On February 12, the Scottish Open continued, and after a 4-0 win over David Grace in the postponed qualifying round, Ding Junhui faced a professional newcomer, Jenson Kendrick, ranked 113th in the world, in this round.
In the first game, Ding Junhui took the lead to show a good competitive state, and played a single stroke of 66 points to interrupt the attack, but Jensen made a mistake after scoring 16 points, Ding Junhui started again, 80-16, Ding Junhui took the lead.
In the second game, Ding Junhui once again took the lead to score 39 points in a single stroke, and then made a mistake when hitting the bottom pocket of the black ball, and Jenson Kendrick seized the opportunity to return 70 points in a single stroke and chased the score to a 1-1 draw.
In the third game, Jensen's failure to attack left a chance for Ding Junhui, who once again took the lead and scored 73 points in a single stroke, rewriting the score to 2-1 with 77-0.
In the fourth game, Ding Junhui made a high-quality ** gram, and Jensen thought about it for a long time and had no good way, so he chose to attack again and left Ding Junhui a chance again. Ding Junhui smiled and accepted the gift, and the middle bag on the right side hit a single stroke with 115 points and cleared the table directly, 117-0, Ding Junhui got the match point 3-1.
It is worth mentioning that this break of 100 is also Ding Junhui's 26th break of 100 this season, so that his total career break of 100 strokes has reached 644, congratulations to Ding Junhui.
In the fifth game, Jenson Kendrick fought with his back to the water, and took the initiative to attack as soon as he came up, but unfortunately the cue ball was not in an ideal position, and the attack was interrupted after only 14 points. After that, Ding Junhui turned to defense when he scored 39 points. Jensen made a fatal mistake after scoring 15 points again, and Ding Junhui started again and won the game smoothly.
In this way, Ding Junhui took 75 minutes to defeat his opponent 4-1 and successfully advanced to the round of 32 of the Scottish Open.
This season, Ding Junhui's state has obviously recovered, and it is even more common to break 100 in a single stroke, and he only lost one game in the first two rounds of the Scottish Open, looking forward to Ding Junhui can continue his good form to the final and successfully win the 15th ranking championship of his career.
As the saying goes, if you don't sing for three years, you can make a splash, Ding Junhui come on, it's time to win the championship again.