On November 1, 2021, China's snooker sent good news, 14 people advanced to the 64 round of the European Masters, setting a new season high, despite Ding Junhui's absence, but the young players performed well, but also brought a lot of surprises, the main tournament will be held next year, tonight the English Open opener, Trump is the defending champion, last year he defeated Robertson 9-8 in the final, got a prize of 70,000 pounds.
The English Open is the second leg of the local series, the first champion is China's famous Liang Wenbo, the final 9-6 victory over Trump, won the first ranking championship of his career, so far, no one can win the championship twice, more importantly, the result of the event will determine the last seat of the championship, whether Ding Junhui can catch the last train this time, it is difficult to say.
Ding Junhui's last win was at this year's Welsh Open, and then he was out of the first round, and after the start of the new season, he gave up the Champions League, the British Open, the Northern Ireland Open, and registered for the German Masters, resulting in a 4-5 loss to Mark. Davis, tonight's 18:00 postponement of the qualifiers, the opening game Ding Junhui debuted, against amateur Andrew. Paget, it can be said that it is a sure winner.
Andrew. Pajit has no professional qualifications, has played more than 120 games, has a very poor single-shot winning ability, only blasted out three shots to break the hundred, won two games this season, lost to him are amateur players, in the European Masters and Chinese player Zhang Anda has played, the result is 3-5 loss qualification out, so as long as Ding Junhui maintains a stable play, the result is really not too much suspense.
There are two possibilities for winning the championship seat, the first is Ding Junhui won the championship at the English Open, and the second is to be shortlisted by world ranking, provided that no new champions can be produced, Yan Bingtao qualified with the Masters, and at least one Chinese player was determined to participate.
The top sixteen players are all going to play in the postponement of the qualifiers, Trump vs. Matthew. Celt, O'Sullivan vs David. Lilly, Selby vs. Lin Binfeng, Robertson vs. Andy. Hicks, Higgins vs. Zhao Jianbo, Murphy vs. Doon. Jones.
Yan Bingtao vs. Aaron. Hill, Wu Anyi vs. Bingham, McGill vs. Gao Yang, Karen. Wilson vs. Sancham, Mark. Allen vs. Brechel, Maguire vs. Mark. Kim, Lissovsky vs. Mark. Joyce, Hawkins vs Evans, Mark. Williams withdrew from the competition, and the World Taiwan Federation arranged for amateur players to come off the bench.
There are 9 Chinese players who have advanced to the main competition, namely Xiao Guodong, Zhao Xintong, Xu Si, Li Xing, Wu Yize, Cao Yupeng, Chang Bingyu, Lu Ning, Tian Pengfei, and finally expect them to achieve better results.