2023 ** Croatia British Championships
On December 2, Beijing time, the semifinals of the 2023 ** Croatia UK Championship will start on time, and the first semi-final will be between O'Sullivan and Wafei!Is O'Sullivan advancing to the final of the British Championship for the ninth time in his career, or is it the first time that Wafei has reached the final of the British Championship?The mystery will be revealed tonight!
21:00, semi-finals: O'Sullivan vs Wafei [11 games and 6 wins, CCTV CCTV5 plans to broadcast live at 21:45].
O'Sullivan's path to promotion:
First round: 6-2 McGill (5 strokes of 50+).
Second round: 6-5 Milkins (4 strokes of 50+, including 1 shot to break 100).
1 4 finals: 6-5 Zhou Yuelong (5 single strokes 50+, including 2 strokes to break 100), this is the 100th win of O'Sullivan British Championship, the first person in history.
Wafi's path to the promotion:
Qualifying round 3: 6-0 Odnaire (4 single strokes 50+, including 2 strokes to break 100).
Qualifying round 4: 6-4 Donaldson (5 strokes of 50+, including 2 strokes to break 100).
The first round of the main event: 6-4 Shaun Murphy (5 strokes of 50+, including 1 stroke to break 100).
Second round: 6-1 Selt (5 strokes of 50+, including 3 strokes to break 100).
1 4 finals: 6-4 Anda Zhang (4 strokes of 50+, including 3 strokes to break 100), this is the second time Wafei has reached the semi-finals this season, and he is also the only player in the semi-finals of the British Open and the semi-finals of the British Championship this season!
It can be found that Wafei's opponent in the main match has a higher overall ranking than O'Sullivan. Especially the defeat of No. 7 seed Murphy and the elimination of Zhang Anda, who has been in excellent form recently!On the other hand, O'Sullivan fought two consecutive games to the tiebreaker;There are only 3 single-stroke breaks in three games, which is a bit different from his previous winning style. Apparently O'Sullivan is not at his best!
The outside world's attention to O'Sullivan this season seems to be more of a "contradiction" between him and WST!In addition to winning the Shanghai Masters (invitational), this season's ranking tournament results: European Masters (retired), British Open (not playing), English Open (stopping in the fourth round), Wuhan Open (stopping in the top 8), Northern Ireland Open (not participating), National Championship (stopping in the semifinals)!As he said, he wants to participate in more events held in China, and two of the three ranking tournaments he participated in were held in China!How to maintain the "hunger" for the champion has become the biggest factor restricting O'Sullivan's performance!
Head-to-head record: O'Sullivan 3-1!In the 2021 German Open qualifiers, Wafi had a 5-0 clean sheet against O'Sullivan. In last season's World Championships, O'Sullivan swept Wafei 13-2!All in all, the key to O'Sullivan's victory or defeat lies in himself!