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British Snooker Championship: Defending champion Zhao Xintong suffers one round
China News Agency, Beijing, November 13. The first day of the 2022 British Snooker Championship ended on the morning of the 13th Beijing time. The defending champion and Chinese player Zhao Xintong suffered a round trip and became the only one to come out on the first day of the main game Head Players.
The 2022 British Snooker Championship ended the qualifying round in the 11th time in Beijing. The 16 players determined after 4 qualifying rounds will have direct dialogue with the 16 seeded players during the main match. A total of 24 Chinese Legion players, including 3 players from Hong Kong, China participated in the qualifying round. Among them, Ding Junhui, Xiao Guodong, Lu Haotian, Zhou Yuelong and Xu Si advanced to the main match, plus Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, who were waiting for vacant positions in the main match as top seeds, 7 Chinese players will appear during the contest.
Ultimate British Championship champion and Chinese star Zhao Xintong started the opening match as the No. 1 seed of this event. Unexpectedly, the match that Zhao Xintong should have won easily turned out to be his Waterloo.
Facing England’s No. 47 Sam Craigie, the defending champion, No. 8, continued his decline this season and lost 0:1 in the first game. Since then, even though Zhao Xintong won 2 games in a row and once led 2:1, he could not stop his opponent in the next game. After losing 5 games in a row, he was eliminated 2:6 , becoming the only player in the first day of the tournament. A top seed who missed the round of 16.
A total of 4 1/16 finals were played that day and except for Zhao Xintong, the other 3 seeds progressed smoothly. Among them, “Small Steel Cannon” Mark Allen defeated Jordan Brown 6:4 in the “Northern Ireland Derby”; this year’s British Open champion and Welsh star Ryan Day won the World Championships with a 6:2 win England 60 runner-up Jimmy White, a 20-year veteran; in an “England derby”, “the strongest since the 90s” Karen Wilson knocked out Matthew Selter 6:3.
On the second day of the British championship, there will be 4 more 1/16 finals. Ding Junhui, the “No. 1 brother” of Chinese billiards who has received a lot of attention, will challenge Barry Hawkins, No. 10 seed and England star, while another Chinese player, Lu Haotian, will face the “No. 1 brother” of Belgium, Brechel. The two world champions “Melbourne Machine” Neil Robertson and “Wizard” Higgins will also make their debut on the same day, competing with their respective opponents for the top 16 places.
