In the last round of the Saudi Masters, three more people were upset! 19 Chinese Legion were eliminated

2025 Snooker Saudi Masters is in full swing. This year's event continues the high specifications of the first event, with a prize of up to 2.302 million pounds and a championship prize of 500,000 pounds. You can get 2,000 pounds as long as you participate in the competition, and a full score of 147 is even more rewarded with 50,000 pounds. The

competition is divided into two stages: the qualifying match and the main competition. According to the rules, the top 16 players in the world will directly advance to the main competition. Other players need to participate in the qualifying match. Trump, Karen Wilson, Mark Williams, Higgins, O'Sullivan, Ding Junhui, Selby, Neil Robertson, Barry Hawkins, Mark Allen, Zhao Xintong, Zhang Anda, Murphy, Sjiahui, Wakelin, Ali Carter and other 16 people had a guaranteed income of 20,000 pounds.

29 Chinese Legion players registered, except for Xiao Guodong and Bai Yulu absent, all others participated.

The event has four rounds of qualifying rounds. In the first round, 144 to 112, the second round was 112 to 80, the third round was 80 to 48, and the fourth round was 48 to 32. The first three rounds of the qualifying match will be 4 wins, the fourth round and the 1/16 finals will adopt a 9-game 5 win system; the 1/8 finals will be 6 wins in 11 games until the semi-finals; the 19-game 10 win system will be 19-game 1. The competition for the

qualifying match is extremely fierce. In the first round of 144 to 112, 11 Chinese players played, and in the end, five people including Huang Jiahao, Chang Bingyu, Gao Yang, Zhao Hanyang, Lan Yuhao successfully advanced. Among them, the performance of 16-year-old Lan Yuhao was particularly impressive. He easily defeated Polish player Balanovsky 4-1, showing calmness beyond his age. Veteran Chang Bingyu narrowly defeated Fu Jiajun in the decisive game and passed the thrilling mark. In the second round of 112-to-80 competition, the Chinese Legion added 5 more advanced players. Gong Chenzhi defeated England player Dylan Emory 4-2, Long Zehuang narrowly defeated Zhao Hanyang 4-3 in the derby, Wang Yuchen swept Egyptian player Hatm Yasin 4-0, Liu Hongyu defeated Swiss player Ulsenbach 4-1, and Huang Jiahao defeated teammate Zhang Jiawei 4-1. These victories allowed Chinese players to occupy 10 seats in the top 80s, showing the group's advantage.

However, the third round of 80-to-48 became the Waterloo of the Chinese Legion. 17 Chinese players competed, and only 7 of them advanced in the end. Wu Yize easily defeated England player Haydn Pinney 4-1, Yuan Sijun defeated Polish player Kovalsky 4-1, Pang Junxu defeated Iranian player Sakhosh 4-2, Zhou Yuelong defeated Welsh player Duane Jones 4-1, Long Zehuang swept Xu Si 4-0, Chang Bingyu narrowly defeated Welsh player Daniel Wells 4-3, and Lan Yuhao defeated Lu Haotian 4-0.

Other Chinese players failed one after another. Repevan lost 0-4 to England player Louis Heathcott, Fan Zhengyi lost 3-4 to Welsh player Jamie Jones, He Guoqiang lost 1-4 to England player Sam Craigie, Gong Chenzhi lost 3-4 to Thailand player Nopeng Sankam, Wang Yuchen lost 3-4 to England player Joe O'Connor, Liu Hongyu lost 3-4 to England player Martin O'Dennell, Huang Jiahao lost 1-4 to England player Jack Jones, Gao Yang lost 3-4 to England player Gary Wilson.

In the fourth round of the 48-32 game, the Chinese player suffered another blow. Although Long Zehuang once fell behind 1-3 in the derby against Pang Junxu, he won four consecutive games and reversed 5-3 in advance with his outstanding performance of 56 points, 67 points and 67 points in a single shot.

However, other Chinese players failed to continue their good luck. Zhou Yuelong faced Hallworth, a dark horse player who ranked only 211th in the world, and lost three consecutive games while leading 3-2, and was finally out 3-5. Pang Junxu lost a good match in the derby against Long Zehuang and ended 3-5. Although Yuan Sijun swept Stan Moody 5-0, Lan Yuhao was won by England player Slather for four consecutive games under the good situation of leading 4-1, and was reversed 4-5.

In this way, the Chinese Snooker Army suffered an uproar in the fourth round of the Saudi Masters. This also means that 27 Chinese Legion members participated in the competition, and only eight of them advanced to the main competition, including Zhao Xintong, Ding Junhui, Si Jiahui, Zhang Anda, Long Zehuang, Wu Yize, Chang Bingyu and Yuan Sijun, and all the other 19 people were eliminated.