On February 27, 2017, the first heavyweight local event of the new season, the 2017 Hebei Cangzhou Zhangjin Billiards "Wild Leopard Cup" Chinese Eight-Ball Open, has entered its fifth matchday. The tournament was held at the Zhangjin Billiards Club, with a prize money of 30,000 yuan for the champion and a total prize of nearly 80,000 yuan. The tournament is played on a double-elimination basis until the final. Yesterday, the top 16 players came out, Shi Hanqing, Zhang Kunpeng, Wang Yun, Lei Weimin, Qiao Fengwei continued to be in the winning part, and Meng Fanyu, Xiao Liuyang, Li He, and Lu Xin will continue to fight for life and death in the defeated part. Today, the round of 16 will lose both to the top 4. Tomorrow will produce the champions and runners-up.
The tournament officially started on February 23. Shi Hanqing, Zhang Kunpeng, Wang Yun, Xiao Liuyang, Meng Fanyu, Lü Xin, Liu Ying, Dong Yi and other famous players all participated in the competition and successfully advanced to the main stage. It is worth mentioning that on the last day of the qualifiers, Shen Chongyang, the runner-up of the Masters Finals, and Zhang Kunpeng, the runner-up of the Masters Finals, met in a narrow road, and after 11 rounds of hard fighting, Zhang Kunpeng eliminated Shen Chongyang 7:4 and took the last train to the main tournament.
In the main stage, Shi Hanqing, a player of the Chinese eight-ball international dream team, met Chen Haicheng in the first round of the "prince of chasing points", and after losing Chen Haicheng, Shi Hanqing and Zhang Kunpeng ushered in a civil war of the dream team. In the game, Zhang Kunpeng played well, and Shi Hanqing, who was unable to fight back, finally fell into the defeat with a score of 4:9. Next, he will compete with Lu Xin for the opportunity to qualify.
Wang Yun first defeated Liu Xin, then Liu Ying, and then won Zhang Jinhu and met veteran Qiao Fengwei, and the two will start a battle for the final four seats at 20 o'clock tonight. Meng Fanyu lost to Zheng Peng in the first round, and then played a heroic role, eliminating An Hongyu and Liu Ying successively, and after advancing to the round of 16, he met with Li Heshi, still holding hope for his defeat.
Who do you think will be the champion this time?!