The venue of the Tiandu Masters is in the Shaw Billiards Hall in Tianqu District. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This billiard hall named after the most famous snooker master Xiao Ke in the 60s of the last century was itself built with a donation from Master Xiao Ke.

Shook is now dead, but in the sixties and seventies of the last century, Shook was synonymous with snooker.

Master Xiao was born in the thirties of the last century, and it can be said that Master Xiao is a billiards genius. When he came into contact with snooker, he was already twenty-six years old, and it is said that it is impossible to become a world-class snooker master at this age.

But Master Xiao is so magical, he came into contact with snooker at the age of twenty-six, and it took only three years to become the champion of the Dahua Snooker Championship, and then at the Snooker Asian Championships, Master Xiao Lianke was among the top players in Asia at that time, and finally won the championship of the Snooker Asian Championship.

The following year, Master Xiao crossed the ocean alone and came to England alone to participate in the 1965 British Championships.

As a result, in the competition, Xiao Master Lianke, who was ranked seventh in the world, twelfth in the world, fourth in the world and second in the world at the time, finally met Biden Guye, a famous snooker player at the time, with the nickname "King of Wembley", in the final.

As a result, in the final of the best-of-25 rounds, Master Xiao won Biden Guye with an extremely happy 13-3 round, becoming the first Chinese in snooker history to win the British Championship.

It was also from that year that Master Xiao became synonymous with "unstoppable" in snooker, and in the World Snooker Championship held at the end of the same year, Master Xiao once again won the World Championship trophy that year with extremely brilliant results.

It is worth mentioning that in the World Snooker Championship that year, Master Xiao played a total of 71 rounds in the six games he participated in, but only lost 8 rounds. (PS: The schedule of the World Championships is 64 into 32 and 32 into 16, both of which are 17 rounds of 9 wins, 16 into 8 and 8 into 4 are 21 rounds of 11 wins, and the semi-finals, that is, 4 into 2 are 25 rounds of 13 wins, as for the finals, it is a hard 35 rounds of 18 wins)

This result is the best result in the World Snooker Championship in the past years, and it is also the world record for the least number of rounds lost by a player in the more than 100-year history of the World Snooker Championship.

In six rounds, if the players on both sides are of the same level and play about the same, so that every game is full, then the players need to play a total of 136 rounds, but in so many games, only 8 games are lost, which is really a very terrifying result.

Since 1965, Xiao Ke has become the most dominant player in snooker, from 1965 to 1979 in the fourteen years, Master Xiao won a total of 11 World Championships and 12 British Championships, and the other six masters championships, Master Xiao also won a total of 52 times!

In those fourteen years, whenever there was a snooker competition in which Master Xiao participated, the championship rarely fell into the hands of others.

And Master Xiao has also created a world ranking No. 1 for thirteen consecutive years, a result that no one has broken until now.

It was only later that Master Xiao unfortunately suffered from lymphoma, and as a result, he unfortunately left this world at the age of 47.

When Master Xiao learned that he was suffering from lymphoma, he donated all the prize money he had won from participating in snooker competitions over the years, coupled with the support of the Dahua royal family at that time, Master Xiao finally built such a world-class billiards hall in Tianqu District of Tiandu before leaving.

Later, the Olympic Games and the three World Snooker Championships held in Tiandu were all held in the Shawk Billiards Hall, and the Tiandu Masters held every year were also held in this legendary billiards hall.

It can be said that in the minds of all billiards lovers in Dahua, the Shaw Billiards Hall is equivalent to the Tiandu Music Hall in the music industry and the Nandu Rock Music Hall in the rock industry......

This hemispherical billiard hall covering the earth is not very far from the grandmaster's house, and it takes more than twenty minutes to get there.

Therefore, on this day, the Grandmaster walked to the Shaw Billiards Hall.

Match clothes, clubs, etc., the grandmaster has already placed them in the Shake Billiards Hall.

In the days before the Tiandu Masters qualifying tournament began, the grandmaster was all soaked here, mainly to familiarize himself with the environment here, and of course, he did this to find a reason for his billiards skills to increase by leaps and bounds.

Yes, you see that I am a billiards genius like Master Xiao, and I have trained so hard, so it is not surprising that the buddies finally defeated those guys!

If you still don't believe it, then I can't help it, because you will never understand the world of genius......

This year's qualifying tournament for the Tiandu Masters was a one-day tournament with a total of 64 players participating.

These players are all professional players who are ranked below 64 in the world snooker points or players with wild cards, such as Grandmaster, who is not a professional snooker player, but because he has a wild card issued by the host, he can also participate in the qualifying tournament.

The main event of the Masters requires 64 players to participate, so if there are still 20 players left in the main event, the top 16 players in the qualifying round will be able to enter the main tournament directly, and the remaining 4 players will be selected from the other 16 players who have entered the top 32, and finally make up for 20.

Of course, if there is only one player left behind in the main event, then sorry, only the first place in the qualifying round will be qualified to participate in the main event.

Therefore, the timing of the qualifiers is determined by how many players are missing from the main tournament.

Like this year's Tiandu Masters, because the Snooker World Championship has just been held, there are only eight players missing, so the 64 players in the qualifying round only need to reach the quarterfinals to participate in the main match of the Tiandu Masters.

The number of games in the qualifying round is very small, before entering the quarterfinals, it is a best-of-nine system of nine rounds, of which 64 into 32 matches will be played in the morning, a total of 32 games, the first round of 16 games are kicked off at the same time, and after the first round of 16 games, the second round of 32 matches will be played.

By noon, the top 32 can all be decided, and then at 2 p.m. the 32-16 match will be played, and a round of 16 matches can be played at the same time, and then at 8 p.m. after the final eight will be decided, the qualifying round will be over.

If there are too few players in the main event, then the qualifying round will have to be extended to two days to determine the final four and even the champion.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the first round of the qualifying round of 64-32 matches, in which the No. 8 table is the starting point of the Grandmaster's participation in the Tiandu Masters, and his opponent is a white player from Australia.