On December 22, Beijing time, it was reported that the 2023 ** German Masters Qualifying Tournament continued. In a highlight match on the fourth matchday, Chinese star Zhou Yuelong narrowly defeated Jack Jones 5-4 to advance to the main event. In the other highlight-out match, world champion Graeme Dott came off a 5-3 win over Victor Sakkis. Earlier, world champion Stuart Bingham suffered a shock 1-5 defeat to Liam Pullen.
With the 2023 Scottish Open coming to an end, the German Masters is seamless. In this competition, Zhang Anda, the champion of the National Championships, Fan Zhengyi, the champion of the European Masters, joined hands with Ding Junhui, the "first brother of China", and other 22 players from the Chinese ** Croatian Army. Ding Junhui did not play well and lost to Yuan Sijun 2-5.
On the fourth day of qualifying, Zhou Yuelong, who had just reached the quarterfinals at the Scottish Open, continued his good form and refused to reverse against world No. 40 Jack Jones, who hit a 100 shot and three 50+ shots, narrowly beating his opponent 5-4 on aggregate and advancing to the main event to be held at the end of January and early February next year.
The biggest player in action on the day was 2006 world champion Graeme Dort, ranked 45th in the world, and the lesser-known Brazilian Victor Sackis, ranked 117th in the world.
Champions, Dort and Victor Sarkis have no head-to-head record, and this game is an encounter. In this encounter, he started slowly, and his opponent scored 55 points in a single stroke to take the lead. In the ensuing game, Dort won two games in a row to overtake the score 2-1.
However, Victor Sakkis played very tenaciously and took a 3-2 lead again. In the next game, Dort gradually took the initiative, and he won three games in a row to advance 5-3, avoiding the embarrassment of "one round" like another world champion Bingham, who was sleepwalking in the match against Pullen and was swept out 1-5.