Billiards has always been one of the favorite leisure sports of young people in Ice City after work, and there are countless billiards masters who go out from Harbin. These days in Harbin, a Chinese-style billiards competition with many years of history was held in Harbin, which also attracted many masters including Hou Anan, the king of Heilongjiang, to sign up for the competition.
On November 18th, the 2023 Harbin Sports Bureau, sponsored by the Municipal Billiards Association, and hosted by Heilongjiang Jiuqiu Sports Co., Ltd. and 1980 Billiards Club officially kicked off in 1980 Billiards Club. In the next two days, more than 100 amateur billiards masters from all over the world will compete fiercely for 127 games through single defeat and elimination, and decide the final champion.
Although it is a public billiards competition, this competition has attracted many famous billiards masters including Hou Anan. Due to the adoption of the single-defeat knockout system, this also made the competition brilliant from the first round. In the first round, Hou Anan, who is known as the "King of Heilongjiang Ball", met the challenge of Xu Jiahui, the outstanding female player.
After the start of the game, Xu Jiahui created a lot of trouble for Hou Anan, and according to the rules of the game when a male player meets a female player, Xu Jiahui once occupied the advantage on the field. But through the test of the first two games, Hou Anan found the rhythm and feel of the game. In the end, he beat his opponent by 5:1 and advanced to the next round.
Regarding the holding of this competition, Liu Ye, president of the Municipal Billiards Association, said that billiards has a broad mass base in Harbin, and there are also professional athletes who are still active in the world, such as "Xin Chen Metabolism" (Shi Xin, Chen Bo, Dai Yong and Xie Zhaohui).
"Billiards originated in Europe and is an elegant sport with a history of more than 600 years. With the success of various billiards competitions, this sport has gradually become familiar and loved by more and more people. " Liu Ye said that with billiards returning to the stage of the Asian Games in 2030, this popular sport has also ushered in a brand-new development opportunity.
"I hope that the success of this competition will not only provide a platform for the athletes to communicate and learn from each other, but also provide a good foundation for the city billiards association to absorb fresh blood and cultivate the backbone. We hope that billiards will develop better in Harbin in the future, not only to train more young professional masters, but also to let more and more ordinary citizens participate in it, helping Harbin’s national fitness to continue to’ move, heat up, fire up and get up’. " Liu Ye said.
Harbin Daily reporter Zhang Jian Lei Wen/photo/video shooting and production
