This year's world championship first round is quite interesting, and the possibility of hot players upsetting in the first round is as great as ever.
No matter how experienced the player, coming to the Crucible Theatre for the first round of the World Championships will be nervous. This year's world championship first round is quite interesting, and the possibility of hot players upsetting in the first round is as great as ever. This time, we will take stock of the wonderful scene of the first round of the World Championships in previous years.
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2019 First Round – James Cahill 10:8 Ronnie O'Sullivan
As an amateur player with no world ranking who beat the fans' favorite O'Sullivan in the first round of the World Championships, such a huge brain hole no one would feel that it would happen in reality. However, James Cahill did it, and his feat of beating O'Sullivan 10:8 shocked both inside and outside.
Trailing 5-8, O'Sullivan rose to the chase, scoring a single 104 and 89 points in the process of equalizing. However, he lost a relatively simple pink ball in the 17th set, giving Cahill, the first amateur ever to break into the regular game, the match point.
When Cahill scored a 53 in one shot, the young player, who was already stunned by his results, said: "I tried to play my professional level, Threw myself into the game, and didn't get too impulsive. At the end of the fight I was almost overwhelmed by the breathlessness. I really don't know what to say. ”
Cahill, who had made it through the first round, narrowly eliminated another seeded player in the second round, but was unfortunately defeated 13-12 by Stephen Maguire in the decider. It was also Cahill's only World Championship experience.
2017 First Round – Rory McLeod 10:8 Judd Trump
McLeod, 46, was ranked 54th in the world at the time. McLeod, trailing 0-4, took his "biggest win of his career" by dragging Trump down in a lengthy and slow pace of the game.
McLeod then lost to Stephen Maguire in the second round 3-13 and fell out of the profession at the end of the 2018/19 season. However, he worked tirelessly to regain his professional qualifications through the Q School in 2020.
2000 first round – Stuart Bingham 10:7 Stephen Hendry
Having won seven World Championships in the 1990s, few would believe that Stephen Hendry, who was in full swing, had gone from peak to decline.
In 2000, Hendry was still only 31 years old and was full of ambitions to impact his eighth crown. For Stewart Bingham, who is competing in the World Championships for the first time, he wouldn't have known he would be able to take the World Championship trophy in 15 years.
World No. 92 Bingham scored an 8-stroke 50+ in Crucible, ending Hendry's dominance in Crucible, and Hendry's unbelievable expression after the game remained deeply in the memories of many people.
Do you think Bingham went down a well-to-do trail after that? It wasn't, it took another 11 years for Bingham to win his first ranking title, he beat Mark Williams 9-8 in the final of the Australian Open, and Hendry never had his eighth world title.
2000 First Round – David Gray 10:9 Ronnie O'Sullivan
A year before O'Sullivan's first World Championship title, he lost dramatically 9-10 to the obscure David Gray.
In this game, O'Sullivan maintained his lead until the decider, scoring a record 136, 123, 115, 102 and 101 consecutive five-shot 100 and 3-50+, but he still lost.
Coming to the second round of the tournament, Gray was quickly beaten by Dominic Dell with a score of 13:1, setting a record for the lowest score since the second round of the World Championships with a total score of 208 points in 25 innings.
1997 first round – Stefan Mazzorockis 10:3 Peter Alberton
As runners-up at the 1996 World Championships, Peter Alberton was well spotted ahead of the match against Stefan Mazzorakis, and the only time the two had met before that was Alberton's easy 10-4 win over Mazzorakis.
Mazzo Roques, on the other hand, drank "a few" beers to help relax and ended up holding the victory in his hands with a 10:3 finish.
Mazzo Rokis lost 9-13 to Canada's Alain Robbidu in the second round. He bid farewell to his career by losing 9-10 to Tony Knowles in his last qualifying tournament at the 2009 World Championships.
1995 First Round – Andy Hicks 10:7 Steve Davis
In 1995, Andy Hicks defeated six-time champion and second seed Steve Davis in the first round of the tournament, making him one of the biggest underdogs in the first round of the World Championships.
Hicks, then 21, made his first world championship fixture and built an 8-3 lead through consecutive scoring and steady tactics.
Davis then counter-attacked, at one point trailing the score to 7:8. Hicks with superhuman courage, withstood the pressure to win the game.
After defeating Davis, Hicks beat Willie Thorne and Peter Alberton all the way, losing 11-16 to Nigel Bond in the semi-finals. In addition to his excellent performance at the World Championships, Hicks reached the final four of the British Championship and masters, climbing to 17th in the world rankings.
1982 First Round – Tony Knowles 10:1 Steve Davis
Three months before the start of the World Championships, Davis won the 1981 British Championship and the Masters respectively. Arriving at Sheffield, Davis is expected to achieve the glory of a single-season triple-time Grand Slam.
Meanwhile, davis' first-round opponent as defending champion is Tony Knowles, who made his second appearance in Crucible. Knowles first made his way to the World Championships in 1981, a year earlier, when he lost to Graham Miles in the first round.
But the "Crucible Defending Curse" still beat davis, and Knowles established a huge lead of 4:0 and 8:1. Even though Knowles celebrated his upcoming victory in the nightclub early before the game ended, Davis was unable to achieve a comeback and ended the World Championship with a humiliating score of 1:10.