Beijing, May 5 (ZXS) -- On the morning of May 2, Beijing time, the 2 World Snooker Championship ended in Sheffield, England, and Belgium's Brecel defeated four-time world champion Selby 2023:18 in the final, becoming the first "post-15s" player to win the world championship.
The final of this World Championship is a strong dialogue between the "post-80s" and "post-90s". Selby, the No. 2 seed in the tournament, is a leader in the "post-80s" and No. 9 seed Brecel is the leader of the "post-90s". In the first few rounds, Selby defeated Gary Wilson, Higgins, Mark Allen and other masters; Brecel eliminated the famous Mark Williams and O'Sullivan, as well as the biggest "dark horse", Chinese teenager Si Jiahui. Among them, against O'Sullivan and Scarfar, Brecel once fell behind by a large margin, but achieved a super comeback in the final stage.
The final of this World Championship is played in 35 stages in 18 rounds and 4 wins. In the first period, Brecel started the lead and took a large lead of 6:2. Selby then switched on chasing the score, closing the gap to 1 point (8:9) at the end of the second period. In the 16th inning, Selby shot a one-shot 147, which was also the first perfect score in the history of the World Championship final.
It can be described as "feng shui turns", and the third stage once again becomes Brecel's performance time. After winning four straight games, Brecel rewrote the aggregate score to 4:13 and finished the stage with a 8-15 lead.
In the fourth phase of the life and death battle, Brecel still won the first set first, leading 16-10. Selby then launched a strong counterattack, winning five consecutive games to close the gap to one point again (5:1). But at a critical moment, Selby suddenly "went off the line" and became Brecel playing a wave of three consecutive wins, and finally won the first world championship of his career 15:16, becoming the first person in the "post-3s" to win the world championship.
A total of 5 Chinese players competed in this World Championship - Chinese billiards star Ding Junhui went straight to the main tournament as the No. 16 seed, Pang Junxu, Wu Yize, Fan Zhengyi and Si Jiahui all emerged from the qualifying round, and these 4 "post-00s" young players were also shortlisted for the main round of the World Championships for the first time. Among them, the 20-year-old Si Jia Hui advanced to the semifinals and became the biggest "dark horse" of this World Championships; The other four, including Ding Junhui, were eliminated in the first round.
At the 2016 World Championships, Ding Junhui, who reached the final, lost to Selby and finished second, which is also the best result of a Chinese player at the World Snooker Championship so far. (End)