China News Agency, Beijing, November 15th. On the morning of the 15th Beijing time, the 2022 British Snooker Championship ended on the third day of the main match. Zhou Yuelong defeated the seeded player Yan Bingtao in a "Chinese Derby" and became the second player after Ding Junhui. The first Chinese player to advance to the top 16 of this British Championship.

In the 1/8 finals, Zhou Yuelong will challenge the world's No. 1 O'Sullivan.

　　On the third day of the 2022 British Snooker Championship, the 1/16 finals continued. Two Chinese players, Yan Bingtao and Zhou Yuelong, became opponents in the same game.

Yan Bingtao, ranked 15th in the world, is the seed player of this event. Zhou Yuelong, ranked 21st, just won the runner-up in the Northern Ireland Open in late October.

　　The two sides have only met once in the ranking match before, and it was also in the British Championship.

At that time, Zhou Yuelong won 3 consecutive games in a passive situation of 3:5 behind, and defeated Yan Bingtao with a 6:5 reversal.

　　The same scene was repeated at the British Championships.

In this campaign, Zhou Yuelong led the first two rounds with 2:0, but after Yan Bingtao tied the score to 2:2, he took the lead in entering the match point with 5:3, and also entered the track that seemed to have formed "inertia"——Zhou Yuelong He won 3 games in a row again and also became the winner of this game with 6:5. He also became the second Chinese player to advance to the top 16 of this British Championship after Ding Junhui.

　　So far, the two Chinese players who were seeded players in this tournament have all been eliminated.

On the first day of the race, the defending champion and number one seed Zhao Xintong was upset.

　　In the other three games of the day, three world champions came on stage one after another, resulting in 2 wins and 1 loss.

"Rocket" O'Sullivan easily defeated Welsh player Matthew Stevens 6:2, and will face Zhou Yuelong in the 1/8 finals; No. 14 seed Bingham also defeated England player Highfield 6:2.

　　But in a "Wales Derby", the "Golden Left Hand" Williams, who was the No. 7 seed, lost 3:6 to Jamie Clark, becoming the sixth in this British Championship and missed the top 16 seed players.

Jamie Clark became Ding Junhui's opponent in the 1/8 finals.

　　On the fourth day of the UK Championship, the last four 1/16 finals will be held, and two Chinese players will also play.

Among them, Xiao Guodong will challenge the world's No. 3 Trump, and Xu Si will face the world's No. 12 Lisowski.

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