At 21 o'clock on December 16, Beijing time, the first semi-final of the Snooker Scottish Open began, this game, exciting, eye-catching, by the Chinese star Zhou Yuelong against the defending champion Gary Wilson, known as the halibut, the two have played each other 6 times in their careers, Gary Wilson 4-2, maintain the lead. The first time was in the semifinals of the 2020 European Masters, when Zhou Yuelong advanced with a 6:5 kill, but unfortunately in the finals at that time, Zhou Yuelong played against Melbourne machine Neil Robertson, and the result was not won in a game, recorded in history, 0:9 miserable defeat and defeat to Fengya, some fans said that his heart is a glass heart, and he is eager to win the championship, and he is vulnerable.
Before the two advanced to the top 4 this time, Zhou Yuelong successively won Hamilton, Higginson, Dominic Dyer, Bingham, while Gary successively eliminated Slessor, Xing Zihao, O'Connor, Tu Zhenlong, For Zhou Yuelong, he is expected to advance to the finals for the fourth time in his career to impact the championship, and he has entered the top 8 of the ranking tournament twice this season, so this matchup, Chinese fans are all looking forward to it, and they all hope that Zhou Yuelong will fight Jackie Chan and go straight to the finals and win the championship in one fell swoop, instead of fighting again.
In this Open Tournament, the other semi-final was between the wizard Higgins and Sancam, this matchup, theoretically speaking, the wizard Higgins ranking tournament 31 crowns in hand, four World Championship titles, three British Championship champions, strength and ranking, comprehensively crushing Sancam, so the victory is undoubted, wait and see.
The duel between Zhou Yuelong and Gary began, with a best-of-11 system:
In the first game, Gary took the lead in attacking, the red ball in the bag, the difference was three rice and leaked, Zhou Yuelong easily got started, effortlessly, but failed to win with one shot, after getting 32 points in one shot, the red ball in the bag popped up with a strong shot, Gary started with a shot, chose snooker, Zhou Yuelong defended it, cautious, and six shots were unsolved. In the middle, Gary got on the long platform and scored 35 points in one stroke, and the attack was aborted. At the end of the game, Zhou Yuelong picked up the leak and lost, Gary got started three times, and killed with one shot, the score was 81:32, and he won the first time.
In the second game, Zhou Yuelong took the lead in getting started, the red balls on the table were scattered, the situation was very good, there must be progress, the poles were connected, especially a small black, even playing with kicks, the white ball successfully kicked away the small red ball pile, playing a brother Ding Junhui style, won the essence of its position, and a red and a black, continued to advance, a dream super score, a variety of difficult balls are wonderful, the game is final, with a single stroke of 106:0, pull back a game, the two sides draw.
In the third game, the two sides started each other at the beginning, in the middle of the game, Zhou Yuelong's long platform attack missed, Gary lost the red ball in the middle pocket, quite thoughtful, but the key is to score the black ball lost, missed a good opportunity to seal the throat, extremely painful, biting the tail of the cue, inevitably worrying, the cue bite is broken, how to play the game below! At this moment, the non-professional beauty anchor is also overjoyed, and sighs that the circle for Gary has worked, and finally the game has drawn Gary out, Xiaotong heard it in a fog. At the end of the game, Zhou Yuelong got started again, cleared the stage with one shot, killed with one shot, the score was 59:55, and he won the thrilling victory, with a total score of 2:1, leading again, and the big brother of the live director will come to the scene, and repeatedly replay Gary biting the club and being unwilling to leave the scene.
In the fourth game, Zhou Yuelong made a mistake in defending the ball, first hit Xiao Hei and leaked, and Gary scored and shot the red ball, there was no crosshair, he was biased, the white ball fell straight down, Zhou Yuelong easily got started, but there were not a few shots, the red ball in the bottom bag, three meters away, handed over the ball, Gary took over the attack, and the non-professional beauty anchor bluntly said Let's continue to draw circles, I don't know what it means to draw circles. At the end of the game, the anchor drew a circle and failed, Gary played the championship feeling, killed with one shot, 88 in a single stroke, the score was 95:18, the total score was 2 draws, the first four games of the two sides, evenly matched, the suspense of the victory and defeat, left to the end, intermission, want to know what is going on, and don't go away, and listen to Xiaotong's decomposition.