Beijing time January 1st news, the 2024-25 season snooker World Open has come to a successful conclusion. A total of 11 players from the Chinese snooker team have advanced to the main event. Among them, Lei Peifan, who just won the Scottish Open championship, showed his big heart in the face of a 0-4 deficit and made a comeback with a total score of 5-4 against Anthony Hamilton.
Recently, snooker events have been very dense, and the performance of the Chinese snooker team has also been outstanding. Ding Junhui, Xiao Guodong, and Lei Peifan have successively won the National Championship, Wuhan Open championship, and Scottish Open championship.
As a player who has just returned to professional competition, Lei Peifan fought his way into the final. In the championship match, Lei Peifan faced off against Wu Yize. In this final, Lei Peifan changed his slow start in the semi-finals where he lost three consecutive games. After the opening, he unleashed a wave of four consecutive victories, quickly achieving a dream start of 4-0.
Wu Yize was not to be outdone, responding with a wave of three consecutive victories to tie the score at 3-4. The scores of the first seven games were: 68 (68)-1, 56-13, 73-29, 75 (75)-0, 0-102 (69), 52-73, 15-67 (51).
In the eighth game, after losing three games in a row, Lei Peifan took the lead again, scoring a single shot of 65 points and winning 79-9, leading 5-3. At the end of the first half of the game, Lei Peifan maintained his lead. After a few hours of rest, Lei Peifan and Wu Yize continued their battle in the second half.
In the ninth game, upon returning in the second half, Wu Yize continued his counterattack momentum from the eighth game, scoring 69-4 to win another game, closing the score to 4-5. One more victory would have tied the score at 5-5. Unfortunately, Lei Peifan did not give Wu Yize that opportunity.
Lei Peifan extended his lead to 6-4 in the tenth game. In the subsequent games, Lei Peifan continued to exert himself, winning match point with an 8-4 score. Although Wu Yize valiantly saved a match point in the thirteenth game, Lei Peifan held off Wu Yize's attack in the fourteenth game to win the championship with a total score of 9-5. Competing in the World Open qualifying round, Lei Peifan, despite trailing 0-4 in the match against Hamilton, made a comeback by winning five consecutive games to advance with a 5-4 reversal, once again demonstrating his big heart!