The Chinese celebrity appeared to be unprofessional, and Liang Wenbo was fined 1 round for being late! Yan Bingtao lost to the 47-year-old veteran. The Snooker Champions League has come to an end, with 47-year-old veteran John Higgins narrowly beating Bingham 3-2 in the winners' final to win the title. Although the two Chinese players Yan Bingtao and Liang Wenbo have reached the top 4, they have lost in the semi-finals, so no Chinese players have advanced to the finals of this Champions League.
In this Champions League, a total of 7 players advanced to the winner group, namely Higgins, Zhao Xintong, Yan Bingtao, Liang Wenbo, Bingham, Dort, Donaldson, and Chinese players accounted for almost half. The winners' group will be played in a round robin, and the top four in the group will advance to the semi-finals until the winner is decided. On the first matchday, Bingham and Higgins, two veterans, achieved 4 wins and 3 wins and 1 loss respectively, ranking in the top two, while the remaining 5 players only won 1 win, which shows that the next game will be very intense. On the second matchday, Zhao Xintong and Liang Wenbo took the lead in the derby, and in the first two sets, the two each shot a 50+, and the total score was 1-1. In the next two sets, Zhao Xintong scored two consecutive 70+ to win 3-1 on aggregate. Zhao Xintong then played against the previous champion Dort, and Zhao Xintong was reversed after winning the first set, losing to Dort 1-3.
In the final round of the group round robin, Zhao Xintong played against Donaldson, and in the first set, Zhao Xintong scored a single shot of 125 points, but then Donaldson scored a single 69 points and 90 points to win two consecutive sets, and Zhao Xintong dragged the game into the decider 74-61. In the fifth set, Donaldson won 59-46 and Zhao Xintong lost 2-3, with a group round-robin record of 2 wins and 4 losses. China's post-00s young player Yan Bingtao is in a very good state, on the second match day, he played 3-0 clean sheets 3-0 in a row Donaldson, Dort, Higgins, so that Yan Bingtao's record is 4 wins and 2 losses. Liang Wenbo beat Donaldson and Bingham 3-0 consecutively, but when facing Dortmund, Liang Wenbo lost 2-3, and finally Liang Wenbo's group round robin record was 2 wins and 4 losses. Bingham ranked first in the group with 5 wins and 1 loss, Yan Bingtao and Higgins were both 4 wins and 2 losses, Liang Wenbo, Zhao Xintong, Dort, Donaldson were all 2 wins and 4 losses, after relatively small points, Liang Wenbo won the last semi-final seat.
In the semi-finals, Yan Bingtao played against Higgins, after the game began, Yan Bingtao scored a single 135 points to win a set first, and then won another set at 77-45, leading 2-0 on aggregate, but Higgins began to fight back, playing a single shot of 56 points and 76 points in a row, equalizing the total score, the decider, Higgins narrowly won 73-64, the total score was 3-2 to reverse Yan Bingtao. Liang Wenbo had a very unprofessional scene against Bingham, due to Liang Wenbo's late arrival, the first set was directly awarded, then Bingham scored a single shot of 76 points, the total score of 2-0 lead, and then in the next two sets, Yan Bingtao scored a single score of 91 points and 50 points, chasing the total score to a 2-2 draw, but in the decider, Bingham once again controlled the situation on the court, with a single shot of 65 points to lock the victory, thus beating Liang Wenbo 3-2. In the final, Higgins and Bingham fought until the final moments, and in the end, Higgins won 3-2, ending the championship drought while winning the championship.