Yan Bingtao won the championship and won 2.2 million. The Chinese teenager failed to challenge the World Championships. Murphy won 4 consecutive victories

January 24, Beijing time, the 2021 Snooker WST Pro Series will continue to compete in the Group A round robin. In the fourth round of a focus match, Chinese teenager Xu Si challenged the 2005 World Championship champion "Magic" Sean Murphy. Despite playing very hard, he still lost 1-2 to his opponent. Murphy won 4 consecutive games. Win.

After Yan Bingtao won the 2021 Masters Championship and won 2.2 million championship prizes, the incentive effect for Chinese players is very obvious. In the first five game days of the 2021 Snooker WST Professional Series Group Round Robin, Xiao Guodong, Lu Ning and Zhao Xintong have advanced to the second stage. In group A round robin, Chinese teenager Xu Si challenged Murphy in this group.

In the first three rounds, Murphy played very strong and played very aggressively. He first defeated Brian Okusky 2-0, then defeated Fraser Patrick 2-1, in the third round. In a strong dialogue with the 1997 World Championship champion Ken Dahdi, he scored 121 points on a single stroke and beat his opponent 2-1 to get a three-game winning streak.

Relatively speaking, Xu Si, ranked 69th in the world, was a bit slow in the first two rounds. After losing the game, he challenged single-time limited-time champion Michael Holt in three rounds. He scored 107 points and defeated his opponent 2-0.

Coming to the fourth round of the group round-robin competition, Xu Si challenged the strongest opponent in this group, the 2005 World Championship champion "Magic" Murphy. In the past, Xu Si and Murphy had no record of encounters.

In the first game of the game, Murphy continued the good form of the first three rounds. He scored 97 points in a single stroke and scored 97-0 with Xu Si, leading 1-0. In the second game, Xu Si stubbornly counterattacked. He scored 73 points on a single shot and pulled it back 100-45. The score came to 1-1.

In the third game, Murphy secured the victory 78-37 and defeated Xu Si 2-1, winning the 4th game in a row. And Xu Si's performance is also very good, it is a pity that he did not succeed in the challenge!