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this morning, the first day of the snooker english open ended, and the 16 seats in the top 32 were freshly announced. the chinese team performed well, with 5 players shortlisted, the three tigers born in the 1980s, selby, trump, and murphy, joined, and the 6 major ranking champions unexpectedly overturned and lost in the first round.

this year's tournament was restructured compared to previous ones. the top 32 players did not need to participate in the qualifying rounds and could directly start the main tournament. on the first day of the tournament, the chinese team became the winner. only one of the six players was eliminated in their first appearance in the main tournament. liu hongyu almost won the reverse battle after falling behind 1-3, completing two 60+ shots to drag the game into the deciding game, but eventually lost 3-4 to the world's number one trump, which made the defending champion sweat.

zhang anda played all 7 games and defeated mark davis 4-3, wu yize upset world champion bingham 4-3, and pang junxu, who finished the last, withstood the pressure and defeated the single-game time-limited champion tachaya 4-3. the other two chinese players won easily. fan zhengyi scored 147 points in the qualifying round and defeated the four-time ranking champion ryan day 4-1. shi jiahui, who entered the top 16 for the first time, fought quickly and won four games in a row after falling behind 0-1, completing a single shot of 62 points and 56 points to reverse padgett 4-1.

the three tigers born in the 1980s met up. selby cashed in on his third match point and stopped aaron hill 4-2. murphy defeated jamie clarke 4-1. in addition to bingham, tachaya and ryan day who were eliminated in the first round, three other ranking champions also overturned. holt lost to gilbert 3-4, joe perry lost to wakelin 2-4, and milkins was unexpectedly defeated by oliver lines, getting further and further away from the top 16. 16 seats in the top 32 were born, namely trump, murphy, selby, zhang anda, wu yize, si jiahui, fan zhengyi, pang junxu, carter, gilbert, suretti, o'connor, chadha, oliver lines, wakelin and karen wilson.