China news agency, Beijing, December 14 th On the morning of the 14th Beijing time, the 2023 Scottish Open ended the contest on the third day of the race. In the 32-round and 16-round competitions, China billiards star Ding Junhui suffered a lore and stopped at the top 32. Another China player, Lv Haotian, took the lead in advancing to the top 16.
Ding Junhui and English star tom ford competed for a place in the top 16, which was one of the focus battles of the day’s competition. Before this, the two sides confronted each other many times, and Ding Junhui occupied an absolute advantage. Among them, in the semi-finals of last season’s British Championship and 6 Red Ball World Championships, Ding Junhui defeated his opponent and advanced to the final. Ding Junhui defeated tom ford again in the quarter-finals of the British Championship that ended a few days ago and advanced to the quarter-finals. However, after winning the runner-up in Tianjin International Championship last month, tom ford once surpassed Ding Junhui in the world ranking.
This time, when they met their old enemies again, both sides were tit for tat, and the first six games were tied at 3-3. In the deciding game, tom ford seized the opportunity and scored 81 points in a single shot to seal the victory. At the same time, he succeeded in "revenge" and replaced his opponent to advance to the top 16. Prior to this, Ding Junhui had suffered a "champion shortage" in the ranking competition for more than four years, and this defeat delayed his goal of winning the 15th championship in the ranking competition again.
In the 32 rounds and 16 rounds, three players from China appeared. Among them, Pang Junxu lost to Scottish star anthony mcgill 2-4; In a "Chinese Derby", Lv Haotian defeated 19-year-old Liu Hongyu 4-2, becoming the first China player to advance to the top 16 in this competition.
On the same day, in the first 64 rounds of 32 rounds, three China "post-00" teenagers won 1 and lost 2-Si Jiahui, a top four player in last season’s World Championships, defeated Belgian Julian Leclere 4-2, becoming the seventh China player to advance to the top 32 in this competition. 19-year-old Xing Zihao lost to gary wilson 3-4, and Yuan Sijun lost to Sam craigie 0-4, so they went out hand in hand.
Brecel, ranked fourth in the world, and Selby, ranked fifth in the world, both stopped in the top 32. So far, the top eight players in the world have missed the top 16 in this Scottish Open. Except for O ‘Sullivan, who ranked first, who retired temporarily, and neil robertson, who ranked sixth, who didn’t sign up for the competition, the other six famous players were eliminated in the first three days.
On the next match day of this Scottish Open, Zhang Anda and Si Jiahui will bring another "Chinese Derby" in the final battle of 32 rounds and 16 rounds; Zhou Yuelong, who won because his opponent retired in the first round of the race, will face British veteran andrew Higginson. (End)
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