British Snooker Championship: Zhou Yuelong and Zhang Anda both won and 3 Chinese players advanced to the top 8 – Sports – China Engineering Network

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British Snooker Championship: Zhou Yuelong and Zhang Anda both won and 3 Chinese players advanced to the top 8

China News Service, Beijing, December 1st. On the morning of December 1st, Beijing time, the 1/8 finals of the 2023 British Snooker Championship ended. Three Chinese players who made it to the top 16, Ding Junhui, Zhou Yuelong, and Zhang Anda, all successfully advanced to the 8th round. powerful.

On the sixth day of the British Championships, there were four other 16-to-8 games. Chinese players Zhou Yuelong and Zhang Anda appeared on the same day, and both “lower than upper”.

Zhou Yuelong, who was the first to play, faced his idol Higgins, who was ranked 11th in the world. In the last round, world number 26 Zhou Yuelong upset world number 6 Neil Robertson 6-2. In this rematch, Zhou Yuelong still performed bravely, leading 4-1 in the first 5 games. After Higgins recovered two games, Zhou Yuelong won two games in a row and won 6-3 to advance, paying tribute to his idol by defeating him.

Although you are currently the only TOP16 player in the Chinese Legion (top 16 in the world rankings), Zhang Anda, a late bloomer, only rose to 15th in the world rankings for the first time after winning the recent Tianjin International Championship. This time his opponent “Belgian Bullet” Brecher, although he is also a “post-90s generation”, is ranked among the top three in the world.

In the first half of this campaign, the two sides were evenly matched and ended in a 2-2 draw. After the intermission, the two sides were still back and forth, and the score was tied at 4-4. In the 9th game, Zhang Anda got the match point with a single stroke of 124 points, and continued his efforts in the 10th game, finally sealing the victory 6-4.

In the previous day’s game, Chinese star Ding Junhui had taken the lead in advancing to the top 8. So far, the three Chinese players who have entered the top 16 of this British Championship have all advanced to the top 8.

In the other two games of the day, “Rocket” O’Sullivan, who topped the world rankings, narrowly defeated another seeded player Robert Milkins 6-5, and Iranian star Hussein Wafi defeated England 6-1. Player Matthew Salter, all the top 8 players in this British Championship were also produced.

In the quarter-finals on the next match day, Ding Junhui will compete with the world’s ninth-ranked “Golden Left Hand” Mark Williams for a top four spot. Zhou Yuelong will accept the test from “Rocket” O’Sullivan, and Zhang Anda’s The opponent is Hussein Wafi who advanced all the way from the qualifying rounds. Another game is a strong dialogue between two top players. Judd Trump, ranked No. 2 in the world, will face Mark Selby, ranked No. 5 in the world.