Beijing time on November 24 news, the 2021 World Snooker Championship ended the first day of competition, a total of Li Xing, Zhou Yuelong, Si Jiahui, Wu Yize and other 4 Chinese players won to advance to the second round. Among them, the post-00s youngster Scarlett Skahui defeated the 2005 World Championship champion "Magician" Sean Murphy 6-5, and the famous Li Xing defeated Mitchell Mann 6-3.
At this year's British Championships, a total of 26 Chinese players participated. In the second period of the first day, Li Xing and Scarlett Played hand in hand, and Li Xing reached the quarterfinals of the Scottish Open 5-4 with a 5-4 victory over world number one Judd Trump. At the age of 13, Scarlett had beaten Ding Junhui 4-2.
The match between Lee Anderson and Mitchell Mann had an extremely perfect start, with a wave of 5-0 attacks in the opening stages, and soon took a 5-0 lead and won match points. After losing five consecutive innings in the opening and being easily won 5-0 by Li Xing, Mitchell Mann's next step was to calm down and fight for one point at a time.
In the sixth set, Mitchell Mann, who had no way back, opened a tenacious counter-attack mode. In this set, he scored a single 78 points to save the first match point 78-37, and the score was 1-5. After that, the opponent chased 3-5, very difficult situation, Li Xing withstood the pressure, 6-3 to lock up the victory, strong promotion to the second round.
In the match between Scarlett and Murphy, in the first set, Scarlett took the lead in the opening, he won the first set 93-2, and won the opening red 1-0. In the second set, Scarlett won another set 67-33 to take a 2-0 lead. In the third set, Murphy's form was still sluggish, and Scarlett played a single 65 points to win another set 78-1, and the score came to 3-0.
In the fourth set, Murphy improved slightly after losing three straight sets in the opening, and he pulled back a set at 69-47 to make it 1-3, and Scarlett went to the break with two sets. In the fifth inning, after returning from the break, Scarlett continued to exert his strength, and he played another 78 points to win another set 80-7, and the advantage extended to 4-1.
In the following game, Scarlett won the match point 5-1, and in a desperate situation, Murphy stubbornly counterattacked, he won four consecutive sets, 5-5 to drag the game into the decider. Scarlett did not drop the chain in the decider, winning by 53 points in a single shot, but only 6-5 to advance. At this point, Li Xing and Si Jiahui joined hands to advance.