In the early morning of April 13, the snooker World Championship qualifiers ended two "unexpected" matches, the winners of these two games won an 8-1 lead in the first half, Donaldson, known as Ding Junhui's nemesis, finally beat Alain Taylor 10-1, and China's post-90s youngster Lu Haotian defeated Dominique Dale 10-4, ranking among Crucible for the third time in his career. The two created the two games with the biggest point difference on "Showdown Day".
After Dale defeated Duane Jones 6-3 in the second round of the qualifiers, due to Liang Wenbo's ban, he automatically advanced to the "decisive day", Lu Haotian defeated Xu Si and Lu Ning successively, won two civil wars and then advanced to the "decisive day", in the feel of the batting heat should be Better Lu Haotian, because Dale was actually suspended in the middle, in the first half Dale only in the third inning with a 60 points that the next set, Lu Haotian blasted out 4 strokes 50+, half to get an exaggerated 8-1 lead, basically ending suspense, In the second half, Lu Haotian scored 53 points in his hand, and the total score came to 9-1! Then Dell blasted out a shot to break the hundred, a shot of 90+, a shot of 60+, to save the dignity of the point, and finally Lu Haotian single shot 64 points, the total score of 10-4 to lock in the win.
Alain Taylor in the last round was the upset qualifier top seed Walton, Donaldson in the strength of a slightly higher, but Taylor's immediate state and confidence are very good, but the progress of the game is a big surprise, Taylor is only in the 6th inning, 72-55 innings that the next set, the rest of the game is really spectator, Donaldson blasted a shot to break 4 50+, in the case of 8-1 lead at halftime, did not give Taylor the opportunity to turn over, the total score of 10-1 clean sharpshooter quick victory over the opponent. In the other two games that ended at the same time, dark horse Hugh Gil beat O'Connor 10-7 to become the first Crucible rookie to qualify for the main tournament this year, and White Jr., who competed as an amateur, eliminated Brown 10-8 and will return to professional circles after two years next season.