In the early morning of April 18, Beijing time, the 2022 Snooker World Championship ended two first round matches, the 9th seed Hawkins suffered a upset, 7-10 defeat to the newcomer who entered the World Championship for the first time, the world's no. 90 Welsh post-00 player Jackson Page, became the first seed to get out of this year's World Championships. In another strong dialogue, Murphy fell behind 3-6 in the first stage, and once surpassed to 8-7 in the second stage, but in the end, Maguire won three consecutive sets, won 10-8, completed the upset against seed Murphy, successfully advanced to the round of 16, and the second round will be played against Zhao Xintong to compete for the top 8 seats.
Hawkins, who was runner-up at the World Championships, has reached the top 8 of the World Championships for many years and is one of the most stable seeded players. But hawkins, who is the No. 9 seed this year, played exceptionally badly against the world's lowest-ranked newcomer in the qualifiers, 20-year-old Wales' Page. In the first 9 innings, he did not even have a 50+, and he fell behind directly 0-3 in the opening, and then was pulled away to 2-6 at one point, but after completing the reversal in the last set, he barely fell behind 3-6. Page is in pretty good shape, shooting 1 hundred and 6 50+ to beat Hawkins.
After the second phase began, Hawkins sent out two consecutive sets to make it 5-6. Page then stabilized the situation by a single 54 points, leading 7-5; in the 13th set, Hawkins scored 66 points and chased it to 6-7 again; page won again in the 14th set, and then Hawkins scored 59 points to 7-8. In the last two sets, Page completely broke away, blasting two consecutive shots to break the hundred, single shot 128 points and single shot 135 points, completed the upset good play, the big score 10-7 sent away the seed Hawkins. In the second round, Page will face the winner between Williams and Little White, staged the Welsh Civil War once again.
The battle between Murphy and Maguire, the 10th seed who was regarded as one of the first rounds of life and death battles, did not perform as a whole as Maguire in the first stage, so it ended 3-6. As soon as the second stage began, Murphy broke the hundred, scoring a strong score of 130 points, followed by a single 61 points, winning two consecutive sets to make it 5-6. In the 12th set, Maguire scored 57 points to take a 7-5 lead, after which Murphy won three consecutive sets and directly won 8-7. In the 16th inning, Maguire scored a single 90 points to tie 8-8.
In the 17th set, Maguire scored another 82 points to win the match point 9-8. In the last set, Maguire played twice, completed the super point, and finally won the game 10-8, successfully advanced to the round of 16, and will meet with Zhao Xintong to compete for the top 8 seat. Murphy also became the second seeded player to be out after Hawkins.