Original title: Champions League-Trump 3 break 100 to win Higgins single stroke 141
In the early morning of January 7 Beijing time, all matches in the fourth round of the 2023 Snooker Champions League (invitation version) were concluded. In the group final, although Judd Trump missed a match point, he still broke through the 100 with 3 shots and defeated defending champion John Higgins 3-1 with a fine score. After Jack Lisowski, Stuart Bingham and K-Wilson are the quarterfinals to advance to the championship group.
The 2023 Snooker Champions League competition (invitation version) is divided into 4 time periods. The first and second groups will be played from 19 to 22 December 2022, while the third and second groups will be played from 3 to 6 January 2023. 4 group competitions, the 5th and 6th group competitions will be held on February 7-10, the 7th group competition will be held on February 27-28, and the championship group will be held on March 1-2, which is between 7 Champions Group Finals.
The reigning champion of the event is Scottish magician John Higgins. A total of 24 players were invited to participate, 7 in the first group, 3 in each of the groups 2-6 and 2 in the 7th group. Each group starts with a single round robin. The top 4 advance to the semi-finals and the 5th classified goes directly to the next round. Among the 4 semi-finalists, the champion enters the championship group, and the 3 losers also enter the next group.
In the first three group games completed, Jack Lisowski, Stewart Bingham and K-Wilson, relegated from the first group, won the championships from the first to the third group and advanced to the championship group; Matthew Selter, who were relegated from Group 1, Robert Milkins, who were relegated from Group 2, and Mark Selby and Ricky Walton, who were relegated from Group 3, and defending champion John – Higgins, Judd Trump and G -Wilson, who replaced Zhao Xintong, continued to compete in the fourth group.
On the first match day of this group, Judd Trump temporarily ranked first in the group with 3 wins and 1 loss with 3 points, followed by defending champion John Higgins with 3 wins. Robert Milkins and Mark Selby are third and fourth respectively.
In the first round robin match on the second match day, after John Higgins lost to Rich Walton 1–3, he defeated G-Wilson and Judd-Trump finally scored 5 points with 5 wins and 1 loss, ranking first in the group ; after losing 2-3 to John Higgins, Trump swept Robert Milkins 3-0, and eventually with 4 wins and 2 losses and 4 points, ranked second in the group; Mark Selby, Robert Milkins and Matthew Selter all scored 3 points with 3 wins and 3 losses Selby and Milkins relied on With the advantage of winning games, Celtic finished fifth and were relegated to the fifth group Selby finished third with the goal difference advantage and Milkins was ranked fourth.
In the semifinals, John Higgins scored 114 (99)-0, 65-70, 121 (121)-16 and 141 (141)-0 with 2 breaks and 1 shot of 90+, with a great score of 3- 1 win on Robert Milkins, Judd Trump relied on 1 century and 1 50. After saving 1 match point, he scored 122 (122)-0, 0-99 (99), 0-64 (51), 54-6 and 73 (50) -17, with a great score of 3-2 to reverse Mark Selby, both advanced to the final.
In the final, Judd Trump scored 3 breaks and 1 50+ After missing 1 match point, he scored 108 (108)-0, 133 (129)-0, 53 (53)-77 (77) and 108 (102) -6, a 3-1 victory over defending champion John Higgins, becoming the 4th group champion, after Jack Lisowski, Stewart Bingham and K-Wilson, the 4th to advance to the championship group. John Higgins, Mark Selby and Robert Milkins have also been relegated to Group 5, where they will continue to compete with Mark Williams, Neil Robertson and David Gilbert.
In addition, on the second match day, a total of 8 breaks were scored, including John Higgins scored 141 points in one go in the fourth round of the semifinal match against Robert Milkins, the highest score in this group.
