Sports Premiere Creation Challenge In the early morning of December 4, Beijing time, the 2023 ** Croatian British Championship continued to compete for the championship. In the final, Ding Junhui, the 3-time World Championship champion "China's first brother", challenged the 7-time World Championships champion "Rocket" Ronnie O'Sullivan, which was the 32nd "Ding Olympics", Ding Junhui scored 114 points in a single stroke in the game, and 115-0 directly hit Meng O'Sullivan.
The Croatian Championship is one of the three major tournaments in Croatia, and it is also the oldest important tournament in Croatia. In this British Championship, the defending champion "Little Steel Cannon" Mark Allen, O'Sullivan, Higgins, and Williams of the "753 Heroes", and Ding Junhui, Selby, Trump, Robertson, and Murphy of the "80 Five Tigers" all participated.
Among them, among the defending champion "Allen, as well as the 753 Heroes" and "80 Five Tigers" 9 players, except for the three-time British Championship champion Ding Junhui, all are the favorites to win the championship, among them, this season's "Quasi King" Trump, who has come to 3 ranking championships, is the biggest favorite to win the championship, and the seven-time British Championship champion "Rocket" O'Sullivan is the second favorite to win the championship after Xiaote.
As a three-time British Championship champion, Ding Junhui was eliminated by Zhang Anda 3-6 in the ** Croatia National Championships that ended last month, and after the National Championships, his world ranking was surpassed by Zhang Anda and Tom Forde, the champion and runner-up of the National Championships, and the world ranking fell out of the top16.
In this case, Ding Junhui, ranked 17th in the world, can only compete in the qualifying round of the British Championships. Ding Junhui did not drop the chain in the qualifying round, and he broke through from the qualifying round strongly with a record of two consecutive victories and was able to participate in this year's British Championships.
Coming to York, the blessed land of the British Championships, Ding Junhui once again staged the return of the king. First, he won the qualifying round with two consecutive wins, defeated the defending champions Allen, Forde and Williams in the first three rounds of the main match to advance to the semifinals, and eliminated Trump who has won three championships this season 6-4 in the semifinals. Facing O'Sullivan in the final, in the case of falling behind, he directly scored 114 points in a single stroke in the seventh game, beating O'Sullivan 115-0.