TOP147.com News On September 2, 2018, the 2018 Pudong Tangcheng World Nine-Ball China Open tournament was fiercely launched. After nearly a full day of competition, the top four players were finally selected. They are Xu Xiaoshu and Yang Qingshun in the men's group and Liu Xinmei and Bai Pigeon in the women's group.
The side event of the Pudong Tangcheng World Nine-Ball China Open is considered by most people to be one of the most difficult side matches in the world, and the degree of difficulty is comparable to the main game, much higher than the World Championship. Due to the restrictions on the allocation of places in the main competition, a large number of the world's top players also gathered in the off-session to compete for a total of eight regular places in three days. This year's side event is even more star-studded, led by British famous Merlin, former Chinese Taipei world champions Zhang Yulong and Yang Qingshun, the fans' favorite Filipino player Ignacio, and Japan's famous Turkey Hayabusa, the intensity can be imagined.
Today's game, Chongqing's famous Xu Xiaoshu started slowly, 2-4 behind Miller, Miller's thin ball mistake turned out to be a turning point in the game, and he could never get up again, Xu Xiaoshu won 7 consecutive games to break through the first hurdle.
The next match with Chinese Taipei's Liu Zhengjie became his latest masterpiece. Facing a strong opponent, Xu Xiaoshu presented 7 sets of big touches in 9 wins, and the state completely exploded. Subsequently, he entered the promotion round after winning consecutive victories from Japan's Tomoya, Chinese Taipei's Yu Toyo Hee and Vietnam's Nguyen Phuc Long.
The promotion round welcomed the old rival Zhou Long. Xu Xiaoshu, who was 2-5 behind, seized the weakness of Zhou Long's mentality and began to fight back, and finally withstood the pressure to reverse the opponent 9-7, and broke through six levels in a row to advance to the internal game!
It is worth mentioning that this is the second consecutive year that Xu Xiaoshu has passed the cruel side game test to advance to the main competition. Last week's World Championship wild card competition, he also won the championship from the defeat, the same is the second consecutive year to get the world championship wild card, two events broke into the main tournament, a wave of terrifying 11 consecutive wins, this year's many off-site training effect is outstanding, as if it has become the number one killer of the outside competition.
In the other half, Yang Qingshun, the old ball king who lost everything outside the Chinese tournament last year, made a comeback. After the first-round bye Ah Shun crossed the two consecutive 9-6 levels of young youngsters Ye Jianning and Kong Dejing, he met the strongest opponent, British meilin. This world-class competition was staged ahead of schedule in the off-session. The two sides entangled to 6-6, Yang Qingshun suddenly stepped over Merlin and continued to advance.
Crossing the Merlin level means that Ah Shun's road to promotion is smooth. In the next two rounds, 9-3 easily defeated Japan's Syozaki Hiroyuki, who passed four consecutive levels in a dark horse posture, and then withdrew from his compatriot Lindari with an 8-2 lead, locking in the victory 9-6 and getting another place in the club.
In the women's part, Chinese Taipei veteran Liu Xinmei only lost 9 sets in five matches, showing strong dominance and making future generations bow down to the subordinates. Five big-score victories plus a 7-0 sweep have made several young actresses in mainland China and Taipei, Chen Ruolin, Zhang Qiongwen, Fan Yuxuan, Gu Zhengqing and Wang Xiaotong, lament that Ginger is still old and spicy.
In the second half of the district, the white pigeon encountered a lot of resistance after picking down Zhou Doudou and the Korean little beauty Lee You-um, and after struggling to pass the two levels of veteran Han Fang and Chen Heyun, finally won the Japanese player Miyasaka Mika in the promotion round and joined hands with Ami to advance to the main race.
On the first day of the match, there were several wonderful scenes: youngster Zheng Xiaohuai started 0-6, countered the opponent 9-1, and defeated Chinese Taipei's Tang Jingting 9-7. However, it was then severely damaged, and was swept by Vietnamese players 0-9. In the win-rush match, the score of 9-0 appeared many times in today's game. Xu Karen, who has a lot of fans, also played a 9-0 game, which made the elder Zhao Shipan cry bitterly, and then won 8 consecutive sets in a 1-6 situation, and rushed out of the golden 9 at the match point, perfectly reversing the opponent. And the most regrettable thing is that Zhou Long, all the way to cut melons and vegetables, and even offered two 9-0 sweeps, but fell at the last level, making a wedding dress for Xu Xiaoshu and becoming today's tragic figure.
On the 3rd, the side competition will usher in the second matchday competition, and the men and women will still take 2 people each to advance. Men win 9 and women win 7.
Here are the full scores and promotion tables on the first day of the side event: