2023** Scottish Open
In the early morning of December 14, Beijing time, in the 2023 ** Scottish Open, 32 into 16, Pang Junxu played against Anthony McGill, unfortunately, Pang Junxu lost 2-4 and missed the round of 16.
Pang Junxu is a post-00 star in China and once won the title of the best newcomer of the season, but now Pang Junxu still has ups and downs, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in strength. In Scotland's postponed qualifying round, Pang Junxu played well, defeating the top 16 player and No. 14 seed Barry Hawkins 4-3, and then easily defeated Xu Si 4-1 and won the Chinese derby to advance to the round of 32.
McGill was also a top 16 player at one time, as a 32-year-old veteran, McGill's style of play is more grinding, and playing with him requires a lot of patience, he easily won 4-0 in the qualifying round, and beat Oliver Lines 4-2 in the last round, and reached the round of 32 strongly. The pair have only met once before, in the second round of the Gibraltar Open in 2021, when Pang Junxu defeated McGill 4-2.
In the matchup of this game, although Pang Junxu scored 80 points in a single stroke in the first game to win the first place, he still lost 2-4 to McGill, who played one shot to break 100 and two shots of 50+.
In addition, there are many top16 upsets: Selby (world No. 5) lost to Matthew Selt 3-4, in this game, Selby was killed after 3-1, Brecel (world No. 4) lost to Martin O'Connor 2-4, Ali Carter (world No. 10) lost to Sancam 2-4, Selby and others missed the round of 16, and Trump and other top16 have also been out.
In terms of the latest match report, 4 spots will be decided in the round of 16: Matthew Selt, Anthony McGill, Martin O'Connor, Sancam.