In the early morning of December 2, the 1 4 finals of the ** Croatia British Championship were all over, and the four players who entered the top four were officially released. Among the three Chinese players who reached the quarterfinals, only Ding Junhui went further to the semifinals, and Zhang Anda and Zhou Yuelong were eliminated in the 1 4 finals. The other three quarter-finals belong to O'Sullivan, Wafi and Trump.
O'Sullivan's opponent in the quarterfinals is China's Zhou Yuelong. The game was full of twists and turns, O'Sullivan once led 3-1 before the halftime, and after the break, O'Sullivan won another game 4-1 to expand the advantage, and then Zhou Yuelong won 4 games in a row 5-4 to get the match point. In the 10th game, O'Sullivan scored 77 points with a single stroke to save the match point, and O'Sullivan won the tiebreaker with 122 points with a single stroke. In the end, O'Sullivan defeated Zhou Yuelong 6-5 and won a place in the semifinals. It is worth mentioning that this game is O'Sullivan's 100th victory milestone in the British Championship.
Another Chinese player, Zhang Anda, will face Hussein Wafi. Before the halftime break, the two sides won 2 games each, and after the break, the two won 1 game each, and then Zhang Anda scored 68 points in a single stroke to take a 4-3 lead, and in the 8th game, Wafei seized the opportunity to win, and the two sides drew 4-4 again. In the 9th game, Wafei scored 106 points in a single stroke to get the match point, and in the 10th game, he used a stroke of 56 points to lock up the victory.
Trump and Selby met in the quarterfinals. After the opening, Trump was in a very strong state, hitting a single shot and 52 points to win 4 games in a row. In the fifth game, Selby scored 60 points in a single stroke to recover 1 game, and then Trump scored 95 points and got the match point 5-1. On match point, Selby chased 2 games in a row, once chasing 3-5. In the 9th game, Trump seized the opportunity to win and won 6-3.
Ding Junhui's opponent in the quarterfinals is Mark Williams. Ding Junhui scored 95 and 127 points in a single stroke after losing 2 games first, and the two sides entered the halftime break 2-2. After that, the two continued to compete, including more than 1 hour in the 8th game, with a total score of 195 points in a single game to set a new record. Ding Junhui scored 85 points and 105 points in a single shot when he was 4-5 behind, and finally eliminated Mark Williams with a 6-5 reversal.
The semifinals of the British Championship will still use the system of 11 games and 6 wins, at 21 o'clock in the evening of December 2, Beijing time, O'Sullivan will compete with Wafei for the final seat, and at 3 o'clock in the morning the next day, Ding Junhui will face Trump.