6-5! A wonderful night of snooker: two 1-5 reversals Ding Junhui created a miracle with illness
On November 26, 2023, Beijing time, the Snooker British Championship ended the first day of competition, which was an extremely exciting opening day, with a big reversal after 1-5 in the two games, and Ding Junhui appeared with illness, with a fever of 39 degrees and still staged a reversal miracle, which was moving. Unfortunately, Fan Zhengyi failed to shake Mark Williams and suffered a first-round tour of the main draw after breaking through from the qualifying round.
With four matches played on the first day of match, two Chinese players, Ding Junhui and Fan Zhengyi, both of whom made it through qualifying, Ding Junhui is not only aiming to do well in the British Championships, but also to return to the Masters through the British Championships. However, Ding Junhui fell ill before the game, had a fever of 39 degrees, and was unable to get up for a while, and his body was very weak. However, Ding Junhui still gritted his teeth and insisted, completing the reversal with too many mistakes in the first half, and he was full of anger.
Ding Junhui takes on defending champion Mark Allen, a repeat of the last British Championship final, when Ding Junhui was reversed by Mark Allen. This time it was a battle of revenge, Ding Junhui completed a single game reversal many times, such as winning 66-58 in the second game, 57-47 in the third game, 64-54 in the eighth game, and the most classic ninth game, when Mark Allen scored 65 points in a single stroke, Ding Junhui won with a 70-point reversal in a single stroke.
In the final tiebreaker, Ding Junhui reversed again when Mark Allen took the lead, and had the last laugh with a single stroke of 102 points, eliminating the defending champion Mark Allen with a big score of 6-5, and advancing to the round of 16 while taking revenge, and then facing Tom Forde. It can be said that Ding Junhui created a miracle with illness, and in the case of falling behind 2-4, most people were not optimistic about him winning, but he stubbornly completed the reversal, which was quite uplifting.
In addition to Ding Junhui's reversal, there were two more crazy reversals, Tom Forde once fell behind Sancam 1-5, who hit three shots to break 100, but Tom Forde did not give up, and then won 5 games in a row, directly reversed Sancam 6-5, and then competed with Ding Junhui for the quarterfinals. Jamie Clark, who broke through from the qualifying round, also fell behind 1-5, and also won 5 games in a row, and even eliminated the seeded player Kyren Wilson 6-5, which is a super upset.
It's a pity that Fan Zhengyi failed to go further, and he lost 4-6 to Mark Williams and suffered a first-round tour of the main event. On the second matchday, there are still two Chinese players on the stage, seeded player Zhang Anda vs. Slesser, Yuan Sijun challenges Luca Brecel, and the other two first-round matches are Shaun Murphy vs. Hussein Vafi, Ali Carter vs. Matthew Selt, I wish the Chinese players good luck, I hope Ding Junhui's spirit of fighting with illness can inspire other Chinese players to achieve more victories in the future!