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8-10! 7-10! The World Championship TOP10 has been upset: the world champion + the world runner-up is out

On April 18, Beijing time, the second matchday of the snooker World Championship main tournament had consecutive seeded players out. After former world runner-up Hawkins lost 7-10 to Page, who was only ranked 90th in the world, former world champion Sean Murphy lost 8-10 to his old rival Maguire and was eliminated. So far, two TOP10 players have been declared out.

8-10! 7-10! The World Championship TOP10 has been upset: the world champion + the world runner-up is out

Both Murphy and Maguire are long-established players in snooker. In 2005, Murphy started from the qualifiers and eventually passed the hurdles to win the World Championship. Since then, Murphy has been in the world's top 16 ranks for many years. Maguire, on the other hand, has reached the Quarter-Finals of the World Championship twice, and at its peak, she can compete with Selby and others.

8-10! 7-10! The World Championship TOP10 has been upset: the world champion + the world runner-up is out

However, time has changed, and although Murphy is still ranked 10th in the world and reached the final of the World Championship last season, he is in quite bad shape this season. Maguire was still in the top 16 last season, but has now fallen out of the top 30. The two sides have met a total of 27 times before, and Murphy has a slight advantage of 14 wins and 13 losses.

8-10! 7-10! The World Championship TOP10 has been upset: the world champion + the world runner-up is out

In the first stage, Maguire had a 6-3 advantage. He won 4 consecutive sets after 2 draws to complete the comeback. In the second stage, Murphy took the lead. He scored consecutive 130 and 61 points to tie the score to 5-6. Maguire won the 12th set 60-29 to take a 7-5 lead. But Murphy was unstoppable, and then won three more sets 72-39, 57-52, 65-24 to win 8-7.

8-10! 7-10! The World Championship TOP10 has been upset: the world champion + the world runner-up is out

At key moments, Maguire showed his excellent offensive ability, shooting consecutive 90 and 82 points, keeping two clean sheets to win the match point 9-8. In the match point game, Maguire played twice, and finally won 73-30, and finally eliminated Murphy 10-8 to advance to the round of 16. In another game, former World Championship runner-up Hawkins broke out of the big cold! Facing 90th-ranked Page in the world, Hawkins eventually lost 7-10. As a result, 2 out of the world's top 10 have already been declared out.

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