then scored a red goal and made a second run to achieve a super score and advance to the semifinals 5-1.
Mark Selby 5-4 Lisovsky
Mark Selby scored two consecutive singles to tie the score with consecutive singles of 98, 50 and 132, and Jack Lisovsky scored a one-shot 70 to tie the score. Selby then shot another 95 and Lisovsky returned with a 64, and the match went to the tiebreaker; As soon as the tiebreaker came up, the ball pattern reached a deadlock, and both agreed to reswing. Selby then kept a firm grip on the pace of the game and closed the game with a one-shot 65.
Lisovsky played eight singles in eight rounds against Murphy and Matthew Selter, the firepower was the best at that time, only two singles of 50+ in the last round, and only two this time, how to avoid this decline in offensive status is a problem that Lisovsky needs to consider, after all, it is to rely on offense to play the world, otherwise it will be difficult to find a championship, this aspect can be borrowed from the "good base friend" Trump ?
Xiao Guodong 5-3 Tom Forde
Tom Forde took the lead with a one-shot 90, Xiao Guodong responded with a one-shot 68 and went 65-33, and Tom Forde shot a 79 to make it 2-2. In the fifth game, Xiao Guodong caught Tom Forde's mistake and scored a single 50 to complete the one-game reversal. In the sixth game, Xiao Guodong scored a single 51 for the second time to win the match point first; In the 7th game, Xiao Guodong scored a single 58 points, but in the face of a mistake in the over-score victory, Tom Forde scored 64 points and also completed a one-game reversal with a one-point advantage. In the 8th game, Xiao Guodong did not give Tom Forde another chance, scored 140 points to win the stage, set a personal best score of the tournament and advanced to the last four 5-2, setting a personal best of the season, and was also the first Chinese snooker player to reach the final four this season.
The prize for the champion of this station is 100,000 pounds, the prize of the final four is 20,000 pounds, equivalent to about 180,000 yuan, and the maximum score bonus of 5,000 pounds for a single stroke. This is not the most important thing, but shows Xiao Guodong's excellent offensive condition, if it can continue and eventually win the championship, it will break the ranking tournament championship drought of the Chinese snooker army in the past two seasons, and it is also the first title of Xiao Guodong's personal career!
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