In the World Snooker Tour, China's first brother Ding Junhui can be said to be the strongest snooker player in Asia. Ding Junhui turned professional in 2003 and won his first ranking championship in 2005.
He is also only the second player since Higgins to complete the treble of ranking tournaments before the age of 20. Therefore, Ding Junhui is also known as a talented player from China, and his appearance has changed the pattern of the world table and made snooker have a huge change.
For the vast majority of players in the world of Taiwan, Ding Junhui is an invincible existence, and this is even more vividly demonstrated by former world champion Brecel. You must know that Brecel has never defeated Ding Junhui to this day.
Ding Junhui faced Brecel and won eight consecutive victories
In the record of Ding Junhui and Brecel, the two players have met a total of eight times, and Ding Junhui has won all eight games.
In the 128-64 match, the two players played each other once. In the 64-32 match, the two players have met once. In the 32-16 match, the two players have played each other once.
In the 1/8 finals, the two players have played each other twice. In the semi-finals, the two players played each other twice. In addition, the two players have also met once in the quarter-finals.
In this way, China's first brother Ding Junhui has defeated Brechel in all other games except for the final, which has not defeated Brecel. And this performance has also made Ding Junhui the most difficult nemesis and curse of Brecel's career.
Ding Junhui is still Brecel's most difficult nemesis
Although Brecel is a leader of the post-90s generation and has won the title of world champion, he has never been able to break through in the game against Ding Junhui. From the perspective of comprehensive strength, Ding Junhui's ability is still better than Brecel's, especially in defense.
From the perspective of tactical play, Ding Junhui prefers to use offensive and defensive conversions to open up the game. But Brecel doesn't like that approach, preferring to use long-range attacks to find a chance to win the game. Objectively speaking, Brechel's style of play is more aggressive than Ding Junhui's, and Ding Junhui's style of play is more reasonable than Brecel's.
When Brecel is in good shape, Ding Junhui can use his defense to limit Brecel. And when Brecel is not in good shape, then Ding Junhui will make Brecel suffer a heavy blow. And this is also the reason why Brecel has been difficult to defeat Ding Junhui so far.
Ding Junhui ushered in the milestone of facing Brecel
From the 2013 European Tour to the 2023 English Open, Ding Junhui not only completed eight consecutive victories against Brecel, but also became an opponent that Brechel has not won for 10 consecutive years. You must know that even O'Sullivan has never done such a performance, not to mention that O'Sullivan also suffered Brecel's seven-consecutive whip performance in last year's World Championships.
In recent years, Brecel has beaten many strong opponents, whether it is Selby, Robertson or Trump, Murphy, Mark Williams or his mentor Higgins, all of them have lost under him.
But here in Ding Junhui, he has never completed a breakthrough, and even when Ding Junhui was not in good shape, he failed to win a game. Objectively speaking, Ding Junhui has become the most difficult spell and nemesis to beat in Brecel's career.
It wasn't easy for him to make a breakthrough. Maybe only when he truly defeats his heart can he really usher in the day when he defeats Ding Junhui.