6 seats are confirmed in the top 8 of the British Championships! China occupies 2 seats, Ding Junhui faces a strong opponent, and Zhou Yuelong PK O'Sullivan
The 1/8 finals of the 2023 Snooker British Championship continued, in the two games just ended, world No. 1 O'Sullivan narrowly defeated Milkins 6-5, and Zhou Yuelong defeated the world champion Higgins 6-3.
Zhou Yuelong and Higgins are already old rivals, the two have fought 12 times before, Zhou Yuelong has only won 3 times, at an absolute disadvantage, and the last two encounters, Zhou Yuelong suffered two consecutive defeats, so for Zhou Yuelong, Higgins is definitely a big rival, but in this game, Zhou Yuelong was in good shape in the first half, the first 4 rounds of 65 points and 86 points in a single stroke, leading with a total score of 3-1, but in the second half, Zhou Yuelong's mistakes were obviously more frequent than in the first half, and the play was more trivial, not as smooth as the first half, but Higgins's state was still very poor, and the two staged a mistake battle in the sixth game, in this case, Higgins once chased the score to 3-4, but Higgins failed to keep it all the time, there was a mistake in the eighth game, Zhou Yuelong won twice, the total score was 5-3 to get the match point, in the ninth game, Zhou Yuelong blasted out a single stroke 63 points to lock the win, so as to win with a total score of 6-3, successfully advanced to the top 8.
O'Sullivan and Milkins played this game very intensely, at the beginning of the game O'Sullivan lost two games in a row, and then O'Sullivan hit a single stroke 86 points in a row, 53 points, 142 points and 4 games in a row, and then O'Sullivan continued to exert force, taking the lead in getting the match point with 5-3, and Milkins, who was forced into a desperate situation, ushered in an outbreak, blasted out a single stroke of 120 points and pulled two games in a row, chasing the total score to a 5-5 draw, the decisive game, O'Sullivan withstood the pressure, completed the lore with 6-5, and advanced to the top 8. At present, 6 seats have been confirmed in the top 8, and there are two 1/8 finals next, namely Wafei vs. Matthew Selt, Zhang Anda vs. Luca Brecel, if Zhang Anda can win, then there will be 3 Chinese players to advance to the top 8, in addition to whether Wafei can advance, will determine whether Ding Junhui can stabilize the world's top 16 rankings.
At present, there are 3 confirmed matches in the 1/4 finals, namely Ding Junhui vs. Mark Williams, Zhou Yuelong vs. O'Sullivan, Trump vs. Selby, 3 games are all focus battles, especially for Ding Junhui and Zhou Yuelong, the strength of the opponents is very strong, I hope they can all achieve good results. This article was originally written by Xiao Lizi, please do not plagiarize or carry it.