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British Snooker Championship: defending champion Zhao Xintong suffers a round
China News Agency, Beijing, November 13. On the morning of the 13th, Beijing time, the first day of the British Snooker Championship 2022 ended. The defending champion and Chinese player Zhao Xintong suffered a round trip and came out the only one on the first day of the main game Seeded players.
The qualifying round ended on the 11th time in Beijing in the British Snooker Championship 2022. The 16 players decided after 4 qualifying rounds will have a direct dialogue with the 16 added players during the main match. A total of 24 players from the Chinese Legion, 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 senior i’ r the main game, in addition Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, who were waiting for vacancies in the main game as seed players, 7 Chinese players will appear during the race.
Last British Championship champion and Chinese star Zhao Xintong started the opening match as the No. 1 seed of this event. Unexpectedly, the game that Zhao Xintong was expected to win easily turned out to be Waterloo.
When facing Sam Craigie from England, who is number 47 in the world, the defending champion, who is number 8 in the world, continued his decline this season and lost 0:1 in the first match. Since then, although Zhao Xintong won 2 games in a row and once led 2:1, he failed to stop his opponent in the next game After losing 5 games in a row, he was eliminated 2:6, becoming the only player on the first day the tournament. A seeded player who missed the round of 16.
A total of 4 1 / 16 finals were played that day, except for Zhao Xintong, the other 3 players had 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 victory Second place in England 60-year-old veteran Jimmy White; in “England Derby”, “the strongest post-90s” Karen Wilson eliminated Matthew Selter 6:3.
On the second day of the British Championship, there will be another 4 1/16 finals. Ding Junhui, the much-publicized “brother No. 1” of Chinese billiards, will take on No. 10 seed and English star Barry Hawkins. Another Chinese player, Lu Haotian, will face Belgium’s “No. 1 brother” Brechel. The two world champions “Melbourne Machine” Neil Robertson and the “Wizard” Higgins will also make their debut on the same day, competing with their rivals for the top 16 places.
