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Text, Editor|Wang Pingqian
"Flying Life 2" was released during the Spring Festival, whether it was the jokes in the first half or the enthusiasm in the second half, it can be said that the audience was too addicted.
"Bayingbrook", the fictional racing driver of the movie, also impressed the audience.
Not long ago, the "Bayingbrook" in the billiards world, the Snooker World Open Finals, also opened passionately.
The much-anticipated "Godfather of Chinese Snooker" Ding Junhui reached the final and started a fateful battle with his old rival Trump.
But the final result was a big disappointment for the fans, and Ding Junhui was defeated with a score of 4:10 and ranked second.
For a while, there was an endless discussion of this "Chinese billiards leader".
So how did this "Godfather of Chinese Snooker" get to where he is today, and how should he deal with the current situation?
A genius is never alone
As early as before the 2024 Snooker World Open, Ding Junhui has already made fans love and hate.
Because he lost to "Rocket" O'Sullivan in the first round of the Snooker Wimbble Masters at the beginning of the year.
But Ding Junhui scored a wonderful single stroke of 147 points in the game with O'Sullivan, and this 147 points is a full score.
It can be said that it is very difficult to get a full score on the horizontal bar, but Ding Junhui still did it.
And at the 2016 Welsh Open, Ding Junhui achieved a wonderful single stroke of 147 perfect scores.
The two perfect scores on the horizontal bar, which spanned 8 years, made Ding Junhui the only snooker player to have scored twice in the Masters so far.
As a result, he lost in the first round.
This kind of situation is laughable, and it is no wonder that fans have all kinds of feelings for Ding Junhui in their hearts.
For Ding Junhui, if you want to say which of these two horizontal bar perfect scores means more to him, then the results of the first time are more likely to be valued by Ding Junhui.
Because this achievement is related to his mother.
That was in 2015, when Ding Junhui was already thriving in the billiards world, and his reputation spread abroad.
But a bad news stunned the high-spirited Ding Junhui, and his mother Chen Xijuan was diagnosed with rectal cancer.
Faced with this sudden situation, Ding Junhui was both panicked and anxious, he didn't dare to imagine how desperate he would be if his mother, who had been with him for so many years, died of cancer.
Chen Xijuan's seemingly calm face was actually panicked, because she watched her son step by step from childhood to today, and she also wanted to see her son win the World Snooker Championship.
Her son is her pride, how can she be willing to leave halfway.
But the illness does not pay attention to priorities, and Chen Xijuan is still lying on the hospital bed.
Looking at his mother's increasingly thin figure, Ding Junhui was distressed and sad.
Because his mother did too much for him, but he didn't let his mother enjoy it.
And Chen Xijuan did pay a lot for Ding Junhui.
After the eight-year-old Ding Junhui showed his talent in billiards, his father Ding Wenjun trained Ding Junhui.
Chen Xijuan doesn't know how to play ball, but she will pick up bricks to cushion for her son, because it is not convenient for Ding Junhui, who has not yet grown tall, to play in front of the billiards table.
In order to give Ding Junhui a better practice environment, Ding Wenjun planned to open a billiard hall, and Chen Xijuan agreed without saying a word.
Later, Ding Junhui's strength was already difficult to meet in the local area, so Ding Wenjun took Ding Junhui to Shanghai to find billiards coach Li Zhong to practice.
In Shanghai, the clothing, food, housing, transportation and training expenses of the two of them were also saved little by little by Chen Xijuan in the small shop in her hometown.
Chen Xijuan, who only has a junior high school education, doesn't know any big truths, so she hopes that her son will be good and that he will become a talent.
Chen Xijuan is like a logistics person hiding behind the scenes, solving all worries for her son.
In order to practice better skills, Ding Junhui's family went to live in Guangdong, and then went to the United Kingdom.
Ding Junhui is not a person who throws himself into billiards with all his heart, he can see his mother's bitterness, and he also wants to do something for his mother.
He gave the money he earned from playing games to his parents for them to spend, but Chen Xijuan wanted to save it for his son to marry his daughter-in-law.
This rural woman silently cultivated a "billiards saint" with the most sincere love, but she herself was lying on the hospital bed.
Chen Xijuan, who was receiving treatment, looked at her son who was guarding her, and she persuaded Ding Junhui that there was no need to waste time on her.
Under Chen Xijuan's strong request, Ding Junhui couldn't resist his mother and returned to billiards training again.
At the 2016 Welsh Open, Ding Junhui, with the expectation of his mother, who was undergoing treatment, not only scored a perfect score of 147 in a single stroke, but also won the championship in one fell swoop.
This good news made Chen Xijuan very happy, and her pale face was a little more rosy.
But the condition that had been improving deteriorated at the end of the year, and everyone in the know knows that Chen Xijuan's life is coming to an end.
Ding Junhui put down all training and competitions and returned to his hometown to accompany his mother for the New Year.
This year is unforgettable in Ding Junhui's heart, in the surrounding joyful atmosphere, their family is forced to laugh, no one cries with a sad face, and if they want to cry, they cry secretly.
After all, the joy of the Chinese New Year still failed to keep Chen Xijuan, a mother who had worked hard for half her life and left her husband and son on the third day of the Lunar New Year.
The loss of his mother was a great blow to Ding Junhui, the invincible man at the billiard table fell into a slump, and in the following year, he was depressed.
But during Ding Junhui's depression, there was a woman who always accompanied him, she was Ding Junhui's wife Zhang Yuanyuan.
Companionship and cheer up
Ding Junhui and Zhang Yuanyuan's acquaintance originated from an interview.
At that time, Ding Junhui was already China's No. 1 snooker player, and Zhang Yuanyuan was a financial reporter.
Because of the needs of work, Zhang Yuanyuan wanted to interview Ding Junhui.
It is necessary to know the interviewee before the interview, and Zhang Yuanyuan also studied Ding Junhui's information.
Seeing that Ding Junhui won the Asian Championships at the age of 15 and became the first Chinese player to win a medal in the billiards event of the Asian Games in the same year, Zhang Yuanyuan sighed.
The young and promising Ding Junhui made Zhang Yuanyuan curious, and after an interview, the two started a private conversation.
Ding Junhui also became interested in Zhang Yuanyuan, who was six years older than him.
After going back and forth, the two developed a relationship, but Ding Junhui still had some inferiority.
On the one hand, Zhang Yuanyuan's family is well-off, and on the other hand, Ding Junhui's education is too low.
Ding Junhui spends a lot of time in billiards, but very little on studying.
When he was in elementary school when he was a child, his father made a lot of effort to get Ding Junhui to agree that Ding Junhui would only take Chinese and math classes in the morning in order to make Ding Junhui more energetic to practice.
The afternoon was divided into billiards.
Ding Wenjun's behavior is really crazy in the eyes of the villagers, how can he let his children not go to class well.
But Ding Wenjun was unmoved, he firmly believed that his child would have a better future in billiards.
After they went to Dongguan, Guangdong to learn football, Ding Junhui dropped out of school.
So in the face of Zhang Yuanyuan, who has a good family background and a high degree of education, Ding Junhui's heart is also up and down.
But Zhang Yuanyuan doesn't care about this, what she values is Ding Junhui's people.
So, they registered their marriage in 2014.
Because they were busy with work, they did not hold a wedding, but only received a marriage certificate.
Zhang Yuanyuan didn't mind whether he wore a wedding dress or not, and he also supported her husband's career wholeheartedly after marriage.
When Ding Junhui wins, she accompanies her husband to be happy, and when Ding Junhui loses, she comforts her husband and cheers him up.
Zhang Yuanyuan has always had a good relationship with her mother-in-law, and when her mother-in-law is sick, she often comes to the hospital to take care of her.
So when her mother-in-law died, she was also very sad, but seeing her husband slumped, she still cheered up to take care of and accompany her husband.
And Ding Junhui gradually untied the knot in his heart accompanied by his wife Zhang Yuanyuan, and the relationship between the two has not faded, and they have given birth to two daughters.
In the peace of the family, Ding Junhui's eyes did not forget to stare at the snooker game.
Because this is not only his love, but also his father's hope, but also his mother's last wish.
Ding Junhui's mother hopes that her son can win the World Snooker Championship.
Ding Junhui himself also hopes to break through himself and compete with world-class strong opponents.
So in 2024, the 37-year-old Ding Junhui will reach the Snooker World Open Finals all the way.
Looking at his opponent, Ding Junhui is no stranger.
Trump has played him 18 times, winning and losing evenly.
The most recent meeting was in the semifinals of the 2023 British Championships, where Ding Junhui defeated Trump.
But it doesn't mean that this final is easy, you must know that Trump has won 4 championships and 3 runners-up this season.
In such a strong tone, Trump's advantage is even more obvious.
So Ding Junhui has a lot of challenges to face.
Although the final result was that Ding Junhui lost, he was able to remain calm in the game when he lost several games in a row, and several single-game reversals were enough to show Ding Junhui's attitude and ability.
At the award ceremony, Ding Junhui did not show a smile, his heart was naturally annoyed and unwilling.
As a billiards genius who has been galloping on the court for so many years, Ding Junhui naturally has extremely high requirements for himself.
Therefore, through Ding Junhui's post-game attitude, it can be seen that his hard work has not stopped.
epilogue
Although Ding Junhui's performance in the final on the 24th was not good, his ability and achievements cannot be denied.
He has been touching the billiard table since he was eight years old, and in the company of his parents and wife, he is moving towards the highest place of billiards.
Let's wait and see what he achieves after that.
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Information sources:
[1] "The 2024 Snooker World Open has come to an end, Trump defeated Ding Junhui to successfully defend the title" - China Daily
[2] "Snooker World Open | Ding Junhui's championship drought in the past 5 years is still continuing" - Beiqing.com