11 Nov 2022 7:19 pm
Xiao Guodong 6-3 Andres Petrov
[Sina Sports News on the 11th]The sixth matchday of the 2022 British Snooker Championship Qualifying Tournament is over. In the last 8 matches of the fourth qualifying round, two Chinese players Ding Junhui and Xiao Guodong successfully defeated their opponents and moved on to the main match. So far, a total of 5 Chinese players have distinguished themselves from the qualifying round, including the 2 series players Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao who were directly promoted to the main competition, there are a total of 7 Chinese players in the top 32 of this British Championship.
The qualifying rounds for the 2022 British Snooker Championship will be held at the Ponds Forge International Sports Center in Sheffield, England from November 5-10 local time. A total of 128 people played in the 4 qualifying rounds and the last 16 players will compete directly with 16 standard players during the main match. The main draw will be held at the Barbican Center in Yorkshire, England from 12 to 20 November.
The fourth round of the qualifying round is divided into 2 days, with 8 games per day, divided into 2 periods, 4 games in each period, and all 16 winners advance to the main competition; in terms of the match system, from the first round from the qualifying round to the main round The semi-finals of the competition all adopt the best of 11 rounds system, while the final adopts the best of 10 rounds of 19 rounds system, which is divided into 2 stages.
Including Fu Jiajun, Li Junwei and Wu Anyi from Hong Kong, China, a total of 25 Chinese players were expected to participate in the qualifying competition, further seeded Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao will appear in the main game. However, Liang Wenbo missed the appearance due to the suspension, so only 24 people actually participated in the qualifying round. After the first 3 qualifying rounds, only 7 people remain to enter the fourth round. On matchday five of the qualifying round, the five Chinese players who played, except Tian Pengfei and Wu Yize, Zhou Yuelong, Lu Haotian and Xu Si, all made it through to the main game successfully.
On the final day of the qualifying tournament, Ding Junhui, who played in the first period, defeated England’s Robert Milkins with a great score of 6-4, becoming the 11th player qualified to advance to the main round of this British championship. .
The last Chinese player Xiao Guodong to appear in the second period of the day was against Estonian Andres Petrov. Previously, the two had never played on tour.
In the first game, Petrov scored 51 points in one shot and won the first game with 86 (51) -51. However, since then, Xiao Guodong has scored 60+ in one shot for 3 consecutive games, winning 4 games in a row with 102 (62) -0, 90 (90) -0, 90 (90) -41 and 65- 25 , with a nice score of 4-1.
In the sixth game, Petrov pulled another game at 75-31, chasing the big score at 2-4. In the seventh game, Xiao Guodong won another game 60-48, leading 5-2 to get the match point. In the eighth game, Andres Petrov saved 1 match point with 68 (60) -0 with 60 points in one hit. Ma Xiao Guodong won 66-35 in the ninth game, becoming the last Chinese player to advance to the main game with a great score of 6-3.
So far, there are 5 Chinese players who have progressed to the main round of this British championship through the qualifying rounds, namely Xu Si, Zhou Yuelong, Lv Haotian, Ding Junhui and Xiao Guodong.
