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snooker upsets continue! 8 champions eliminated in a single day, 75 duo eliminated in 1 round, 2 superstars nearly lost

2024-09-18

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the second day of the english open ended. in the first round, there were many upsets in the short 7-game 4-win game. eight champions were eliminated in one day, especially the 75 duo o'sullivan and mark williams, who were both eliminated in the first round, which was even more unexpected. two superstars almost fell. mark allen played a full 7 games before reversing the chinese newcomer long zehuang 4-3. brecel and veteran hamilton fought until the last moment to win 4-3 and advance to the top 32.

three players with 75 scores played on the same day, and only higgins survived. o'sullivan became the highest-ranked player to be eliminated in this tournament. mr. huo was not well prepared for the aggressive attack of he guoqiang and fell behind 0-3 at the beginning. although he scored 2 consecutive 50+ shots to catch up for 2 games, he was still eliminated with a 2-4 upset. mark williams had only won 5 of the previous 12 games against wollaston. in this game, he was defeated again. he only scored 75-1 in the 4th game to avoid being swept, and finally lost 1-4.

there were also 6 champions who had bad start, 4 of them were defeated, stevens lost 3-4 to wafi, 3-time champion gary wilson lost 2 consecutive games to rossmuir, 3-time champion richie walton lost to celtic, hamilton caused big trouble for world champion brecel, and persisted until the final game before failing, which scared the belgian bullet into a cold sweat. 2-time champion dale lost 2-4 to lu haotian, jimmy robertson lost to hawkins with the same score, leading 2-0 but lost four games in a row, and failed at the last moment.

two superstars were nearly eliminated. in addition to brecel's thrilling buzzer-beater, world no. 3 and 11-time ranking champion mark allen also escaped. he was forced into a desperate situation by chinese newcomer long zehuang 3-2, but he saved the match point with a single shot of 67 points in the 6th game, and won the decisive game 56-13, staging a victorious escape.