Snooker UK Championship qualifying round: Chinese Legion’s first round of 8 matches, Ding Junhui will appear in the third round – Sports – China Engineering Network

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Snooker UK Championship qualifying round: Chinese Legion 8-8 in the first round, Ding Junhui will appear in the third round

China News Service, Beijing, November 20th. On the morning of the 20th, Beijing time, the 2023 British Snooker Championship ended the second day of qualifying. All 8 Chinese players who played in the first round advanced to the second round, and 4 Chinese players advanced. Round three.

The British Snooker Championship, the World Championship and the Masters are also known as the three major snooker competitions. Currently, the British Championship and the World Championship adopt the same format. The top 16 players in the world (TOP16) directly enter the top 32 of the main draw. There are 144 players participating in the qualifying round for a total of 4 rounds, and 16 players are finally selected. Communicate directly with the top 16 players during the main game.

This qualifying match adopts a best-of-11-game system. A total of 22 players from the Chinese Legion, including billiards star Ding Junhui, participated. In the first round of the qualifying round (144 advanced to 112), 6 members of the Chinese Legion played and all won and advanced to the second round.

The second day of this qualifying tournament is a double match. In the first round of competition, both Chinese players successfully advanced. Among them, Hong Kong veteran Li Junwei defeated Northern Ireland rookie Joel Connolly 6-2, and 19-year-old Chinese Gao Yang, who participated as an amateur player as a substitute, defeated Indian player Singh Chadha 6-3. So far, the eight Chinese players who participated in the first round of qualifying for this British Championship have won all the games and advanced to the second round.

In the subsequent second round (112 advanced to 80), 7 Chinese players participated and 4 advanced to the third round. Among them, Xu Si and He Guoqiang made their debut, and both won and advanced. The other five players advanced to the first round, but only the famous Hong Kong player Fu Jiajun and the 18-year-old professional newcomer Jiang Jun made another success. Xing Zihao, Peng Yisong, and Ma Hailong all lost in the second round.

In the second round of qualifying that day, the one that attracted the most attention was the match between 25-year-old Xu Si and 20-year-old professional newcomer Ma Hailong. In this first “China Derby” of the British Championship, Xu Si, who won the World Snooker Rookie of the Year Award in 2018, was obviously better. He led 5-0 in the first 5 games and won the second game in the second game. He shot the first perfect score of 147 in his career, and finally won easily 6-1 and advanced to the third round.

The third match day of this British Championship qualifying match is still a one-day double match: after the second round, there will be competition for some games in the third round (80 to 48). Among them, as the top seed in this qualifying tournament, Ding Junhui, currently ranked 17th in the world, will make his debut in this British Championship in the early morning of the 21st Beijing time in the third round.

The British Championships can be called Ding Junhui’s “blessed place”. He has reached the finals of this event 4 times before and won the championship 3 times.