The first matchday of the Snooker World Championships is over, in addition to Selby's promotion, Murphy 3-6 Maguire, Barry Hawkins 3-6 Jackson Page, 2 big seeds are both behind, the two explode one, not surprisingly, the first big cold of the World Championship will burst out of it!
Murphy is the No. 10 seed at this World Championship, the runner-up of the last World Championship, the snooker Grand Slam winner, and the 2005 World Championship champion. Facing Maguire in the first round, Murphy was sluggish, as he had been this season. Maguire 74-32 took the lead, Murphy single shot 53 points to win back a city 89-26, Maguire single shot 65 points to lead again 91-33, Murphy 66-0 again tied, Maguire 71-58, 72-56, 62-26, 73-33 won four consecutive sets, the big score 6-2 lead, Murphy with a single shot 79 points to stop the decline, finally in the first stage of the last set to win another set. Trailing 3-6, Murphy is undoubtedly dangerous, grabbing a tiebreaker match, Murphy needs to at least fight back against Maguire in the second stage to make it 7-3.
No. 9 seed Barry Hawkins is also in a 3-6 down predicament, Murphy's opponent Maguire is still a former famous player, while Barry Hawkins' opponent Jackson Page is completely different, just a world championship rookie, from this point of view, Barry Hawkins's 3-6 behind is even more unpopular. In the first nine innings of the first stage, Murphy also scored 2 single 50+, Barry Hawkins was a 50+, Jackson Page blasted 7 50+, including a shot to break 102 points, in the game situation, Barry Hawkins was completely hit by the Welsh 00 Jackson Page. Compared with Murphy, Barry Hawkins is in a more depressed state, and World Championship newcomer Jackson Page is also better than Maguire, it can be said that the probability of this game finally upset is higher!
The only qualifier on the first matchday was Selby, who eliminated Jamie Jones 10-7, and Selby's victory also made Zhao Xintong and Karen Wilson officially bid farewell to the season-end No.1 competition! Before the start of the World Championships, O'Sullivan, Selby, Neil Robertson, Trump, Higgins, Zhao Xintong, Karen Wilson 7 people have the possibility of becoming the no. 1 at the end of the season, of which Zhao Xintong and Karen Wilson are the most demanding conditions, if they want to become the final NO.1, they need Selby to be out of the first round of the World Championship, and now, Selby has advanced. In the other 2 games, O'Sullivan 6-3 Gilbert, Zhao Xintong 7-2 Jamie Clark.