Xinhua News Agency, London, December 8 (Reporter Zhang Wei) Ding Junhui, China’s top snooker player, defeated Maguire at 10:6 in York on the 8th and won the championship trophy of the British championship for the third time, this toast has been 10 years since he won the championship last time.
Winning 6 games in a row to reach the final final, Ding Junhui continued to feel good. After the opening, the four cities led by 4:0, among which the third and fourth games achieved a single shot breaking 100. Maguire later recovered three games, but Ding Junhui won the eighth game and entered the intermission with a 5:3 lead. After the re-opening, Ding Junhui quickly found two consecutive wins in offensive tempo and expanded the advantage to four games again. Although Maguire also staged a single shot to break hundreds of good scenes three times in the subsequent competition, Ding Junhui was already invincible and finally won 10:6. Among them, he scored a high score of 131 points in the 15th game.
This is the 14th ranking champion of 32-year-old Ding Junhui’s career, and it is also his first ranking champion in more than two years. Since this season, Ding Junhui has staged a “round tour” many times “. However, in York, he finally got back to his good state and eliminated the famous General Carter and defending champion O’Sullivan all the way.
As one of the three snooker competitions (World Championship, Masters tournament and English Championship), the English Championship was the place where Ding Junhui was crowned twice in 2005 and 2009. After the game, he said frankly that after waiting for such a long time, he finally won the championship again, and it was still a very important champion. When the opponent chased to 6:8, Ding Junhui kept calm enough, and then waited to seize his opportunity. “I have confidence in myself. My mind has been clear this week and I am in a happy mood. I also want to win the World Championship, but this is also a very important champion.”
There will be ups and downs in the career, but Ding Junhui, who is young and famous, has always maintained the position of the leading figure in Chinese snooker. After forming a family and welcoming the birth of her daughter last year, although Ding Junhui did not reduce the training time too much, he had more worries after all, “after playing the ball, he wanted to go home”. He didn’t win the championship for more than two years, and it didn’t affect his mood too much, because his daughter brought him a lot of joy.
Now, winning the championship in the English Championship means Ding Junhui has ensured that he is qualified to play in the Masters competition of the top 16 players in the world. “People may doubt whether I can win the championship in the past two years. Now I believe I can win more victories, and this is a good start.” He said.