In the early morning of the 6th, Beijing time, 2021 Snooker British Championship , 24-year-old Chinese player Zhao Xintong , defeating his opponent Luca Brechel 10:5, winning the championship of the three major competitions for the first time in his career.
2021 English Championship kicks, almost no fans would have thought that 24-year-old Zhao Xintong would have the last laugh.
This is an honor he has not yet won. Since officially becoming a professional player in 2016, Zhao Xintong has been in the professional snooker for five years and has not yet won the championship in any qualifying competition.
This is the arena he has not conquered yet. In addition to the world-renowned Taiwanese players such as Higgins and O'Sullivan , there are also senior Ding Junhui , who are three years apart from the age of three, but have already won the championship of the "three major competitions".
But even in the face of many challenges from many powerful enemies and the insurmountable gap in career, Zhao Xintong still won.
In the early morning of December 6, Beijing time, in the final of the Snooker British Championship, Zhao Xintong faced Belgian player Luca Brechel . In the
game, Zhao Xintong lived up to expectations, scored 100 and 6 shots and broke 50, and finally defeated his opponent 10:5, winning his first three major competition trophy.
This past night, Zhao Xintongyuan used an unquestionable performance in the UK to achieve a new breakthrough in his personal career, and also opened a new chapter in the development of snooker in China.
The first "post-90s" player to win the championship in three major competitions, the youngest British Championship champion since 2011... Among the many achievements Zhao Xintong has created, there is always a name that cannot be avoided - Ding Junhui.
The rise of a new star is often inseparable from the leadership and guidance of predecessors, especially in the British Championship. Previously, Ding Junhui won the British Championship three times in 2005, 2009 and 2019. This ball table made Ding Junhui and Zhao Xintong, and also made Chinese snooker.
However, it is regrettable that Ding Junhui, who has been through the battlefield for a long time, lost to England's player Sam Craigie in the second round of this tournament and missed the round of 32.
After Zhao Xintong won the championship, his world ranking rose to 10th place, and Ding Junhui's ranking is likely to fall out of the 16th place. Looking back on his career over the past decade, this situation is rare, but it is reasonable.
In fact, Ding Junhui's performance has been not very ideal in the past few years. For a long time, he was caught in the embarrassing curse of "one round of games". He won the British Championship two years ago and became his highest bright moment in recent seasons.
After entering 2021, Ding Junhui's condition is still sluggish. He tasted the taste of not winning in 258 days. It was not until last month's England Open qualifiers, when Ding Junhui reversed Padget 4:1 after losing one game first, ending the record of 258 days of unwinding.
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In the early morning of December 9, 2019, in the British Championship, one of the three major snooker competitions, Chinese player Ding Junhui defeated British player Maguire with a total score of 10:6, and won the championship of this event again after 10 years
I thought Ding Junhui, who was in the "Blessed Land" British Championship, could "make a comeback", but the result of stopping the second round still makes people feel the ruthlessness and cruelty of competitive sports.
Some people say that Ding Junhui's skills are still at the top, but his attitude towards playing basketball makes people feel the fighting spirit. With the rise of social media, Ding Junhui also began to share his daily training life on the Internet. In his comment section, a netizen left a message -
"Send less videos and play the game well."
Regarding his current status and the decline in world ranking, Ding Junhui once said that he did not care: "It's just to play a few more games. I just want to play every game well."
From Ding Junhui's perspective, many honors that ordinary people cannot reach have been taken into account, and choosing to enjoy life is also an understandable decision. But Ding Junhui's latest , Douyin, , we still feel the determination of the "China's No. 1" to return to the top.
He showed a one-handed low post in the video and wrote: "Today I will replicate my former self, hoping to quickly recover my former state."
In the hearts of Chinese fans, Ding Junhui is the well-deserved "China's No. 1 Snooker Person".
He dropped out of school since childhood and experienced ups and downs. Finally, at the age of 18, he won the 2005 China Open Championship with a wild card, which was also the first ranking championship in his career. In the same year, Ding Junhui defeated British veteran Steve Davis after 16 games and won the British Championship championship in one fell swoop.
Ding Junhui in the 2019 British Championship
Since then, the young Ding Junhui has become a banner figure in the Chinese snooker world. His emergence has also brought the Chinese to the top snooker stadium in the world.
For more than 0 years, although Ding Junhui's condition has fluctuated, his 14 ranking championships are enough to prove his strength.
What is even more rare is that under the influence of Ding Junhui, China has set off a wave of billiards. While the world snooker has become bigger and stronger in China's territory, countless young people have also begun to fall in love with him. This sport.
Zhao Xintong, who won the championship in this British Championship, is Ding Junhui's junior brother.
Ding Junhui In the 2019 British Championship,
Looking at the current Chinese snooker world, in fact, in addition to Zhao Xintong, there are many young athletes who are heading to the center of the world stage. "Post-00s" Yan Bingtao, 23-year-old Zhou Yuelong , 24-year-old Lu Haotian ...Their existence is undoubtedly It is the hope of the future of China's snooker.
"There are talents in the country and each has led the way for hundreds of years."
We should not only cheer for the heroes of the past, but also be happy that more and more young players have emerged. Only when generations of national players have passed down from generation to generation and songs can Chinese snooker be evergreen in the world's competitive world.
And on the monument, the name of every billiard player is engraved.
Text/Xing Rui
Edited by Xu Zhao
