Chinanews client, December 12th, in the early morning of the 12th, Beijing time, the 2020 Snooker Scottish Open ended the quarter-final competition.
In the high-profile "Ding Olympic Games", Ding Junhui lost to O'Sullivan 4:5 and missed the semi-finals.
Another Chinese player, Li Xing, made a surprise. He narrowly defeated Trump, who is now number one in the world, 5:4, and reached the semi-finals for the second time in his career.
This is the second time Ding Junhui played against "Rocket" O'Sullivan this season after the Northern Ireland Open.
In the quarter-finals, a 9-game 5-win system was adopted. After O'Sullivan took the lead, Ding Junhui scored 135 points in the second game to tie the score.
In the third game, O'Sullivan scored 60 points on a single stroke to complete the overscore. The two sides started a seesaw around the last red ball, and O'Sullivan finally scored with a 2:1 lead.
Ding Junhui made a mistake in the 4th game, O'Sullivan won another game with 73:44, and the big score came to 3:1.
Then the two went to another city.
Ding Junhui pulled two consecutive rounds in the face of his opponent's match point, and scored 114 points in the eighth round.
In the deciding game, Ding Junhui scored an extremely wonderful long-range attack, but unfortunately he made a mistake when hitting the black ball in the bottom pocket.
In the end, O'Sullivan seized the opportunity to advance to the semi-finals after winning the deciding game.
In the other quarter-finals, Li Xing fought nine rounds with Trump, who was in great shape, and finally won 5:4 thrillingly.
The two bite very tightly in the game, and the point difference was only one game at most.
After getting this hard-won victory, Li Xing reached the top four in the rankings for the second time in his career, and will face O'Sullivan in the semifinals.
Jamie Jones will compete with Selby for another final spot.
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