China's snooker players, the only one who can come up with results and dare to compete with the top masters of the British Isles is Ding Junhui. Since his debut in 2003, he has won 14 ranking championships, including three British Championships in 2005, 2009 and 2019, and won the Masters championship in 2011.
With a prize of £200,000 for the 2019 British Championship, Ding Junhui is currently ranked 10th in the world with a prize money of £330,500. And now, after 19 years of career, the 34-year-old Ding Junhui is in a worrying state of competition, and his results have plummeted.
According to the schedule, after the British Championship in November, if the results are not ideal, lose 200,000 pounds, Ding Junhui's world ranking is likely to hit a record low, falling out of the TOP20 will be inevitable.
Ding Junhui's ranking has reached the first place in the world, but unfortunately the time is short. Since his debut in 2003, after just 3 years to 2007, Ding Junhui's world ranking has risen to 11th, and since then, Ding Junhui's world ranking has remained within the TOP16.
After Ding Junhui won the World Open championship in 2017, the competitive status began to decline, and he suffered many tragic rounds of travel, and the 2019 British Championship state recovered and won the championship. I thought that Ding Junhui ushered in the second spring of his career, but after not thinking about it, his state declined again, and he was even defeated by the low-ranking player Donaldson consecutively.
As for the reason for Ding Junhui's decline in status, many fans unanimously believe that there is no desire to win the championship in their hearts, and playing a game is only a game, not pursuing win or loss. Last season, he reached the top 8 of the ranking round five times, and many fans saw hope again, thinking that Ding Junhui would play a different competitive state this season.
However, at the beginning of the season, Ding Junhui missed three consecutive ranking tournaments, and it was not until the German Masters that Ding Junhui started the first game of the season. In the first round against 49-year-old Mark Davis, Ding Junhui had an absolute lead of 9 wins and 2 losses, but the game was extremely difficult, once 2-4 behind.
With 2 strokes of 50 plus to drag the game into the decider, Ding Junhui took the lead in the 9th set, but unfortunately only scored 18 points and made a fatal mistake, Mark Davis seized the opportunity to break the 119 points with a single shot. Ding Junhui lost the first game of the season.
Many fans sighed. In this state, there is only one ranking match before this season's British Championship, that is, the English Open, and Ding Junhui's opponent in the first round is Pegget. I hope that in the Scottish competition, Ding Junhui has a good play, and by the way, he also practices his hands well, so as not to find the feel of the British Championship.