On the evening of December 21, Beijing time, the 2023 Snooker German Masters Qualifying Tournament ended another key battle, Zhou Yuelong, who returned from the Scottish Open semifinals a few days ago, fought hard for nearly 4 hours in the match with veteran Jack Jones, and finally escaped in the deciding game thrilling to advance to the main match.
The schedule entered the 4th match day, and the Chinese snooker army had Zhou Yuelong, Wu Yize and professional newcomer Ma Hailong collectively appeared in the first round during the competition period.
Among them, the duel between Zhou Yuelong and Jack Jones, who returned home in the semi-finals of the Scottish Open last week, became the focus of the game in this period.
After losing the right to the final by defending champion Wilson in the semifinals of the Scottish Open, Xiaolong revealed through social media that he would learn a lesson, strengthen defensive training, and further improve himself.
The opponent in this round is the 30-year-old Welsh veteran Jack Jones, who has 13 years of professional experience and although he has not yet won a professional title, he has excellent individual lethality and occasionally plays the cold face killer of the top 16 seeds, almost knocking them all out.
In the World Championships at the end of last season, Jack ushered in the highlight moment of his career, in the World Championships qualifying round, even Crobby, Huo Master and others broke through 4 levels in a row to reach Crucible for the first time, and in the main game, they successively picked off Carter and Robertson to reach the top 8 in history, and then was blocked by the small steel cannon before it was difficult to knock him down 13-10.
The two sides have a previous record of 3-0, and Zhou Yuelong has never missed.
At the beginning of this game, Jack Jones made a mistake after scoring 24 points in a row, was caught by Zhou Yuelong, and K out of the open situation (as shown below), but he still wasted it, and after grabbing 37 points, he had no choice but to give away the "dowry".
Jack unceremoniously hit a 1-0 run.
In the second game, Jack scored 20 points in a row and then made a mistake, and Zhou Yuelong further simplified the situation after taking over the difficult situation.
Unexpectedly, after scoring 51 points in a row, Zhou Yuelong made a major mistake again, and lost the black ball at the point where there was no difficulty!
Then he leaked out of the far table when he was competing for the last red ball, and was accurately hit by Jones, and after getting started, he cleared the table!
The original 2-0 situation ended in 0-2.
In the 3rd game, Xiaolong made a comeback again, scoring 40+ in a row and then opening the red ball pile, and then connected through a one-shot attack on the top bag far platform, and blasted out a single shot of 97 points to rewrite the score to 1-2.
In the 4th game, Zhou Yuelong once again took the lead, using the cue ball to "run long-distance" through the low-score color ball to "run long-distancely" on the red ball pile, but fortunately he could continue to connect.
After scoring 59 in a row, Zhou Yuelong's 2 K red ball piles were not effective, so he was forced to attack the difficult far top pocket, but the target ball bounced out, but fortunately he was not caught by Jack, otherwise he would fall into passivity after falling behind 1-3.
Jones missed out on a 3-1 win
If it weren't for the low-level mistakes in the first two games, Zhou Yuelong would have beaten his opponent with a disparity of 4-0.
After the inter-game adjustment, the two sides did not let each other go to each other and soared through the 100 high scores, first Zhou Yuelong blasted out a single stroke of 104 points to seize a 3-2 lead, and Jones then counterattacked with a single stroke of 125 points and colored, the score was 3-3.
Tiebreaker position
Who knew that in the ensuing game, the two sides concocted a marathon battle, and in the more than 30-minute grappling battle, the two dragged the game to a tiebreaker with an aggregate score of 4-4.
Life and death, fortunately, this time Zhou Yuelong did not drop the chain at the critical moment, and finally advanced to the second round with a total score of 5-4.
In the other two games played at the same time, teenagers Wu Yize and Ma Hailong both lost 1-5 and 0-5.
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