On the afternoon of August 20, Beijing time, the 2021 World Snooker British Open entered the third round of the competition. The situation of China's players is quite gratifying, Zhou Yuelong and Lu Ning have defeated their respective opponents and reached the one-eighth elimination round. In addition, Zhang Jianjian and Pang Junxu will have one person to advance in this derby battle, so that a total of 3 Chinese players will be in the round of 16!
The British Open is back this season after a 17-year suspension, with a total prize money of £470,000 and a winner who can share £100,000. Major innovations were made in terms of format, with the first round to the round of 16 adopting a short-term system of grabbing 3, and subverting the tradition of linking the draw to rankings, and adopting a random draw to determine the opponents. The two major changes have allowed low-ranking players to see more opportunities to upset, and the probability of masters overturning the ship has also grown up - Selby encountered Murphy and "Captain" Carter in the first two rounds, and the result was stopped in the round of 64.
Among the 128 participants, 24 were members of the Chinese British Snooker Regiment, and after the first round, Yan Bingtao and 12 others lost and were eliminated; in the second round, Liang Wenbo and 7 others were eliminated, and Zhou Yuelong, Lu Ning, Xu Si, Zhang Jianjian and Pang Junxu entered the third round.
The first Chinese player to appear today is Zhou Yuelong, who became the world's highest-ranked Asian player in the game after Yan Bingtao was out, and he carried the banner in this round. In the match against Matthew Serte, Zhou Yuelong won the first set of the tug-of-war rhythm 69-29, and then played a single 64 points to make it 85-8. Although Serter trailed 1-2 with a single 56 in the third set, Zhou Yuelong won 74-0 in the fourth set, giving his opponent no chance to reverse, and advanced to the round of 16 with his head held high at 3-1.
Xu Si lost quite badly today, he scored 62 points in the first set, and then missed a key opportunity to win the opening red by Gary Wilson 66-63. In the second and third sets, Xu Si actually had a fighter to get started, but he failed to grasp it too well, and he could not play a continuous high-scoring attack, and wilson went down two cities 75-23 and 91-19, and finally Xu Si lost to his opponent 0-3.
Ronin's third-round opponent was Ben Hankorn. Hankon opened with a ferocious start, directly blasting out a single shot of 83 points to win. However, Lu Ning did not let the opponent be proud for too long, and the second set gradually squeezed the momentum of the game in his hands, with a single shot of 52, 91, 69 points, And Lu Ning successfully reached the round of 16 with a three-shot gorgeous and smooth high-score attack wave.
In terms of foreign key players, "Golden Left Hand" Williams blasted two 70+ shots, beating Highfield 3-0; defending champion and "Wizard" Higgins, who blasted a single shot of 147 points in the first round, was reversed by Walton 1-3 and stopped moving forward. Trump and Elliott are in the game, and the derby between Zhang Jiankang and Pang Junxu will also start later.