On the night of July 9, Beijing time, the 2017 Snooker World Cup finally came to an end, and the Chinese team composed of Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo reversed the England team composed of Trump and Hawkins in the game, successfully winning the second World Cup championship and helping the Chinese team complete the three consecutive championships in this event.
But the fly in the ointment is that in the semifinals, the two young players composed of Zhou Yuelong and Yan Bingtao were overturned by england in the lead, and the Chinese a and b teams did not qualify for the final meeting.
If you don't watch the game, I'm afraid many people will think that the strength of the England team is above the Chinese B team, and there is no surprise at all to win or lose. However, in the game, the Chinese B team had the opportunity to create history in the case of taking the lead in getting the match point, but unfortunately Yan Bingtao's state was really lacking. In the case of Zhou Yuelong winning trump and Hawkins in a row, Yan Bingtao failed to win Xiaote, and there were mistakes in the doubles match that were enough to determine the direction of the game, indirectly leading to China's 3-4 defeat.
To this end, the host of a live broadcast platform pointed out with obvious tendencies: Yan Bingtao played the role of churning stick! You should know that since winning his first competition championship in 2011, no one has ever made such an evaluation of Yan Bingtao, and it is in the live broadcast watched by more than 100,000 people.
Regarding the quality of the host, I believe everyone, but is Yan Bingtao's state really like what he showed in the game, and has already encountered a career bottleneck? What's more, standing on his comparative side, is Zhou Yuelong, who has always played very well. It can be said that the Chinese B team can reach the semifinals, and Zhou Yuelong's play is indispensable: in the victory over Belgium, Zhou Yuelong scored 3 points alone to help the B team to advance, and before the previous match against Malaysia and Brazil, Zhou Yuelong's performance was also better than Yan Bingtao, and Zhou Yuelong played the role of the team's number one single in the game.
At the age of 17, for Yan Bingtao, he has completed many achievements that his peers and even many professional players have not been able to achieve - the World Championship has advanced to the main tournament, the German Masters have reached the top 8, the Welsh Open eliminated the world's first Selby to reach the round of 16... In addition, he also broke the world record of the youngest player in the top 8 of the 17-year-old and 76-day ranking tournament previously held by O'Sullivan, and became the first post-00 player in the history of the World Championships...
Snooker is a very professional sport, does not follow the law of no comparison and no harm, and Zhou Yuelong, who is also under 20 years old, seems to have occupied the absolute initiative in the competition of China's younger generation of players. You know, since last season, the world's first person in the Taiwan world O'Sullivan has been guiding Yan Bingtao, Zhou Yuelong and Zhao Xintong, three Chinese players, which is one of the reasons why the three can make great breakthroughs in the game, and even the 3 Rockets are most optimistic about Yan Bingtao, bluntly saying that he will win more than 6 world championships in a few years.
But a sentence of churning stick negates the efforts of the young general for many years, no one knows what he himself and his family have endured for his stay, and no one knows that because of the emergence of Ding Junhui, such a generation of young people are willing to make such a contribution for billiards, and whether their persistence can be rewarded.
China's snooker, now at the forefront of the sport, shifted the focus of the old-school British gentleman's sport to the East, with more and more young people practicing the sport and intending to make it a profession. But how many people will become Ding Junhui? And how many people can stick to the professionalization?
After insisting on it for so many years, we have seen too many abandonments, Liu Chuang, Liu Song, Jin Long... These are the top players in the country before, but in the end they are difficult to carry the burden of the profession, and eventually become inactive in the torrent of the profession. And the young general we have often seen, like the impressive Zhu Yinghui, it is difficult to know why he disappeared at a young age. So, persistence is the biggest obstacle in life, if they choose to persevere, please don't insult a professional player with a "churning stick".
Standing and talking does not hurt the waist, so those live broadcasts that do not enter the stream, it is no wonder that the competent authorities need to make great efforts to rectify.