Beijing time on April 13 news, the 2022 Snooker World Championship qualifier round of the first day of the competition ended. In a focus match, 24-year-old Chinese teenager Lu Haotian was invincible, taking an 8-1 lead in the first half against the famous Dominique Dell, winning 9-1 match points at the beginning of the second half and easily advancing to the World Championship 10-4.
The Snooker World Championship Qualifier is the prelude to this season's annual Drama World Championships and will determine 16 World Championship seats. Lu Haotian, ranked 64th in the world, had a first-round bye, a 6-4 win over Xu Si in the second round and a 6-3 win over Lu Ning in the third round. In the qualifying round, the opponent is Dominique Dell, who is ranked 65th in the world. The two have a record of three meetings, with Lu Haotian taking the lead 2-1.
This game, which was originally considered to be a very difficult game, did not expect to become a one-sided sweep. Lu Haotian took a 2-0 lead in the first two sets, and after Dell scored 60 points to make it 1-2, Lu Haotian exploded a wave of 6-0 attacks, winning a huge advantage 8-1 in the first half.
After a few hours of rest, Lu Haotian and Dale began to compete in the second half. In the tenth set, Lu Haotian continued to maintain a good offensive feel after returning, he played a single shot 55 points, 73-26 won another set, the score became 9-1, Lu Haotian won 8 match points with great ease.
With 8 match points 1-9, Dale has no hope of qualifying and the only thing he can do is see if he can save a few match points. In the eleventh set, Dell launched a tenacious counterattack, he played a single 94 points, 101-0 clean sheet Lu Haotian, 2-9 to save the first match point.
In the twelfth set, Lu Haotian took the lead in scoring at the beginning of the game, and broke it after 1-0. Dell got started and blasted a single shot of 110 points to save the second match point 110-1, and the score was 3-9. In the thirteenth set, Dell scored a 67-point victory to save the third match point 67-0, and the score was 4-9.
In the fourteenth set, after losing three match points in a row, Lu Haotian never gave his opponent a chance, and he won the round with a single shot of 63 points, winning the round 73-0, and easily defeated Dale 10-4 on aggregate, and joined hands with Ding Junhui to advance to the World Championship main tournament.