On December 3, 2023, Beijing time, all the finals of the 2023 World **G UK Championship were produced. In the just-concluded semi-finals, China's famous Ding Junhui played an excellent single stroke of more than 100, defeated Judd Trump with a score of 6-4, and will stage the final of the Ding Olympics with O'Sullivan, and the two met for the 32nd time in their careers.
Pre-match analysis: Ding Junhui and Trump have had 17 previous records, Ding Junhui has a slight advantage of 8 wins and 9 losses, and Ding Junhui has also lost all three times in the last three encounters. This season, Trump is in hot form, scoring three crowns and two runners-up, of which three crowns are three consecutive ranking championships. For the match between the two, not too many people were optimistic that Ding Junhui would win smoothly before the game.
At the beginning of the match, the two played slightly more conservatively than before the semi-finals. In the first two games, Ding Junhui scored 60 points in a single stroke, Trump scored 50 points in a single stroke, and the two scored 1-1. In the next two games, the two men scored piecemeal alternating scores, each with one city, and the score came to a 2-2 draw, and the game entered halftime.
In the fifth game, Trump made a strong start, hitting the first shot of the game over 100, with a single stroke of 124 points. In the sixth game, Ding Junhui got started many times and won the game 99-1. In the seventh game, after Trump took the lead in scoring 17 points, Ding Junhui got the opportunity to score 110 points in a single stroke, and the score was 4-3 ahead. In the eighth game, Trump scored 105 points in a single stroke, and the score continued to tie. In the ninth game, Ding Junhui scored 88 points in a single stroke and took the lead in winning the match point 5-4.
In the tenth game, Ding Junhui scored 84 points in a single stroke to win the game, and finally beat Trump with a score of 6-4 to advance to the finals, and entered the final of the British Championship for the fifth time in his career. According to the schedule, Ding Junhui will stage a wonderful performance in the final with O'Sullivan at 9 o'clock tonight and 3 o'clock tomorrow at 3 a.m., and the final adopts a best-of-19 system.
In the other semi-final, O'Sullivan played well, scoring 54 points in a single stroke in the first game and winning the first game 86-37. In the second game, O'Sullivan scored 113 points in a single stroke and took a 2-0 lead. In the third game, Wafei was not to be outdone, and shot a single shot of 112 to return to O'Sullivan. In the fourth game, the game between the two fell into anxiety, and Wafei won in the fragmented score, and the score chased to a 2-2 draw. In the next four games, O'Sullivan scored 60 points, 52 points, 50 points and 90 points in a single stroke in a row, staged 4 consecutive whips, and finally entered the final with a score of 6-2.
Pre-competition analysis of the Ding Olympics:
Ding Junhui and O'Sullivan have played each other 31 times before, and Ding Junhui has the upper hand with 7 wins, 21 losses and 3 draws. But in the last two games, Ding Junhui won all of them, and in the 1 4 finals of last year's British Championships, Ding Junhui swept O'Sullivan 6-0 to advance.
Attached to the last three times the two have played each other:
2023 Six Red Ball World Championship Round 1: Ding Junhui 6 vs 2 Ronnie O'Sullivan;
2022 UK Championship 1 4 Finals: Ding Junhui 6 vs 0 Ronnie O'Sullivan;
2022 Welsh Open Round 3: Ronnie O'Sullivan 4 vs 2 Ding Junhui.
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