Chapter 377: No. 1 in the world

In this world, most of the professional snooker players started to contact snooker when they were teenagers, and then went from amateur to professional step by step. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Generally speaking, most of these professional players enter the professional level at the age of 20, and then work hard for ten or eight years in their careers, and start to enter the golden age after the age of 30. The ten years from the age of 30 to the age of 40 are the easiest time for professional snooker players to produce results.

Once the 40 is over 40 and a small number of players are 45, most professional snooker players will begin to decline due to the decline in competitive form, and will gradually cede the top few positions in the world to the newly rising young players.

And after 50, although they can continue to play, they basically belong to playing soy sauce in some top competitions. Very few players will retire after 60, and generally choose to retire around the age of 55.

Of course, this is the life journey of most professional snooker players, and there are some special circumstances. For example, Master Shawshaw, who has the nickname of "King of Billiards", has a miraculous career, if it weren't for the eventual illness that took his life, maybe he would have been like Steve Davis in his previous life, playing until he was nearly 70 years old before retiring.

Another example is Zokula, who just lost to the grandmaster a few days ago, this is a rising star in the football world before the age of twenty, and if he can maintain his current state, then there will definitely be a place for him in the future snooker world.

Also, the Grandmaster's opponent in the quarter-finals today, the current world number one John Albert, is also a special case.

Speaking of which, John Albert's career experience is somewhat similar to that of Master Schock back then. Master Xiao Ke only came into contact with billiards at the age of twenty-six, became famous at the age of thirty, and dominated the snooker world for 14 years.

And John Albert came into contact with billiards even later than Master Shaw. Albert was a cricketer before he came into contact with snooker, but had to retire due to a serious injury during a match.

After retiring from football, Albert's life was very difficult, and at this time, his good friend Jonathan Ravela gave Albert a hand. Jonathan Ravi is a professional snooker player who is not popular, and he provided Albert with a place to practice, but he didn't expect Albert, who is nearly 30 years old, to show his outstanding talent in snooker.

With the funding of Jonathan Ravi, Albert began to enter the amateur snooker world, and it took him three years to achieve great success in the amateur football world, and he entered the professional football world at the age of thirty-three. And Jonathan Ravi decisively retired after seeing that his friend had such an outstanding talent in billiards, and became Albert's agent.

Albert did not live up to his friend's decision to break his wrist, and in his first year in professional football, he successfully won the championship trophy of the Snooker New York Masters.

Although this kind of achievement is not as good as that of Master Xiao Ke back then, it is also an extremely dazzling achievement. After all, when Albert played the New York Masters, he also started from the qualifying round, and finally won the championship trophy.

Since then, Albert has been out of control, winning two more Snooker Masters in his second year of professional football, and finishing third in the World Snooker Championship held at the end of the year.

Then, Albert's world ranking rose like a rocket, and after entering the top 10 in the world, he struggled for several years, until he was 40 years old, and his snooker points became the world's No. 1 for the first time.

Albert's world number one spot did not last long, though, and he and his other world number one spot was soon replaced by another British, Brown Cesar, nicknamed "The Golden Left Hand Magician".

Brown Cesar is a snooker master from London, more than ten years younger than Albert, but the left-handed player's skills are really good, in the next eight years, Brown Cesar and John Albert have been entangled, the two of them together take turns to dominate the top two in the snooker world rankings, until last year's Dahua's Zhao Wenji suddenly rose, which broke the pattern of eight years of bipolar hegemony in snooker football.

It's just that although John Albert is the current world No. 1 player, his lead is not big, and he may be pulled down by Brown Cesar at any time. And now Albert is nearly fifty years old, although he still maintains a high level of competition, but his age is here, in addition to experience and mentality, all aspects of his life are inevitably going downhill.

It was in this context that Albert met the amazing Grandmaster in the quarter-finals.

Although the grandmaster has only just begun to make a name for himself in the snooker world, no one dares to underestimate him now.

After back-to-back victories over Michael Hosius, Zorcula, Douglas and Louis Carter, no professional player can afford to underestimate this star-like young player.

After all, being able to defeat the world No. 3, No. 7, No. 23, and former world No. 20 players in a single tournament is enough to prove the strength of the Grandmaster.

And the most surprising thing is that in so many sets of games, the grandmaster only lost three sets and played so many eye-popping perfect scores. Such a result, even the "king of billiards" Master Xiao Kexiao can't compare!

Therefore, even if Albert is the world's No. 1 snooker master, he still doesn't dare to take it lightly when facing the young man of the grandmaster.

However, older is older, and Albert was not as lucky as Louis Carter, who was provoked into a "convulsive state" by the grandmaster in the first set, and then won three sets in a row while the grandmaster was not fully in shape.

Of course, this is also the only three-set match that the grandmaster has lost since entering the snooker world.

Therefore, although Albert played extremely carefully in the game, he was finally eliminated by the grandmaster with a score of 11:1.

It is worth mentioning that in this match, the only set that the Grandmaster lost was a perfect score shot by Albert. And Albert also relied on this perfect score to increase his career total score in official matches to eight, becoming the second-most perfect score among active players.

Prior to this match, Albert had seven perfect strokes in his hand and tied for first place with the Grandmaster, but in this match, although Albert hit another perfect score, it was still a little unsightly before the Grandmaster's two perfect scores.

Not only did Albert lose the game, but he also took the Grandmaster's perfect score total up to nine!

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