In the first round of the World Snooker Championship, which just ended on April 17, 2022, Beijing time, McGill and qualifier Highfield staged a wonderful duel in the first nine sets. In this game, McGill temporarily took advantage of Highfield, who scored 59 and 55 points, 6-3 with 56, 70 and 71 points. Judging by the current process, McGill clearly has a better chance of qualifying, after all, Highfield's current competitive state is not ideal. So McGill still has a high probability of completing the promotion.
McGill whipped three consecutive whips to lead Highfield 3-1
In the first four innings of McGill and Highfield, neither was in very good shape, so the glue situation often arose. In the first set, Highfield scored 64 points and won the game 64-33 to take a 1-0 lead with multiple chances to play. In the second set, McGill managed to regain his form in this inning, winning the game 85-36 with a single score of 56 points to draw 1-1 with Highfield. In the third set, McGill again won the game 54:1 with his excellent ability to seize the opportunity to take a 2-1 lead. In the fourth set, McGill scored a single 70 to take a 3-1 lead in the set at 70:32.
McGill slipped in form to take a 5-3 lead
As the game moved into the second half, McGill's form had clearly declined. The game moved into the fifth inning, with McGill taking the lead in winning the game 77-29 with a single 71-point performance and taking a 4-1 lead over Highfield to extend the lead into three innings. In the sixth inning, McGill made a mistake after taking the lead in 15 points, and Hayfield singled out 59 points and trailed McGill 2-4 to narrow the score to two innings. In the seventh set, McGill again won the game 87-23 with multiple pick-up opportunities to take a 5-2 lead over Highfield. In the eighth inning, Highfield successfully seized the opportunity in this set and won the game 94-15 to leave McGill 3-5 behind.
McGill temporarily led McGill 6-3
In the ninth inning, Highfield took the lead in a mistake and McGill seized the opportunity to score a red ball in the bottom pocket on the right to win the mobile session. But he made a mistake after scoring just 38 points, and then the two men went into defensive mode. Defensively, Hayfield made a mistake in hitting the bottom of the red ball on the thin edge of the defense, and the mother ball back to the line and met the blue ball left McGill with a good chance. McGill scored another 21-pointer after scoring a red ball in the right bottom pocket, but did not leave Hayfield with an offensive opportunity. Highfield played a high-quality defensive on the right side of the library red ball, McGill chose to defend at the bottom, and Highfield played a high-quality defense again. McGill was awarded eight points for a misstep, and then Hayfield was awarded four points for trying to attack the mistake and the mother ball was sent to trail McGill 8-63. McGill then scored a red ball in the left bottom pocket to win the last game again, and in the end, McGill won the game 76-16 to give a 6-3 lead over Highfield to take a three-set lead. In fact, mcGill's probability of advancing to the next level is already high.