On November 1, the World Snooker Tour began the fourth ranking match of the season, the England Open, and in the first day of the opener, China's Snooker and Ding Junhui led the game against The Welsh Player, who is only 101st in the world ranking. As a result, the opening stage of the game was slightly tortuous, Ding Junhui won 4 consecutive sets in the case of losing one set first, and finally won 4-1 to advance to the round of 64. The victory was not easy for Ding Junhui because it was his first victory of the new season and his first major victory in more than eight months since the Welsh Open in February.
At the World Championships at the end of April this year, Ding Junhui lost to Bingham in the first round 9-10 and once again traveled out of the round. After that, he returned to China, where he had been away for nearly 9 months, and began a long vacation life, accompanying his family and children, participating in various commercial activities and variety shows by the way, and playing short videos, attracting a large number of fan fans. In fact, as early as July, the new season has already started, but Ding Junhui is not eager to return, and he has given up multiple ranking matches in the middle. In fact, Ding Junhui will usher in a major ranking crisis in the middle of the season, after deducting 200,000 points from the British Championship two years ago, his world ranking will fall out of the top 16 and fall to about 25th. If he doesn't get good results in the new season, it means he won't be able to compete in many competitions.
Finally, around the middle of October, Ding Junhui embarked on a journey to the United Kingdom, and the new season began. However, in his season debut, in the first round of the German Masters qualifiers, he faced veteran Mark Davis, and the result was a fierce battle to the decider, regrettably losing 4-5. In the European Masters qualifying tournament that followed, Ding Junhui did not register because of the mistakes of his team members and did not register for him. For Ding Junhui, before the British Championships, he still has few opportunities to fight for more ranking points to defend his precarious position in the top 16 of the world rankings.
Thanks to the top 16 seeds in the world rankings, Ding Junhui's qualifying round at the English Open was postponed to the main tournament. Against the Welshman Pajit, Ding Junhui's state is not completely reassuring, after all, he has been away from the field for a long time. The two have never played each other in the professional arena before, so today's showdown has also become the initial battle between the two. In the first set of the game, Padgett took control of the situation, scoring 52 points in a single shot to take the lead. After the second set, the two were entangled, and Ding Junhui seized the opportunity to score 60 points and equalize. In the third set, it was a mistake battle, Ding Junhui became a lucky one, won again, and surpassed the score. In the next two sets, Ding Junhui played a single 50+ consecutively, successfully won, a wave of winning 4 consecutive games of rhythm, with a 4-1 score to win, announcing the return of his new season king. In the first round of the main tournament, Ding Junhui will start a civil war with Tian Pengfei to compete for the top 32 seats.