China’s "After 00" vs. Zhao Ruliang won the first men’s championship in Chinese billiards World Championships.
The 6th CBSA Chinese Billiards World Championship ended the men’s team final on the afternoon of 16th. In the confrontation between two young players from China after 00, Zhao Ruliang beat Shen Shenyi 41-28, winning the men’s team championship in the Chinese Billiards World Championship for the first time.
The men’s team of the Chinese Billiards World Championships is strong, and none of the top 16 professional men of the Chinese Billiards Association is absent. The famous British Eipl, Shi Hanqing, john young and Zheng Yubo all appeared in the competition.
As the last runner-up, Zhao Ruliang was recognized as one of the favourites to win the championship before the competition. In the double-losing stage, Zhao Ruliang won Grain Rain Peng, Suniri and Lei Yiwei in a row, and advanced from the winning department to the top 32. In the single defeat stage, Zhao Ruliang stood out and eliminated Dai Yong, Chu Bingjie, Xu Xiaoying and john young successively, and entered the final.
Shen Shenyi, born in 2004, has risen rapidly in Chinese billiards in recent years, and entered the tournament directly as a seed player. In the single defeat stage, Shen Shenyi beat Eipl, narrowly beat American star Zhang Ronglin, beat Niu Zhuang in the quarter-final, and beat dark horse Xu Tianwei in the semi-final, and reached the final of the World Championships for the first time in his career.
In the third stage of the men’s final, Zhao Ruliang, who is more experienced in the competition, played a small climax at the last minute to determine the obvious lead. In the fourth stage, he won four games in a row, and then won 41-28 in the third match point, winning the championship prize of 3 million yuan (RMB, the same below).
The 6th CBSA Chinese Billiards World Championship is divided into men’s group and women’s group. In the women’s group competition that ended before, Tang Chunxiao beat Liu Xiazhi 19-9 to win the championship.
CBSA Chinese Billiards World Championship, initiated by China Billiards Association in 2015, is the largest and highest-level Chinese billiards tournament in the world, which also accelerates the internationalization of Chinese billiards. A total of 496 players from 41 countries and regions participated in this tournament, and the scale of participation reached a new high, with a total prize money of 10.43 million yuan. (Reporter Jiang Tao)