On February 3, 2022, Beijing time, the snooker Champions League ended the competition for the seventh group, and in the group final, Higgins defeated Ding Junhui 3-2 and successfully advanced to the championship group. In the next championship competition, Higgins will fight Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong, and another Chinese star, Liang Wenbo, will also attack the championship.
The seventh group has star players such as O'Sullivan, Higgins, Ding Junhui, Karen Wilson and other star players, and the competition is of course very fierce, and the final winner is the 46-year-old veteran Higgins. In the round robin, Higgins swept O'Sullivan 3-0, 3-1 Karen Wilson, 3-2 Ding Junhui, he also defeated Martin Gould and Richie Wharton, only to lose to Ali Carter, 0-3 defeat to Ali Carter to put Higgins in second place in the round robin.
In the group semifinals, Higgins played against Karen Wilson, who won three consecutive sets after conceding one set, and then scored 62 and 77 consecutive points in the last minute to eliminate Karen Wilson 3-1 to advance to the group final. The opponent in the final match was Ding Junhui, who eliminated Ali Carter in the semi-finals of the group.
In the game, Higgins and Ding Junhui both showed strong offensive strength, Higgins scored a single shot of 134 points, Ding Junhui played a single 101 points and 131 points respectively, and the two played until the decider. In the final moments, Higgins played even better at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and finally won the decider 69-50, defeating Ding Junhui 3-2 on aggregate and getting the last place in the championship group.
Higgins did show good competitive form, and his overall result in the seventh group was 7 wins and 1 loss, which can be said to be old and strong. Another veteran, Ali Carter, finished first in the group in the round robin, but unfortunately lost to Ding Junhui in the semi-finals and was in good shape. Although O'Sullivan failed to finish in the top four of the group, his attitude towards the game is more casual, in fact, he is in good shape, and these veterans are still the protagonists of the snooker stage today.
At this point, all the places in the Champions League championship group have been released, belonging to Liang Wenbo, Graeme Dort, Zhao Xintong, Stuart Bingham, Scott Donaldson, Yan Bingtao, higgins. Veteran Higgins is about to play Against China's Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong. On the first matchday of the championship group, Higgins played against Graeme Dort, Zhao Xintong, Stuart Bingham and Scott Donaldson. Yan Bingtao played against Stuart Bingham, Liang Wenbo and Zhao Xintong in turn. Liang Wenbo played against Scott Donaldson, Yan Bingtao and Graeme Dort in turn. Zhao Xintong played against Higgins, Stewart Bingham and Yan Bingtao in turn.
On the first day of the championship group, there was a Chinese derby, and Yan Bingtao and Zhao Xintong had a direct dialogue again after the final of the German Masters, so let's wait and see. I hope that the three Chinese players will cheer up and launch another attack on the champion!