On April 18, 2022, the Snooker World Championship round of 16 decided five places, O'Sullivan, Selby, Zhao Xintong, Maguire, Jackson. Page eliminated their respective opponents to advance, two seeded players Murphy and Hawkins were eliminated, and Zhao Xintong played Against Maguire in the second round.
Sean. Murphy ranked 10th in the world, with Selby, Robertson, Trump, Ding Junhui and called the 80 Five Tigers, once created a miracle of qualifiers to win the championship, but since that time, Murphy has never won the World Championship, last year reached the final lost to Selby, in recent years his results are not ideal, often out of the first round, becoming the most vulnerable world champion.
The opponent is Maguire, who was promoted from the qualifiers, although the world ranking fell to 40th, but he is similar to the seeded players, Maguire once won the British Championship, but in recent years, the results of the World Championships have been average, the two sides have met many times in their careers, Murphy has a slight advantage, but the last two times are Maguire eliminated Murphy to advance, last year's Welsh Open Maguire narrowly beat Murphy 5-4.
The game was played in two stages, the first half of the nine innings, Maguire led Murphy 6-3, the two were not in good shape, there were many simple mistakes, the first set Maguire 74-32 took the lead, in the second set Murphy played a single 53 points, to equalize 89-26, in the third set Maguire played a single 65 points also with color, in the fourth set Murphy steady, 66-0 to complete the super point, into the intermission.
After a short break, the game continued, in the fifth set Murphy missed the mobile phone meeting, Maguire won the fight 71-58, In the sixth set Maguire played a single 67 points, to win another set at 72-56, then Maguire won 62-26, 73-33, widening the point difference to 6-2, in the ninth set Murphy played a single 79 points in time to stop the loss, Murphy fell behind three sets to catch up with Maguire, it is still very difficult.
Beginning in the second half, Murphy blasted out a single 130 innings, Murphy scored a single 61 innings in the 11th inning to win another set at 70-25, Maguire scored a single 57 innings in color, Murphy won a 72-39 fight in the 13th inning, Murphy narrowly won 57-52 in the 14th inning, Murphy scored a single 50 point in the 15th set to win 65-24, and Maguire scored a single 90 innings to tie the game.
In the 17th inning, Murphy did not defend in place and directly missed the ball, Maguire played a single 82 points, 9-8 to get the match point, in the 18th set Maguire played a single 46 points to interrupt the attack, and then Murphy made a mistake, Maguire started again to end the game, and finally eliminated Murphy 10-8.
Four more advanced to the round of 16, with O'Sullivan beating Gilbert 10-5 and Selby eliminating Jamie 10-7. Jones, Zhao Xintong swept Jamie 10-2. Clark, Jackson. Page beat Hawkins 10-7, and the first match in the second round was confirmed, and Zhao Xintong played Maguire again.