Original title: Champions League-Trump 3 breaks 100 to win by single stroke Higgins 141
In the early morning of January 7th, Beijing time, all the matches of the fourth group of the 2023 Snooker Champions League (Invitational Version) were over. In the group final, although Judd Trump missed a match point, he still broke through 100 with 3 shots and defeated the defending champion John Higgins 3-1 with a big score. After Jack Lisowski, Stuart Bingham and K-Wilson are the fourth to advance to the championship group.
The Snooker Champions League 2023 competition (Invitational Version) is divided into 4 time periods. The first and second groups will be played on December 19-22, 2022, and the third and second groups will be played on January 3-6, 2023. There will be 4 group competitions, the 5th and 6th groups will be held on February 7-10, the 7th group will be held on February 27-28, and the championship group will be held on March 1-2, that is, between the 7 final group champions.
The defending champion of the event is the Scottish “Wizard” John Higgins. A total of 24 players were invited to participate, 7 in the first group, 3 in each of the 2-6 groups, and 2 in the 7th group. Each group starts with one round-robin ranking match, the top 4 enter the semi-finals, the fifth enter the next group directly, and the 4 semi-finals , the champion enters the championship group, and the 3 losers enter the next group.
In the first three group matches that have been completed, Jack Lisowski, Stewart Bingham and K-Wilson, who were eliminated from the first group, won the first to third group championships and advanced to the championship group; Matthew Selter, who was relegated from Group 1, Robert Milkins, who was 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, to compete in the fourth group.
On the first match day of this group, Judd Trump came first in the provisional 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 of the first group on the day of the second match, 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, coming first in the group; after losing 2-3 to John Higgins, Trump managed to sweep Robert Milkins 3-0, and finally With 4 wins and 2 losses and 4 points, they came second in the group; Mark Selby, Robert Milkins and Matthew Selter all scored 3 points with 3 wins and 3 losses. Depending on Selby and Milkins on With the advantage of winning games, Celtic came fifth and were relegated to the fifth group, Selby third with a goal difference advantage, and Milkins fourth.
In the semi-final, 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 big score of 3- 1 win over Robert Milkins, Judd Trump relies 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 big score of 3-2 to reverse Mark Selby, both progressed to the final.
In the final, Judd Trump scored 3 breaks and 1 50+. After losing 1 match point, he scored 108 (108)-0, 133 (129)-0, 53 (53)-77 (77) and 108 (102 ) -6, a 3-1 win over defending champion John Higgins, became the 4th group champion, following Jack Lisowski, Stuart Bingham and K-Wilson, The 4th to advance to the championship group. John Higgins, Mark Selby and Robert Milkins were also relegated to Group 5, where they will continue to compete with Mark Williams, Neil Robertson and David Gilbert.
In addition, on the day of the second match, a total of 8 breaks were scored. Among them, John Higgins scored 141 points in one stroke in the fourth round of the semi-final against Robert Milkins, the highest score in this group.
