Original title: snooker Ding Junhui defeats Yan bingtao in the final of British Championship
4hw.com.cn news in the early morning of December 8, Beijing time, the 2019 Snooker Championship ended the first semi-final competition. In a Chinese Derby, Ding Junhui defeated young general Yan bingtao 6-2.
This game, both sides are more defensive, the game time is longer than before Ding Junhui against O'Sullivan and Liang Wenbo. In the first set, although Yan bingtao came up and scored a very difficult long-distance attack, Ding Junhui forced his opponent to make mistakes in the defensive war, scoring 68 points per shot and winning the first city with 69-3.
In the second set, although Ding Junhui made defensive mistakes, Yan bingtao failed to seize the opportunity. As a result, Ding Junhui scored 85 points and won another game 89-50. In the third set, the two sides launched a high-quality defensive battle. Ding Junhui forced the opponent to make mistakes with tight defense. After 60 points, he won another set with 101-14, leading by 3-0. In the fourth inning, both sides made mistakes. Yan bingtao seized Ding Junhui's chance to prevent Ding Junhui from losing the last red ball, rebounded 56-34 and entered the halftime 1-3.
Back in the second half, Ding Junhui went to the next city with 77-34, leading by 4-1. However, in the sixth inning, Yan bingtao made a single shot of 95 points and pulled back a set of 95-11. The key seventh inning, Yan bingtao in the black ball to get 24 points, the cue ball failed to K open the red pile, followed by an global error. Ding Junhui seized the opportunity to hit a single shot of 53 points, 76-24 to win another game, the total score of 5-2 to get the match point.
In the eighth inning, Yan bingtao made a mistake in the K red ball again. The cue ball was close to the red ball and lost the chance. The middle bag was overturned and the cue ball left the attack line. Ding Junhui seized the opportunity, scored 60 points, won another set 76-16, and finally beat Yan bingtao 6-2, making it to the final of the British Championship 10 years later.
This is the first time Ding Junhui has reached the final in the ranking competition since the Grand Prix in February 2018.