On the evening of April 16, the snooker World Championship main tournament began to play, in the first stage of the final opener, the defending champion Mark Selby was in good shape, shooting 2 shots to break the 1003 60+, leading qualifier Jamie Jones 6-3 at halftime, giving the defending title a good start, and its second round potential opponent Yan Bingtao was more dangerous if he faced Selby in such a state. In another match played in the same period, China's Zhao Xintong led Clark 7-2 at half-time, and the round of 16 was in sight.
Jamie Jones qualified 10-5 elimination of TomFord to advance to the main tournament, Selby after the first round of the Welsh Open loss, has been closed until now, Turkey, Gibraltar did not participate, full preparation for the World Championships, this game is the test of Selby's retreat cultivation results. At the beginning of the game, Jones went down 73-4, Selby equalized 61-2 in the 2nd set, in the 3rd set, Selby blasted a single 71 points, and in the 4th set, Selby scored the first shot of the World Championship to break 134 points, leading 3-1 on aggregate! Break back Jones scored 60 points, 2-3! In the 6th-7th set, Selby hit two more 60+ shots to open the score 5-2 on aggregate! In the 8th inning, Jones didn't go on the phone and Selby blasted a 129-pointer to make it 6-2! In the 9th set, Jones won.
Zhao Xintong's game played unexpectedly disparity, the dark horse Clark did not pose too much threat to Zhao Xintong, in the half of the game Zhao Xintong state pulled up, blasted out 2 strokes to break 1004 pars 50+, in a 3-1 lead to expand the score to 7-2! Clarke only came up with a 67-point performance, almost beaten by Zhao Xintong, Who refreshed his record for the highest score in Crucible with a single score of 109 points. The next second half of the Selby game will be played at 2 am, and Zhao Xintong's second half will continue tomorrow at 17:00, so stay tuned.