4-2! Chinese snooker won a big victory: Ding Junhui won the first game, and the professional rookie qualifying round was out
On February 12, 2024, the Snooker Welsh Open continued, and the Chinese star won the first game, Ding Junhui eliminated professional newcomer Jensen Kendrick 4-2, and the big victory brought good news, but there were too many simple mistakes and the state was worrying, and it will definitely become more and more difficult in the future.
The Welsh Open is the fourth stop of the local series, the championship prize money is only 80,000 pounds, last year Milkins defeated Shaun Murphy 9-7, won the ranking championship for the second time, the world's top two O'Sullivan, Trump temporarily withdrew, the official arrangement of amateur players to play on the bench, this time the absence of individual celebrities, Ding Junhui led by the Chinese players performance, naturally became the focus of attention from the outside world.
During this time, Ding Junhui did not play much, lost to O'Sullivan in the Masters, lost to Yuan Sijun in the German Masters, and did not register for the Champions League, but this year's World Grand Prix played at a high level, and then lost to O'Sullivan in the semifinals.
The top 16 players in the world, as seeded players to participate in the postponed qualifying round, Ding Junhui played against professional newcomer Jensen Kendrick, the latter is mediocre, ranked outside the 100th, basically focusing on participation, and Ding Junhui has a big gap, the two had a fight last year, when Ding Junhui eliminated Jenson Kendrick 4-1, and won very easily, so the difficulty of promotion is not high.
The game adopts a best-of-7 system, no halftime, the first game of the two sides often make mistakes, Ding Junhui completed the extreme reversal, 64-63 first, only won 1 point for everyone to sweat for him, the second game Jenson Kendrick played many times, won the grappling 66-53, the Chinese star is always not in the state, especially the lack of accuracy on the long platform always leaves opportunities, and the World Grand Prix is very different from the performance.
In the third game, Jenson Kendrick only scored 33 points to interrupt the attack, Ding Junhui played a single shot of 99 points and colored, almost completed the breaking of 100, in the fourth game Ding Junhui won another game 79-43 and took the lead in getting the match point, in the fifth game Jenson Kendrick seized the opportunity to pull back a game with 72-1, and in the sixth game Ding Junhui ended the game with 70-33, and finally eliminated Jenson Kendrick 4-2 and won the thrilling.
As one of the seeded players who advanced to the main stage, Ding Junhui is gratifying to get off to a good start, but the quality of this game is too poor, the process is not as exciting as expected, Ding Junhui at most plays at the level of three percent, although there is no pressure to fight for a place in the player championship, but after all, it is a long time without winning the ranking championship, the Chinese star is eager to make the next breakthrough, and it is definitely not possible to maintain the current state.