In the early morning of April 13, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker World Championship qualification round entered the final decisive round of the competition, the same day, the Chinese team Ding Junhui, Lv Haotian, Zhou Yuelong three people hand in hand. After two periods of competition, the number of places to qualify for the World Championship has been born, among which Lu Haotian defeated Wales star Dominique Dale 10-4 and advanced to the main stage of the World Championships in Crucible for the third time in his career.
Lu Haotian, 24, is a new generation of Chinese snooker players who once won the World Youth Championship and broke the record of the youngest held by O'Sullivan and Ding Junhui. Since then, Lu Haotian has set a record for the youngest player in the history of the ranking tournament with wild card qualification, and interestingly, ten years ago, at the 2012 International Championships held in Chengdu, Lu Haotian, who was only 14 years old at the time, defeated the record created by Dell.
But Lu Haotian after turning into a professional player, the results are not particularly outstanding performance, the brightest moment is the 2018 World Championships, that year he passed the qualification tournament, debuted in the World Championships, the result of his 10-5 victory over Hong Kong famous Fu Jiajun in the first round, to advance to the round of 16, but unfortunately the second round of 10-13 lost to Hawkins, no chance to continue to create new highs. At last year's World Championships, Lu Haotian also passed the qualification test and entered the main round for the second time, but when he faced Northern Ireland's mark Allen, he lost 2-10 and stopped the first round.
In this year's World Championship qualifiers, he is ranked 64th in the world from the second round and has encountered successive civil war derbies. In the second round, he defeated Xu Si 6-4, and in the third round, he defeated Lu Ning 6-3 and successfully advanced to the final decisive round. In the decisive round, Lu Haotian's opponent is Dale, who is 50 years old, and the latter is because of the opponent liang Wenbo in the third round, because he was banned by the World Taiwan Federation, so he won without a fight and directly advanced to the decisive round. Previously, Lu Haotian and Dale had played each other 3 times in professional competitions, and Lu Haotian had the advantage of winning 2 and losing 1.
In the game, Lu Haotian almost completely occupied the initiative in the first 9 sets, playing 4 pars 50+ to lead with an 8-1 disparity, almost within easy reach of victory. After the start of the second stage, Lu Haotian once again played a single 55 points to win the match point 9-1. After that, Dell withstood the pressure and scored a consecutive high score to win, 94 points, 110 points and 67 points, chasing three match points in a row, trailing 4-9. In the 14th set, Lu Haotian stopped the losing streak and scored 64 points to win, winning 10-4.
Lu Haotian, who qualified for the main tournament for the third time, also became the third person of the Chinese legion at this year's World Championships, following Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, and looked forward to his excellent performance in the main competition.