British Championship qualifier Xiao Guodong lost a match point 6-3 to advance to China with 5 players and enter the main match- Shangbao Indonesia

11 November 2022 19:19 PM

Xiao Guodong 6-3 Andres Petrov

[Sina Sports News ar yr 11eg]Match day 6 of the 2022 British Snooker Championship Qualifying Tournament is over. In the last 8 games of the fourth round of qualifying, two Chinese players Ding Junhui and Xiao Guodong successfully defeated their opponents and advanced to the main match. So far, a total of 5 Chinese players have stood out from the qualifying round, including the 2 seeded players Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao who were promoted directly to the main event, a total of 7 Chinese players are the top 32 of this British Championship.

The qualifying rounds of the 2022 British Snooker Championship will be held at the Ponds Forge International Sports Center in Sheffield, England from November 5-10 local time. A total of 128 people played in the 4 qualifying rounds, and the final 16 players will compete directly with 16 seeded players during the main match. The main draw will be held at the Barbican Center in Yorkshire, England from November 12-20.

The fourth round of the qualifying round is divided into 2 days, with 8 matches per day, divided into 2 periods, 4 matches in each period, and all 16 winners progress to the main competition; in terms of competition system, from the first round of the qualifying round to the main round The semi-finals of the competition all adopt the best of 11 rounds system, while the finals adopt the best of 10 rounds of 19 rounds, which is divided into 2 stages.

Including Fu Jiajun, Li Junwei and Wu Anyi from Hong Kong, China, a total of 25 Chinese players should have participated in the qualifying competition. In addition, Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, two seeded players, will appear in the main game. However, Liang Wenbo missed the appearance due to the suspension, so only 24 people participated in the qualifying round. After the first 3 qualifying rounds, only 7 people are left to enter the fourth round. On the fifth match day of the qualifying round, the five Chinese players who played, except for Tian Pengfei and Wu Yize, Zhou Yuelong, Lu Haotian and Xu Si managed to reach the main match.

During the final match of the qualifying tournament, Ding Junhui, who played in the first round, defeated Robert Milkins from England with a big score of 6-4, becoming the 11th qualifier to advance to the main round of this British Championship.

The last Chinese player Xiao Guodong to appear in the second period of the day was against Estonian player Andres Petrov. Before that, the two had never played each other on the tour.

In the first game, Petrov scored 51 points in one shot and won the first game with 86(51)-51. However, since then, Xiao Guodong has scored 60+ in one shot for 3 consecutive games, winning 4 consecutive games with 102(62)-0, 90(90)-0, 90(90)-41 and 65- 25, with a big score of 4-1.

In the sixth game, Petrov drew another game at 75-31, chasing the big score to 2-4. In the seventh game, Xiao Guodong won another game 60-48, leading 5-2 to get the match point. In the eighth game, Andres Petrov saved 1 match point with 68 (60)-0 with 60 points in one stroke. But Xiao Guodong won 66-35 in the ninth game, becoming the last Chinese player to advance to the main match with a big score of 6-3.

So far, there are 5 Chinese players who have advanced to the main round of this British Championship through the qualifying rounds, namely Xu Si, Zhou Yuelong, Lv Haotian, Ding Junhui and Xiao Guodong.