The much-anticipated 2022 Snooker World Championship has finally kicked off with a top-of-the-line showdown in the main stage, with thirty-two players set to decide the winner of the final £500,000 title in a seventeen-day battle.
A total of four members of the Chinese snooker legion got the tickets for the main tournament this time, namely the seeded players Zhao Xintong and Yan Bingtao, and the qualifiers Ding Junhui and Lu Haotian, and zhao Xintong, the youngster of the first round of the opening match, took the lead.
The first round of Zhao Xintong ushered in the challenge of Jamie Clark, the two sides have previously played each other to record Zhao Xintong's two victories to dominate, before the game, the British media predicted that Zhao Xintong would encounter a round of travel, so this match is also a battle to prove that Zhao Xintong beat the face of the doubter.
The game began Clark took the lead in kicking off, Zhao Xintong then returned the ball to make a high-quality defense, Clark solved the ball and met the powder ball foul and missed the opportunity, Zhao Xintong on the field felt hot and directly blasted out a single shot 98 points speed to achieve a 1-0 opening red.
In the second set, Zhao Xintong's fiery feel was still undiminished, directly soaring into the long table red ball, and began to score around the black ball continuously, although there was a mistake after completing the single shot 50+, but Clark failed to seize the opportunity Zhao Xintong once again to directly surpass the score to 2-0.
In the next two sets, Clark grabbed Zhao Xintong's long stage mistake and began to score, but the good times did not have long to make a mistake when hitting the red ball, Zhao Xintong started to achieve a single-set reversal 3-0 lead, and in the fourth set, Zhao Xintong was a little careless and barely attacked after being overtaken by the opponent for the second time to enter the inter-set break 3-1.
After the break, Zhao Xintong's fiery feel is still online, as soon as he came up, he relied on super accuracy to soar into the long table red ball and blasted out more than 100 to expand the lead, clark in the sixth set made a mistake again in the case of taking the lead, Zhao Xintong smiled and directly reversed the super point without weakness, and once again exploded over a hundred in the seventh set to lead 6-1.
In the eighth inning, Zhao Xintong was a little eager to attack and lost the long table blue ball, Clark finally got the opportunity to pull the score to 2-6, but Zhao Xintong still relied on the unsolvable accuracy to get to the mobile phone in the ninth inning, but Zhao Xintong, who did not like to defend, fouled when hitting the difficult combination ball, fortunately, Clark then hit the red ball, and Zhao Xintong finally completed the super score to end the first stage with a 7-2 lead.
Throughout the first stage of Zhao Xintong can be said to be full of firepower did not give Clark too many opportunities, poor Clark in the face of the super accuracy of Zhao Xintong is also helpless to be abused, the camera many times to Clark can be described as a helpless face and no fighting spirit.
Zhao Xintong's outstanding performance is also a doubter who is not optimistic about himself before the face match, the second stage of the match between the two sides will continue to play tomorrow at 17:00, and what kind of performance Zhao Xintong will bring we will wait and see.