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Snooker UK Championship: Ding Junhui advances to quarter-finals and looks forward to ‘big match’ with O’Sullivan
China News Agency, Beijing, November 18 The most anticipated “Ding Ao War” by Chinese Taiwanese fans is about to stage in the quarter-finals of the 2022 British Snooker Championship, the “No. 1 Brother” of Chinese billiards and the British championship 3 times For the 30th time, Wang Ding Junhui will face the “big brother” of world snooker, seven-times world champion O’Sullivan.
On the morning of the 18th Beijing time after the end of the 2022 snooker championship, the 4 round of the round of 16, “China’s only seedling” Ding Junhui defeated Welsh player Jamie Clark 6:1 and successfully advanced in the top 8 .
Ding Junhui and Clark had only played against each other once in the German Masters in 2015, when Ding Junhui won 5:1. However, in this year’s British Championships, Clark forcefully knocked out No. 1 ranked ‘golden left hand’ Mark Williams. 6 in the world, in the 1/16 finals, which made Chinese fans sweat for Ding Junhui.
At the beginning of the game, Ding Junhui’s unstoppable performance dispelled the fans’ worries, and he led 4:0 in the first 4 games. Although Clark regained 1 point in the fifth game, Ding Junhui firmly controlled the game situation and eventually advanced 6:1 easily, joining “old rival” O’Sullivan in the quarterfinals.
In the other three games of the day, the no. Binham 6-3.
So far, all the top 8 players in this UK league have been produced. The quarter final matchup situation is: Ding Junhui VS O’Sullivan, Mark Allen VS Sam Craigie, Joe Perry VS Tom Ford, Lisso Fowski VS Murphy.
The battle between Ding Junhui and “Rocket” O’Sullivan was the 30th meeting between the two sides. In the previous 29 games, O’Sullivan had an absolute lead with 21 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses. Ding Junhui suffered a 7 game losing streak in nearly 7 matchups over the past 3 years. But Ding Junhui’s last win over O’Sullivan was at the British Championships three years ago.
In the round of 16 of the 2019 British Championships, Ding Junhui eliminated the “Rocket” 6:4, and finally won the third championship of the event and the 14th championship of his career. Now back in the “Blessed Land”, Ding Junhui showed his best state and performance since the 2019 British Championships.
After successfully breaking into the top 8, Ding Junhui said that he himself “is really looking forward to playing against O’Sullivan and wants to see what happens after I give my best in the game.” He believes O’Sullivan is the best player in the world and this will be a “very good game”.
