Xiao Guodong completes Championship League Winners’ Group

Xiao Guodong reached the Winners’ Group of Championship League Snooker on Saturday by profitable Group 7 in Leicester.

This season’s vastly improved competitor from China edged David Gilbert in an in depth remaining on the Mattioli Enviornment.

Xiao led 1-0 and 2-1 just for his opponent to revive parity on two events with breaks of 69 and 101.

But Gilbert, who had compiled a most break in the course of the round-robin part, might by no means get his nostril in entrance within the contest.

Xiao scored a run of 59 within the fifth body to assist him safe a 3-2 victory and a spot in subsequent month’s Winners’ Group.

Prize Cash

Teams 1–7
Winner: £3,000
Runner-up: £2,000
Semi-final: £1,000
Body-win (league stage): £100
Body-win (play-offs): £300
Highest break: £500

Winners’ Group
Winner: £10,000
Runner-up: £5,000
Semi-final: £3,000
Body-win (league stage): £200
Body-win (play-offs): £300
Highest break: £1,000

The 35 year-old had emerged from the preliminary round-robin stage with a file of 4 victories and a single loss to comfortably attain the semi-finals.

Within the final 4, this time period’s Wuhan Open champion destroyed Noppon Saengkham 3-0 with breaks of 75, 100, and 123 – leaving his Thai challenger pointless.

It was a a lot nearer affair within the remaining, however Xiao managed to get the job achieved as he continues to threaten for silverware throughout a superb marketing campaign.

Gilbert hit the 147 break throughout his 3-1 defeat of Zhou Yuelong within the league part, however that might be small comfort as there aren’t any extra alternatives left to qualify for the concluding levels of the invitational competitors.

Ricky Walden, who had gone by way of the round-robin undefeated earlier than shedding to Gilbert within the final 4, has additionally been eradicated along with Saengkham, Zhou, and Joe O’Connor.

Jak Jones withdrew from the occasion in the beginning of Group 7, ending this version of Championship League Snooker with a file 32 century breaks.

Xiao Guodong, in the meantime, joins Hossein Vafaei, Si Jiahui, Kyren Wilson, Mark Selby, Matthew Selt, and Judd Trump within the Winners’ Group.

That’s scheduled for February 4th and fifth, the place the general champion of the event might be topped.

Along with the assorted prize cash bonuses which are on supply, the winner will obtain an invite to take part within the profitable Champion of Champions subsequent season.

Schedule

Group 1: January 3–4
Hossein Vafaei
Jak Jones
Pang Junxu
Ryan Day
Chris Wakelin
Elliot Slessor
Gary Wilson

Group 2: January 6–7
Si Jiahui
Jak Jones
Ali Carter
Chris Wakelin
Robert Milkins
Ryan Day
Pang Junxu

Group 3: January 8–9
Kyren Wilson
Jak Jones
Mark Selby
Ali Carter
Chris Wakelin
Robert Milkins
Ronnie O’Sullivan

Group 4: January 10–11
Mark Selby
Jak Jones
Stuart Bingham
Joe O’Connor
Matthew Selt
Jimmy Robertson
Jackson Web page

Group 5: January 20–21
Matthew Selt
Judd Trump
Jak Jones
Joe O’Connor
Tom Ford
Stuart Bingham
Neil Robertson

Group 6: January 22–23
Judd Trump
Joe O’Connor
David Gilbert
Noppon Saengkham
Jak Jones
Jack Lisowski
Tom Ford

Group 7: January 24–25
Xiao Guodong
David Gilbert
Ricky Walden
Noppon Saengkham
Zhou Yuelong
Joe O’Connor
Jak Jones

Winners’ Group: February 4-5
Hossein Vafaei
Si Jiahui
Kyren Wilson
Mark Selby
Matthew Selt
Judd Trump
Xiao Guodong

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