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The Chinese Snooker Group Army takes the lead and Ding Junhui no longer fights alone
Towards the end of 2020, a group of Chinese players born in the 90s, 95s and even 2000s surprised the majority of billiards fans at the British Championship, one of three snooker tournaments. Although in the two semifinals that ended in the early hours of December 6, Zhou Yuelong, 22, and Lu Ning, 26, lost to Robertson, known as the “Melbourne Machine,” and Trump, the world’s number one. , respectively. Able to advance to the final, but in all three snooker competitions, the Chinese players occupied half of the semi-finals and also created the first in the Chinese billiard army to compete in the world’s major qualifying competitions.
In the past, the situation where Ding Junhui fought only in the hands of the British Isles was broken, which also marks that the younger generation of Chinese billiard players is gradually moving towards and occupying the international billiard stage.
Occupy half the seats in the top four
The Chinese Legion has formed a group advantage
Due to the new corona epidemic, all international billiard events held in China have been canceled, and this situation will continue until the end of this season (the billiard season is marked by the World Championship time, not the calendar year ). This is extremely unfavorable for Chinese golfers In order to participate in the large-scale qualifying matches that have been resumed, almost all Chinese professional golfers have overcome various difficulties, including a travel ban, and went to England to compete. In this circumstance, Chinese players participating in the British Championship have made great strides in both numbers and results.
In recent years, in large-scale billiard qualifying competitions held abroad (mainly in the British Isles), the Chinese military has formed a group advantage. Usually players including qualifying rounds can be held at 12-20 people, it is the largest group army outside of British players. In this British Championship, there were 21 Chinese players. Among them, except for Ding Junhui, Liang Wenbo and Tian Pengfei, three veterans who were born in 1987, all the other players were born in the 1990s. Specifically, Lu Ning, who reached the semifinals of this tournament, was born in 1994 for players after the 90s, and the rest were basically born after 1997. There are also many players born in this century, forming a group of players. The three generations of Chinese power on the billiard platform, dominated by the youth army.
In terms of performance, in this British Championship, 14 Chinese players advanced in the first round (including a civil war), and four reached the top 16. Lu Ning and Zhou Yuelong, who advanced to the top eight, both successfully entered the semifinals. . Each created their best record in the three main snooker competitions and, at the same time, created a precedent for Chinese players to occupy half of the semi-finals of the three main snooker competitions.
It is worth mentioning that the young post-00 gamer Pang Junxu defeated the world famous Maguire, causing a huge surprise at this event. If not for Pang Junxu’s 16-8 match with Shige Luning, he fought another civil war. Perhaps there is one more Chinese player in the top 8.
Top celebrities have been successively eliminated, Taiwanese Chinese rookies will be left for last
In several consecutive World Championships, Masters and other major international billiard competitions, including the British Championship, as well as the National Championship, the China Open, the Shanghai Masters and other major billiard competitions held in China, The Chinese Legion has formed a group operation.
However, in previous competitions, although the number of participants was large, the number of Chinese players eliminated in each round was also the largest. In the final eight, usually only Ding Junhui was left, and sometimes someone was in a certain position. The player who played particularly well in the rankings, but this player is definitely not fixed, sometimes it is Li Xing, sometimes it is Yan Bingtao, sometimes it is Yuan Sijun, sometimes it is Lu Ning. Even the Chinese media reporters did not know who would shine in the next game, so they had to pay attention to these two dozen professional players who “generally throw nets and focus on fishing.”
But this time, the British Championship held in Milton Keynes has become a little different from the past. Three veterans born in the 1980s, including Ding Junhui, retired from the game early, leaving the stage to the Mesozoic and young players. When O’Sullivan, Selby, Higgins and other top players were eliminated one after another, several rookies from China are left almost to the end.
China billiard explosion development
Emerging teachers still need to build foundations
In the few years since Ding Junhui won the China Open at the age of 18, the sports of Chinese billiards enjoyed great popularity and development. At the time, some media optimistically expressed: “Ping-pong was invented by the UK and the Chinese will continue and dominate world table tennis for a long time; now, judging by the development trend of billiards in China It was also invented by the British, and the Chinese can definitely play pool like the second table tennis. ” Although it now seems that achieving this goal is not such an easy matter, so far, Chinese billiards players have not surpassed Ding Junhui. If you want to emerge as Hendry, O’Sullivan, Selby, and Tru, billiard masters like Mpu are even more difficult. This can take several generations of people, not only relying on acquired talent and hard work, but also building foundations.
But in any case, Chinese golfers are becoming the new force and leading force in the professional billiards community.The player base working in this field or aspiring to become excellent professional players will definitely surpass British golfers. . The record of Chinese athletes at the British championships is only a preliminary demonstration of the progress of Chinese golfers’ skills, but it makes people see bright hope and prospects on the international billiards stage. Over time, these young players are sure to make a big difference.
Text / reporter Liu Ailin
