Original title: Yuan Sijun, Lv Haotian advance to British Open snooker quarter-finals
Xinhua News Agency, London, September 29 (Reporter Zhang Wei) Chinese players Yuan Sijun and Lv Haotian both advanced to the quarter-finals of the British Open Snooker in Milton Keynes on the 29th. Famous players Ding Junhui, Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong stopped in the third round.
Today’s British Open has two consecutive rounds. In the third round of the competition, Zhao Xintong, who is now No. 7 in the world, lost to Nopon Sankan from Thailand 1:4, and Yan Bingtao, No. 15 in the world, lost to Brown 3:4 after withdrawing from war. Ding Junhui, who has fallen out of the top 30 in the world, lost to Robbie Williams 2:4.
However, Yuan Sijun and Lu Haotian passed the third round and continued. First, Lv Haotian reached the quarter-finals with Stevens 4:1, and then 22-year-old Yuan Sijun defeated Hamilton 4:3 after a hard fight, and also took place in the quarter-finals.
In addition, Selby, who eliminated Chinese player Cao Yupeng in the third round, beat Lisowski 4:1. In the match, Selby, a four-time world champion, scored his fourth single stroke of 147 points in his career. Selby will next face Mark Allen, who beat Trump 4-3.
The 25-year-old Lu Haotian will face Robbie Williams, who is 10 years older than him, in the quarter-finals. Yuan Sijun will face 42-year-old Ryan Day.
