China News Agency, Beijing, November 1st. On the morning of November 1st, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker Championship Invitational Tournament ended the first day of the game in Bolton, England.
In the first group 4 contest, Mark Selby, now ranked fourth in the world, successfully broke through in this group and became the first player to advance to the semi-finals of this event.
The Snooker Championship is a newly established snooker event in the 2013 season. The contestants are the champions of various competitions in the past one and a half seasons. Is to rely on the ranking to be shortlisted for this championship).
Therefore, the event has become a top-level invitational competition alongside the Masters.
Two Chinese players have qualified for the Champions League Invitational Tournament.
Among them, Zhao Xintong won two ranking championships in the British Championship and the German Masters in succession last season, and is currently the world's highest ranked player in the Chinese army (eighth); "post-00" teenager Fan Zhengyi was in Europe last season. He became famous in the last battle of the Masters - he won the first ranking championship of his career with a 10:9 lore over the world number one O'Sullivan in the final.
The 16 participating players in this championship are divided into 4 groups, Zhao Xintong and Fan Zhengyi are in the second and third groups respectively.
Group 1: Trump, Mark Allen, Brechell, Joe Perry; Group 2: O'Sullivan, Xintong Zhao, Milkins, Wan Harutai; Group 3: Neil Robertson , Karen Wilson, Fan Zhengyi, Ryan Day; Group 4: Selby, Higgins, Lee Walker, Wafi.
In the first group of four matches, Selby swept 2022 veteran world champion and Wales veteran Lee Walker 4-0, and eliminated Iran's "first brother" Wafi (2022 single time-limited champion). Higgins (2022 non-ranked Champions League champion) joins the group final.
This evenly matched group showdown was inextricable, with the two sides drawing 4 times in the first 8 innings.
But in the end, the "Wizard" couldn't stop the "King of Grinding", and Selby won with a big score of 6:4, becoming the first semi-finalist in this championship match.
From the evening of November 1st to the morning of November 2nd, Beijing time, the third group competition will be launched in this championship.
Fan Zhengyi of China will face Neil Robertson, the 2022 Masters champion, who has risen to second in the world rankings in the first match of the group stage.
In the just-concluded Northern Ireland Open, Fan Zhengyi lost to Robertson 2:4 and suffered a round trip in the main game. This time the Chinese teenager also ushered in a good opportunity for "revenge".
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