The final two matches of the 2023 Championship 1 4 ended on December 2, Beijing time, and these two matches saw four world champions compete against each other. Among them, the match between Ding Junhui and Mark Williams can be called the most anxious and fierce game of this round. In the first half, Ding Junhui was not in good shape, and Mark Williams won two games in a row and entered the second half with a 2-0 lead. But Ding Junhui did not give up, he found his form in the third game, and scored 95 points in a single stroke and 127 points in a single stroke to win two games in a row, chasing a 2-2 draw to end the first half. After returning from halftime, Mark Williams scored 100 points in a single stroke to win the fifth game, but Ding Junhui immediately responded with a higher score of 135 points, and the game entered a white-hot stage.
In the seventh game, Ding Junhui scored 72 points in a single stroke to win and took the lead 4-3 for the first time. In the eighth game, Mark Williams narrowly defeated Ding Junhui and won a game 101-94, while creating a historical record for professional grams. In the ninth game, Ding Junhui didn't score a point, and Mark Williams won 93-0 with a single stroke of 58 points, and got the match point with a total score of 5-4. In the final game, Ding Junhui performed well, perfect K scattered red ball piles, but still made mistakes under pressure. Then Mark Williams also made a mistake, and Ding Junhui finally defeated the opponent with a total score of 6-5 and successfully advanced to the semifinals.
In the other game, Selby's poor form dug a big hole for himself to fall behind 0-4 in the total game score, while Trump showed super strength in the first four games, hitting 100 points, 93 points and 52 points in a single stroke, and finally won 6-3 to advance to the semifinals. This game also fully demonstrated the charm and attractiveness of the **gram sport, which made the world's **gram lovers intoxicated. The winners of this match will continue to move forward in the following semi-finals and bring us more exciting performances. In the quarterfinals of the World Professional Gram Championship, the matchup between Selby and Trump became the top priority.
The second half of the game kicked off, and Selby impressed with his excellent performance, scoring 60 points in one shot to quickly pull back a game with a score of 71-12. However, Trump was not hit, he fought back and scored 95 points with a total score of 5-1. In a difficult situation, Selby did his best to win back the first match point at 72-4, and then turned the tide again with a score of 98 in the eighth game. But the hole he dug before was too deep, and he finally lost to Trump 3-6 and missed the semifinals. On the day of the competition, the other group of semi-finals was also over, and the two Chinese players finally ended in tragedy. Zhang Anda once led, but lost three games in a row 4-6 to Wafei, while Zhou Yuelong was killed by O'Sullivan when he was leading 5-4.
Such a result is undoubtedly a blow to the Chinese fans, but we should also see that in this match, the performance of the Chinese players is quite good. They showed excellent technical skills and tenacious fighting spirit, and despite the eventual defeat, their performance has shown people the future of China's best grams.