On the evening of March 7, Beijing time, the Snooker Turkish Masters began. On the first day of the match, 4 members of the Chinese legion competed, and the result was all red and all advanced.
Zhao Xintong narrowly defeated Little White
Zhao Xintong, who shouldered the heavy responsibility of winning the championship, took the lead in the debut, and the opponent's unranked quasi-amateur Little White. After the game began, Zhao Xintong was slightly light on the enemy, the attack was out of standard, the defense was careless, and it seemed very casual. As a result, apart from a narrow one-point win of 67-66 in the first set, the whole game has been in a state of backwardness. Light opponents would fall behind, and White Jr. played a single shot of 66 and 67 points in the second and third innings to win two consecutive sets 86-14 and 67-33 to take a 2-1 lead.
After Zhao Xintong pulled back 73-26 in the fourth set, Little White won again 77-45 in the fifth set, and the big score was 3-2 again. In the sixth set, it was White Jr. who took the lead, but after scoring 52 points, the offense was interrupted, which avoided the score from opening further. Zhao Xintong won 63-52 with multiple starts, and the two sides drew 3-3.
In the crucial seventh inning, Little White again scored a single 75 point to keep a 79-0 clean sheet again, and the big score was 4-3 to win the match point. Fortunately, under the desperate circumstances, Zhao Xintong did not mess up the square inches, and the eighth set was used multiple times to drag the game into the decider 82-6. He then scored a single 60 points in the decider to win 71-32, thus reversing the score 5-4 to advance.
Scarlett defeats McKe
Scarlett, who came out a little later, played well against the top sixteen seeded player McGill. Trailing 1-2 in the big score, with a 1-100 and a 1-shot 60+, he played a wave of four consecutive whips to win four consecutive sets, sending McKonnell home 8-70, 106-0, 36-69, 80-34, 61-8, 100-6 and 73-24.
Wu Yize took the Pinghai lightly
In the other two matches in which Chinese players competed, Lu Ning won without a fight because his opponent withdrew from the tournament, and Wu Yize beat Hayden Pinghai 5-1 in a postponed qualifying match. At this point, the 4 Chinese players who played on the first day of the game all won and advanced to the next round as desired.