Beijing time on October 29 news, 2022 Snooker European Masters qualification of the second match day of a focus game, China's post-00s young player Fan Zhengyi, 5-3 victory over Mike Lawder to advance to the main tournament. In another match, 2005 World Championship champion Sean Murphy, eliminated Simon Blackwell 5-2.
Fan Zhengyi, who is ranked 86th in the world, is currently 20 years old this year, and has shown very good talent at a very young age. The German Masters qualifiers ended in mid-week with an outstanding performance, with two consecutive wins to advance to the main tournament. In the first round of the qualifiers, he eliminated the world's 19th-ranked "Thai brother" Tachaia Uno 5-3. In the second round of the qualifying round, in the derby with Ronin, 3-4 won two consecutive sets of 5-4 to advance to the main match with the match point.
In good shape to advance to the main tournament with two consecutive wins in the German Masters qualifiers, Fan Zhengyi moved to the snooker European Masters qualifiers against Roy McLeod, who was ranked 74th in the world. In the past, Fan Zhengyi and MacLeod did not have a record of confrontation, and this game was an encounter.
In the first set of the game, Fan Zhengyi and McLeod started very well, and in the tug-of-war, Fan Zhengyi won the first set 57-48 and won the opening red 1-0. In the second set, McLeod scored a single 74 points, 86-0 clean sheets to tie the score 1-1. In the third set, Fan Zhengyi won by 53 points, won another set 69-6, and led 2-1.
In the fourth set, Fan Zhengyi won another set 71-41 to extend the lead 3-1. In the fifth set, after returning from a break, Fan Zhengyi won 68-6, extending the score advantage to 4-1 and easily winning three match points. In the sixth set, McLeod, who had no way back, fought back tenaciously to save the first match point 57-30, and the score came to 2-4.
McLeod won the seventh set with a single score of 60 to save the second match point 86-13 and make it 3-4. In the eighth set, McLeod scored another 52 points, and Fan Zhengyi won the game 79-58 through several starts, and won the match 5-3 on aggregate.