The matchday matchday of the 2022 World Snooker Championships went on as scheduled, with the previously concluded matches producing two players who advanced to the round of 16, namely defending champion Mark Selby and China's new generation of youngster Zhao Xintong.
Among them, Zhao Xintong's game was overjoyed by domestic fans, and in the match against Jamie Clark, Zhao Xintong was in a fiery state and finally reached the round of 16 of the World Championship for the first time in his career with a 10-2 victory over his opponent.
Another high-profile matchup was between Ronnie O'Sullivan and David Gilbert, in which Gilbert fought back with O'Sullivan after winning the first three sets in the first three sets, and O'Sullivan soared into the second stage with a six-game winning streak of 6-3.
After the end of the first stage, fans commented that O'Sullivan's state was a bit too slow and hot, although the ball and position were still sharp but always felt that the state did not reach the best, even so Gilbert was bitter before the game and said that he did not want to meet O'Sullivan at all, because he could say that there was no chance of winning against him.
After returning from the second stage, O'Sullivan still could not get into the form in time, but Gilbert seized the opportunity to start fighting back, first completing a single 60+ and then blasting a single 80+ to win two consecutive sets to rewrite the score to 5-6.
In the crucial twelfth inning, O'Sullivan finally woke up like a dream, facing the opportunity that Gilbert missed and directly played and did not give the opponent another chance to play in the game, blasting out the first half of the first 116 points to extend the score advantage to 7-5.
In the thirteenth set O'Sullivan first passed the bench but then made a mistake on the simple ball, Gilbert came on to overtake the score, and then the two began a defensive battle, O'Sullivan forced Gilbert to foul through snooker, Gilbert also used defense to make O'Sullivan miss the opportunity but accidentally crashed into the color ball when hitting the red ball, and finally O'Sullivan won the game to continue to lead 8-5.
In the next two sets, Gilbert seemed to have no morale, O'Sullivan seized the opportunity to blast a single 80+ to reach the match point first, and in the last set, he first flew into the longstand to establish a lead and forced Gilbert to miss the ball on the defensive end, and finally achieved a 10-5 victory.
Throughout the entire showdown, although O'Sullivan started a little slowly, there is still a big gap in the strength of the two, O'Sullivan began to exert force Gilbert only sat downstage to drink water, and finally the poor "potato brother" only regretted out.
O'Sulli's text round also set a record for the 70th victory at Crucible, successfully equalizing Stephen Hendry and blasting the 188th single-shot 100th career 1157th in Crucible, hoping that O'Sullivan will be in good shape to attack the seven-time world championship.