On the evening of April 17, Beijing time, the first round of the Snooker World Championship, McGill played against Highfield. McGill is the 13th seed and Highfield is the qualifier. The first nine innings were played, and after losing the first set, McGill won four consecutive sets, Hayfield stopped the decline in the 6th set, McGill won the 7th set, Highfield won the 8th set, mcGill won the 9th set to end the first stage with a 6-3 lead.
McGill has reached the quarter-finals of the World Championships, ranked 13th in the world, and is a post-90s celebrity. In the first set, McGill was slightly slower and hotter, and Highfield won 64-33 through multiple shots to take the lead. In the second set, McGill got into shape, shooting a one-shot 56 to make it 85-36 to tie the overall score. McGill then continued his good form, winning the third set 54-12, winning the fourth set by 70 runs, 70-32, and winning the fifth set at 71 points, 77-29, and winning four consecutive sets, 4-1 against Highfield. In the sixth inning, Hayfield scored a single 59 points, McGill chased the score unsuccessfully, 59-15, Highfield finally stopped the decline.
In the seventh set, McGill won 87-23. In the eighth set, McGill scored a difficult far-reaching red ball at the beginning of the game, but the mother ball always failed to reach the best position, McGill's attack was broken, and Hayfield seized the opportunity to score a single 55 points to chase another set at 94-15, and the general score was chased to 3-5. In the final inning of the first stage, McGill scored 38 points first, and then, through multiple starts, McGill finally won the game, leading Highfield 6-3 to end the first stage, and the promotion was in sight.
At this world snooker Championship, McGill is in the 2/4 zone with Ding Junhui and Lu Haotian, two Chinese players, and also in the 4/8 zone with Trump, which is Trump's potential opponent in the next round.