Beijing time on April 12 news, the 2021 Snooker World Championship qualification continues in Sheffield, the third round, Liang Wenbo defeated Rod Lola 6-3, Lu Ning wasted 4 match points after a narrow victory over Jimmy Robertson 6-5, Li Xing defeated Higginson 6-2, Tian Pengfei 6-4 Song Shawar. A total of seven Chinese players have reached the decider round, and since Lu Ning and Liang Wenbo, Lu Haotian and Chang Bingyu will stage a derby, this means that the Chinese players have locked at least two Crucible tickets in advance.
Former China snooker number two Liang Wenbo faced Rod Lola in the third round. In this game, Liang Wenbo was fully prepared and played proactively, scoring a single 57 points in the first set and successfully winning. After that, Liang Wenbo drummed up, although he did not have a single shot 50+, but several attacks were decisive, and the first four sets led 4-0.
As the game progressed, Rod Lola gradually found some feel, and from the fifth to the seventh inning, he scored 55, 83 and 94 consecutive singles, chasing three consecutive innings. Liang Wenbo then stopped the decline with a 68 point and won the match point 5-3. In the ninth set, Liang Wenbo did not give his opponent any chance, and won 73-0, thus defeating Rod Lola 6-3 and successfully advancing.
Lu Ning, who reached the final four of the British Championship, encountered a strong challenge from Jimmy Robertson in the third round, and in the fourth set, the Chinese teenager blasted a single shot of 130 points, and then played a single 69 and 65 points, and the set score was 5-1 to quickly win the match point. Jimmy Robertson woke up like a dream to chase four consecutive sets, the decider, Ronin grasped the key points, won 73-43, thus narrowly defeating Jimmy Robertson 6-5 and entering the decider round.
The 30-year-old Li Xing's highlight of the season came in November and December last year, when he reached the third round with Patrick and Zhao Xintong, only to be eliminated by eventual champion Neil Robertson.
Later, in the Scottish Open, Li Xing played the highest moment of the season, defeating teammate Luo Honghao in the first round, narrowly defeating Serter in the second round, defeating Thai good Sam kam in the third round, defeating the previous champion Bingham in the fourth round, and eliminating the world's first Trump 5-4 in the quarterfinals and reaching the final four. In the semi-finals, Li Xing lost 4-6 to O'Sullivan and failed to stand on the final stage.
In addition to the above two ranking matches, Li Xing is a round of travel in other single-elimination tournaments. In the third round of the World Championship qualifiers, Li Xing took on 43-year-old veteran Andrew Higginson. The two sides have met three times before, Li Xing is in the ascendant with 1 win and 2 losses, and the last move between the two is in the 2017 German Masters qualifiers, when Li Xing lost 4-5.
In this game, Li Xing came up and scored a 51 point to lead 2-1 in the first three sets. Higginson made more mistakes and wasted opportunities in succession, and Li Xing played 61, 52 and 131 consecutive singles to win three consecutive sets to win 5-1 match points. Higginson pulled back a city, but in the eighth set, Li Xing won with a 50-pointer to eliminate Higginson 6-2 to advance to the next round.
Tian Pengfei in the third round to meet the Thai player Song Shawar, this battle, Tian Pengfei innings four times a lead was tied, 4 draws after Tian Pengfei concentrated on the force, consecutively played a single 55 points and 63 points, won two consecutive sets to beat Song Shawar 6-4, advanced to the decider round.
So far, the Chinese players who have reached the fourth round are Zhou Yuelong, Chang Bingyu, Lü Haotian, Li Xing, Tian Pengfei, Lu Ning and Liang Wenbo. Since Lu Ning and Liang Wenbo, Lu Haotian and Chang Bingyu will play a derby in the fourth round, this means that the Chinese players have locked two tickets to Crucible in advance.