Beijing time on November 1 news, the 2022 Snooker European Masters qualifiers ended a focus game, China's famous Liang Wenbo played well, he played 4 50+ (73 points, 61 points, 78 points, 73 points), 5-2 victory over Joe O'Connor to advance to the main tournament.
Liang Wenbo, ranked 27th in the world, is also a good friend of the same age as Ding Junhui, the "first brother of China", and the two of them, together with Tian Pengfei, are known as the "87 three masters" of China's snooker. Liang Wenbo is the third Chinese player to win the ranking championship. In the final of the English Open five years ago, he won the championship with a 9-6 victory over Trump.
In this competition, Ding Junhui, who was just killed by veteran Mark Davis in the German Masters qualifiers 4-5, did not register for the competition, and Liang Wenbo and Yan Bingtao led the game. Before Liang Wenbo appeared, Yan Bingtao had already advanced strongly to the main tournament.
In this game, the opponent is 25-year-old Joe O'Connor, who is ranked 57th in the world. Previously, the two had met 3 times, and Liang Wenbo won 2 and lost 1. The most recent final between the two sides was the first round of the 2021 Welsh Open, when Liang Wenbo lost 1-4 to his opponents.
In this game, Liang Wenbo had a very perfect start, he played a single shot 50+ to take a 3-0 lead. In the first set of the game, Liang Wenbo entered the state as soon as he started the game, and his single shot won by 73 points to start 1-0. In the second set, Liang Wenbo scored 61 points to win, and the score came to 2-0. In the third set, Liang Wenbo scored another 78 points, 78-0 to win another set, the score came to 3-0.
In the fourth set, O'Connor pulled back a set 55-21 through several starts, and the score was 1-3. In the fifth set, Liang Wenbo scored another 73 points to win 74-26, extending the advantage to 4-1 and winning three match points. In the sixth inning, O'Connor, who had no way back, fought back tenaciously, and he scored a single 82 point to save a match point 82-0, and the score was 2-4.
In the seventh set, O'Connor still played tenaciously, and Liang Wenbo locked up the victory 89-24 through several starts, and defeated O'Connor 5-2 on aggregate to advance to the main game, congratulations to Liang Wenbo!