**The Gram Single-Game Time Tournament is a highly entertaining invitational tournament, with only 10 minutes per game and a strict limit on the time to shoot, testing the speed, skill and mental quality of the players. From January 25 to 28, 2023, the tournament was held at the Morning Side Stadium in Leicester, England, with a total of 128 players participatingAmong them are 21 Chinese players.
After four days of fierce competition, the British player Chris Wakeling won the championship, and the Chinese ** group also had a good performance, with 9 people breaking into the top 64, of which 3 entered the top 16, showing the strength and style of China's ** gram. First day: Liao Yusheng made history, Xing Zihao and other 6 people were out of the competition, and 21 people from the ** group signed up5-7 on the first day.
Cao Yupeng, Zhou Yuelong, the runner-up of the ranking competition, Xu Si, the post-90s, the newcomer Jiang Jun, the teenager Liao Yusheng were promoted, Xing Zihao, Li Junwei, Pang Junxu, Fan Zheng.
1. Xiao Guodong, Yuan Sijun and Lu Haotian were eliminated. 13-year-old Liao Yusheng defeated India's Chadha by 5 points, becoming the youngest player to win the first ranking match since the TV broadcast.
His feat has attracted attention and praise at home and abroad, and he is known as the future star of China's first gram. Day 2: Tian Pengfei and other 5 people advanced, Wu Yize and other 4 people went out on the second match day, Chinese players continued to soar, Tian Pengfei defeated Tobman 56-35, Si Jiahui defeated Highfield 86-37, top16, the new king of the National Championships Zhang Anda narrowly defeated Asif 57-50Hit a single stroke of 51 points.
Peng Yisong defeated Mertens 63-10, and newcomer Long Zehuang dared to fight, defeating Tom Ford 52-24 and straight to the round of 64. There are still 4 people out, Wu Yize, Liu Hongyu, He Guoqiang, and Ma Hailong lost to their respective opponentsFolded in the first round.
The highest score in a single game and the first shot of 147 since the birth of this tournament, Grand Slam winner Murphy was like a bamboo, completing a full score and sweeping Rieviz and advancing strongly. James Cahill, the Rockets' nemesis who defeated O'Sullivan in the first round of the World Championships, defeated Jimmy Robertson 2-31 and was unfavorable.
Day 3: Zhou Yuelong and other 3 people entered the top 16, Liao Yusheng and other 6 people stopped on the third day of the competition, Chinese players encountered a big challenge, and only 3 people successfully advanced to the top 16, namely Zhou Yuelong, Zhang Anda and Long Zehuang. Zhou Yuelong defeated British veteran Davies 54-17, and Zhang Anda eliminated India's Mehta 51-16Long Zehuang defeated Scotland's McManus 49-28.
The other six missed the next round, the most regrettable of which was Liao Yusheng, who led 38-0 in the match against Britain's Carter, but was eventually reversed by his opponent and lost 38-40, missing the chance to advance. Tian Pengfei, Si Jiahui, Peng Yisong, Jiang Jun and Xu Si also lost to their respective opponentsThe journey of this tournament has ended.
Day 4: The Chinese players were all wiped out, and on the fourth day of the championship, the Chinese players met stronger opponents, Zhou Yuelong, Zhang Anda and Long Zehuang all failed to break through the round of 16, losing to Wales' Williams, Britain's Wakelin and Selby respectively, and missed the top 8. Among them, the game between Zhang Anda and Wakelin was the most intense, the two sides hit the last black ball, Wakelin scored the black ball with a wonderful long platform, and narrowly defeated Zhang Anda 49-42 and advanced to the top 8.
In the end, Wakelin made it all the way, defeating Selby, Welsh's Jones and France's Leclerc to reach the final. In the final, he faced Iran's Wafi, who swept past Williams 71-0 in the semifinalsBecame the first player in Iranian history to reach the final of a ranking tournament.
However, in the final, Wakelin showed no mercy, hitting a perfect score of 119 points in a single stroke, defeating Wafei 119-0 to win the second ranking tournament of his career and the second championship of the season, with a prize of 50,000 pounds. In this year's ** gram single game limited time competition, although the ** group did not win the championship, it also showed good strength and potentialThe performance of the young players in particular was encouraging.