Beijing time on October 28 news, the 2022 Snooker European Masters qualifier continues. In the contest between the two veterans, 49-year-old veteran Mark Davis blasted a one-shot ranking (138 points) and a four-shot 50+ (61, 61, 69, 54), beating 45-year-old Robert Milkins 5-3 to advance to the regular game. It is worth mentioning that Davis eliminated Ding Junhui 4-5 in the first round of the just-concluded German Masters qualifiers.
Davis, 49, ranked 47th in the world, has won seven invitational titles in his career. Although he is in his fifties, he still gallops on the field and has amazing performances from time to time. For example, in the first round of the German Masters qualifier last week, in the match with "China's first brother" Ding Junhui, in the case of not being optimistic, Ding Junhui was given a round of travel 4-5.
Although he was unable to qualify for the German Masters, he was already excited to defeat Ding Junhui, who was 15 years younger than him, who held 14 ranking championships. With good competitive form and good spirit in the German Masters qualifiers, Davis went back to the European Masters qualifiers against 45-year-old Robert Milkins.
In the past, Davis and Milkins have a total of 11 meetings, with a record of 5 wins and 6 losses. In the first set of the game, Davis and Milkins came up to fight each other, the former played a single 61 points, the latter played a single 74 points, Milkins 74-61 first won the set, 1-0 lead. In the second set, Milkins scored another 59 points to win another set 66-18 and take a 2-0 lead.
In the third set, Davis scored a single 61 points to pull back a set 76-34 to make it 1-2. In the fourth set, Milkins scored 52 points to give a 3-1 lead. In the fifth set, Davis scored a single 69 points to win 73-1 to make it 2-3. In the sixth set, Davis scored 54 points to win 65-26 and equalize 3-3.
In the seventh inning, Davis played his best single-stroke performance of the match (138 points), 138-0 with a clean sheet from Milkins, 4-3 and won match points. In the eighth set, Davis sealed the win 67-8 and reversed the score 5-3 on aggregate.